Rougarou Review - Cedar Point (Sandusky, OH)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ก.ค. 2024
- Originally called Mantis, this Stand-up roller coaster was converted into a floorless roller coaster during the 2014-2015 off season. Rougarou features new trains and a new color scheme. Did the conversion revitalize this attraction? Find out in this in-depth review!
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I got 5 rides on this coaster in all different spot in the back and front. I think it’s a great ride and I kept my head forwards so literally no head banging. I didn’t even think it was bumpy at all. The only slightly shaky part was the corkscrew at end. It’s a great ride with a classic feel to it. It reminds me a lot of afterburner with the quick pace and intense moments.
I think the main problem is that people went in thinking floorless trains were gonna automatically smooth out problems the standup versions had.
You have to think, these are older coasters that have had a lot of wear over years. There's only so much you can do to fix them without retracking.
That said, I don't mind a bit of rattle or head tap as to me, as long as I'm not hurting, I'd say it adds to the intensity.
Some Rougarou reviews have stated it does have the B&M rattle . . . . but all things being equal; I'd rather have a rattle on a floorless than my shoulders and testicles banged on a stand up!
That and I wish all the B&M floorless and inverts could have the vest restraints that Banshee has.
This ride would be perfect with vest restraints! 👍
@@XscreamThrills I've heard they wanted to but the vests have too much width for Rougarou's safety envelope. What about vest restraints in a Diamondback or Fury style alternating pairs arrangement? I suppose the loss of capacity would make that non-viable. I sure hope they can figure out how to make Rougarou more successful. I'd hate to see it go.
Jason Maier sounds like you guys don’t know how to adjust the stand seat height on the original stand up trains I seen people sitting on them then wonder why nuts Get Crushed:)
I like Rougarou, the corkscrew bangs your head a bit but overall it's a good ride
This was actually in my top five at cedar point when I went for the first time this year. This and Gatekeeper were the coasters we rode the most. It is a really great ride.
I really want B&M to start building floorless coasters again.
Honestly if they do I want them to make one with a sea serpent like Medusa SFDK and also that corkscrew underneath the mid course
I want them to start makin’ more kumbas out here
I really miss the old Mantis color scheme, I thought it looked really cool.
I like how you are always fair with your reviews. I am one of those that pretty much overlooked this coaster. I rode it a couple times, then pretty much forgot about it. I'll try it again next time I visit. Since that last visit, I figured out how to ride with these B&M OTSR without getting headbanging. I just keep my head forward, and it works with most of their coasters (not Firebird).
It's usually a walk-on, and of the three floorless coasters I've ridden, this is my favorite. It's telling how this ride is pretty much forgotten when Dominator at Kings Dominion is extremely similar (save for having no theming, whereas at least they themed Rougarou to a swamp creature for the ride over a swamp) and considered one of the top coasters at the park.
TheSonicsean I thought Rougarou was in reference to a loup garou which means werewolf. Regardless, it’s theming is so scarce, Rougarou might as well mean tomato soup. Dominator is fun, but people forget it’s not an original build and a transfer B&M, making it difficult to attribute its popularity to Kings when Six Flags conceived it.
The color scheme looks AWESOME!
This ride looks fantastic!
I rode Rougarou about three weeks after it first opened in 2015, and I remember there being some effects behind the first loop. They used a ton of fog on the loop itself, and there were green flashing lights and sounds in the trees behind it to make it seem like there was something in there. I have no idea if they still use those effects.
Ive never experienced those effects so I'd assume they're gone now. 😭
Ive had good and bad rides on this. I like how you said if you want to marathon this..😆 does that person exist?
Well, if it's a busy day and you wanna ride something without a wait, I can see someone marathoning this
Thanks for this review. I prefer SV, and MF, (obviously) I also prefer TTD. But Believe it or not, I also prefer Gatekeeper, and even Raptor. for me this ties with Max Xl-200 or even Maverick since I prefer bigger drops and/or large down hill sections. It's the most underrated coaster in the park and it works perfectly at about 11am when MF gets too crowded. Put your heard forward and you won't get it banged as badly, but I like the back row and still get my shoulders bruised on the corkscrew immediately after the MCBR; the only truly rough moment on the ride. Thanks for this review; it seems fair to me!
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You do some great reviews. Thanks for this one. I haven't been to CP since 2008 so it was still Mantis and I very much dislike standups lol
I just hold my head forward and experience no head banging whatsoever. I told my mates to do the same they all had great rides as well. The view in the front is neat, but I find that the forces in the back are so much better on this ride. The speed through the elements feels more natural in the back. The problem with this ride is that the instructions in the station tell you exactly the wrong way to brace yourself. The only rides that need a headrest are the launch coasters. Keep your head off the headrest on Rougarou!
One thing that I found out unfortunately is that leaning forwards to brace and prevent head banging only works if you are tall enough. My Fiance is 5' flat and can't get their head forwards enough to protect it on Rougarou or on Raptor
Great Vid Man
Thanks!
Rattle is a severe understatement.
I always thought rougarou could be transported to another park and use that space for a new addition. However, I also agree that this ride is always overlooked. The crew is nice and the station setting over the lake is a nice touch.
Can you do a review on boulder dash? I love how it keeps the speed the whole way around and never really feels like your slowing down. Also how it plays with the terrain
I already did a review of Boulder Dash 😉
@@XscreamThrills Just watched it. Great review! Also, there is normally 2 trains in operation but for some reason they only had 1 this 2019 season
I usually sit in the back row far-right seat and don't have any major problems, have ridden it multiple times there as well with the same results...I guess I just know how to deal with restraint shiftiness better than most 🤷🏿♀️
I will admit it is a good coaster just a problem with the head banging. I rode it front row on the outer like he said and had decently amount of banging. I had a headache for an hour but still loved the layout and the ride if they had different restraints.
Chris Christensen Honestly the back is smoother despite what the video says.
I heard this coaster has a lot of Headbanging going on I seen someone call it Rouga(Rough) and headbangarou
to wrap up - halloweekends crowds are ridiculous. the line for this coaster would always see an hour or more but i absolutely loved working it
Oh wow that's a long wait for Rougarou
I really like rougarou. I didn't get any head banging roughness
Funny to hear a lot of mixed opinions on this ride. Many really like it; many really don't. As a person who hasn't ridden it, I become very curious as to what I would think of it
Well, if you take my opinion, I think you'll enjoy it 😜
@@XscreamThrills I do enjoy the one Floorless I've been on, which people also criticize a lot 😅
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In early seasons, they did have lighting, fog, and some sound effects.
Too bad it's no longer there
Finally rode Rougarou for the first time 3 weeks ago. It was my third trip to CP in two years and I somehow never managed to get on it before. Boy, was I sorry. I sat on a middle row end seat, maybe that was the problem, but it was the most painful coaster experience of my life. Made me never want to go near it again.
I love living 20minutes from cedar point
KingCactus I live about 10 away
@@ericwilson25 sadly they sold too many of their season passes, the lines are gonna be crazy next season
KingCactus I’m not gonna be going to much but still got the good pass
the first coaster i’ve ever operated :,)
Cool!
Yeah i saw you there in July.
Always felt like Mantis was a fine stand up, and that they did not need to convert it. Still, I enjoy being able to experience some different elements on a floorless. 7.5/10. Also, check out my newest video about RMC closing its doors for goodb
I’m very sensitive to rides that hurt my head - I’m also shorter, so my head is always right between the restraints. This ride is my second least favorite ride at CP *solely* because of the head-banging (Corkscrew is last, ouch).
If the restraints were replaced by ones like on the Maverick? It would shoot up SO MUCH in my ranks!!! I love B&M coasters a lot, and it’s a shame that the restraints are holding it back from being amazing! It seems like an easy fix, too, but I’m also not a coaster car designer, so maybe there’s more to it.
I think that another thing that is impressive is how little space takes. It's tucked away, it weaves OVER Iron Dragon. You can literally walk 2 minutes in any direction and ride another coaster too. But like you said, it's almost always walk on and it does get over looked.. Probably because it's sitting literally right next to Millennium Force. One other thing. This coaster is LOUD. I mean, really loud. Raptor is also built by B&M is also loud, but this thing.. Holy cow. Valravn and Gatekeeper at Cedar Point are also B&M's, but they're not loud.. I'll let you figure out why :P
Raptor is louder, but yeah, it's the famous B&M roar!
It looks like sand is filled in the rails of the track on Gatekeeper and Valravn to reduce noise. If Rougarou was to be retracked, the same thing will be done to it.
As a big guy, the seats are too close together for comfort. I don't care for it's location, because on a hot day the air over there is thick and muggy. But, it's a lot better than it was as a stand up coaster. The inversions would put too much pressure on my knees, that problem no longer exists
I got all excited about this roller coaster and started making plans to try it out....until you mentioned the corkscrew . I love roller coasters and am allowed to ride many of them, but any roller coaster with a corkscrew is verboten. I suffer spinal spondylosis from being hit by a punk college kid in his car. Riding a corkscrew could transect my spinal cord. Oh, well. I'm sure there are other cool coasters I can ride that don't have them. I still want to ride the Intimidator at Kings Dominion. Rode the Dominator, but it was so hot that day I had heat stroke and never got to the Intimidator. So that's a personal quest for me!
The "Imposter" Restraints - The Worst of all Headbanging.
All of them need to be replaced with all-new vest restraints.
I personally never felt rougarous rattle. However she do shake a little.
This is a fun ride i recommend a night ride on it makes it more disorienting and location makes for great nighteide
Ive only ridden it at night when it was Mantis, so I'll have to give it a ride at night as Rougarou! 👍
@@XscreamThrills i never rode at night as mantis, it was a really unenjoyable ride experience and said no thanks to another on it lol it was a big upgrade switching to floorless trains
This thing hurts, it, huuurrrttssss! When I "stuck my head forward" I was neckbanged. When I sat upright facebanged, either way, this roller coaster should be charged with domestic violence for what it did to me. I had to remove my small huggie earrings, mid-ride, from fear they would permanently damage my ear. A 7 for smoothness, what kind of love/hate relationship do y'all have?
I'd remove earrings next time since they do warn you of that. The 😉
Honestly out of the many rides I’ve gotten on Rougarou the back row is way better in terms of both intensity and smoothness. The front isn’t awful but kind of smacks your ears and is about half as intense as the back.
I found the back to be more intense but the front to be more smooth
Severely underrated ride imo. I loved it in the back seat. I kept my head forward the whole time and I didn’t bang my head once on the restraints, even on the corkscrew. Maybe I just got a really good ride haha
Edit: my aunt next to me was in so much pain from the headbanging. She literally had a knot on her head that was sore for the next day! She rode it when it was mantis 20 years ago and she loved it then. She said it’s the worst coaster she’s ridden!
I think this ride varies depending on which seat you are in
It was still a walk on, and I went on a busy day...
CP still be running 3 trains though! 😎
High capacity. Mantis only ran two trains Rougarou runs 3 and chews through people
Intensity at -9. I dunno. Seems high.
I mighty be slightly overratting the intensity, but not by much
The roughness it had when I rode it made the ride very unenjoyable. Vest restraints would help a lot
Magnum xl200 is worse.
That or the restraints they have for Maverick!
B&M please...I hope you read this. Redesign the restraints. Ok coaster. I rode when it was still mantis....
After midcourse the spaghetti bowl is exactly the same as the second half of firebird except the turn into the breaks , firebird goes straight into the breaks after final bank then Rougarou turns to the right after final bank then hits the breaks.
Personally I prefer the second row on this coaster. Also at the mid-course brakes, press your head against the headrest to minimize the head bang.
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I don't feel like 8 is too high, it's definitely fair, especially for this ride that is definitely underrated and overhated; it's really not that bad
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This coaster is head banging central --- if you want to succumb to severe head trauma or neck injuries this is the ride for you.
I rode this in October and yes, there are a couple spots of headbanging, but overall it's still a fun ride
@@XscreamThrills I rode this 3 years ago once. Never again. There are lots of GREAT coasters at Cedar Point. Steel Vengeance, Valravyn, Gate Keeper, Millinium Force etc - these I ride - I will never ride Rougaru again. I was there in Oct as well and was glad to get several “tickets” for the big attractions they were limiting for Covid.
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balls got crushed when it was mantis lol
This ride get to much hate
Regardless of where u sit it still gives you a headache 🤕
I was very disappointed when I rode this in 2017 my ears were red
Where did you sit?
XscreamThrills I don’t remember
Mantis better
Very underwhelming ride
"Roughness" y'all are weak
It’s garbage
It's trash rode both versions suck
rougarou IS the worst roller coaster i’ve ever been on
If Rougarou is the worst coaster you've been on, then I guess you've been lucky with the coasters you ridden 😜
Magnum xl200 is worse.
Nope.