This is great. What happens when you bet a group of friends they can’t build a roller coaster in their backyard for under $50? They build one. They built it almost entirely out of old forklift ...

This was the start of the CoasterDad Project. Excited by the challenge of building a Backyard Roller Coaster, [Will] also thought it would be a fantastic opportunity to teach [Lyle] about physics.

The attraction’s building now houses Princess Fairytale Hall, which was part of the park’s Fantasyland expansion plan along with the Seven Dwarfs Mine Train roller coaster. The National Roller ...