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Bandit, Wooden roller coaster in Movie Park Germany, Bottrop

The Bandit is a wooden roller coaster at Movie Park Germany in Bottrop with a long track and multiple turning sections. The ride takes you through a series of hills and quick direction changes that create an intense experience throughout the journey.

Bandit opened in 1999 as Wild Wild West, built by the Roller Coaster Corporation of America as Germany's first modern wooden coaster. After StarParks took over Warner Bros. Movie World Germany in 2004, the ride was renamed Bandit from 2005. It sat out much of the 2009 season for technical problems and closed again on 28 May 2013 because the ride no longer met the park's requirements; it reopened on 16 August 2013.

The ride sits in the themed area The Old West, and its former name Wild Wild West matched that setting until the 2004 takeover by StarParks; since 2005 it has run as Bandit. The coaster is a near one-to-one copy of Psyclone, which opened in 1991 at Six Flags Magic Mountain in California, and it follows the Cyclone style named after the 1927 coaster at Coney Island in Brooklyn.

The minimum height to ride is 1.20 metres. The coaster sits in the The Old West themed area of Movie Park Germany. Two trains run, each with five cars holding six riders in three rows of two, and a circuit lasts about 90 seconds.

The layout is nearly a one-to-one copy of Psyclone, the wooden coaster that opened at Six Flags Magic Mountain in California in 1991. The ride is notorious among visitors for its roughness, and the park closed it on 28 May 2013 because the ride experience no longer met its standards; it reopened on 16 August 2013 after testing.

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