RCCA cut corners on producing their wood coasters, and wanted to make profit from them. Hence why their rides are not very good in quality and layout, especially when it came to the track gauge. Their track probably aged extremely fast because of the poorly built structure that is not proper. Plus, they didn't build them to the standards of wood coasters that we see today.
Been in this coaster last year, me and my dad just laughed our balls out our pants. What a ride. We both deceided this coaster would better be off as toothpickers.
I have been there last week. And there was a woman next to me on one flat ride she said: “I prefer to go to bandit, because I like the smoothness of the coaster”. She was comparing it to the local SLC (that is at least equipped with some padded restraints) and is one of the smoother SLCs out there. I rode bandit in the front row, expecting it to be the “smoothest” row in that thing. But it always felt like the track was trying to throw off the train. I didn’t like it and I didn’t gave it a chance on any other row, since I expected it to become even worse.
Honestly, i have ridden this thing so many times that it became somehow a coaster i look forward to when visiting Movie Park. It so painful that it becomes almost fun again, hiting the final brake run and see who of your friends is in most pain is always hella funny. Its a really bad wooden coaster but i still ride it a couple of times every time i visit.
Movie Park is very close to where I live, so I've ridden this countless times. And I agree.... this ride is absolutely horrible. But I still enjoy it. I usually visit this park with some close friends who are also into rollercoasters and this ride is almost like a meme-coaster for us that we ride ironically. We even willfully choose to sit in the roughest rows (front row in this case), and we always have the time of our lives when we ride it. Riding a horribly rough rollercoaster with your friends and bracing for impact before every drop is sort of like a bonding experience. It's like the extreme version of watching a trash movie. So, if you visit this park with friends, give this ride a chance. It's bad, but it can still be enjoyable (because it's bad). fun fact: This ride is so rough, it once broke my phone
We do literally the same with Coaster Express here in Madrid. It's so so so bad that we love it. Even more if you ride on the back row that feels like a run over xD
The trains were switched as the old trains had the same distance between the wheels as the bends of the structure, causing very intense jolts in the valleys. They updated to new trains and actually added more bends to try to mitigate the problem, which partially worked. Non-axis seats are kind of bearable, but really just kind of. Best way to ride this: Don‘t ride this. PS: I heard that Parques Reunidos do not want the ride RMCd because it wouldn’t be suited for the family audience anymore. As if getting hit a dozen times is „family friendly“
And as if they don’t have enough family coasters in the Park. Jimmy Neutrons Atomic Flyer, MP Studio Tour, SB Ghost Chasers, Backyardigans : Mission to Mars and even Van Helsing‘s Factory is countable as family coaster. Compare this to Parque Warner and I would say they have much more thrill coasters.
The worst thing is that this ride is actually noticeably smoother than it used to be. Back in 2015 this was my first big roller coaster and even though it was a joy to finally conquer my fear of roller coasters, this left me with such a headache that for the longest time I'd never want to ride it again. Did it though about a month ago and I wasn't quite as beat up, but it still sucks.
First time I rode Bandit, it actually activated the automatic emergency call function of my iPhone because it thought I was in a car crash or sth like that. My parents were pretty freaked out once they were notified, but other than that (fortunately) nothing happened. I disabled that feature immediately after - for everyone's sake...
The reasoning the intimin trians were replaced whit different ones is that the wheel spacing of the intamin trains was the same dimension of the track ti spacing (the perpendicular beams under the running rail). At the time of building bandit there are no know instances where this resulted in problems. At the places were the track ties are placed the track is a lot stiffer then on sections were no track ties are. It can be compared to going over a speed bump every couple of feet. This led to ecesive wear on the track an the train julting up and down (even a universety was brought in to determan the problem).The Premier trains thet were brought in had a longer wheel base so the wheels didn’t go over the ties at the same time redusing wear. To ad to your point at 4:30 “if there is a sertain way you have to ride this ride in order to enjoy it is just is not a well made rollercoaster”. If that is the case then flying coasters arn’t well made coasters. Both on FLY and on Galactica I didn’t have a great first ride beacuse of the way i rode it. And whit all coasters, if there is the option of a non wheel seat thats always the smoother (and somwhat tamer) compared to wheel seats. And whit older wooden coasters you just souldn’t expect a smooth ride. “But thats a vekoma SLC you know what to expect” I would argeu if you know of the disaster that was RCCA you should also know what to expect. Am i of the opinion they shouldn’t RMC it? no the definitly should. A great thrill coaster in that park is definitly needed. Star track is fun, but it is just disapointing for a mack launch coaster (compaired to Bleu fire and Icon). But whit the recent develpment of the RMC family coasters, I could see them going for that. Bandit would reamain a famly friendly ride that way, but maintance sould decrease while also resulting in a smother ride.
This makes me want to ride bandit more, looks to be a 10/10. I love all types, no matter how rough, boring or weak they are. Because I'm an enthusiast that loves rollercoasters and doesn't hate any of them. I hope to ride this rollercoaster very soon.
last time i was on it, it was in the dark on an halloween night and THAT GOD DAMN THING snapped my neck so hard that i could feel it for several days! Not every bad wooden rollercoaster need to be RMC-ed but they could use a modern wooden coaster
Last Time I rode it in summer 22 and I had neck ache for the rest of the day. Never had this on any other coaster. I definitely will never ride Bandit again unless they RMC it or rebuild it completely
If you think RCCA couldn't do any worse, note that Yomiuriland in Japan used to have White Canyon. Another Cyclone-ish clone and actually a collab between Togo and RCCA (with Morgan trains) 😱 Even though Togo in Japan is generally alright, White Canyon reportedly wasn't!
Well.. I agree! Bandit was my favorite as a kid. Back then in 2009 or so. It was more enjoyable than now for sure. But how u said, if RMC is going to pimp this ride, it will be a highlight in MoviePark. But the park is not into investing so much... they have their "normal" guests and they are happy with it. (I worked there about 6 years ago)
I can vouch for that if you do sit in a non-wheel seat, it’s not particularly rough (I rode it both this year and last year), but it definitely struggles over some of those hills. The squealing noise it makes just makes me feel bad for it, lol. You want to go on a wooden coaster that’s garbage in every seat? Try Loup-Garou at Walibi Belgium.
German Goverment uses Bandit for interrogation purposes. Everyone talks when you tell they have to ride once again! One time there were plans to give this ride a VR Expierience, the movie you would see with the vr goggles is someone tripping and falling down the stairs :D
I just went to Parque Warner at Madrid and Coaster Express (made by the same group) is just the worst experience I ever had. For comparaison they have an inverted boomerang by Vekoma which feels ultra smooth and pleasant next to this wooden
At the time I am writing this it's 3 days ago since I was on 'Bandit'. After the ride a young woman was crying before pain at the exit. Self I still feel the pain in back & neck. There should be huge warnings at the entrance of that terrible ride. Don't know why they still keep it open; it should be wrecked and the timber should be sold for camp fires. Really: If you love your bones, DON'T RIDE IT!!!!
You wondered why the lift slowed down at the end. This is for safety reasons. In two-train operation, the lift releases the train only when the other train is in the final brake.
Me, as a bigger person had so much pain in the thighs after riding this thing. It's not only rough, but the restraints feel like there where designed to hurt you.
Sounds like what happened when Blackpool Pleasure Beach changed the grand national cars (due to the new breaking system), it became rough. A recent retrack has lessened the roughness. Perhaps they need to retrack sections of this ride to smooth it out.
If they don’t want to RMC it, they need to bring in GCI or gravity group to do a full re-tracking sort of like how they did with ghost rider at Knotts berry farm
In my opinion Bandit is terrible, but Grand National is way worse. Bandit for me feels like it runs on the roughest track you could imagine. The feeling of Grand National I would describe as the train rumbling over the wooden structure without a track at all. After I rode Grand National I had to sit and rest a few minutes and I had so much pain on my sides that I seriosly feared that I had a fissure in my kidney.
MPG doesn't want to RMC Bandit, Walibi Belgium doesn't want to RMC Loup-Garou. What is it with European parks and hanging on to their bad woodies. I get Falken at least. That seems rough in a fun way.
Rode it today and it’s even worse. After the first turn is a big pothole now and it f*cking hurts. I don’t know why they put so much money in retracking it every offseason.
The park has said that they do not want to RMC it because it's not worth it to them since it is not as important for their main target audience, so that's not going to happen. They are reatracking sections of it each year, but the improvements are honestly hard to notice, if at all. It's a bit of a lost case. What you *can* say about it though, is that it is … memorable. And honestly, that's probably why there are still people who like it, who are mostly not roller coaster enthusiasts. It's a rough ride and you definitely get a "phew, i made it!" like after doing something scary… i guess there's something to say about awfuly unpleasant coasters requiring a different kind of courage and provide their own flavor of adrenaline rush.
I came off Bandit seriously worried about my ability to procreate. I'd like to think there is something to be gained from riding even the worst coasters, something intangible that goes beyond a mere credit... and Bandit is definitely worth riding, as most wooden roller coasters I've ridden since have been perfectly tolerable by comparison. Loup-Garou? No problem. Troy? A cradle. All other pain is numb. It doesn't explain the very thing that keeps RMC away from Bottrop: Bandit's baffling popularity among the GP.
I am just so sorry for the park.. they retrack a part of the track each year which costs a TON of money, hoping the overall experience will get better after a few years but hands down - it´s not going to happen. They are really willing to do something to this existing thing but it´s basically pointless :(
I took turns driving the Bandit and the neighboring SLC in the summer. Compared to the Bandit, the SLC was like a soft pillow. This perhaps illustrates to many how rough and uncomfortable the Bandit is when a much-criticized SLC seems super-soft in comparison.
Hahaha, I rode it the last time like seven years ago and it was so bad that I never stepped a foot on it again. And yes. I visited the park multiple times since then. And yes. I didn’t ride MP-EXpress as well. Because it’s also a horrible SLC.
An employee of the park once said in an interview that they know that the ride is rough but they want to fix the problem with retracking first. If this is no longer possible then they prefer to keep the layout.
I actually really love this ride, somehow I like roughness on wooden coasters, just getting shaken around and there was a airtime hill on bandit that was shaking so much, it felt so weird and unique, that was really fun
I do agree this is the worst wooden rollercoaster I've ever been on. Very hurtful and no great elements at all. Completely useless ride. RMC that thing ASAP please!!
I have ridden this thing 3 or 4 times and I have to agree that it is pretty bad. The worst thing for me is that they already retrack parts of the layout every off-season but somehow the ride experience dosnt improve much. I think the park thought of RMCing the coaster but thought that it wouldnt fit the family target group. I was so sad to hear that they thought about it and just have thrown the idea out of the window. Good review for a bad coaster.
Coaster Express runs with the Intamin trains and it’s still horrendous. I’m sure the Premier trains are bad, but they’re not fully responsible for the ride being so bad.
In the Looopings Podcast the marketing director of Movie Park Germany spoke about Bandit and how it's still very popular among children. They don't complain about the ride being painfull because they're still young and can handle the rattle. And an RMC wouldn't fit that demographic. So don't expect an RMC makeover any time soon.
I would love to see you guys review the Montezum in park Hopi Hari, Brazil, also a wooden coaster I am curious about this Bandit coaster and I have a hunch Montezum is equally rough or possibly rougher. I rode it a couple weeks ago and it may have given some unintended spinal adjustments
I can say that bandit won’t get an rmc coaster in the next year because it’s the most used attraction in the park. The park knows how this roller coaster is not a really good one, but they also know that this is the most popular attraction in this park. So I can understand why this is still open.
The problem is probably that the ride still creates some revenue (as people come to ride it), plus the park probably just doesn't have whatever many millions of dollars they would have to give RMC to retrack the thing.
For the locals "don't ride it" works, but for coaster fans who travel abroad, they are still going to ride the new coaster for them. Although if i went back theres not enough money to make me ride Bandit or the SLC next to it. Name a worse set of coasters that are right next to each other, maybe mt olympus? Oh and i never ride a questionable wooden coaster without sitting in a middle seat. Still terrible.
There was an interwiev with a parc official a while ago, where the parc official said, that of course he would prefer a RMC over Bandit or a Raptor over the SLC as he is a huge RMC fan but they don't fit the group of visitors the parc get's at the time. (This interview was 2018 I guess)
I hear that Coaster Express is much, MUCH worse than this one. It uses the Intamin Pre-fab trains, much worse than the Premier trains on this one. And good god is it rough. I haven’t been on Coaster Express, in fact I’ve never ridden ANY of the RCCA woodies, but I could tell they’re rough as hell just by watching the POV’s.
Here in the German theme park community it is often Nummer 1 on most rough/terrible ride ever. So totally agree with you. Of course we often suggest to RMC but this has been ignored. Hope the park see this Video and consider RMC.
I rode Wild Wild West in 2001 I think. It was my first non kiddie coaster. I loved it. It made me into a roller-coaster fan. I Immediately went to Heidepark for Colossos which opened two month earlier. Loved it even more. Skip a few years and I'm in movie park again, primarily for Wild Wild West which Name was changed to Bandit by that point in time. It was the biggest disappointment I've ever experienced.
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Feels like RCCA's sole purpose of existence was to provide inspirations for RMC
RCCA cut corners on producing their wood coasters, and wanted to make profit from them. Hence why their rides are not very good in quality and layout, especially when it came to the track gauge. Their track probably aged extremely fast because of the poorly built structure that is not proper. Plus, they didn't build them to the standards of wood coasters that we see today.
@@TonyKimtheamusementparkfan i think they know. and u know what joeks are?
RCCA is basically shitty Dinn, which is quite the feat
Marty "RCCA" McFly, 1992: I guess you guys aren't ready for that yet. But your kids are gonna love the remix!
Nah, I think their sole purpose is to leave a mess for RMC to clean up.
If they don't wanna RMC it, it would at least be nice if they could bring in GCI or The Gravity Group to give it a full retrack along with new trains.
they already did a re-track haha
it used to be even rougher
This would be a welcome solution if RMC is not a possibility!
would love to see them go for a famly RMC, we know that RMC is working on a famly version at the moment.
How about RMC Topper Track rathar than I-Box/Iron Horse?
or just put buzz bar 3 or 4 bench ptc trains on it, i bet they would weigh so much less it wouldn't even jackhammer in the valleys
The short version of this review made me laugh harder than it should have
Been in this coaster last year, me and my dad just laughed our balls out our pants. What a ride. We both deceided this coaster would better be off as toothpickers.
I have been there last week. And there was a woman next to me on one flat ride she said: “I prefer to go to bandit, because I like the smoothness of the coaster”. She was comparing it to the local SLC (that is at least equipped with some padded restraints) and is one of the smoother SLCs out there.
I rode bandit in the front row, expecting it to be the “smoothest” row in that thing. But it always felt like the track was trying to throw off the train. I didn’t like it and I didn’t gave it a chance on any other row, since I expected it to become even worse.
Honestly, i have ridden this thing so many times that it became somehow a coaster i look forward to when visiting Movie Park. It so painful that it becomes almost fun again, hiting the final brake run and see who of your friends is in most pain is always hella funny. Its a really bad wooden coaster but i still ride it a couple of times every time i visit.
Movie Park is very close to where I live, so I've ridden this countless times.
And I agree.... this ride is absolutely horrible. But I still enjoy it.
I usually visit this park with some close friends who are also into rollercoasters and this ride is almost like a meme-coaster for us that we ride ironically. We even willfully choose to sit in the roughest rows (front row in this case), and we always have the time of our lives when we ride it. Riding a horribly rough rollercoaster with your friends and bracing for impact before every drop is sort of like a bonding experience. It's like the extreme version of watching a trash movie.
So, if you visit this park with friends, give this ride a chance. It's bad, but it can still be enjoyable (because it's bad).
fun fact: This ride is so rough, it once broke my phone
I rode it a couple of weeks ago just to see how bad it is. 😄
i live near kings dominion and we ride anaconda every time even though it's horrible, used to ride hurler every time till they finally rmc'd it
We do literally the same with Coaster Express here in Madrid. It's so so so bad that we love it. Even more if you ride on the back row that feels like a run over xD
Front row is *rougher*?! lol
Lmao a friend of mine broke his phone too
Some coasters run with square wheels, but I’m pretty sure these are triangular
I once heard somebody say that to ride Bandit feels like running down the stairs in a shopping trolley. That describes the experience quite right.
1:08 "I just wish the name was given to a better ride."
Bandit at Yomiuriland: You got it.
The trains were switched as the old trains had the same distance between the wheels as the bends of the structure, causing very intense jolts in the valleys. They updated to new trains and actually added more bends to try to mitigate the problem, which partially worked.
Non-axis seats are kind of bearable, but really just kind of. Best way to ride this: Don‘t ride this.
PS: I heard that Parques Reunidos do not want the ride RMCd because it wouldn’t be suited for the family audience anymore. As if getting hit a dozen times is „family friendly“
Good news
RMC also provide normal retracking with their Iron Horse track. If you guys really think RMC family is still too intense
And as if they don’t have enough family coasters in the Park. Jimmy Neutrons Atomic Flyer, MP Studio Tour, SB Ghost Chasers, Backyardigans : Mission to Mars and even Van Helsing‘s Factory is countable as family coaster. Compare this to Parque Warner and I would say they have much more thrill coasters.
Man I'd love to see a lot more reviews of awful rides on here.
These are fun to watch.
The worst thing is that this ride is actually noticeably smoother than it used to be. Back in 2015 this was my first big roller coaster and even though it was a joy to finally conquer my fear of roller coasters, this left me with such a headache that for the longest time I'd never want to ride it again. Did it though about a month ago and I wasn't quite as beat up, but it still sucks.
If you look at the history of RCCA it really would make for a great deep delve of a documentary!
First time I rode Bandit, it actually activated the automatic emergency call function of my iPhone because it thought I was in a car crash or sth like that. My parents were pretty freaked out once they were notified, but other than that (fortunately) nothing happened.
I disabled that feature immediately after - for everyone's sake...
why'd you bring your phone on ride in the first place
@@ChillaxeMakewas in his pocket I guess idk
I really hope they RMC it. Even a mediocre RMC would give this park a pretty nice set of rides with excalibur, star trek, studio tour and area 51
Short version of the review is what most people really needed xD
I went into this one without knowing anything about it, but I don’t think that knowing more would’ve prepared me for the experience.
The reasoning the intimin trians were replaced whit different ones is that the wheel spacing of the intamin trains was the same dimension of the track ti spacing (the perpendicular beams under the running rail). At the time of building bandit there are no know instances where this resulted in problems. At the places were the track ties are placed the track is a lot stiffer then on sections were no track ties are. It can be compared to going over a speed bump every couple of feet. This led to ecesive wear on the track an the train julting up and down (even a universety was brought in to determan the problem).The Premier trains thet were brought in had a longer wheel base so the wheels didn’t go over the ties at the same time redusing wear.
To ad to your point at 4:30 “if there is a sertain way you have to ride this ride in order to enjoy it is just is not a well made rollercoaster”. If that is the case then flying coasters arn’t well made coasters. Both on FLY and on Galactica I didn’t have a great first ride beacuse of the way i rode it. And whit all coasters, if there is the option of a non wheel seat thats always the smoother (and somwhat tamer) compared to wheel seats. And whit older wooden coasters you just souldn’t expect a smooth ride.
“But thats a vekoma SLC you know what to expect” I would argeu if you know of the disaster that was RCCA you should also know what to expect.
Am i of the opinion they shouldn’t RMC it? no the definitly should. A great thrill coaster in that park is definitly needed. Star track is fun, but it is just disapointing for a mack launch coaster (compaired to Bleu fire and Icon). But whit the recent develpment of the RMC family coasters, I could see them going for that. Bandit would reamain a famly friendly ride that way, but maintance sould decrease while also resulting in a smother ride.
This makes me want to ride bandit more, looks to be a 10/10. I love all types, no matter how rough, boring or weak they are. Because I'm an enthusiast that loves rollercoasters and doesn't hate any of them. I hope to ride this rollercoaster very soon.
Riding an RCCA is basically saying: “Ah what could go wrong?”
I haven’t been into roller coasters for well over a year now, and I still knew this wasn’t good when I heard it was made by RCCA
last time i was on it, it was in the dark on an halloween night and THAT GOD DAMN THING snapped my neck so hard that i could feel it for several days! Not every bad wooden rollercoaster need to be RMC-ed but they could use a modern wooden coaster
Last Time I rode it in summer 22 and I had neck ache for the rest of the day. Never had this on any other coaster. I definitely will never ride Bandit again unless they RMC it or rebuild it completely
This ride needs GCI Titan Track!
If you think RCCA couldn't do any worse, note that Yomiuriland in Japan used to have White Canyon. Another Cyclone-ish clone and actually a collab between Togo and RCCA (with Morgan trains) 😱
Even though Togo in Japan is generally alright, White Canyon reportedly wasn't!
Sounds like a lovecraftian nightmare. Glad it's taken down, or else it would've been the most dangerous credit in existence.
THANK YOU That's exactly what I think about this roller coaster. Only many have a different opinion which I can not understand at all.
Well.. I agree! Bandit was my favorite as a kid. Back then in 2009 or so. It was more enjoyable than now for sure. But how u said, if RMC is going to pimp this ride, it will be a highlight in MoviePark.
But the park is not into investing so much... they have their "normal" guests and they are happy with it.
(I worked there about 6 years ago)
I can vouch for that if you do sit in a non-wheel seat, it’s not particularly rough (I rode it both this year and last year), but it definitely struggles over some of those hills. The squealing noise it makes just makes me feel bad for it, lol.
You want to go on a wooden coaster that’s garbage in every seat? Try Loup-Garou at Walibi Belgium.
Movie Park Germany: "Wait we are called Movie Park, I got a fantastic idea to make Bandit even more popular!
Me after seeing them add VR to Bandit: 😒
Bandit is an underrated cult classic
I love this ride! It really makes you feel like you're trying to escape from the sheriff riding a horse after you robbed a bank!
German Goverment uses Bandit for interrogation purposes. Everyone talks when you tell they have to ride once again!
One time there were plans to give this ride a VR Expierience, the movie you would see with the vr goggles is someone tripping and falling down the stairs :D
I just went to Parque Warner at Madrid and Coaster Express (made by the same group) is just the worst experience I ever had. For comparaison they have an inverted boomerang by Vekoma which feels ultra smooth and pleasant next to this wooden
At the time I am writing this it's 3 days ago since I was on 'Bandit'. After the ride a young woman was crying before pain at the exit. Self I still feel the pain in back & neck. There should be huge warnings at the entrance of that terrible ride. Don't know why they still keep it open; it should be wrecked and the timber should be sold for camp fires. Really: If you love your bones, DON'T RIDE IT!!!!
1:20 what is bro doing on his phone
You wondered why the lift slowed down at the end. This is for safety reasons. In two-train operation, the lift releases the train only when the other train is in the final brake.
Me, as a bigger person had so much pain in the thighs after riding this thing. It's not only rough, but the restraints feel like there where designed to hurt you.
The ride doesn't suck, it's actully cool! I had a lot of fun in that
Wooden Coasters with small layouts look so bizarre with long trains
Sounds like what happened when Blackpool Pleasure Beach changed the grand national cars (due to the new breaking system), it became rough. A recent retrack has lessened the roughness. Perhaps they need to retrack sections of this ride to smooth it out.
Taylor, would you rather ride:
1) a stand-up train conversion of Bandit, or
2) a VR version of T3 with a 1-second feed delay?
or booth
Ride Review from germany described this as "A rollercoaster ride down the stairs"
I’m honestly surprised Taylor didn’t give this coaster a lower score.
Its so funny how they can dispatch the train with some of the lap bars up
Those trains look like the same ones SoB had before they removed the loop
Premier trains are terrible by themselves, so whoever decided to slapped em on an RCCA needs to be publicly shamed
If they don’t want to RMC it, they need to bring in GCI or gravity group to do a full re-tracking sort of like how they did with ghost rider at Knotts berry farm
Went back on yesterday. Still rough but with lose enough restraints it just throws you around and doesn't really hurt.
Yes, Bandit is rough and that´s what I love. Can´t wait to ride this coaster again!😁
Find it hard to believe that there's a rougher coaster than Grand National at Blackpool Pleasure Beach....this must be borderline unrideable.
In my opinion Bandit is terrible, but Grand National is way worse. Bandit for me feels like it runs on the roughest track you could imagine. The feeling of Grand National I would describe as the train rumbling over the wooden structure without a track at all. After I rode Grand National I had to sit and rest a few minutes and I had so much pain on my sides that I seriosly feared that I had a fissure in my kidney.
@@Endurophin Perfect description of a Grand National ride right there. However, I still find myself riding it everytime I visit! 😆
If this doesnt get rmc'ed within the next few years i hope they scrap the whole thing in the trash
This just makes me grateful SFGA got there’s made by there own engineers!!!!
Viper slaps. Such an underrated ride!
MPG doesn't want to RMC Bandit, Walibi Belgium doesn't want to RMC Loup-Garou. What is it with European parks and hanging on to their bad woodies. I get Falken at least. That seems rough in a fun way.
1:22 front row guy busy replying to some emails
Rode it today and it’s even worse. After the first turn is a big pothole now and it f*cking hurts. I don’t know why they put so much money in retracking it every offseason.
The park has said that they do not want to RMC it because it's not worth it to them since it is not as important for their main target audience, so that's not going to happen. They are reatracking sections of it each year, but the improvements are honestly hard to notice, if at all. It's a bit of a lost case. What you *can* say about it though, is that it is … memorable. And honestly, that's probably why there are still people who like it, who are mostly not roller coaster enthusiasts. It's a rough ride and you definitely get a "phew, i made it!" like after doing something scary… i guess there's something to say about awfuly unpleasant coasters requiring a different kind of courage and provide their own flavor of adrenaline rush.
I came off Bandit seriously worried about my ability to procreate.
I'd like to think there is something to be gained from riding even the worst coasters, something intangible that goes beyond a mere credit... and Bandit is definitely worth riding, as most wooden roller coasters I've ridden since have been perfectly tolerable by comparison. Loup-Garou? No problem. Troy? A cradle. All other pain is numb. It doesn't explain the very thing that keeps RMC away from Bottrop: Bandit's baffling popularity among the GP.
Oh don't worry, with 8 billion humans already on this planet you don't need to procreate, so just ride it a few times more 😁
I am just so sorry for the park..
they retrack a part of the track each year which costs a TON of money, hoping the overall experience will get better after a few years but hands down - it´s not going to happen. They are really willing to do something to this existing thing but it´s basically pointless :(
The non wheelseats are infinitely better. If I only rode backrow, I wouldve agreed.
Rode it once, got pain in my back and a headache. Never again!
I took turns driving the Bandit and the neighboring SLC in the summer. Compared to the Bandit, the SLC was like a soft pillow. This perhaps illustrates to many how rough and uncomfortable the Bandit is when a much-criticized SLC seems super-soft in comparison.
Hahaha, I rode it the last time like seven years ago and it was so bad that I never stepped a foot on it again. And yes. I visited the park multiple times since then.
And yes. I didn’t ride MP-EXpress as well. Because it’s also a horrible SLC.
This was my first Wooden Rollercoaster and the reason I didn't ride any other Wooden Rollercoaster for a long time 😅
If they aren't going to RMC it can they at least get PTC trains for it?
For some reason I like old rough wooden coaster like grand national.
An employee of the park once said in an interview that they know that the ride is rough but they want to fix the problem with retracking first. If this is no longer possible then they prefer to keep the layout.
I rode it after a retrack so it was smooth, but as the ride boring, and gets really rough after very little time, it needs that RMC overhaul
Which is worse a Boring wooden coaster or Insanely rough wooden coaster
There’s a more likely chance of it being retracted by GCI or Gravity Group rather than being RMCed
I actually really love this ride, somehow I like roughness on wooden coasters, just getting shaken around and there was a airtime hill on bandit that was shaking so much, it felt so weird and unique, that was really fun
Those are the worst restraints unless you enjoy being totally stapled!!
RCCA: Ride our Coasters for Certainy of Anguish
This is an amazing coaster when you dark ride it. all the terrible rattle becomes a feature in the darkness.
I do agree this is the worst wooden rollercoaster I've ever been on. Very hurtful and no great elements at all. Completely useless ride. RMC that thing ASAP please!!
Plz change to rmc plz though
The train is from Son Of Beast, there are shipping receipts from the purchase.
I have ridden this thing 3 or 4 times and I have to agree that it is pretty bad. The worst thing for me is that they already retrack parts of the layout every off-season but somehow the ride experience dosnt improve much. I think the park thought of RMCing the coaster but thought that it wouldnt fit the family target group. I was so sad to hear that they thought about it and just have thrown the idea out of the window. Good review for a bad coaster.
Family hybrid conversion? Shallow drop, no inversions, etc.
Coaster Express runs with the Intamin trains and it’s still horrendous. I’m sure the Premier trains are bad, but they’re not fully responsible for the ride being so bad.
In the Looopings Podcast the marketing director of Movie Park Germany spoke about Bandit and how it's still very popular among children. They don't complain about the ride being painfull because they're still young and can handle the rattle. And an RMC wouldn't fit that demographic. So don't expect an RMC makeover any time soon.
There is an even better solution to this Rollercoaster : Go to Europapark or Phantasialand!
I would love to see you guys review the Montezum in park Hopi Hari, Brazil, also a wooden coaster
I am curious about this Bandit coaster and I have a hunch Montezum is equally rough or possibly rougher. I rode it a couple weeks ago and it may have given some unintended spinal adjustments
I would love to ride an RCCA coaster someday just to see how bad they are. Too bad they’re all in Europe.
3:24 streets will never forget the pivothead povs
Can we see the POV without stabilization
I can say that bandit won’t get an rmc coaster in the next year because it’s the most used attraction in the park. The park knows how this roller coaster is not a really good one, but they also know that this is the most popular attraction in this park. So I can understand why this is still open.
The problem is probably that the ride still creates some revenue (as people come to ride it), plus the park probably just doesn't have whatever many millions of dollars they would have to give RMC to retrack the thing.
I heard RCCA and immediately went “…oh. Oh No.”
For the locals "don't ride it" works, but for coaster fans who travel abroad, they are still going to ride the new coaster for them. Although if i went back theres not enough money to make me ride Bandit or the SLC next to it. Name a worse set of coasters that are right next to each other, maybe mt olympus? Oh and i never ride a questionable wooden coaster without sitting in a middle seat. Still terrible.
Rmc Needs to make more rmc's
There was an interwiev with a parc official a while ago, where the parc official said, that of course he would prefer a RMC over Bandit or a Raptor over the SLC as he is a huge RMC fan but they don't fit the group of visitors the parc get's at the time. (This interview was 2018 I guess)
Coaster Express is likely worse than this and that's scary to think about
Awesome review! Bandit honestly does look terrible, the transitions look awful. RCCA really is the worst thing ever!
You are cool 😎
Steel Bandit does have a nice ring to it though...
I hear that Coaster Express is much, MUCH worse than this one. It uses the Intamin Pre-fab trains, much worse than the Premier trains on this one. And good god is it rough.
I haven’t been on Coaster Express, in fact I’ve never ridden ANY of the RCCA woodies, but I could tell they’re rough as hell just by watching the POV’s.
We could litterally see the pain on Sarah's face
You can’t say “horrible don’t ride it” and expect me to not want to ride it
this attraction should be banned. it was inhumane and not fun anymore. I hurt myself in several places.
Here in the German theme park community it is often Nummer 1 on most rough/terrible ride ever.
So totally agree with you.
Of course we often suggest to RMC but this has been ignored.
Hope the park see this Video and consider RMC.
Only coaster manufacturer I actually am glad doesn't exist anymore, just from their extremely shady practices
I rode Wild Wild West in 2001 I think. It was my first non kiddie coaster. I loved it. It made me into a roller-coaster fan. I Immediately went to Heidepark for Colossos which opened two month earlier. Loved it even more. Skip a few years and I'm in movie park again, primarily for Wild Wild West which Name was changed to Bandit by that point in time. It was the biggest disappointment I've ever experienced.