Mantis • Cedar Point

Discomfort Tear it down! Layout

If you want to know why I can't stand stand-up coasters (no pun intended), see my review of Riddler's Revenge. Anyway, Mantis offers the same intensely painful sensation in my legs that I get on all stand-ups, though it was slightly less so I rank it above the others I've ridden. The layout is pretty lame compared to Riddler's Revenge, though that doesn't matter much to me because it's hard to focus on the layout when you feel like your legs are being trampled by a herd of elephants. All the stand-ups I've ridden deserve 0/5 stars, but i guess 0.5 will have to do. Thank God they changed this into a floorless.

This is more or less the only B&M that was a once-only affair on the ECC 2006 trip. With just over 2 days in the park, this obviously didn't catch our attention. I don't remember it being bad per se; just that there was far better calling our time everywhere else in the park. In another park; Mantis probably would have had a better reputation.