Rougarou
Steel Floorless at Cedar Point, Sandusky, Ohio. Opened 1996.
- Height
- 145 ft
- Drop
- 137 ft
- Top speed
- 60 mph
- Length
- 3,900 ft
- Inversions
- 4
- Ride time
- 2 min 40 s
- Designer
- Bolliger & Mabillard
Rougarou is a steel floorless roller coaster at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio, built by Bolliger & Mabillard. It stands 145 feet tall, drops 137 feet, reaches 60 mph and runs on 3,900 feet of track with four inversions: a 119-foot vertical loop, a dive loop, an inclined loop and a corkscrew. A ride lasts about two minutes and forty seconds.
History
The ride opened on May 11, 1996 as Mantis, a stand-up coaster. It was first announced as Banshee, but the park dropped that name after criticism and chose Mantis. Cedar Point closed Mantis on October 19, 2014 and converted it rather than removing it: the ride received new floorless trains, new colors and a new theme, and reopened as Rougarou on May 9, 2015. The park describes it as the first floorless coaster with an inclined loop. The name comes from a werewolf-like creature in French folklore.
Sources
- sixflags.com/cedarpoint/attractions/rougarou (Operating; introduced 2015 under this name; Bolliger & Mabillard; 137 ft drop; 60 mph; 119-foot vertical loop; first floorless coaster with an inclined loop; 54-inch minimum)
- rcdb.com/7.htm (B&M; former name Mantis; height 145 ft, drop 137 ft, length 3,900 ft, speed 60 mph, 4 inversions, duration 2:40; elements 119 ft loop, dive loop, inclined loop, corkscrew; converted to floorless with new trains for 2015)
- rcdb.com/4529.htm (Operating; opened 5/11/1996)
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rougarou_(roller_coaster) (Announced as Banshee; opened as Mantis May 11, 1996; closed October 19, 2014; reopened as Rougarou May 9, 2015)
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