Mantis (roller coaster)
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| Mantis | |
 119 foot loop on Mantis |
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| Location | Cedar Point |
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| Type | Steel - Stand-up |
| Status | Open |
| Opened | May 11, 1996 |
| Manufacturer | Bolliger & Mabillard |
| Designer | Werner Stengel |
| Model | Stand-up roller coaster |
| Track layout | Twister roller coaster |
| Lift/launch system | Chain lift hill |
| Height | 145 feet (44.2 m) |
| Drop | 137 feet (41.8 m) |
| Length | 3,900 feet (1,188.7 m) |
| Max speed | 60 mile per hour (96.6 km/h) |
| Inversions | 4 |
| Duration | 2:40 |
| Capacity | 1,800 riders per hour |
| Cost | US$ 12,000,000 |
| Height Restriction | 54 inches (137.2 cm) |
| Mantis at RCDB | |
| Pictures of Mantis at RCDB | |
Mantis is a steel stand-up roller coaster at Cedar Point Amusement Park in Sandusky, Ohio. It set several stand-up coaster records, including height (143 feet), speed (60 mph) and inversions (four). Its four inversions are, in order: 119-foot tall loop, 103-foot tall diving loop, the world's first ever inclined loop, which is 83 feet tall, and a corkscrew after the mid-course brake run.
[edit] Ride Elements
- 119 foot loop
- 103 foot diving loop
- 83 foot inclined loop
- Corkscrew
[edit] Trivia
- Mantis initially was to be named "Banshee," but had the name dropped because of complaints about the word's death-oriented origin. Two months after dropping the Banshee name, Cedar Point renamed the coaster Mantis (but the sound the coaster makes as the cars roll, originally intended to sound like a wailing banshee, remains). As the coaster's name was changed, so was its logo; Dorney Park adopted the Banshee logo for its hypercoaster Steel Force, which opened in 1997.
| Roller coasters at Cedar Point |
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Blue Streak - Cedar Creek Mine Ride - Corkscrew - Disaster Transport - Gemini - Iron Dragon - Jr. Gemini - Magnum XL-200 - Mantis - Maverick - Mean Streak - Millennium Force - Raptor - Top Thrill Dragster - Wicked Twister - WildCat - Woodstock Express |
