Son Of Beast Closes

at some point it was announced that SOB is closed for the season despite being cleared by the state. Apparently this news hasn't made it over here yet?

over where?

Originally posted by rcking04

Originally posted by Grunts-Ahoy

my thought is that are getting new trains that might help the "roughness" problem.

Nope, SOB received new trains after the loop was removed.

They actually weren't new trains, they were the trains from Hurricane at Myrtle Beach Pavillion, which was demolished.

Yea and that's why the ride tuerned so rough...it was smooth (smoother than now anyway) with the heavier trains because they didn't bounce around so much. The heavier trains caused warps in the track and the Hurricane trains were too light to navigate the loop so they took the loop out and fixed the warps and now the lighter trains are more prone to bouncing around and "wagging the tail" as I call it. So they basically sacrificed a not as rough ride to get new trains that wouldn't require retracking every 3 to 5 years, but now it seems it didn't go as planned and they are having more unexpected problems...hopefully they can get through it and find a solution. HAVE GCI WORK ON IT LIKE DASH!!!

Originally posted by ragan

i dont know how tall you are, but when you are 6'1" and 240 it hurts like hell. my legs were killing after the chain lift.

Well Ragan,I'm about the same height and weight as you. And I know EXACTLY what your talking about,lol! The last ride I can remember that hurt me that bad was Batman & Robin: The Chiller, when it had the overhead restraints. And even when they switched to just a lap bar, I felt like I was sitting in a chair from a 1st grade classroom!

Originally posted by dmillz

HAVE GCI WORK ON IT LIKE DASH!!!

I don't think even a magical re-tracking could help this ride.

Originally posted by Lewis13

Originally posted by rcking04

Originally posted by Grunts-Ahoy

my thought is that are getting new trains that might help the "roughness" problem.

Nope, SOB received new trains after the loop was removed.

They actually weren't new trains, they were the trains from Hurricane at Myrtle Beach Pavillion, which was demolished.

Ah. I thought they came from Villain since Cedar Fair kinda owned those anyways. Figured, why buy new ones?

[Coasterkidmwm]

They should make Daughter of Beast and make it a crappy airless GCI.

The trains came from GL...nothing to do with Myrtle Beach.

No...they didn't. The GL trains are sitting in storage there, but the two that ran on SOB were from Hurricane. Son Of Beast reopened before GL had closed. GL didn't even have two of the type SOB ran (the closed in type), they only had one which came from Legend at Holiday World. The other three they had were the open front type which were for Villain (Villain was supposed to have 3 trains originally, with an MCBR, but that never got installed, so they used the third on Raging Wolf Bobs along with the Legend train).

Not open yet?

^^point is that they have got different and lighter trains...right!?!?
So just drop it. Along with the ride.

This is like the case of Psyclone at MM. Although not as rough. Point is they both deserve to DIE!!! I think somebody should "accidentally" light the ride on fire.

Man, that was a good ride too.

I can't believe it's closing.

[Coasterkidmwm]

It had a good 9 years under its "made in China" construction style belt.

it should be open next year. everyone is overreacting to them taking down some signs. it's an expensive record breaking coaster that still has plenty of fans. it will reopen

I hope it does...as rough as it is it's still an awesome coaster to say you've been on...IMO in was totally worth the roughness to show people pix and vids and say "Yea...I've been on that SOB" (<<<HEHE get it??)

Originally posted by guitfiddle

it should be open next year. everyone is overreacting to them taking down some signs. it's an expensive record breaking coaster that still has plenty of fans. it will reopen

Its also extremely expensive to maintain....which tells me it won't.

I go to Kings Island Every weekend i live south ohio

Ride Closes a Dude with Heart Problems Rode the ride In the Middle he had A Heart Attack. He must of Not listening they have signs all through the lines IF U have Heart problems so so so and so on dont get on They even say it through speakers unless hes deaf and blind he should of saw that



I agree Son Of Beast is Super rough but it is actually fun I enjoy the Ride Except for the Beating Just the Turns are Rough the first Hill is the most fun part its not near as rough as the rest of the ride

Originally posted by Freddie

Originally posted by guitfiddle

it should be open next year. everyone is overreacting to them taking down some signs. it's an expensive record breaking coaster that still has plenty of fans. it will reopen

Its also extremely expensive to maintain....which tells me it won't.

cross fingers massive demolition somehow they use a lot of remaining footers and create an amazing gci ftw?!?

i wouldn't bet on it. all the ride needs it a re-profile of the rose bowl. everything else is fine.

Which is putting more money into a poor design with low ridership. It just isn't worth it. On top of it, the rosebowl's shape pretty much prohibits any type of re-profiling that would be beneficial to keeping it running smooth, so really all they can do is retrack it which means it will be beat up again in a few years.

Even if they do have it running smooth....I think it is a lack luster ride and I know when I went it didn't hold any sort of line. I thought the ride was very boring outside of the rosebowl which was only interesting because of the extreme jack hammering at the bottom. I don't care about the records it breaks....it just isn't a good ride imo and costs way too much money for the park. This is like the third time it's been down due to an "accident".....why keep throwing money at it if it's just going to keep needing more repairs (and yes I know what goes into wood coaster maintenance, but Son Of Beast needs/gets far more work than most coasters need to).