Bandit (Movie Park Germany)

Roller coaster in Germany
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Bandit
Movie Park Germany
Location Bottrop, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Coordinates 51°37′28″N 6°58′28″E / 51.624418°N 6.974569°E / 51.624418; 6.974569
Park section The Old West
Status Operating since 7 May 1999
Rider height 120 cm minimum
Statistics
Manufacturer Roller Coaster Corporation of America
Designer / calculations Ing.-Büro Stengel GmbH
Type Wooden
Track layout Cyclone
Propulsion Chain lift hill
Height 27.8 metres
Drop 24.9 metres
Top speed 80 km/h
Length 1099 metres
Inversions 0
Duration 1:30
Rolling stock
Manufacturer Premier Rides (2001-present)
Intamin (1999-2001)
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Bandit is a wooden roller coaster located at Movie Park Germany in Bottrop, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The attraction first opened in May 1999 as Wild Wild West, in The Old West section of the park. It was renamed to Bandit in 2005.

History

The coaster was closed in 2013 because it had been in a bad state. Bandit reopened in August of that year with partial retracked bits.

Design

Elements

Trains

2 trains with 5 cars per train. In each car, riders are arranged 2 across in 3 rows, for a total of 30 riders per train. The original Intamin trains were replaced by ones manufactured by Premier Rides in 2001.

External links

  • Bandit on the Roller Coaster DataBase.


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