B&M Stand Ups.

Now I've wondered this for a longggggg time. Why did they stop building b&m stand ups? Don't bag on me about posting this, I just know this is the perfect place to ask.

B&M didn't really stop building them, as they are still offered on their website, it is just that no parks have ordered one recently.

Reasons for this are speculated on, but it probably comes down to the train design being a gimmick of sorts, and all of the parks that could benefit from that style of coaster already have one.

I have no concrete evidence as to why, but I would venture a guess that it is due to lack of demand.....

I'm pretty sure they are still shown on the B&M website, so if a park wanted one, I don't see why they couldn't buy one.....just not sure why they would want one.....

Thanks.

B&M just built one at Six Flags Great Adventure. It opened about three weeks ago as "Green Lantern".

*rebuilt.

Ah Six Flags. I'll take Cedar Fair's "theming" over SF's any day.

Buckeye122 said:
B&M just built one at Six Flags Great Adventure. It opened about three weeks ago as "Green Lantern".

Well as Ensign said they rebuilt one. It was Chang at Kentucky Kingdom. They haven't built a "new" one since the 90's.

And to think, the one I love most is gone. RIP King Cobra. :(

Togo had stand ups down to a science. Skyrider still works today at Canada's Wonderland and it's an exact copy of King Cobra. I thought Mantis would be better than any Togo when it opened. Man was I disappointed.

I did not know that was Chang. Sorry guys. Learn something new everyday :)

I actually enjoy Skyrider more than my long-ago rides on KC.

Buckeye: It's all good. :)

Well yeah. It's operating. ;)

I actually just started to enjoy Mantis.

The popularity of B&M's Stand Ups really waned at the turn of the millennium. I suspect that the designs were getting too intricate and twisty to really be enjoyable to the general public. Mantis is fun, but really intense and headbangy in spots. B&M's real winners are their hypers, inverts, and floorlesses which are generally smoother and more re-rideable.

I loved King Cobra while it was there. The punch that it packed for its size was fairly impressive. Solid airtime, too. It left a real hole in KI's lineup for me when they scrapped it.

Yeah, I'd take King Cobra any day over Mantis. I don't understand why it left KI. It took up a small footprint and was always popular.

I guess I do remember it being down alot, so probably removed for maintenance reasons?

Anyway, this thread speaks volumes about why no more B&M Stand-Ups are being built...B&M has better options, with much higher rider satisfaction. I always wonder if Mantis had been an out-and-back coaster with very long, gradual cobra rolls, air time hills, and a loop...would it have been more of a hit? It seems like the really twisty, flippy, high-force elements are what killed these rides...they just didn't translate well to a stand-up.

^ The reason KC was removed was due to the ride being made of inferior steel to the other Togo standups, and therefore the steel basically rusted away even though the ride was maintained properly.

Buckeye122 said:
B&M just built one at Six Flags Great Adventure. It opened about three weeks ago as "Green Lantern".

aka Moved from SF Ky Kingdom

^Redundant post much?