Son of Beast closes
MaVeRiCk 'n MaGnUm XL said:
How about a 500ft Floorless, Woodie, with a splash down at the end!
Please, please. I've already got the list of attributes for Cedar Point's next coaster, which was totally confirmed by the Elephant Ear kid who also correctly predicted that Maverick would be an S&S Arrow 4-D:
It will be a 530-foot Intamin prefab woodie 4-D AquaTrax dueling flying family splashdown diving coaster.
I saw DK talking to some guy with a CGI hat the other day near Mean Streak, then I also saw them by Disaster Transport, then again later putting little orange flags in the ground near Cedar Creek Mine Ride.
Clearly, he's scared by the success of Diamondback at Kings Island, which DK plans to close before he retires (again). The signs are all there.
If Kings Island gets anything less than a 540-foot woodie, they'll go out of business. Who would go there?
;)
ShiveringTim said:
Actually, Congo Falls fit into the theme of that area of KI back when it was built. Paramount created the Action Zone when they added Drop Zone and Face/Off. Before that, it was Adventure Village and had King Cobra and the Animal Habitat monorail as it's anchor attractions. Congo Falls fit right in with the jungle theme that the area had. Fast forward to 1999 when the Action Zone was created suddenly the jungle theme feels out of place.
...Not to mention the distinct lack of jungle that Action Zone created.
That, and that water tower that looked like it belonged to another studio altogether.
I wonder if Cedar Fair has thought about resurrecting AdVil....
--Dave Althoff, Jr.
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I'd say you might even start in 1993 when they stuck Top Gun way back in the ravine. Of course, it really was so far away that you didn't really feel like you were in Adventure Village anyway. With the monorail gone, the area was already starting to decline. Adventure Express was built too close to Coney Mall to really contribute.
...Not to mention the distinct lack of jungle that Action Zone created.
That, and that water tower that looked like it belonged to another studio altogether.
I wonder if Cedar Fair has thought about resurrecting AdVil....
--Dave Althoff, Jr.
Dave...an unintended pun??
Advil is what I end up taking after any ride on SOB
I'd rather die living than live like I'm dead
Concerning the people space on the modified PTC trains, I wholehearedly agree. I am really growing to dislike the PTC trains with ratcheting lapbars with seat dividers. The part I dislike the most is how the bar comes up on the side... Right where your leg wants to be, so you have to keep your legs sideways and they always bash into it. I much prefer the lapbars that are positioned in the center, so your legs have room.
I'd use to love PTC trains, but I now would love to see them all replaced!
As for SOB, I rode it once with the loop, and vowed I would never ride it again. It wasn't much of a challenge, since I hated it. But once the loop was removed, Lori convinced me to try it again (she had never been on it) and was surprised to find it was actually fun! And she loved it too!
Weird.
aka MonkeyPants
I have a similar problem with Millennium Flyer trains. The bar continuously slams down into my body...right where my stomach wants to be.
-Daniel
The seat dividers are what kill me. I've actually gotten massive bruises from those stupid things. Grr.
Watch out for flying maps!
As of yesterday Kings Island have started telling guest at the Gates and as you pay for parking that Son Beast will be closed for the rest of the season if asked...
What a bummer......NOT!!!!
what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard.
Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it.
I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
SOB is just being turned into the latest Halloween Haunt maze:
Coaster of Terror: Sit down, keep your hands and arms inside the car and DIE!
Hop aboard this one of a kind attraction! Years ago the Son of Beast was built as the tallest, fastest and steepest wooden coaster in the world. Unfortunately park officials decided to build it over an elephant graveyard. The ride has never run correctly and every once in a while the track falls apart. Sick and tired of pouring money down the drain, Son of Beast was closed for good in 2009. Ever since, strange sounds can be heard late at night, elephants trumpeting, ghost trains crashing and the ever present scream from some ghastly depth beneath the section of track known as the "Rose Bowl." Now it is your turn to explore the twisted mess of track and try and find a way through the COASTER OF TERROR!
That's a very creative concept, touchdown. I would actually pay to go through that haunt.
-Travis
www.youtube.com/TSVisits
MaVeRiCk 'n MaGnUm XL said:
As of yesterday Kings Island have started telling guest at the Gates and as you pay for parking that Son Beast will be closed for the rest of the season if asked...
Forced to wonder if that (Sonny's extended downtime/dismantling) isn't part of the reason for the ridiculously-low ticket prices coming out of Cincy for the park....$22.99 was it? I know the economy calls for some price-cutting to fill the parks, but that's stupid-cheap for a park with the offerings of PKI...esp. with D-Bag, er, D-Back delivering the goods the way it does.
You still have Zoidberg.... You ALL have Zoidberg! (V) (;,,;) (V)
I was at KI on sun and The Beast operators gave the answer that SOB was closed for the rest of the season during a Q & A session while the Beast was down for the fireworks. However, throughout the day I thought to myself what could be the best option for this coaster. At its current state I say burn it to the ground in which the fireworks are shot off behind it as a celebration. Then again im sure its tough for KI to just want to give up on a marquee, record-breaking attraction. If the coaster were to be preserved I think the guage of the track should be modified to the standard so that millenium flyers/timberliners/or even PTCs can be used without modifying the wheel assemblies. In my opinion, when something like that is changed on the train, the performance of the train is robbed because it's doing something it wasn't engineered to do. The loop should also just remain a thing of the past. Finally, change the name so that expectations or comparisons to the Beast would not be held as the original and sequal. This would be a huge undertaking with a high price tag, so maybe I could be thinking a little too extreme. Honestly, my mind is in a deadlock on what should be done in regards to the park's coaster collection. It would look terrible to just demolish it without any replacement. A replacement doesn't have to be a similar wooden coaster, but something to complete their great collection. Overall, like many movies, the sequal has high expectations in which most are not reached.
We were there Sunday morning for the ERT before heading to SFKK. They were selling SoB T-Shirts for $5 including tax. I had to pick one up. IMO that does not speak well for the future of sonny.
Leave the gun, take the Cannolis
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