The queen of Denmark recently celebrated 50 years reign of the country, and a part of the celebration was in Tivoli where she rode Rutschebanen as well. That's another thing that is great about having a breakman on the ride. He can slow it down so even older folk like the queen can ride it, and he can make it break less if the train is full of youth.
Man as a local this review is just great to see. But also here's a fun fact. This ride didn't even HAVE restraints until the 1990's. IIRC it was in the fall of 1990 where a teen or young adult stood up on the ride as it enterred a tunnel, got hit straight in the face and got a severe concussion as a result of it, and that being the reason why the ride even has restraints today! The ride also has some funky history. When it was built it was much milder, more like the other scenic railways still around, but when Bakken opened their Rutschebanen in 1932, Tivoli saw it as a threat, potentially stealing away their attendance, so they modified their own to have steeper drops, which is what you experience to this day and where much of the airtime comes from. Also this ride was bombed during world war 2 believe it or not. Thankfully the bombed bits were able to be rebuilt and the ride still stands unlike some more severe examples that got lost in the war like Wiener Prater's original Hochshaubahn. Also I always get out of the train on Rutschebanen before it has even stopped. Its perfectly legal and it helps with the momentum so you save energy for your legs.
Rode it the last minutes before the park closed. It was nearly dark, smelling like theme parks does, a warm day. Chatted with one of the employers before going and just enjoyed the ride by myself. One of the best memories from that summer. Loved it. Thrilling
I was told that the reason this coaster is still so great is because they replace the valley sections religiously and the have all the original drawings for the coaster to go off of.
This ride is a 12/10. My second or third time on this ride I befriended one of the brakemen and afterward I rode "1-click" in the back and front and he let those brakes go as loose as he dared. I don't think I've ever laughed so hard in my entire life. It's smooth, has a buttload of character, attempts to eject you from the seat and most importantly it has THEMING. I hope it never changes. Also getting out of the train while the ride is still moving always puts a smile on my face. IROC would have a stroke... Haha
I always found Bakken's Rutschebanen better than the one at Tivoli. At least, when Bakken still operated the ride with brakemen. It is a crying shame that they got rid of the brakemen back in 2010. However, if you still want the Rutschebanen expierence that Bakken once featured head on over to Linnanmäki in Finland. Where Vuoristorata is basically the same coaster (albeit a little bigger) but still has the brakemen! Thanks for this review! Loved it!
Great review of Rutschebanen and some good footage. We were not expecting much but wanted to ride the 3 oldest coaster in the world and experience it's charm. When we rode it we were blown by the ride experience. It is unbelievable. The airtime is crazy, the brakemen make the ride and the mountain setting and near misses are fantastic. Looking forward to seeing some more of your European adventures.
I complexly agree, amazing ride. I did not remember the Brakemen having seats. I sat right in front of him. I swear he stood the whole time. Worth the whole trip to Tivoli just to ride Rutschebanen
I am so happy you love this ride. I rode it a few years ago and it reignited my love of rollercoasters. It's a special ride that shouldn't be missed. It's so fun!
This coaster is one of the best theme park experiences out there. The brake men are so friendly and love putting on a show. I was there on a cold winter evening in 2019, the park was dead, I don't even remember how many rides we got cos we just kept lapping it. Insane ejector on every hill every single time. Copenhagen was a wonderful city anyway, but knowing I can ride this again makes me want to return even more!
I remember riding this back in 2014 just how awesome that ride was! I felt shook from the pure excitement and rush of each ride I went on! At one point I saw two elderly men, well in their 70s or 80s, riding this coaster. It was a special thing to witness seeing these men riding as if they were younger riding it back then.
Your description of your experience and the restraints reminds me of my first big coaster riding the Racer back in the 70's as a 5-6 yo. I believe most of the wooden coaster's in the US had this type of restraint (or lack thereof) until sometime in the late 80s maybe. Looks like a lot of fun. Thanks for sharing your trip so well.
It was usually a single-position lap bar ("buzz bar") where you couldn't pull it down tight even if you wanted to--it was just locked in place way above your legs. A few still have nothing but these, though most old woodies have supplemented their single-position lap bar with a seat belt by now. The first big coaster I ever rode was Mr. Twister at Elitch Gardens, and that was the old-school experience--nothing but a single-position buzz bar, and you were rattling around in there like a BB in a tin can. On that one, it was all about the laterals threatening to pitch you over the side.
Yeah most scenic railways are quite tame. Rutshcebanen was the same way WAY back in the day. But in 1932 Bakken opened theirs and in order to stay competitive, Tivoli modified their own woodie to feature steeper drops, which is what allows for the crazy airtime it has today.
Great video and not just because I agree with everything said. You really capture the experience with excellent narration and video. Loved this ride, too!
One of my friends worked in Tivoli for a while and told me that while the rest of the staff rotates between different positions and attractions, the Rutschebanen brakemen only ever run Rutschebanen. They don’t run anything else, and the rest of the staff never touch Rutschebanen. They are essentially their own little subculture within the staff, completely specialized on this one ride. And they have their own table in the cafeteria.
1 of the things I think it's worth mentioning is that's it's insane how this is a 40 ft tall ride that goes almost 40 mph. And it runs that fast being over 100 years old. Think of even any modern coaster that has the same speed in mph as it's height in ft.
An upside to the rutchebane in Bakken is that it essentially turns into a multiple lap coaster when its not busy. I once got 14 laps on it in one go cause the que wasn't full. That has become one of the most memorable amusement park experiences I ever had.
Awesome review! This coaster looks pretty crazy. I might ride Jackrabbit in a few weeks, which I think was one of the first coasters to use upstop wheels, but now I just wanna rode this! It’s crazy that a coaster over a hundred years old has RMC level airtime!
This is seriously the best or 2nd beat coaster in the country. I did not know the restraint was something you could get 1 click on and be fine. I wonder how the brake man even stays in the train so well while standing up when its crazy ejector for the riders. It's that kinda unsafe but still very safe and unique experience that you are riding a coaster over 100 years old and it gas no restraint and no upstop wheels and the operator has the best job in the entire world. This is seriously I ride I hope they never change.
Yeah scenic railways are great fun there are 2 in the UK one in Great Yarmouth and one in Margate I have only been on the one in Great Yarmouth though same set up with the onride brake man and sometimes it doesn't come to a complete stop in the station.
I went there in June, did more than 25 rides on it LOL. Some breakmans just. dont. break. AHAHAHAH. Near the end of the day it started to smell like burnt wood in some of the turns because they ran it so fast (mainly one breakman did), so they locked the seats behind the breakman and filled it up with water to splash it arround on turns to help the friction going without burning the whole thing LOL.
I'm lucky to have ridden a coaster with a brake man. Unfortunately the park in Budapest is closed now. Don't know if the coaster is operational anymore as the zoo became a priority.
havent tried a extreme amount of coasters it boils down to every park in denmark (cause im danish) the 2 disneyland paris parks and liseberg and even with a little over 50 credits from all that rutschebanen is still my number 4 only under helix, piraten and fønix.
Probably not teaching you anything, but this ride would not have had a lap bar or seatbelts when it was made. It's a similar train to the Dreamland Margate Scenic Railway, with the brakeman, side friction, etc. The historical videos of Dreamland, and the photos of the train at the attraction shows there were no restraints whatsoever
It’s questionable if this ride was an influence on Disneyland’s Matterhorn. The peaks were removed in 1920 to expose more of the coaster and give an amusement park ambience to the park’s entrance. They were redesigned and reinstalled for the 2014 Season, the 100th anniversary of the ride. In this video, you can see what it looked like without the peaks: th-cam.com/video/M31X5XxHBV4/w-d-xo.html
Yup. Apparently the city demanded the peaks be removed as they feared people would get off the train and mistakenly think they had ended up in the Swiss or Austrian alps.
Yeah the Kumbak conversion of the Rutschebanen with fully automation sucks. But I have that with more products of Kumbak🙈. They even screwed up the only rollercoaster they have ever build. (De Vliegende Hollander). And Intamin stepped in to fix that ride.
Yeah Kumbak is BAD. I really hope something is done to fix Bakken's version in the future, whether it be new trains of a different style or just returning it to its original ways with replicas of the original trains and brakemen onboard. But that one is actually owned and operated by the state's department of nature, so good luck convincing a government agency to do something about it.
@@drdewott9154 GCI or Geavity Group would have been a better solution then Kumbak. A other wooden coaster in Europe has been RMCd after Kumbak tried to fix it...
@@DJWezzyK I mean IDK how good they would've been for a scenic railway. Besides Rutschebanen at Bakken is a protected national landmark, so RMC-ing it is completely out of the question and downright impossible.
The fact that a coaster with no upstop wheels can even HAVE massive ejector air boggles me. Hearing about it got me thinking a lot about the physics--how can this be? Why doesn't it fly off the track? I think it's the fact that it's an extended object, and only part of the train is experiencing the air at any given time. It could, of course, be that the surroundings, the minimal restraints and the general vibe are psychologically inflating the air.
The way I heard it is that the airtime is actually not THAT powerful that the train doesn’t need up stops, and it only feels as insane as it is cause it has very little restraints
because majority of people arent dumbasses on our rides. And if they are... they just die.... "Freedom under responsibility" we call it here. as we dont do lawsuits for anything and everything like in the states. So Its amazing we still have those freedoms here, one of the few left haha
I admit, I'm a bit of a safety freak. The fact that there's no seat belt concerns me. It definitely looks fun, but due to lack of restraint, I don't think I'd ride this.
I'm left now really wondering how you felt about Tonerre2Zeus... Recently rode both, and Rustchebanen was crazy because of the restraints, but Tonerre was crazy even with comfy Timberliner trains
The queen of Denmark recently celebrated 50 years reign of the country, and a part of the celebration was in Tivoli where she rode Rutschebanen as well. That's another thing that is great about having a breakman on the ride. He can slow it down so even older folk like the queen can ride it, and he can make it break less if the train is full of youth.
I know the brakeman that operated it when the queen was in it. He called it surreal
@@theawesomegeneral8982 Most stressful ride of his career.
Man as a local this review is just great to see. But also here's a fun fact. This ride didn't even HAVE restraints until the 1990's. IIRC it was in the fall of 1990 where a teen or young adult stood up on the ride as it enterred a tunnel, got hit straight in the face and got a severe concussion as a result of it, and that being the reason why the ride even has restraints today!
The ride also has some funky history. When it was built it was much milder, more like the other scenic railways still around, but when Bakken opened their Rutschebanen in 1932, Tivoli saw it as a threat, potentially stealing away their attendance, so they modified their own to have steeper drops, which is what you experience to this day and where much of the airtime comes from.
Also this ride was bombed during world war 2 believe it or not. Thankfully the bombed bits were able to be rebuilt and the ride still stands unlike some more severe examples that got lost in the war like Wiener Prater's original Hochshaubahn.
Also I always get out of the train on Rutschebanen before it has even stopped. Its perfectly legal and it helps with the momentum so you save energy for your legs.
super cool!!
The intensity of the ride varies a lot depending on the brakeman. Some definitely play it more safe than others. But no matter what, it's always fun.
Rode it the last minutes before the park closed. It was nearly dark, smelling like theme parks does, a warm day. Chatted with one of the employers before going and just enjoyed the ride by myself. One of the best memories from that summer. Loved it. Thrilling
I was told that the reason this coaster is still so great is because they replace the valley sections religiously and the have all the original drawings for the coaster to go off of.
This ride is a 12/10. My second or third time on this ride I befriended one of the brakemen and afterward I rode "1-click" in the back and front and he let those brakes go as loose as he dared. I don't think I've ever laughed so hard in my entire life. It's smooth, has a buttload of character, attempts to eject you from the seat and most importantly it has THEMING. I hope it never changes.
Also getting out of the train while the ride is still moving always puts a smile on my face. IROC would have a stroke... Haha
Fun fact:
The restraints only got added a few decades ago. It didn't have restraints for most of its lifetime
And we have ridden it without it😍😍
@northernrides Do you what year they were added? Remember riding this as a kid but that was way before I started thinking about restraints...
@@FABHadventures I can't quite recall, but the brakemen told me it was between the 70s and 90s
this park seems like so much fun
I used to come to Denmark every year and this used to be my favorite roller coaster for a long time when I was younger
You absolutely fly out of you seat in the very back seat on this ride. The theming, ultra-minimalistic lapbar and "classicness" makes it for me.
I always found Bakken's Rutschebanen better than the one at Tivoli. At least, when Bakken still operated the ride with brakemen. It is a crying shame that they got rid of the brakemen back in 2010. However, if you still want the Rutschebanen expierence that Bakken once featured head on over to Linnanmäki in Finland. Where Vuoristorata is basically the same coaster (albeit a little bigger) but still has the brakemen! Thanks for this review! Loved it!
The airtime on this ride is just 🔥
Great review of Rutschebanen and some good footage. We were not expecting much but wanted to ride the 3 oldest coaster in the world and experience it's charm. When we rode it we were blown by the ride experience. It is unbelievable. The airtime is crazy, the brakemen make the ride and the mountain setting and near misses are fantastic. Looking forward to seeing some more of your European adventures.
I complexly agree, amazing ride. I did not remember the Brakemen having seats. I sat right in front of him. I swear he stood the whole time. Worth the whole trip to Tivoli just to ride Rutschebanen
I am so happy you love this ride. I rode it a few years ago and it reignited my love of rollercoasters. It's a special ride that shouldn't be missed. It's so fun!
Riding this coaster was a highlight of Tivoli Gardens. I always mention it when I talk about my trip there.
This coaster is one of the best theme park experiences out there. The brake men are so friendly and love putting on a show. I was there on a cold winter evening in 2019, the park was dead, I don't even remember how many rides we got cos we just kept lapping it. Insane ejector on every hill every single time. Copenhagen was a wonderful city anyway, but knowing I can ride this again makes me want to return even more!
I remember riding this back in 2014 just how awesome that ride was! I felt shook from the pure excitement and rush of each ride I went on! At one point I saw two elderly men, well in their 70s or 80s, riding this coaster. It was a special thing to witness seeing these men riding as if they were younger riding it back then.
The standing ride op has the best job in the world!
This rollercoaster absolutely rules, definitely one of the best I've been on
Your description of your experience and the restraints reminds me of my first big coaster riding the Racer back in the 70's as a 5-6 yo. I believe most of the wooden coaster's in the US had this type of restraint (or lack thereof) until sometime in the late 80s maybe. Looks like a lot of fun. Thanks for sharing your trip so well.
It was usually a single-position lap bar ("buzz bar") where you couldn't pull it down tight even if you wanted to--it was just locked in place way above your legs.
A few still have nothing but these, though most old woodies have supplemented their single-position lap bar with a seat belt by now.
The first big coaster I ever rode was Mr. Twister at Elitch Gardens, and that was the old-school experience--nothing but a single-position buzz bar, and you were rattling around in there like a BB in a tin can. On that one, it was all about the laterals threatening to pitch you over the side.
In copenhagen now and had 10 rides yesterday on Rutschebanen. Its so much fun.
There’s a coaster here in England called Scenic Railway which is at Dreamland Margate. It also has a brakeman although it’s a fairly tame ride.
Yeah most scenic railways are quite tame. Rutshcebanen was the same way WAY back in the day. But in 1932 Bakken opened theirs and in order to stay competitive, Tivoli modified their own woodie to feature steeper drops, which is what allows for the crazy airtime it has today.
Great video and not just because I agree with everything said. You really capture the experience with excellent narration and video. Loved this ride, too!
I got this as my 100th credit, and yes I loved it as well. Great video!
Bonkers! Absolutely awesome! I remember riding the beast at ki with the buzzbars in the 80's. So much fun!
Honestly, for such an old ride its actually pretty great.
One of my friends worked in Tivoli for a while and told me that while the rest of the staff rotates between different positions and attractions, the Rutschebanen brakemen only ever run Rutschebanen. They don’t run anything else, and the rest of the staff never touch Rutschebanen. They are essentially their own little subculture within the staff, completely specialized on this one ride. And they have their own table in the cafeteria.
I think it highly depends on how experienced your brakeman is. Literally seconds can make the difference between insane airtime and no airtime at all
Fun fact about rutschebanen, when it opened it didn’t have a restrain and smaller riders only was kept in by their parents
Not riding this more than once when I went to Denmark a few years ago is my only regret about that trip. Such a fun, surprising ride.
1 of the things I think it's worth mentioning is that's it's insane how this is a 40 ft tall ride that goes almost 40 mph. And it runs that fast being over 100 years old. Think of even any modern coaster that has the same speed in mph as it's height in ft.
It's 60 ft...
Vuoristorata in Helsinki, Finland is a copy of Rutschebanen and it was built in 1950 and it still has the brakemen! You should check it out!
An upside to the rutchebane in Bakken is that it essentially turns into a multiple lap coaster when its not busy. I once got 14 laps on it in one go cause the que wasn't full. That has become one of the most memorable amusement park experiences I ever had.
On second thought this must have been back when the ride had a brakeman as well. I have not tried it without.
Awesome review! This coaster looks pretty crazy. I might ride Jackrabbit in a few weeks, which I think was one of the first coasters to use upstop wheels, but now I just wanna rode this! It’s crazy that a coaster over a hundred years old has RMC level airtime!
This is seriously the best or 2nd beat coaster in the country. I did not know the restraint was something you could get 1 click on and be fine. I wonder how the brake man even stays in the train so well while standing up when its crazy ejector for the riders. It's that kinda unsafe but still very safe and unique experience that you are riding a coaster over 100 years old and it gas no restraint and no upstop wheels and the operator has the best job in the entire world. This is seriously I ride I hope they never change.
The ends of the train get the most airtime. People riding near the middle are sometimes disappointed by getting no airtime.
This one is 10/10. Tip: There are no gates (!), so If you want to sit in the front row, go to the end of the line and hop on the train as it rolls in!
Yeah scenic railways are great fun there are 2 in the UK one in Great Yarmouth and one in Margate I have only been on the one in Great Yarmouth though same set up with the onride brake man and sometimes it doesn't come to a complete stop in the station.
This is peak roller-coasterism.
literally the best job in the world
It sounds a lot like Coaster at Playland in Vancouver. Wild airtime with just a buzz bar.
Both rids also have very similar restraints. Tho for the 2022 season they added lap belts to coaster
@@dustmybroom288 I didn't hear that, I feel that takes down the intensity of that ride quite a bit
That dudes got the BEST job
I went there in June, did more than 25 rides on it LOL.
Some breakmans just. dont. break. AHAHAHAH.
Near the end of the day it started to smell like burnt wood in some of the turns because they ran it so fast (mainly one breakman did), so they locked the seats behind the breakman and filled it up with water to splash it arround on turns to help the friction going without burning the whole thing LOL.
I'm lucky to have ridden a coaster with a brake man. Unfortunately the park in Budapest is closed now. Don't know if the coaster is operational anymore as the zoo became a priority.
havent tried a extreme amount of coasters it boils down to every park in denmark (cause im danish) the 2 disneyland paris parks and liseberg and even with a little over 50 credits from all that rutschebanen is still my number 4 only under helix, piraten and fønix.
I got 7 rides yesterday, the cue was incredibly fast, and they were running 3 trains.
Are you interested in doing a breakdown video on how six flags has changed, and the future of this "new six flags"
we've talked about it, we might at some point
it really is a fun ride!
Dream job
Sickest wood coaster on earth
I feel like this ride shouldn’t be legal. But it looks so damn fun
3:04 Cable lift? Did they just get this? I thought Millennium Force was the first coaster to have a cable lift...
how does this compare to some of the elite wooden coasters like el toro and voyage?
Probably not teaching you anything, but this ride would not have had a lap bar or seatbelts when it was made.
It's a similar train to the Dreamland Margate Scenic Railway, with the brakeman, side friction, etc.
The historical videos of Dreamland, and the photos of the train at the attraction shows there were no restraints whatsoever
Where’s the airtime? I don’t see any torso’s…lol…especially on Taylor and his hunky friend 😛
ranking video of the European coasters you encountered?
The Reason why it has the breakman is because it’s not a tradition roller coaster it’s a side friction Coaster or scenic railway
Proto-Phoenix at Knoebels.
oh yes
It’s questionable if this ride was an influence on Disneyland’s Matterhorn. The peaks were removed in 1920 to expose more of the coaster and give an amusement park ambience to the park’s entrance. They were redesigned and reinstalled for the 2014 Season, the 100th anniversary of the ride. In this video, you can see what it looked like without the peaks: th-cam.com/video/M31X5XxHBV4/w-d-xo.html
Yup. Apparently the city demanded the peaks be removed as they feared people would get off the train and mistakenly think they had ended up in the Swiss or Austrian alps.
Yeah the Kumbak conversion of the Rutschebanen with fully automation sucks. But I have that with more products of Kumbak🙈. They even screwed up the only rollercoaster they have ever build. (De Vliegende Hollander). And Intamin stepped in to fix that ride.
Yeah Kumbak is BAD. I really hope something is done to fix Bakken's version in the future, whether it be new trains of a different style or just returning it to its original ways with replicas of the original trains and brakemen onboard. But that one is actually owned and operated by the state's department of nature, so good luck convincing a government agency to do something about it.
@@drdewott9154 GCI or Geavity Group would have been a better solution then Kumbak. A other wooden coaster in Europe has been RMCd after Kumbak tried to fix it...
@@DJWezzyK I mean IDK how good they would've been for a scenic railway. Besides Rutschebanen at Bakken is a protected national landmark, so RMC-ing it is completely out of the question and downright impossible.
@@drdewott9154 Yeah. I was talking about Robin Hood at Walibi Holland where Kumbak installed new trains and brakes which made the ride so much worse
I’ve ridden that! Did you guys ride the airplane ride?
Are you coming to Finland
not on this trip
Hey Takoda! How about a parody for this roller coaster?
The issue with this ride is it varies so, so much - depending on the brakeman.
The fact that a coaster with no upstop wheels can even HAVE massive ejector air boggles me. Hearing about it got me thinking a lot about the physics--how can this be? Why doesn't it fly off the track? I think it's the fact that it's an extended object, and only part of the train is experiencing the air at any given time.
It could, of course, be that the surroundings, the minimal restraints and the general vibe are psychologically inflating the air.
The way I heard it is that the airtime is actually not THAT powerful that the train doesn’t need up stops, and it only feels as insane as it is cause it has very little restraints
Does king reply
Brakeman opporated
They don’t build them like they used to, plain and simple.
because majority of people arent dumbasses on our rides. And if they are... they just die.... "Freedom under responsibility" we call it here. as we dont do lawsuits for anything and everything like in the states. So Its amazing we still have those freedoms here, one of the few left haha
then who wants to work as a brakeman ? :)
I admit, I'm a bit of a safety freak. The fact that there's no seat belt concerns me. It definitely looks fun, but due to lack of restraint, I don't think I'd ride this.
Still BS. When Walt Disney visited the park Rutschebanen was unthemed.
I'm left now really wondering how you felt about Tonerre2Zeus... Recently rode both, and Rustchebanen was crazy because of the restraints, but Tonerre was crazy even with comfy Timberliner trains