My winter blahs Kings Island Trivia quiz

Hmm, I know at one point in its life,Scooby Doo coaster was yellow with orange trim. (It also had the words Scooby Doo on the front of the train in the same art deco style font as Racer, except the pointy chevron was replaced by a smooth curve that looks oddly enough like a smile.)

The green-ish blue look was in the 1980's and early 1990's until they came up with the Purple and orange color scheme that I just ADORE.

In other words: Just how many paint shcemes has that coaster had, as I said I know of at least 3.

Shaggy - since yous eem to be a the local font of PKI historical infomation, was Scooby Doo always a flush-loaded coaster. The station for it just seems so long and broad on the unload side, at the uptrack end. That and the patched floor on the load side uptrack. Sources tell me the ride opened with manual brake levers which were in the uptrack end on the load side, other sources tell me that the patched floor (roughly where you exit the back seat) is where the original barrier seperating load from unload was

Ya know its an off season when you start discussing a kiddie coaster in minute detail.

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David Bowers
Mayor, Coasterville

Are you sure it was yellow? I always thought it was a relly light green in the early years. But then, I am pretty much color-blind. I too prefer the current purple look.

I know for a fact that Scooby Doo (Now Beastie) had manual brake levers, as did Racer. I even have a photo of Scooby Doo operating the ride!

As far as seperate load and unloads, not really sure. I did not attend the park until 1981 so I cannot speak from experience for the opening years. But I don't think so. The Beastie has been re-profiled quite a bit actually. A final hop is gone... ala Racer... when that hop existed I doubt the coaster would have had an unload in the immediate brakes. But who knows, I could be wrong!

Shaggy

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Shaggy

R.I.P. Maestro
Phantom Theater 1992-2002

Shaggy wrong about PKI? That just doesn't seem right. I never knew about the old brakes on the origianl woodies but hey I wasn't even born until '82 so I could I remember back that far. From pictures I that I have seen, the ride was yellowish, but those are all old photos and could be faded anyways.

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Wood Rules!

It was originally yellow. In the late 80's KECO, who completely neglected the parks imo, had the Scooby Doo at Carowinds painted some military looking grayish green. It looked like the paint they found for the biggest discount. Was this the same color they had Scooby Doo at Kings Island?