Rougarou • Cedar Point

Inversions Location Rattle Headbanging

fun but a little rough. Cedar Point should have built a ground-up floorless.

Inversions Headbanging Dead spots

By far the roughest B&M I've ever ridden. While the ride starts strong with its great initial inversion, the ride quickly becomes a headbanging machine while not providing much in elements other than some really awkward transitions. To add further insult to injury, the mid-course brake run is awful, and saps the ride of any energy and fun that it had managed to maintain until then.

Hmm, Rougarou. The conversion of Mantis has a few problems. The ride is relatively smooth on the back row; however, if you watch closely you can see significant shuffling amongst the cars in front of you - by row 3 there must be at least an inch of side-shuffling. Now, it's true, I find the back rows of virtually all older B&M's smoother in the back row, but in Rougarou's case it means it pays to be very selective on seating. This is a shame, because what I found up to the mid course brake run is actually a pretty decent sitdown looper with some hints of Kumba going on. It's certainly more memorable than Mantis; which 13 years earlier I have largely erased from my memory. The transition into the MCB, however, and final block of the course through the corkscrew are bloody awful regardless of seat. The ride has already undergone some pretty severe surgery, perhaps, it needs some more to the latter half of the route to "fix" it. I do wonder if it's days are numbered. Ridership is low, queues were non-existent even with the park busy. Time will tell.

Location Intensity Smoothness Too short

Rougarou is a fantastic B&M Floorless Coaster. I love all the Floorless coasters I’ve ridden and Rougarou is at the bottom of that list but it’s still awesome. The ride is very intense throughout and sits in an awesome location with the first drop and Loop Over Water. The inclined loop is one of my favorite elements and the twister section at the end is pretty fun. The only reason Rougarou doesn’t get higher is because the layout is quite short with only 4 Inversions.

Inversions Headbanging Dead spots

Much better as a floorless than a stand-up, but it's really not an exciting ride. The corkscrew off of the brake run is one of the worst, most painful transitions I've felt on a B&M coaster.

Inversions Fun

7.8 out of 10! Like the new feeling sitting down than the standup one of the past

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This stand-up coaster meant layout works beautifully for a floorless coaster. The first drop, three loop varieties, twisted airtime hill, and twisty second half are so unique from any other floorless, and more physically intense than any other either. The downsides are that it's short with less inversions, and headbanging kicks in after the inclined loop. I was able to move my head forward to avoid it, but others may not. But since I was able to negate the roughness, I thoroughly enjoyed it!

Capacity Comfort

The conversion to a sit-down coaster was a good idea.

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First Drop Nice surprise! Fun

Rattle Headbanging Disappointing!