Kings Island removing Son of Beast

Uh, no.

With all of the issues surrounding the superstucture through the years, I'd find it hard to believe that any company would want to get near that coaster and attempt to fix it.

I think the idea was there behind this coaster, in which it paid tribute to The Beast helix and innovated as the first modern wooden coaster to have an inversion. The "rose bowl" would have best served as the turnaround after some airtime hills, and the loop would have soon followed. The ride would have ended as more out and back coaster. Then again, PKI (at the time) shot themselves in the foot from the start by trusting a company with Rattler on their track record, and using an unproven train design from a company that specializes in steel coasters.

Finally, naming it "Son of Beast" was stupid as well. We all know how sequals compare to the originals.

ask James Bond ;)

Spiderman 2 was pretty awesome as well...

and Empire Strikes Back.

...and Harry Potter.

and The Dark Knight. (the movie not the coaster)

Wait a minute... doesn't that guy work on Ravine Flyer... wait for it... II?

... and Maverick 2

I wish they would iron horse the thing but I doubt it. A steeper drop, double up into the helix, over bank the top of the first helix, shorten the MCBR, double down, loop, take out the second helix and add an over bank, hill, turn, barrel roll up into the brakes would at least make it interesting.

There's no sense in putting iron on a dead horse.

I agree that the layout was boring, especially without the loop. The lift with the turn structure obviously has a large amount of wood in it. Between that portion of the ride, the second hill and the rose bowls, I would guess that you could make a decent sized coaster with that wood alone. It just seems like a shame to waste that much wood!

Right before hitting submit, as I am re-reading this, I found myself thinking that the last sentence would have been quoted by Mamoosh. God rest his soul.

Son of Beast didn't have enough giant helices. I mean, it was obvious the suits at KI thought "let's take the best part of Beast and put it in there TWICE!!" They should've added at least 3 or twelve more, because more is better. Totally would've made the ride...or caused a few deaths. Either way, less boring.

I also like the folks that said it just needed a tunnel. As if enclosing the rose bowl would make it less rough.

Adding a tunnel over the rose bowl would have been like putting on a pair of peril-sensitive sunglasses.

Wow, I'm pretty shocked and disgusted with the posts in this thread. It's no wonder, though, that the ride was scrapped given the sentiment found here. You all consider yourself coaster enthusiasts? And all of the whining about it being "too rough".../facepalm. In true hipster fashion, the majority of you speak volumes about the current stock of men being produced these days. It's like an entire forum filled with failed greenhorns from Deadliest Catch.

Yeah, you all are better off with a buttery smooth steel coaster akin to parasailing. All because of a single woman, without any legitimate complaint lodged, managing to scare a bunch of suits into casting aside tens of millions of dollars in fear of litigation. My, how far we've fallen.

You'll be sorely (no pun intended) missed, you SOB.

No. Son of Beast was a coaster with absolutely no redeeming qualities. Well...no, it had one redeeming quality: in 2000 it took the title of "Worst Coaster at Kings Island" from Flight of Fear.

Son of Beast is 218 feet tall, but offers no interesting views. It can go 70 MPH, but the speed is maintained only long enough to get through a single dip. It features a dull layout with no airtime and no real excitement. It was badly designed, inappropriately engineered, poorly constructed, and never ran right from the day it opened. Its custom designed trains were a lousy design to begin with, and were quickly modified to make them totally incompatible with the ideal human body, let alone the average one. It started hurting people immediately, and soon hurt them badly enough to qualify as an "incident".
This isn't about pussified wannabe enthusiasts whining about a ride that's a little too aggressive. This is about a gigantic pile of crap that epitomizes the word "FAIL" printed in white caps and set in Arial Black.

--Dave Althoff, Jr.

First post!!!11!! as they say. Wow.

Yeah. A first post like that has "TROLL" written all over it.

Son of Beast had consistent lawsuits concerning injury to riders. Reports of bloody knees and back injuries were not uncommon. The ride hurt more than a single woman. At one point, the track cracked in half and the train derailed at the bottom of the rose bowl and several people went to the hospital, closing the ride for a long time while a solution was found to prevent the problem from happening again. That resulted in the removal of the loop an the design of lighter trains. It had nothing to do with this mystery woman spreading rumors that the ride was too rough.

LostKause said:

The ride hurt more than a single woman.

Totally read that the wrong way. It still works, though, because most of us have been hurt pretty bad by single women.