Bandit Review *HORRIBLE* Wooden Coaster at Movie Park Germany
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- Опубликовано: 23 сен 2022
- What happens when you take an RCCA wooden roller coaster, throw in Premier trains, and a long past due need for a retrack? You get one of the worst rides in Europe!
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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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
If you look at the history of RCCA it really would make for a great deep delve of a documentary!
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.
Man I'd love to see a lot more reviews of awful rides on here.
These are fun to watch.
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.
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
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.
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
Short version of the review is what most people really needed xD
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
1:20 what is bro doing on his phone
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)
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.
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?
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.
If this doesnt get rmc'ed within the next few years i hope they scrap the whole thing in the trash
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.
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!!!!
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
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
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.
Riding an RCCA is basically saying: “Ah what could go wrong?”
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
For some reason I like old rough wooden coaster like grand national.
Those trains look like the same ones SoB had before they removed the loop
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
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.
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.
The non wheelseats are infinitely better. If I only rode backrow, I wouldve agreed.
Went back on yesterday. Still rough but with lose enough restraints it just throws you around and doesn't really hurt.
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: 😒
Yes, Bandit is rough and that´s what I love. Can´t wait to ride this coaster again!😁
Wooden Coasters with small layouts look so bizarre with long trains
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.
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
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.
1:08 "I just wish the name was given to a better ride."
Bandit at Yomiuriland: You got it.
This just makes me grateful SFGA got there’s made by there own engineers!!!!
Viper slaps. Such an underrated ride!
I’m honestly surprised Taylor didn’t give this coaster a lower score.
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 :(
Its so funny how they can dispatch the train with some of the lap bars up
This was my first Wooden Rollercoaster and the reason I didn't ride any other Wooden Rollercoaster for a long time 😅
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! 😆
Those are the worst restraints unless you enjoy being totally stapled!!
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 😁
Premier trains are terrible by themselves, so whoever decided to slapped em on an RCCA needs to be publicly shamed
Ride Review from germany described this as "A rollercoaster ride down the stairs"
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!
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.
The train is from Son Of Beast, there are shipping receipts from the purchase.
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.
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.
RCCA: Ride our Coasters for Certainy of Anguish
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.
This is in my top 5 of all rollercoasters I rode! It’s painful but it’s so fun :)
The ride doesn't suck, it's actully cool! I had a lot of fun in that
Is it rough? Yes it is but it still has some good floater airtime and if you don‘t sit on wheels (like you said) it is much much better. I do not know why some people perceive this ride as painfull rather than just unpleasent but I guess we‘re all a little different.
I totally agree on the RMC part though: Currently the park thinks that this coaster is beloved especially by families (it is a family park) but that is definitly not the case! I think a great compromise would be to turn it into a less extreme „family RMC“. RMC wanted to enter the family market for a few years now so that would be a win-win-situation
Maybe. I can totally see them perhaps taking the twisted cyclone layout but removing the inversions and replacing them with something else. Heck maybe even keep the inversions in, the park recently got movie park studios, an excellent family coaster, theybcould probably justify turning bandit into a thrilling inverting RMC. Heck again the twisted cyclone layout is right there so it could be done easily while saving a fair bit of money on the design phase
i IS painfull, but its also lots of fun
RMC also offers 1-1 steel redos of the track. So you can keep the Original Layout and even the Original trains, it only gets smooth and reliable. But nobody does that
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 would love to ride an RCCA coaster someday just to see how bad they are. Too bad they’re all in Europe.
You are cool 😎
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
Awesome review! Bandit honestly does look terrible, the transitions look awful. RCCA really is the worst thing ever!
Rode it once, got pain in my back and a headache. Never again!
The train only slows down at the top of lift hill when the other train is still on the track. Sometimes you come to a complete standstill, e.g. when it comes to rollback. If there is only one train on a day, then it does not brake on the lift hill
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)
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.
You really should ride some of the rougher 6 seat cars in the middle row. It can actually be quite fun that way. It really just removes a ton of the roughness. I learned this after riding regina at Tobu Zoo 21 times in a day and it ended up being a really fun ride where the second row was by far the best. (Since it was a walk on I still had the view as if it was front row)
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.
1:22 front row guy busy replying to some emails
Which is worse a Boring wooden coaster or Insanely rough wooden coaster
Son of Beast had premier trains and I wonder if that is the reason why it has these trains.
We could litterally see the pain on Sarah's face
There’s a more likely chance of it being retracted by GCI or Gravity Group rather than being RMCed
Steel Bandit does have a nice ring to it though...
RMC family coaster it. Something not so intense and balls to the wall. Just some quality floater and couple light electors with speed.
The ride looks cool and even has a pretty good layout. Just the profiling 😳
Coaster Express is likely worse than this and that's scary to think about
I heard RCCA and immediately went “…oh. Oh No.”
You'd put this over Magnus Colossus for coasters you want RMC'd? Heck, I probably would've put Magnus Colossus over Gwazi or Mean Streak way back before those were RMC'd. Because that terrain usage combined with RMC has the potential to be among the best coasters out there, without RMC even needing to go above and beyond in changing the layout.
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 went to movie park germany recently, and went on it, it shook me up soo bad that i then couldn't ride the star trek coaster, cus i was super dizzey and knocked up. Terrible ride
Rode it nearly 20 years ago and it was painfull even then 😅
I've ridden it a couple of times, but never ever i will ride it again. It's a torture device, not a rollercoaster..
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 rode this in 2003 and it was horrible, cant imagine how bad it would be now
I'm riding this in two days, I remember really liking it as a kid (like 20 years ago) so I'm curious to see how it as evolved. I think I tolerate roughness quite well... :p bytheway, I believe Movie Park had announced last year that there are no plans to RMC this thing because it is fairly popular with their guests... but hey, Walibi is my homepark, I can't complain :p
3:05 reminds me of Mystic Timbers
Here's the thing, I get its so insanely rough but it also lacks in forces and honesty, if you think about it, would it really be better if it was glossy smooth on an already forceless ride? Roughness adds to that out of control feeling on wooden coasters and adds that intensity factor.
Can we see the POV without stabilization