Kings Island selling pieces of the defunct Son of Beast roller coaster

Somehow I remember getting a slice of Legend and/or Raven some years ago at an SRM event. They coaster logo was stamped on it, and it was just a little block of wood that parked on a shelf for a while. No idea what happened to it, though.

I have two of those. They were free.

Charities screwed again. :-(

I will never think poorly of a park if they choose profit over charity. Kings Island already seems to do a lot more for charity than a lot of other parks do. Giving the money to charity would have made the sale of unwanted pieces of a hated coaster make more sense, but if they can put a few thousand dollars in their bank account from the sale of this useless trash, good for them.

My problem isn't what they intend to do with the money made, but why people would want the items being sold in the first place.

Maybe Kentucky Kingdom should have sold framed pieces of the cable that severed a poor little girls legs off and kept the money to keep the park open.

Perhaps Knott's should have sold nicely cut sections of the seat belt that failed to keep a rider restrained, complete with a certificate of authenticity.

Selling pieces of wood from a coaster that hurt so many people when the wood track snapped in two and abruptly stopped the train on the bottom of the most violent part of the ride is the very definition of insanity, in my opinion. What is Kings Island thinking?

Here's my thing about corporations donating money or doing things for a charitable cause: Unless it is a straight up donation bin, customers pay for it somehow. Knowing that, I would be completely fine with a company saying: "Hey, we aren't going to be the middleman for a specific charity. There are plenty of good causes out there, and you should consider donating to one of them directly."

Jeff said:
I have two of those. They were free.

Yeah, that's what I thought. It was a pretty cool idea to give them out, and they were from good rides that most of us like..

LostKause said:

Selling pieces of wood from a coaster that hurt so many people when the wood track snapped in two and abruptly stopped the train on the bottom of the most violent part of the ride is the very definition of insanity, in my opinion. What is Kings Island thinking?

They are thinking that they got a lot of requests for memorabilia, so why not put together something? I didn't think the ride came to a stop after the major incident, but now that I think about it, I never really knew for sure. Either way, they reopened it with new trains and it was ridden by millions more people. There are still a lot of SOB fans out there, even if most of us on this forum are not among them.

It still sounds insane to me. How could SOB have "fans"? lol

I think I paid less than 100 for my HP Giant Wheel car door.

^^It might sound insane, but take a peek on Kings Island Central forums, and you'll find plenty of die-hard SOB fans.

What I found most fascinating were the die-hard Crypt fans. You take a once-great ride, strip its theme, turn off the lights, add a cheesy animatronic creature, add some howling wind noise, cut the ride experience to a pseudo ferris wheel, and a die-hard Crypt fan is born.