My Son of Beast Pains

Mean streak is pretty painful. I found out (for me at least) that the middle is real painful as for towards the back like the second to last seat wasnt really to rough. I got off thinking that wasn't as bad as i was told. Lo and behold i had to make a quik ride on it and ride towards the middle. it rattled my organs. I would expect SOB to be rough becuase of its size, but that wouldn't stop me from riding it.

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Are You Ready!?

Personally I'm tired of the It's too rough argument.

Im going to grant that SOB can bruise your legs up but personally I haven't had it happen in less than 5 rides on it. I am fully aware of taller people and people with long legs having more problems than most with leg bruising.

I have been on PTC coasters that bruised your hips, Broke your ribs or tailbone, I have ridden a NAD train on Screechin Eagle that broke my tail bone (Burgundy one)

Im sorry, Wood coaster are made to move your butt around the seat and I guess if you can't handle them, Don't ride them!

Chuck, who says Beast is rougher than SOB anyday, It dose not bruise your legs but those dividers in the ribs on Beast will bruise ya pretty good!

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Charles Nungester
Lesourdsville Lake, The great American amusement park opens the season June 6th Thurs-Sun every week. Park phone is (513)539-2193

I got bruised on it and so did my husband..and my daughter got a migrane headache from it..

"Ride in the center of a car. The ride is smooth as glass there"...

Um..NOPE try again..we rode in every section of the train..the further back you go, the more painful it gets..try in the front!

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If Son of Beast hurt my legs at all, it was unnoticable compared to the excruciating brain-jarring my head received. I've ridden it once (front seat), and I will definitely ride it again the next time I visit PKI, but I will have serious reservations. I have a hard time believing that sitting in the middle seat of a car will make the ride that much more tolerable, much less enjoyable.

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-Vater
Coaster Count: 104

Teenage Ninja said:
You stupid CP fans your park isn't perfect, I'm telling you guys Son of Beast isn't rough, the cars make it rough.

I don't understand. Are you saying SOB is only rough to "stupid CP fans"? Is PKI perfect?

And if the "cars" are what makes it rough, what's the difference? It's still rough.

There's no need to be so defensive. PKI is a fine park, and SOB is an OK ride. CP has nothing to do with it.

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Without the chaindog, you'd never get up the lifthill...

I'm 6'3".

I only rode the SOB once. Shortly after it first opened (before they closed it to "fix" it -- really shortly after it first opened!)

It was by far the smoothest and fastest wooden coaster I ever rode. I was in the front car, but nto the front seat. Zero pain. A total blast. I remember being shocked at how smooth it was, considering how fast it went.

I obviously can't comment on its current ride, but I loved it when it first debuted.

That us because whenit first opened, there were no black stools underneath your feet.

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My three favorite words that deal with coasters. Rough. Woodens. Rock.

MY TOP THREE WOODENS:

1.THE BEAST

2.MEAN STREAK

3.SON OF BEAST

If you can't handle it, don't ride it, DUH!

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AHHH-SCHWARZKOPF!
-Coaster Enthusuiast Sneezing

Well, I'm only 5' 5" and the coaster still hurt me a lot. Well I didn't get brusies, but it was still very uncomfortable and painful, if they wouldn't have the stupid Premier Rides lapbars then we woudln't have these problems.

When I rode Son of Beast in 2001, I didnt find it too rough. It was actually really fun! Its on my Top 10 list.

Now about getting bruises.. I would rather get airtime bruises than bruises from getting beaten around.

*** This post was edited by Blitzjade on 7/19/2002. ***

I had major issues and pain on SoB, too. THe ride itself was fine, the restraints and lapbar is what caused me pain.

I am 6'4" with long legs and those $#%^ing restraints are the coaster embodiment of EVIL. Ask anyone from team "We're not wet!" from CBCon and they will tell you how hard it was to get my legs into that car thanks to the narrow leg space, combined with that stupid block under the feet. (And to how long I limped afterwards...)

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"It's Deja Vu all over again." - Yogi Berr***

Okay, I want to clarify what I said before...Yes..I got bruised on Raging Wolf Bob...but I wasn't complaining about it. I was just wondering if anyone else had them, which, obviously is not the case. Woodies are probably the most exciting of the rollercoaster species...just cuz you always feel like you're going to fall out at some point!! Exhilarating, to say the least!! And, as short as it is...I think Viper at SFGAm is the smoothest Woodie I've been on...so far....

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Moonshine, Penguins, and Coasters...my three favorite things!! *not necessarily in that order*

The trains on Sonny are still a problem, and have been since the beginning, especially for taller guests. Remember, Sonny pushed the envelope in lots of ways....and we know from Psyclone that having a steel-coaster manufacturer design trains for a woodie is NOT necessarily the best plan of action.

That being said, the ride on Sonny has improved immensely IMO, and during CBCon I thought I'd get one spin just to see how the ride had aged.... I had found the ride to virtually "un-rerideable" in previous trips, and thought it was just not going to get better.....I was RONG, very rong! Sonny jumped up in my opinion by a LOT....but I still feel for the tall folks.....someday PKI will get Tom Rebbie on the job to build some good trains for Sonny......they've been fantastic about keeping up the maintenance on their other wood, and replaced the "bad" trains on FoF, so I'd say that PKI's track record is exceptional......

I just went to SFWOA yesterday and the villain and Big Dipper gave me big shake ups. My knee got a large cut on it from one of the bumpy dives on the big dipper. I don't care about this little scratch from a bumpy woodie. What I do care about is the crazy thrashing I received from the SoB's black boxes in 2002.

*** This post was edited by theman272 on 7/20/2002. ***

SOB hasnt ever given me problems. I'm abotu 6 feet tall, and my legs fit nicely. I think alot of times its knowing how to ride it. The Beast doesnt bother me either. Tomb Raider hurt more than either of them. Now SOB did pull my 2 friend's tube tops down.... but i dont see a problem there.

I wish it was only my legs that were in pain. I truly think myself and the part I was with all sustained closed head injuries ;) I have never been on a coaster where I felt my brain move within my head. That was the first year it was open. Maybe it is different now.

While the trains can perform a little shaky at times (Rough? I would take it for smoothness alone over Beast and Forwards Racer any day) I think that's what a wooden coaster is supposed to do and what makes it different than a steel coaster. It seems like the track is really rickety and about to collapse and it gives you that true sensation of speed and intensity. I like how closely the trees are on the right as you dive down the first drop and I hope Kings Island lets them continue to grow. Everything up to the loop in top-notch. Between the end of the loop and last bunny hop, its not so hot. PKI had it running extremely fast through the midcourse opening day, so I don't know why that has changed. It don't think it was more rough or intense at all, but provided airtime which it didn't have before. Besides that, its a Top 10 wooden coaster and out of more than 30 rides, I've only had one painful experience which was my first ride.

"I just wanna ask if any of you have ever gotten really bad bruises from Raging Wolf Bob at CP??

Is not Raging Wolf Bobs at SFWoA?

*** This post was edited by James K on 7/20/2002. ***

Coastermom, migraine headaches are caused by many things, but not by coasters.

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No love for the whiners

SOB is the best wooden ride on the planet, in my humble opinion. Now and then it hurts but overall it's not that bad. The roughest ride experience for me is the Villain. It's like the bad joke I heard once. A guy tells the doctor, "It hurts when I do this", and the doctor said, "Don't do that". If it hurts too much just don't ride. Duh!

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Sonny Beast, not Sonny Bono!