Is Europe’s WORST Roller Coaster Finally getting Saved? Movie Park Germany's Bandit
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- Опубликовано: 19 мар 2024
- Movie Park Germany is looking to renovate their Bandit wooden roller coaster with steel track! Will they go with RMC's I-Box/208 track, or GCI's Titan Track? Let's discuss the pro's and con's of each!
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Imagine they go for Steel Track & call it BAND-AID 😂🤣😂
Yes 😂
The original Interview Loopings.nl is referencing was actually taken by german RUclips-Channel Ride Review and taken from this Video: ruclips.net/video/UyHke_HlH-A/видео.html .
In that interview, Manuel Prossotowicz, the „creative director“ of movie park Germany, also clearly says that GCI Titan track would be the parks favorite option.
In older interviews about the same topic Manuel Prossotowicz also said multiple times that Bandit would not get an RMC-treatment because the park wants to keep it a family friendly ride.
So, an RMC conversion of bandit sadly is highly unlikely and a partial or full conversion into GCI Titan-Track(most likely without big changes the layout) would be much more plausible.
timecode is 39:04 on that video.
@@sadiporter2966 ruclips.net/video/UyHke_HlH-A/видео.html
To add sone further facts: the Park knows from this complaints since more than a half decade. The even had to close some seats of the train because the rattle was to heavy in the back.
But the Park has no money, it’s getting molken by the company that owns them. They even took so much money that the MP couldn’t pay the trade tax at their city, even though that this tax is related to the turnover of a company in Germany.
Last year the also had to close because they couldn’t pay their energy bill…
It would be the best for the park if it’s getting bought by the state and operated like Efteling.
@@Tamwyn107 the part about not being able to pay the energy bill is wrong. they closed the park for a few days because energy prices were so high, that it wouldn't have made sense financially, to have the park open during weekdays in spring since attendance was too low
RMC fixed RCCA Coasters before. If Bandit does get RMC’D it’s gonna be no different
True iron rattler is a top tier RMC
You got one thing wrong: Looopings did NOT do the interview but it was done by Rides/park magazine and RUclips channel RideReview from Germany.
As much as I would love to finally get an RMC in Germany, I doubt that Movie Park is going to go the full RMC route. Park officials have said in the past, that they want to keep Bandit as a family friendly thrill coaster. Considering their ride lineup and park identity, I do understand that - echoing what you said later in the video. I believe the best case scenario realistically is Titan track with some light reprofiling, smoothing things out and adding a few new elements.
I really want Bandit to be rmc'd instead of having the Titan track. But more different than twisted cyclone at six flags over Georgia.
I don't think that RMC will get the contract for the revision of Bandit.
Movie Park emphasises in every statement about Bandit how popular the coaster is and the park would open up a gap with a real RMC, because then the park would no longer have a coaster without inversions.
I think GCI will win the race. But in such a way that the layout is also adapted (without inversions)
Because if Movie Park goes with RMC and doesn't have any inversions installed, that's kind of disappointing because you know that you can do more with RMC.
But you also have to say that the park wants to focus on other areas first due to the popularity of Bandit (stop riding it). The park would prefer to tear down the entire pier area and build something new, but has not yet received approval from the Spanish owners.
Nickelodeon Land needs a complete overhaul, at least in terms of paths and spaces (I repeat myself here... Please make Movie Park a park with hedges, flowers and trees, that would be more pleasant in summer and can be realised without tearing anything down)
and there is also Time Rider.
Most of the coasters don't have inversions in the park, in fact the only ones with inversions are star trek and the slc so an rmc would actually be a great fit and even out all the family coasters
@@darealsavage3472 But Bandit is the only large coaster without inversion.
remember the only big coasters are Star Treck, Bandit and the SLC.
Sure an RMC would certainly be a good fit, but it is more likely that the park will go with GCI (which you can also hear from the interviews) and that doesn't have to be a bad thing.
The interview which Looopings got this information from is actually on ride reviews channel, I would recommend watching it for more information about this or other things
I wish for it to be RMC'd but the way movie park is...its gonna be titan track, let's all believe that and maybe we get pleasantly surprised
I do think the same about just a smoother steel re-tracking: The GP won't know the difference.
My home park is Phantasialand and a lot of people call Colorado a "wooden roller coaster", which makes every Thoosie I know furious.
Also, if you need more proof: The Movie Park literally calls this piece of crap their most popular coaster. GP do be weird.
They absolutely will. Definitely still wood, but QoL is QoL
With how bumpy Colorado Adventure gets it can definitely pass for woodie vibes. Jokes...
Definitely my favorite Mine Train coaster that I've been on so far.
Energylandia calls Zadra a wooden coaster, don't they?
Movie parks doesn't (just) call it that, it is the most popular attraction according to park officials - and it has the highest capacity (30 people per train) which may not be reached with RMC trains
I’d love to see another RMC in Europe, it’s tried and tested too and much less risk for the park.
Thanks for keeping us all up to date guys xx
Haven't had the chance to visit Movie Park yet, but I get the impression that they're satisfied having a Mack multi-launch and Vekoma SLC as their most intense coasters. Reprofiling the fan turns and hills to provide better airtime while adding Titan Track to high-stress areas is probably good enough for Bandit. Like Sarah mentioned, a ground-up family I-Box would fit in well later on. While one inversion would be great, the structure might not be able to handle Infinity Flyer trains.
I remember another Ride Review interview with a Movie Park Executive, maybe a year ago or two, and they said they considered RMC, but it was prohibitively expensive. The owners, Parques Reunidos, also come over as extremely cost sensitive in all interviews. Like MP needs to beg for every investment. So RMC is very unlikely.
They may be cost conscious- but that doesn’t change the fact that replacing only a small section of Bandits track doesn’t fix the ride
Getting the full RMC treatment seems unlikely, because it would convert it to a quite extreme coaster (from GP perspective) and the park would be missing a "big" non-inverting coaster. That would create quite a gap as inversions are usually the key factor to avoid the coaster (again: from a GP perspective), not so much height or speed.
Very fair!
Can't they just ask RMC to not put inversions on the ride? Like how they're doing to one of the dueling raptors in Walibi Holland.
@@gdlorenzodm5664 That would be a possible option of course, either as just a track replacement or a layout conversion without inversions (would be a first AFAIK). The most likely currently seems a track replacement.
@@verybighomer New Texas Giant doesn’t have inversions
Call me a heretic, but I can't understand how people can be moaning about Bandit being "too rough". For me, that's Part of the experience, part of the character of the ride.
As a Tampa local rmc gave me my favorite ride since shiekra went floorless u can never fail with a full rmc. I aso love to see the jumbled wood lattus that makes up those beautiful spectacles
This would definitely be a good fit at the park. It will give it the sitdown looping lift hill coaster that I feel like every major park should have.
Gosh, seeing these POVs is really giving me flashbacks to some horrible rides I had on Bandit about like 15 years ago. Painful memories. Would love to see an RMC conversion!
I think GCI will definitely win. I think they might do some mild re-profiling but that's it. I think they would want to keep Bandit as their family thrill coaster. If they retrack with Titan, I think they'd still do some re-profiling (maybe like adding wave turns) and retracking, but I think it would mostly stay the same.
We really want to see it get RMC'd but can't see it happening. Titan track would probably be the most likely. It feels like a lot is in change for Movie Park over the next 5-10 years though as they want to re-do the Santa Monica area as well!
It really depends what they want to do with it.
If they just want to keep the same coaster, but fix it with steel then GCI seems the better choice. Titan track has had significantly more success than RMC 208. And parks seem to love it.
Titan track is easier for the park to perform maintenance on themselves.
Please no! I absolutely love bandit as it is!😊
Sorry, but you are a psychopath. Bandit ist the worst coaster in Germany and probably Europe, maybe the world
i hope gci gets their first chance to do a full layout conversation, could really skyrocket their market
1:39 and Predator got more this off season as well.
Robin hood at walibi was rmc'd because there were some big issuses with the ride and they din't want to spend the money on it any more. Every day i was there it was a 30 minute wait.
My first woodie ever was Robin Hood, first train on opening day and I remember enjoying it a lot but also that it was quite bouncy. But I could enjoy the lay-out and remember it. My second woodie ever was Bandit one year later(it had a different name back then). From that thing I remeber that I didn't like the twist in the first drop and that the rest is a hazy blur. I've ridden it 5 times I think and still I have no idea where that train takes me. The shaking just takas away from everything possibly enjoyable.
Untamed took what I found was an enjoyable coaster, to a whole different level. If RMC or GCI can do something with that big structure, than that would get me to visit that park again, because now, for me, there are'nt enough good coasters to be ridden.
Montezum at Hopi Hari was really missing at that RMC wish list. Rode it a couple of weeks ago, and I got bruised on the thigh for probably a week
But good for Movie Park! Really hope their RCCA gets updated to a better coaster!
They have it ob their radar but according to the original interview on RideReview it would only be a retracking and there are no immediate plans as they want to continue the current perpetuous wood retracking for as long as it‘s feasible.
It will be interesting to see what an RMC layout of that cyclone layout would look like. Probably a lot like Twisted Cyclone or Wicked Cyclone.
Bandit Isn't As Rough As People Make It Out To Be. I Rode It 3 Times , 2 In The Very Front And 1 In The Very Back. The Front Row Was Quite Enjoyable , A Bit Bumpy But Nothing Too Painful , The Very Back Was Quite Rough However In My Opinion.
The Last Turn Into The Final Brakerun Was The Roughest Section Of The Ride , The Rest Of The Layout Was Enjoyable In My Opinion , Yes , I Enjoyed An RCCA Wooden Coaster , My Very First RCCA , And Very First Old School Woodie (( I Know , 1999 Isn't Considered Very Old School )) , Before That I Rode Troy At Toverland , A 2007 GCI.
Plus , Bandit Still Has It's Fans Believe It Or Not. So There Is A Chance Movie Park Will Either Put In Titan Track Or Maybe Even RMC's 208 Steel Track Which They Put On Other Woodies , Like Mine Blower , T-Express , Tremors And Timber Terror.
As others have mentioned before, the management seems to not wanna do RMC for it. Again even despite the roughness, Bandit is still a favorite amongst the parks core audience. Wooden coasters tend to fill that role often of being a classic all-rounder kinda ride in the family-thrill category. Thats at least the perception in most of Europe. Plus many families have strong nostalgia and would want to have their kids experience the same rides they did back in the day. So in other words, them saying "We're renovating Bandit and restoring it to its prime" would be better received from their core audience than saying "We're REPLACING Bandit with a brand new hybrid coaster".
Then again the General Public also weirdly wants coasters to be rough. They see the roughness as part of the thrill, and complains about new roller coasters being "too boring" for being smooth.
They didn't add 40 feet to HP Wildcat just by adding a truss -- it's an entirely new lift hill and drop, with the original one turned into the first inversion. If they could have added 3-5 elements before the old coaster even started, maybe they could have gone to 200'. ;)
Bitte, bitte, bitte... Let this be an RMC job.
Movie Park Germany should sell their SLC and make Bandit the best RMC in the world, with a darkride scene or 2 ;-)
That would be such a good rmc. even if they did titan track it would still be good. Can y’all do a video of the most underrated rollercoasters
Guess we can all agree we want an RMC conversion in Germany and it would be actually pretty good for the park being the first....but well just get a GCI retrack...
I once read in a forum that RMC was already in the Movie Park and took a look at Bandit. According to RMC's statement, the Movie Park Bandit should be completely demolished and a new coaster created.
My opinion is:
Movie Park will never convert the Bandit to an RMC.
Not for money, but because the Movie Park is simply stubborn.
I'd be fine if they made the lift 10ft taller and got new trains
Even if they just did the 308 treatment on it, it would be a vast improvement.
I really, really, really hope that it gets a new RMC layout but it has to be considered that this is the park's most popular attraction, and also the parks' attraction with the highest capacity. RMC trains may not be able to accommodate for the same capacity 2 trains with 30 people per train give
They really should go for a high thrill ride, which only rmc could do with that layout and wooden structure.
As you guys mentioned: star trek is only a supportive attraction, but they need a signature ride. The park isnt huge, the space limited and they cant just put coaster or general attractions in the surrounding maintance buildings.
And they are also not europa park, where you dont need a high thrill ride to attract ppl, bcs you have so much great stuff there to ride.
But at least they have a pretty forceful cgi and a mega coaster, thats at least in the category thrill ride somehow. Maybe it will change now with voltron, who knows? Looks promising.
By that saying: they need to go for thr rmc comapany. But i doubt they can effort the money, cause they are really expensive and i dont know if they wanna have a high thrill ride. But just retracking it completely doesnt benefit the park at all.
07:50 "Bandit-Band-aid" - Is that what they‘ll call it? 😊
I would love Bandit to be RMC converted and I definitely don't drop that option. Although not in the same country, but with Untamed only 2 hours away it might be "too close" to each other.
Either way I'm interested what will happen
As much as I would love an RMC coming to my "neighbourhood", there is no way this is happening. In fact, there is not even the smallest of layout changes coming and the reason is regulations.
Retracking with steel track would keep Bandit protected by what we call "Bestandsschutz" (roughly translates to protection of the existing). Changing the layout would require a new building permit and that will almost surely not be issued due to problems with the neighbours.
I personally love Bandit, as the roughness makes me laugh through the whole ride. I ride it multiple times every visit.
But I do get that 80% will love to see this coaster changed.
The public wants an RMC rework, it would also pull in more crowds. But given the low budgets the park has gotten the past years, I expect it to get a Titan track treatment.
I know that I personally will enjoy the coaster less then I do now, if it gets a Titan Track treatment.
That is so sad. Bandit is good it is not bad.
Regardless of what option is chosen, anything that can make Bandit a better coaster is worth it.
Currently doesn't it have those bulky Premier Rides trains?
Didn't RCCA make Mean Streak? Because I think that or Rattler might be the closest examples to what would happen for Bandit if RMC (or is it now just Larson International?) got their hands on it.
Also is Bandit really considered to be more attractive to families? Because if any family hasn't ridden it before, I would have guessed they would see that as a thrill coaster, but maybe not as much as Star Trek.
What does the rest of the park's lineup look like? How does management see their park? These are the questions I have before I could give my answer of what might happen.
You mentioned Iron Horse but not 208 ReTrak 😉
I hope the ride is in a good enough condition for renovation
actually in a video of Ride review where he has a litte talk with the manager of movie park germany on bandit about bandit (durring this offseason) the manager actually said that the titan track looks way more appeling to them there budget and visitors so its porbably gonna be an gci transformation but nothing is written down so im really looking forword whats going to happen with bandit
I wish blackpool pleasure beach could convert big dipper they old Woody with rmc but sadly its a listed building so it's likely they cannot even change the track colour. I understand it's historic but i doubt much of the original wood even exists after 100 years
This is maybe a strange one I hope if they rmc bandit they don’t add inversions
Well they say Titan track has the favour right now in that article.
It just doesn’t feel the same without the intro.
Are you going to do an Analysis of Flash Vertical Velocity
I'd say they should go with the 208 track rather then a redesign of the layout since at least the would be able to cook the train for bandit
Hope it goes full circuit. We got cheated on Georgia Cyclone.
If Bendit does get RMC, I predict it being hypothetically like a Twisted Cyclone conversion by drastically reducing the track length and increasing its height
I wouldn't mind that honestly
@@HugeRMCFanBoY-bx3od Same as me, but thoosies would be whining about it. There was so much of that when Twisted Cyclone was announced in which they were by saying it’s the “worst RMC” cuz it’s “too short”.
@edt-ze3ke I don't get how people could love dragster but then complain about another ride being short ala hyperia
RMC it please we need a RMC in Germany
wouldn't be mad if they RMC'd it but i hate the RMC trains, way to uncomfortable for me
They should do it, then rename it Smokey and the Bandit.
I guess it would be something like Steel Bandit or Iron Bandit.
Could Movie Park afford another IP? Could this become "Mad Max: Fury Rollercoaster"??
If Bandit is that rough, then why did I ride it 4 times in 2020?
Because you’re a lunatic
RMC!! Please. 😊
I don’t know. My dream is that we get a RMC in Germany. Movie Park is sadly the only park I really can see that could go that step, but will they?
Maybe Heide Park would build a ground up. I could see that
@@ophiacodon0787Merlin and RMC? I don’t know
I think Merlin hasn't done anything with rmc yet because they don't have a Park where an rmc would be a good fit. Alton towers wouldn't work, it wouldn't fit into Thorpe Park as well as Gardaland, you can forget the Peppa Pig lands or the SEA life Park, and while the Legolands could build a rmc Family coaster, I think a small Gravity group or a bobsled coaster ist more likely. At Heide Park, I could actually see it. The only other Parks in Germany I could see it in is freizeitland plohn or a Topper track at Hansa Park, if rmc ist still willing to build one
This is def the worst coaster ive ever ridden. Every 59953 retrack theyve done was just pure unnecessary the coaster is still AWFUL. I rode it first time last year at the halloween fest and i had a whiplash, Headache and i was just generally annoyed by it.
I do really hope that RMC will bless this coaster, or even GCI.
I don’t know why, but without intro, it’s like missing something 😢
Remove the coaster completely, build something like saudi arabias falcons flight as a replacement :)
Nope i wish but i guess they are just gona ad titan track
I’ve heard that the Texas Cyclone at Astro World was as good if not better then the original cyclone. If anyone sees this who’s been on it pls let me know how it was!
They'd get far more visitors and business if go for RMC. Makes the most business sense.
I get you guys are big rmc fans.but it will be a shame to so see every wooden coaster to be rmc on this point.i don't man there is something about good old woodie with no extra trick's like inversions
We never said we want every wooden coaster to be RMC'd. Just the really bad ones! Bandit is in our top 3 for worst coasters we've ever experienced.
They just invested in new Track. Short answer: Not in the next 5 years.
The titan track on predator is always a lil silly to me because there’s nothing particularly special about the original layout of predator like RMC could eat it alive with something fresh lol
Definitely agree
I think y'all are just hating on predator because its rough the forces are pretty great ngl
@@HugeRMCFanBoY-bx3od Darien lake is my home park and you’re very correct in saying I hate predator lol it’s her time to either kick the bucket or get a full rework, plus a splashy investment into the park as a whole couldn’t hurt
I hope I will be Rmc’d but I’ll guess they go for titan
Why not just RMC it its a cyclone replica its not like the boss were it has over 4000 feet of track which would make RMC converting it expensive
@@HugeRMCFanBoY-bx3od don’t get me wrong I hope for rmc cause I live close to mp. But I guess they want to keep the layout
@jeroensadventures650 I guess so the GP love bandit for some reason
if it's gonna get rmc'd i would give a party
Movie park will not have the budget for a rmc retrack.
no intro? :'(
Man, Sarah just hating on GCI all video.
Not hating- just stating different scenarios and which might make more sense for this specific ride. Sarah loves GCI, I promise.
So the worst woody coaster in the world is finally going away?
i hope it is
That's subjective I feel like coaster express is much worse since you can basically sleep on that even if it wasn't rough
@@HugeRMCFanBoY-bx3od sleeping is still better than dying
It won't if they do a lame patchwork job like predator at Darien lake
@DaanBruins their basically synonyms
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Why do you cover all these parks across country and barely any in the country you live in? The contents great but you used to cover so much more in the states. Just bring it back home a little
We cover news all over the world- when an important news update comes through about a U.S. park, we also cover it (hence the announcement video about the new Mattel park in Kansas City). We also just got back from a big international trip so that is why we have been publishing a lot of videos from there- once more U.S. parks open up for the year we will do vlogs from them too.