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The voyage isn't that bad. You have no testicles.
Not really.
added two...
Son of Beast is going down?
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I'm sure they could just ask us enthusiastic to tear down the SOB. Nothing beats the heart of a volunteer.
Lets just set dynamite and blow it all up ! Except its to close to some rides!
Yay,I think a Terrain Inta prefab or GG with a loop would be yummy...
Mikey all the enthusaists here can barley keep a site running I don't think we can generate enough to tear down a HUGE roller coaster.[:p]
KentuckyFTW blowing up a ride with treated wood is a good way to spread toxic fumes[xx(]
LOEA what's with you wanting a woodie with a loop? lol
KentuckyFTW blowing up a ride with treated wood is a good way to spread toxic fumes[xx(]
LOEA what's with you wanting a woodie with a loop? lol
Its a neat idea I think...
^ So SOB is (was) a neat idea?
Well exept the fact it was rough as hell...GG planned a corkscrew for Voyage,they scrapped the plan later...
yea i never got to ride it. although o go to KI (FTW) every month or so, but it not going to be turn down they've already started some construction(similar to the construction on texas gaint.
Don't start rumors that's definently not true. I was there last week and I'm going today. NOTHING is happening right there now. Someone would take pictures of it and do you see them? No.
Rides that need the Texas giant treatment:
Mean streak
SOB
Feel free to add to the list.
Mean streak
SOB
Feel free to add to the list.
Boulder Dash was the only good roller coaster.
"or if you're when the hydraulic fluid was dumped out of the motor is goes 200ft up the tower and is like "LOL nope"" - CKMWM 2016
"or if you're when the hydraulic fluid was dumped out of the motor is goes 200ft up the tower and is like "LOL nope"" - CKMWM 2016
Your moms ass!Joke!
Hmmmm,there was another coaster but I don't remember...
Hmmmm,there was another coaster but I don't remember...
At this point voyage might as well.... *waits for angry mob of GG fanboys*
Boulder Dash was the only good roller coaster.
"or if you're when the hydraulic fluid was dumped out of the motor is goes 200ft up the tower and is like "LOL nope"" - CKMWM 2016
"or if you're when the hydraulic fluid was dumped out of the motor is goes 200ft up the tower and is like "LOL nope"" - CKMWM 2016
Lol,nice on,slo!
The Voyage isn't rough lol
Yes, but it is overcalculated and, since they are adding timberliners, would be better if they just decided to go all the way and make it steel 
Boulder Dash was the only good roller coaster.
"or if you're when the hydraulic fluid was dumped out of the motor is goes 200ft up the tower and is like "LOL nope"" - CKMWM 2016
"or if you're when the hydraulic fluid was dumped out of the motor is goes 200ft up the tower and is like "LOL nope"" - CKMWM 2016
Holiday world could build two to three rides with the amount of money it would cost to give it the Texas giant treatment lol
I know, I was just kidding lol. Just imagine how it would turn out though...
Boulder Dash was the only good roller coaster.
"or if you're when the hydraulic fluid was dumped out of the motor is goes 200ft up the tower and is like "LOL nope"" - CKMWM 2016
"or if you're when the hydraulic fluid was dumped out of the motor is goes 200ft up the tower and is like "LOL nope"" - CKMWM 2016
Retarted?
I've found more information on the SOB.
MASON --
A local amusement park said a popular but troubled wooden roller coaster is likely to remain closed, at least through the 2010 season.
"Son of Beast will not operate in 2010," the park's management said in a statement. "The park will consider the Son of Beast ride for the future but at this time is not prepared to operate in 2010."
Kings Island vice president and general manager Greg Scheid said he's not pleased with how the Son of Beast is performing, nine months after it was shut down when a rider reported she burst a blood vessel in her brain.
It was the sixth time in nine seasons that the Mason amusement park put the brakes on the coaster.
The Son of Beast was closed for nearly a year of reconstruction in 2006 and 2007 after a structural failure resulted in injuries to more than two dozen people.
The coaster had its loop removed after the incident.
Park spokesman Don Helbig said the coaster is structurally safe but officials want to improve the smoothness of the ride.
And also some more information from other sites.
MASON - Kings Island's luckless 13th roller coaster, shuttered for about half of last season, faces an uncertain future.
The Son of Beast is shown in July 2006 at Kings Island, after an accident.
Hints abound that Son of Beast may never reopen.
Unlike its venerable father - The Beast - the hulking, wooden Son of Beast has not led a charmed life brimming with accolades.
There were ill omens from the start. Even before the 7,000-foot-long behemoth that cost $20 million opened nine years ago, the roller coaster's superstructure was damaged during construction by rough winter winds.
Just one day after its April 2000 superlative-laden debut - world's fastest wooden roller coaster at 78 mph, tallest wooden roller coaster drop at 214 feet, first wooden roller coaster with a loop - Son of Beast closed. Inspectors had discovered a rough 15-foot section of track.
Three weeks later, heavy rains delayed Son of Beast's planned reopening by almost six hours. It has been closed numerous times since, most recently June 16 after a woman said she was injured on the ride. Son of Beast has been idle since.
Now, after dozens of riders over nine seasons have said they were hurt on the ride, Son of Beast's survival is uncertain following a recent trial in which a jury awarded a 40-year-old Defiance woman $76,364 in compensatory damages for her injuries sustained on the roller coaster three years ago.
Kings Island attorneys, whose case included surreptitiously filmed footage of the woman, Jennifer Wright, as evidence against her alleged disability during the trial, struck an additional settlement with her minutes after the jury's verdict to avoid possibly paying punitive damages.
Wright said she would not have accepted the settlement unless the video testimony of forensic engineer Richard Schimizze were made public.
In his testimony, the engineer said that Kings Island officials knew about extensive problems with the ride since 2000 and attempted to fix the issues on a case-by-case basis that increased stresses on certain components of the ride, leading to wooden supports snapping and causing accidents that injured Wright, and a reported 27 others, on July 9, 2006.
"I would feel like garbage if I held on to this information and then a year from now somebody was really hurt bad," said Wright, struggling to control her voice through tears. "I'm not saying that's going to happen, I'm just saying, 'What if?'"
Wright, a single mother of four, was forced to quit her long-time job at Campbell Soup Co. because of a hip injury she suffered after the car she was riding in hit a span of track that had separated.
"When we hit, immediately it was like hitting a brick wall," Wright recalled. "You just know, wait a minute, that's not part of the ride."
She remembered the sound of the seat restraint clicking down four times, pinning her in an awkward position before her body was wrenched through Son of Beast's 118-foot loop. "I was thinking, oh my god, we're going to die. We're going to die."
The loop was removed following the accident, when Cedar Fair, new park owners, spent millions of dollars to repair the ride.
Schimizze said the ride has been plagued by "excessive lateral motion," meaning the track sways side-to-side as the train passes along certain stretches of the track. That contributed to loose timber connections, rapid bolt hole wear, track misalignment and unanticipated vibratory effects on Son of Beast. Stiffening the wooden frame and fixing problems locally, Schimizze added, simply moved and concentrated the load on other parts of the ride.
Efforts to repair Son of Beast were made in "Band-Aid" style, Schimizze said. "In other words, fix one area, see what happens, then fix another area and see what happens."
The engineer recommended that Kings Island build an extensive computer model to determine a comprehensive fix for the roller coaster rather than relying on the local simulations run thus far.
Kings Island spokesman Don Helbig declined to comment about Son of Beast's future, except to say that a decision on what steps to take regarding the ride won't be made until later this off season.
Duff Milkie, attorney for Cedar Fair, did not return a call asking for the company's response to Schimizze's interview.
A federal appeals court in 2008 reversed a lower court's decision to award Kings Island $20 million in its lawsuit against Son of Beast designer Roller Coaster Co. of Ohio. Kings Island first filed suit in 2000, seeking damages for alleged defective or negligent workmanship.
Roller Coaster Co. Ohio is now defunct. A lawyer told The Enquirer in 2006 that Kings Island built the coaster with its own employees, rather than with the company's more experienced builders.
Wright said her pursuit of her case was never about money and she isn't leading a "crusade" against Cedar Fair. She is sympathetic to the company in that it inherited Son of Beast from Kings Island's former owner, Paramount Parks, a subsidiary of Viacom.
What Wright wants, she said, is to make sure what happened to her and others doesn't happen again.
Her attorney, John Scaccia, said Wright has suffered beyond her physical ailments because people see someone suing and assume the worst without knowing all of the facts. Wright remains the only rider who didn't settle her lawsuit before trial, and the only case in which Kings Island admitted liability.
Scaccia said Wright deserves respect for making sure people can learn what happened.
"We have an area that is so attractive to the public, there comes with it a commensurate responsibility to serve that public interest," Scaccia said. "Let's hope that is what ultimately occurs."
MASON --
A local amusement park said a popular but troubled wooden roller coaster is likely to remain closed, at least through the 2010 season.
"Son of Beast will not operate in 2010," the park's management said in a statement. "The park will consider the Son of Beast ride for the future but at this time is not prepared to operate in 2010."
Kings Island vice president and general manager Greg Scheid said he's not pleased with how the Son of Beast is performing, nine months after it was shut down when a rider reported she burst a blood vessel in her brain.
It was the sixth time in nine seasons that the Mason amusement park put the brakes on the coaster.
The Son of Beast was closed for nearly a year of reconstruction in 2006 and 2007 after a structural failure resulted in injuries to more than two dozen people.
The coaster had its loop removed after the incident.
Park spokesman Don Helbig said the coaster is structurally safe but officials want to improve the smoothness of the ride.
And also some more information from other sites.
MASON - Kings Island's luckless 13th roller coaster, shuttered for about half of last season, faces an uncertain future.
The Son of Beast is shown in July 2006 at Kings Island, after an accident.
Hints abound that Son of Beast may never reopen.
Unlike its venerable father - The Beast - the hulking, wooden Son of Beast has not led a charmed life brimming with accolades.
There were ill omens from the start. Even before the 7,000-foot-long behemoth that cost $20 million opened nine years ago, the roller coaster's superstructure was damaged during construction by rough winter winds.
Just one day after its April 2000 superlative-laden debut - world's fastest wooden roller coaster at 78 mph, tallest wooden roller coaster drop at 214 feet, first wooden roller coaster with a loop - Son of Beast closed. Inspectors had discovered a rough 15-foot section of track.
Three weeks later, heavy rains delayed Son of Beast's planned reopening by almost six hours. It has been closed numerous times since, most recently June 16 after a woman said she was injured on the ride. Son of Beast has been idle since.
Now, after dozens of riders over nine seasons have said they were hurt on the ride, Son of Beast's survival is uncertain following a recent trial in which a jury awarded a 40-year-old Defiance woman $76,364 in compensatory damages for her injuries sustained on the roller coaster three years ago.
Kings Island attorneys, whose case included surreptitiously filmed footage of the woman, Jennifer Wright, as evidence against her alleged disability during the trial, struck an additional settlement with her minutes after the jury's verdict to avoid possibly paying punitive damages.
Wright said she would not have accepted the settlement unless the video testimony of forensic engineer Richard Schimizze were made public.
In his testimony, the engineer said that Kings Island officials knew about extensive problems with the ride since 2000 and attempted to fix the issues on a case-by-case basis that increased stresses on certain components of the ride, leading to wooden supports snapping and causing accidents that injured Wright, and a reported 27 others, on July 9, 2006.
"I would feel like garbage if I held on to this information and then a year from now somebody was really hurt bad," said Wright, struggling to control her voice through tears. "I'm not saying that's going to happen, I'm just saying, 'What if?'"
Wright, a single mother of four, was forced to quit her long-time job at Campbell Soup Co. because of a hip injury she suffered after the car she was riding in hit a span of track that had separated.
"When we hit, immediately it was like hitting a brick wall," Wright recalled. "You just know, wait a minute, that's not part of the ride."
She remembered the sound of the seat restraint clicking down four times, pinning her in an awkward position before her body was wrenched through Son of Beast's 118-foot loop. "I was thinking, oh my god, we're going to die. We're going to die."
The loop was removed following the accident, when Cedar Fair, new park owners, spent millions of dollars to repair the ride.
Schimizze said the ride has been plagued by "excessive lateral motion," meaning the track sways side-to-side as the train passes along certain stretches of the track. That contributed to loose timber connections, rapid bolt hole wear, track misalignment and unanticipated vibratory effects on Son of Beast. Stiffening the wooden frame and fixing problems locally, Schimizze added, simply moved and concentrated the load on other parts of the ride.
Efforts to repair Son of Beast were made in "Band-Aid" style, Schimizze said. "In other words, fix one area, see what happens, then fix another area and see what happens."
The engineer recommended that Kings Island build an extensive computer model to determine a comprehensive fix for the roller coaster rather than relying on the local simulations run thus far.
Kings Island spokesman Don Helbig declined to comment about Son of Beast's future, except to say that a decision on what steps to take regarding the ride won't be made until later this off season.
Duff Milkie, attorney for Cedar Fair, did not return a call asking for the company's response to Schimizze's interview.
A federal appeals court in 2008 reversed a lower court's decision to award Kings Island $20 million in its lawsuit against Son of Beast designer Roller Coaster Co. of Ohio. Kings Island first filed suit in 2000, seeking damages for alleged defective or negligent workmanship.
Roller Coaster Co. Ohio is now defunct. A lawyer told The Enquirer in 2006 that Kings Island built the coaster with its own employees, rather than with the company's more experienced builders.
Wright said her pursuit of her case was never about money and she isn't leading a "crusade" against Cedar Fair. She is sympathetic to the company in that it inherited Son of Beast from Kings Island's former owner, Paramount Parks, a subsidiary of Viacom.
What Wright wants, she said, is to make sure what happened to her and others doesn't happen again.
Her attorney, John Scaccia, said Wright has suffered beyond her physical ailments because people see someone suing and assume the worst without knowing all of the facts. Wright remains the only rider who didn't settle her lawsuit before trial, and the only case in which Kings Island admitted liability.
Scaccia said Wright deserves respect for making sure people can learn what happened.
"We have an area that is so attractive to the public, there comes with it a commensurate responsibility to serve that public interest," Scaccia said. "Let's hope that is what ultimately occurs."
^That article is from March.
You're insane.
Originally posted by fear the four
The Voyage isn't rough lol
The Voyage isn't rough lol
You're insane.
This topic is...
Originally posted by Jackson
^That article is from March.
You're insane.
^That article is from March.
Originally posted by fear the four
The Voyage isn't rough lol
The Voyage isn't rough lol
You're insane.
The voyage isn't that bad. You have no testicles.
Boulder Dash was the only good roller coaster.
"or if you're when the hydraulic fluid was dumped out of the motor is goes 200ft up the tower and is like "LOL nope"" - CKMWM 2016
"or if you're when the hydraulic fluid was dumped out of the motor is goes 200ft up the tower and is like "LOL nope"" - CKMWM 2016
Originally posted by Jackson
^That article is from March.
You're insane.
^That article is from March.
Originally posted by fear the four
The Voyage isn't rough lol
The Voyage isn't rough lol
You're insane.
Not really.
Originally posted by slosprint
Rides that need the Texas giant treatment:
Mean streak
SOB
The Boss - SFSTL
The Rattler - SFFT
Feel free to add to the list.
Rides that need the Texas giant treatment:
Mean streak
SOB
The Boss - SFSTL
The Rattler - SFFT
Feel free to add to the list.
added two...
Boss? I'm fine with love with shitty RCCAs and Dinn rides but don't mess with CCIs please.
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