Let me assure you if you go to Kings Island these days wearing a son of beast shirt, random strangers will compliment your shirt I even got a hand shake.
I designed a rollercoaster on Coaster Planet called Son of Yeast. It's configured to look like a slice of bread, and the cars look like pats of butter. I think it's the best thing since sliced bread. But I'm biased.
Oh yes! Those of us coaster buffs who had the (mis)fortune of riding SOB are hardened in a way that no coaster buff will ever be again, especially if you rode it when it still had the loop.
Firehawk195 it would be cool if some other company made one similar to sob as in speed and and total bad assness but it will probably never happen. Im going to kings island sometime in august. What is your favorite ride there?
You are mistaken. A woman claimed that she burst a blood vessel in her head. This was 16 DAYS after she was at the park. The Coaster was shut down as a precaution. After a full investigation they found nothing wrong. July 29, 2009 issue of the cincinnati inquirer had a report on it. My guess is that she was simply out for money.
Kings Island straight up trolled it's visitors with Son of Beast. They put their heads together and came up with a ride that tested the very limits of how much punishment the human body could take without suffering irreparable damage, and then laughed at us all when we got off the ride. Once it got old they tore it down.
It's not entirely the parks fault. RCCA was incompetent and didn't know just how much stress the ride and riders were put through. If gci or gravity group buit it today it'd work much better.
This coaster was amazing! I remember riding it the summer it came out on a weekday with very short lines. I rode it at least 7 times in a row. The next day, I had bruises in places I didn't even know could bruise lol great times
Lee Hasselbeck I truly don't understand the complaints about how painful this ride was... I only got the chance to ride it once (without the loop) and I didn't find it any more painful than something like The Beast.
I bet Rocky Mountain Construction could build an exact replica of this ride but with their I-box or topper tracks (my vote is for topper) and it would not only be much better than the original (which I never got to ride and was definitely ahead of its time) but it might be the best wooden coaster in the world.
They did consider iron horsing it but after some structural and visual review, they concluded that a sizable portion, (90% if i remember) of the stucture had to be redone before putting that i box track
i worked at kings island as a teenager during the rise and fall of this Monster ride. i can truly tell you that it was the most intense roller coaster i have ever been on. RIP son of beast
When I rode it, in the front seat, the grown man sitting beside me broke down in tears. The crowd was sparse that day, only part of the park was open at a time. Nobody got off Son of Beast and turned around and rode it twice in a row. Not for the faint of heart.
I remember riding this 5 times in one day in the summer of 2000. The only way I can describe it was it was a huge Mammoth of a ride. Everything about it seemed huge and grand, when you made the first drop its felt like being picked up by a large bird and just dropped from hundreds of feet in the air. It was slightly intimidating
Miss this one so much, it was truly a great coaster, best time to ride it was at night when it got really foggy. You would turn to the first drop and just see the fog cover the track and it just set the mood. Man if this thing was around today I would consider it one of the best if not the best, but alas that title goes to its father. THE BEAST.
*Here comes the loop, oh shit, oh shit!* I rode this ride 3 times, before it closed, so the loop wasnt there, it still looks like an awesome ride, and its amazing that they built a wooden roller coaster that was like the diamondback
This was definitely not for the faint of heart...it was fast...it was brutal...it was mean...Heck it was a ride that you will remember for the rest of your life. I rode it in 2003 when I was 16 and that speed and freaking loop were enough to make you scream!!! And I got sick after getting off lol Good memories XD
They should rebuild the Son of Beast WITH THE LOOP with the technology they have today (but still make it wooden). Imagine the excitement it would cause if the legend itself was rebuilt.
Rode it for the first time, a week before the accident in 2006. My brain banged against my skull the entire ride, everyone getting off of it was holding their heads! Mean streak was rough but this was horrible! Had it been smoother, it would have been one of my favorites. The Beast, Racer and Shivering Timbers are my all time favorite woodies!
What an extreme ride this was. I was able to ride it before they tore the loop out, which was very exciting but really wasn't the most dangerous part of the ride. This was one of the most violent, uncomfortable rides I ever rode on. I rode this the first year it was open and it already felt like it was falling apart by the end of the season. The trains would jump up and down on the track like it was constructed very poorly. You would be thrown around in your seat, being slammed up and down and side to side in the cars. I got off this ride with an extreme headache and backache and I felt like I was kicked 100 times. I was so happy to get off this ride but it almost ruined my whole day at the park. The ride itself was a great idea, in theory, but a terrible implementation. Just poor planning and poor design and all the injury lawsuits eventually caused its demise. Very Sad.
I believe your ride experience is common with extreme wooden coasters in general. I left the Voyage in Holiday world feeling the same way. You feel every board and turn for sure.
Correct. Every wooden coaster has a rougher ride. The more extreme the wooden coaster, the more rough the ride. That's just one reason why I prefer them. The steel coaster Desperado in Nevada was very rough when I was on it, and not in a good way. I likely never ride it again, but I'd ride Son of Beast in a shot.
Quinton Parchment honestly, and I don’t think banshee sucks, but an RMC recreation of son of Beast would still suck. The layout was awful, airtime-less, just un-RMCable. I wouldn’t want a massive banked turn with a few airtime moments at the very begining and very end and a few in the middle to be an RMC. The layout was awful to begin with.
Zek Teh Kek I remember seeing son of beast at kings island, I liked seeing son of beast better i think banshee layout is more crappy than Son of Beast, banshee is too spread out
I didn't even know they shut it down! For as much as I loathe wooden coasters, this one was awesome, and the only one that I ever actually liked. Of course.
KimPossible I rode this when I was 12 or 13 I think. It is the biggest roller coaster I have I ever been on to this point in my life, and it will always be one of my favorites. Too bad it had to be torn down :/
+KimPossible I used to loathe woodies. My first big roller coaster was Wildcat at Hershey, and that was when it had the old trains so it was quite rough. But there are plenty of AMAZING woodies that aren't rough, like Beast at Kings Island, Phoenix at Knoebels, Thunderhead at Dollywood, or El Toro at Great Adventure. If you refuse wood as a whole, you'll be missing out!
+KimPossible it was torn down because it was tearing itself apart the original cars weighed as much as a fully loaded concrete truck with no people on it I was just at the parts barn for it today its still loaded wall to wall with every spare nut bolt washer and nail to be used on the coaster the loop alone has 5 feet of shelving dedicated to just its bolts
Wooden coasters are traditionally rougher, especially if you ride in rows that sit above the wheels. Every time the wheels bounce around and hit bumps in the track, you feel them directly. Since the old SOB cars had three rows, my friends and I would always hop in the middle row and the ride was somewhat bearable. The loop was incredible, it was so big and smooth. It's a shame that it's gone now. It was still closed when I went last year, so I haven't had a chance to ride the new SOB.
Ethan K I disagree. Did you ever ride this coaster. RMC is not the answer to every wooden coaster. There was never anything wrong with the way this was. Easily a top 2 coaster.
no i did not have the chance to ride the coaster when it was operating, and there were many problems with it, if there wasn't any problems with it the coaster would still be operating. and RMC is the answer to most wooden coasters that are aging badly because the RMC topper track is a cheap and very reliable track that has proven to be a comfortable ride experience. Easily a coaster that wasn't safe enough
Ethan K I'm not saying that this coaster didn't have its problems. It had many from the very beginning. I also realize that RMC is the answer to many aging coasters. But you have to understand. When this thing was running it was truly AMAZING. The layout was phenomenal and it was just an Awesome ride. Came out the same year as MILLENNIUM FORCE, and I couldn't decide which one I liked better. Sure if RMC was around at the time, they could have saved it, but that would have ment changing it, changing the layout, and it wouldn't of been the same. I'm sorry you didn't get to ride it. It truly was one of the best coasters ever built, but it was way ahead of its time, and that is what killed it. It was doomed from the start, but it was one hell of a ride.
Minor correction. It was 2006 and they reopened it in 2007 on July 4th. And they had to get rid of the heavy-weight trains because they were destroying the track and caused a support beam to crack in the helix and it hurt 27 people and this resulted in having to remove the loop.
+aaaee Actually, the trees weren't perfectly good. The main reason why the ride had problems is because PKI was cheap and used low-grade lumber. I'm glad Paramount sold the park. They were shit at running a park.
i was 19 when the SOB was opened. it was the roughest roller coaster i have ever been on. i felt like i had been in a car wreck when i got off it. it beat the shit out of you for all 4 minutes. the loop was huge and probably the smoothest part of the track
THIS IS THE MOST AWESOME ROLLER COASTER KNOWN TO MAN NO COASTER WILL NEVER TOP THE SON OF BEAST & THE ONLY OTHER ROLLER COASTER THAT IS ALMOST IDENTICAL TO THE SON OF BEAST WITHOUT THE LOOP IS THE WHITE CYCLONE IN JAPAN :) HAVE A GREAT DAY :)
T LOU - NO I'M NOT CRAZY I'M AWARE OF THE LAWSUITS !! WHEN THE SON OF BEAST WAS NEW THE ROLLER COASTER HAD 1800 RIDERS PER HOUR !! THE SON OF BEAST SET SEVERAL WORLD RECORDS FOR AWESOME LAYOUT OF THE TRACK !! LIKE OTHER GREAT ROLLER COASTERS THAT ARE OVERWHELMED BY RIDERS & EVENTUALLY WILL NOT PERFORM PERFECTLY & SMOOTHLY THIS IS EXPECTED OF A WOODEN ROLLER COASTER & WHEN THE SON OF BEAST WAS FIRST ON THE SCENE WAS THE MOST AWESOME ROLLER COASTER !! TO CALL ME CRAZY FOR ENJOYING THIS RIDE WHEN THE SON OF BEAST WAS NEW IS IGNORANT & IMMATURE TO CHASTISE SOMEONE OVER A ROLLER COASTER GET A GRIP & GET A LIFE !
Gabby Gustafsen they used cheap lumber. That's the problem and the fact the manufacturer did not fully realize the effect on riders. Not to mention the cars were basically a loaded concrete truck with NO ONE on it rlly. Some people just have to accept that oldie is not always goodie. Or maybe you are a troll.
The unique thing about Hades is that it did the reverse of SOB. The inversion was ADDED later on. From the look of it, it was already an awesome ride without the inversion. They just made it better.
I rode this about seven years ago, when it had the loop. It knocked me around more than a pinball machine, which kept me from really enjoying it. It was kind of cool to go upside down on a woodie though, I'll give it that. Shame it's gone now, the loop I mean.
This is the best explanation I've heard so far. Being a coaster enthusiast it makes me depressed to know I'll NEVER get to ride this extremely unique masterpiece. Had I known about how harsh the ride really was, as well as the seemingly ridiculous upkeep and other accumulating concerns, I would have made EVERY effort to go to King's Island just to ride SOB while it still had the loop (its first season of operation). R.I.P. to the respectably daring idea of a wooden hyper coaster : (
Scariest coaster I've ever ridden... due to how it was a tall fast woodie and it made you feel like you may not come back alive. It sounded like nails were flying everywhere when I rode it.
They need to open this back up for the 2012 season. I live 20 minutes away from Carowinds, but i still find it sad Son of Beast closed down. It had the world records for wooden coasters in the categories: Height, Drop, and speed. If it has these many records, it should re-open for 2012 or 2013. Thumbs up if you agree!
Now if you look at SOB's parent, "The Beast". They built this thing to last. I think they kind of knew that this coaster would hold the record for the longest wooden coaster for a long time. Given the advantage that this is a 'terrain' coaster, much of it is on the ground and thus it is easier to maintain then coasters are much taller in stature. This was a concept that proven itself in future coaster designs that took advantage of the terrain.
I wanna ride this so bad! Even without the loop who cares, and I know everyone complains how rough it is but theyre supposed to be!! This ride looks sick.
It was also the only wooden roller coaster to feature a vertical loop, which was removed in 2006 after an incident in which 27 people were injured. The loop was not directly related to the incident, but was removed as a precautionary measure.
This ride is a BEAST, with OR without the loop. I rode it when they still had it, and when they didn't anymore. It's still hella crazy. No wonder why it's called "Son Of The Beast".
I was lucky enough to ride this twice in 2004 while it still had the loop. I remember it being a VERY rough ride, but I loved it anyway. Too bad it's gone, loop or no loop.
i think putting in the pre-manufactured composite track would help this alot. i love this ride and it sucks it's closed. i'd love to see it open again. that ride is beautiful.
great concept, great design, but basically built out of firewood. If you look at track level pictures you can see a lot of it was warped out of where it probably should have been
@JustinTinaFey An accident happened back in 2006. The loop was not directly involved, but was taken out to replace the trains with lighter ones, so that the track would be safer.
SOB was scary fun and painful every time I rode it. The pain was kind of addictive, kind of like eating atomic wings so painful yet you want more. The loop was not the issue it was the excessive weight of the trains that was needed to create the centrifugal force for the loop. This added train weight made the ride very rough and also put excessive forces on the wooden structure. I'll miss the loop especially since it was the only looping coaster with no shoulder restraints I've ever ridden.
Absolutely BRUTAL ride. It felt like I was getting punched in the stomach for 3 minutes straight... Still...I'm glad I got to ride it before they shut it down!
From what I heard the cars were stopping or abruptly breaking and continuing before the loop causing broken ribs on some passengers. Kings Island said it would be easier for them to service the ride but the upkeep on the loop is easier than the wood segments on the rest of the ride.
Since the loop is gone, the ride is still very rough... I love coasters but this one is very hard to ride because it still gives your body quite a beating.
This ride is so painful! On that first big hill, you cant even focus on the sweet roller coaster falling sensation it hurts so bad. They even had to take out the loop, its only redeeming quality.
There's a news story (also on UA-cam) that says there was a cracked board on a part of the sharp turns before it got to the loop. That's what caused several people to get hurt on the ride. Probably some kind of whiplash or something. It's a shame to see the loop taken down. I wanted to experience this coaster at least once, being the only woodie with a loop. But I guess it was necessary since they changed the cars.
@hockronic The loop was removed in 2006 after an incident in which 27 people were injured. It was not directly related to the incident, but was removed to allow for lighter trains, thus reducing the chances of the 2006 incident's re-occurrence. Although they did this, the future of this ride is uncertain and has been closed the whole 2010 season due to extremely high repair and maintenance costs approaching 30 million dollars.
I'm sorry that I missed this one while the loop was still in. I live really close to Kings Island so I have no excuse, except maybe the prices. I have ridden The Beast hundreds of times and it scares the crap out of me each and every time! The Vortex, The Beast, and Flight of Fear are my all-time favs. The Racer was my first ever roller coaster when I was about 6 years old.
@TeamApparition Thanks for telling it like it is. At least someone besides myself knows what's up. The heavier trains caused a ledger board to crack in the "Rose Bowl" portion of the ride which caused rider injury. NOBODY EVER fell out of the loop...
I rode this the summer that it opened and it was one of my favorites besides The Beast. I was looking up the past coasters I've been on and just found out today that the loop was removed and the coaster has been offline for 2 years. That really sucks. This was an awesome coaster.
Just from this video, the coaster is fairly new. The nose of the coaster, is shaking left and right. This means a lot of wear to the running rails, and would of caused a lot of maintenance.
@mtefv the cars the were using on SoB were very heavy, so that the trains could keep momentum when going on the loop. The heavy cars caused stress on SoB's track, which led to some of the supports caving in one area. I believe 13 people were hospitalized because of the incident. So, to be safer, the trains were replaced with lighter trains, and the lighter trains couldn't go through the loop because they didn't have enough momentum
Because they had to change to lighter trains. They used to have heavier trains designed to take the force of the loop, but since the 2006 accident they had to change to lighter trains because the heavier trains were largely responsible for a crack in a portion of the track that sent over 20 people to the hospital. The ride is now currently closed until further notice. Rumor has it that it may be closed for the rest of the season...of course that's only a rumor but no official word on why yet.
I've ridden the Son of Beast probably 15 times, in positions varying from the very front seat to the very back seat, and I will tell you that while it was definitely one of the roughest rides I have ever ridden, THE LOOP WAS BY FAR THE SMOOTHEST PART!!! The decision to take out the loop must have been made by idiots that have never ridden it.
Omg this was the best rollercoaster ever!!!! ME and my Friend went on it and she screamed her head off, especially on the loop!!! R.I.P Son of the Beasts Loop
I'm so glad to see this go. The first time I rode it, the loop was still there and I could only ride it once ... it was just too brutal on the body The second time without the loop was miserable! There were predictable stretches of track that would just destroy your knees and neck. They never did get it right and now its a pile of wooden rubble. So much potential wasted ... RIP ... in hell! Although a little rough from all the years of weather ... the Beast still gives one heck of a ride!
The lighter trains for Son of Beast were donated from the "Hurricane", another rollercoaster that was torn down in Myrtle Beach, SC, when the Pavilion closed.
If I am not mistaken they decided to take the loop out of this ride. I heard that it the loop was either on a sink hole or it was not very safe. Very good video! I love the fact that the camera does not shake! 5/5
"they wont let me turn around,to take one ore look at my baby,while shes still around" my 1 regret in life not taking this one last chance to ride,the son of beast.RIP
The accident that happened about 2 years ago caused a piece of wood to splinter and part of the track to kinda sink. The cause of it was apparently the weight of the cars. So they replaced the cars the next year with lighter ones. However, later on it was found out that the cars were not engineered to go through any sort of looping motion, so they tore down the loop and patched that spot up with more level track.
@HaloTrackStudios The tracks on coasters are all essentilly the same today. They just linked the metal part that the wheels were running on in the wood part to the full steel track.
If I could ride any coaster that's no longer in existence, it would be Son of Beast. I wish it hadn't been so ahead of its time that it no longer exists.
They tried that. They tried to reprofile the ride in a very similar manner as to what they did with the original Rattler. They made several changes which included adding lighter trains. These changes made keeping the loop impossible. They neutered the ride, simply put. It became another Hercules in the end. Now, if they rebuilt it as a hybrid steel/wood coaster, as they did with the new Iron Rattler, then you might have something again. But it would be a steel coaster with a wood frame
Let me assure you if you go to Kings Island these days wearing a son of beast shirt, random strangers will compliment your shirt I even got a hand shake.
I designed a rollercoaster on Coaster Planet called Son of Yeast. It's configured to look like a slice of bread, and the cars look like pats of butter. I think it's the best thing since sliced bread. But I'm biased.
Marchant2 i wanna see
Marchant2 you mean planet coaster
workshop link? i wanna see this 😂
How is this relevant to this video? Name rhymes? Lol 😄😅😅😂😂😂😁😁😁😁😁
I made one called Son Of Yeet and Its a Giga
Baddest, meanest, harshest, toughest, most painful, most incredible roller coaster ever.
Oh yes! Those of us coaster buffs who had the (mis)fortune of riding SOB are hardened in a way that no coaster buff will ever be again, especially if you rode it when it still had the loop.
Heck yeah I did! 9 years old and had me bent sideways for a week!
Firehawk195 never was able to ride it. Wish i could of
Connor Rutan Oh MAN it was so good.
Firehawk195 it would be cool if some other company made one similar to sob as in speed and and total bad assness but it will probably never happen. Im going to kings island sometime in august. What is your favorite ride there?
Mean Streak: I was the roughest wooden coaster ever built!
Son Of Beast: Hold my loop.
Joshua Danella I just watched a POV for that. Wtf is that track profiling, and those transitions
The loop was actually the smoothest part of the ride.
Ametures... Son Of Beast: What was that.. punk.
Beast: Ametures!
@@Howlingburd19 at least Mean Streak was built properly. SOB was built so poorly that it made it rough.
@@TheLewistownTrainspotter8102 so hold on the loop
Sucks they got rid of it. This video is pretty much historical now.
JC Denton I wish kings island would have RMCed son of beast ,instead of cheap and rip off banshee
Quinton Parchment you say that with every comment
Quinton Parchment banshee is considered a top b m inverted coaster in the world
Chips Aloe banshees probably a montu and alpengiest wannabe
Quinton Parchment is it cold down there in your moms basement?
Wooden Coaster 1 looks too intense for me
And RCT3 is still epic in 2024 :)
I don't think many people will get that cry reference
+leitakcoc gaming rct lol
It was torn down after some person got brain damage from it
I'm not paying that much to go on Wooden Coaster 1.
You are mistaken. A woman claimed that she burst a blood vessel in her head. This was 16 DAYS after she was at the park. The Coaster was shut down as a precaution. After a full investigation they found nothing wrong. July 29, 2009 issue of the cincinnati inquirer had a report on it. My guess is that she was simply out for money.
Kings Island straight up trolled it's visitors with Son of Beast. They put their heads together and came up with a ride that tested the very limits of how much punishment the human body could take without suffering irreparable damage, and then laughed at us all when we got off the ride. Once it got old they tore it down.
John Benedeck Yep, SOB is surely missed.
+Chef Danger I remember riding it in grade school and having chest pains midway through the ride. It hurt to breathe for a week.
+Chef Danger I got sick as soon as the ride stopped and had whiplash for a week. Like +Jebus Chrust I couldn't breath halfway through the ride
It's not entirely the parks fault. RCCA was incompetent and didn't know just how much stress the ride and riders were put through. If gci or gravity group buit it today it'd work much better.
I had a massive headache for the rest of the day after riding it
This coaster was amazing! I remember riding it the summer it came out on a weekday with very short lines. I rode it at least 7 times in a row. The next day, I had bruises in places I didn't even know could bruise lol great times
I'm SOOO sad I never got to ride this magnificent creation. Would be awesome to see a reincarnation via RMC technology!
+FollowMyRuin I totally feel ya. It was on my top 10 coasters to ride one day for sure. :( Guess I'll never get to.
+FollowMyRuin I rode it and got whiplash, got sick, and thought I was going to die lol
it really wasn't very good. it looks cool, but the pain inflicted on you distracted you from any fun you might have
Lee Hasselbeck
I truly don't understand the complaints about how painful this ride was...
I only got the chance to ride it once (without the loop) and I didn't find it any more painful than something like The Beast.
I went to KI all the time when I was younger but this was the only roller coaster I would never ride. It looked way too rough and jerky.
I bet Rocky Mountain Construction could build an exact replica of this ride but with their I-box or topper tracks (my vote is for topper) and it would not only be much better than the original (which I never got to ride and was definitely ahead of its time) but it might be the best wooden coaster in the world.
Hopefully with actual airtime rather than taking 10 minutes per hill.
That would be sick.
Sokobansolver RMC is known for airtime so that's pretty much guaranteed
They did consider iron horsing it but after some structural and visual review, they concluded that a sizable portion, (90% if i remember) of the stucture had to be redone before putting that i box track
They should remove banshee, and replace it with RMC Son of Beast
i worked at kings island as a teenager during the rise and fall of this Monster ride. i can truly tell you that it was the most intense roller coaster i have ever been on. RIP son of beast
I loved this thing... Rest in peace, you old body beater.
When I rode it, in the front seat, the grown man sitting beside me broke down in tears. The crowd was sparse that day, only part of the park was open at a time. Nobody got off Son of Beast and turned around and rode it twice in a row. Not for the faint of heart.
u siad that twice
Because of it's roughness?
Why didn't you?
@@diondee4890 Not the OP, but yes. It was the roughest, most painful ride I ever had the misfortune to ride. The only smooth part was the loop.
Riding this at night in the rain was incredible!
I remember riding this 5 times in one day in the summer of 2000. The only way I can describe it was it was a huge Mammoth of a ride. Everything about it seemed huge and grand, when you made the first drop its felt like being picked up by a large bird and just dropped from hundreds of feet in the air. It was slightly intimidating
Miss this one so much, it was truly a great coaster, best time to ride it was at night when it got really foggy. You would turn to the first drop and just see the fog cover the track and it just set the mood. Man if this thing was around today I would consider it one of the best if not the best, but alas that title goes to its father. THE BEAST.
*Here comes the loop, oh shit, oh shit!*
I rode this ride 3 times, before it closed, so the loop wasnt there, it still looks like an awesome ride, and its amazing that they built a wooden roller coaster that was like the diamondback
God, that was so fun. It was like my favorite ride before they took the loop off...
The only roller coaster where GP and Enthusiasts agreed on how unsafe it looked and felt
Fax
This was definitely not for the faint of heart...it was fast...it was brutal...it was mean...Heck it was a ride that you will remember for the rest of your life. I rode it in 2003 when I was 16 and that speed and freaking loop were enough to make you scream!!! And I got sick after getting off lol Good memories XD
They should rebuild the Son of Beast WITH THE LOOP with the technology they have today (but still make it wooden). Imagine the excitement it would cause if the legend itself was rebuilt.
Grandson of beast
Dream bigger. RMC builds the first wooden gigacoaster in Kings Island.
"Wooden Hyper Coaster 1 looks too intense for me."
only 90s kids rode this before they took out the loop
It was out in 2000-09.
@@johnd5931 if you were born in the 2000s you wouldnt have rode this if you were just 5 years old
i love when coasters r so fast u cant hear yourself scream. this vid is a good egsample of that
Now the loop is gone. 3 years later, now the ride is gone.
Rode it for the first time, a week before the accident in 2006. My brain banged against my skull the entire ride, everyone getting off of it was holding their heads! Mean streak was rough but this was horrible! Had it been smoother, it would have been one of my favorites. The Beast, Racer and Shivering Timbers are my all time favorite woodies!
This looks awesome. Too bad they tore it down.
Riding this ride at night paired with the Beast was some of the best coaster memories I will ever have.
What an extreme ride this was. I was able to ride it before they tore the loop out, which was very exciting but really wasn't the most dangerous part of the ride. This was one of the most violent, uncomfortable rides I ever rode on. I rode this the first year it was open and it already felt like it was falling apart by the end of the season. The trains would jump up and down on the track like it was constructed very poorly. You would be thrown around in your seat, being slammed up and down and side to side in the cars. I got off this ride with an extreme headache and backache and I felt like I was kicked 100 times. I was so happy to get off this ride but it almost ruined my whole day at the park. The ride itself was a great idea, in theory, but a terrible implementation. Just poor planning and poor design and all the injury lawsuits eventually caused its demise. Very Sad.
I believe your ride experience is common with extreme wooden coasters in general. I left the Voyage in Holiday world feeling the same way. You feel every board and turn for sure.
+captainxxadventure yeah holy shit Voyage was SO rough
Correct. Every wooden coaster has a rougher ride. The more extreme the wooden coaster, the more rough the ride. That's just one reason why I prefer them. The steel coaster Desperado in Nevada was very rough when I was on it, and not in a good way. I likely never ride it again, but I'd ride Son of Beast in a shot.
Actually the best and most intense wooden roller coaster in the world, El Toro, is by far the smoothest wooden roller coaster ever
New Jersey thanks you!
It's a legend for what if could have been. Not for what it actually was.
it would be a funny throwback for RMC to rebuild this from the ground up. Except make the structure actually strong this time.
Connor Trout the land is taken though
Banshee sucks kings island should have RMC Son of Beast
Quinton Parchment honestly, and I don’t think banshee sucks, but an RMC recreation of son of Beast would still suck. The layout was awful, airtime-less, just un-RMCable. I wouldn’t want a massive banked turn with a few airtime moments at the very begining and very end and a few in the middle to be an RMC. The layout was awful to begin with.
Zek Teh Kek I remember seeing son of beast at kings island, I liked seeing son of beast better i think banshee layout is more crappy than Son of Beast, banshee is too spread out
Zek Teh Kek could you sub
R.I.P. Son of Beast. Not the most popular coaster, but I loved riding it. Will be missed. :(
This video is slowed down.
play at 1.25 speed for a more accurate ride.
and yeah it really was that fast. Even the lift chain was fast.
You know it’s tall when even the drop is long
I didn't even know they shut it down! For as much as I loathe wooden coasters, this one was awesome, and the only one that I ever actually liked. Of course.
You loathe wooden coasters but enjoyed what might have been the most intense one ever built? That's both impressive and odd to me lol.
KimPossible I rode this when I was 12 or 13 I think. It is the biggest roller coaster I have I ever been on to this point in my life, and it will always be one of my favorites. Too bad it had to be torn down :/
+KimPossible I used to loathe woodies. My first big roller coaster was Wildcat at Hershey, and that was when it had the old trains so it was quite rough. But there are plenty of AMAZING woodies that aren't rough, like Beast at Kings Island, Phoenix at Knoebels, Thunderhead at Dollywood, or El Toro at Great Adventure. If you refuse wood as a whole, you'll be missing out!
+kinkisharyocoasters I rode the beast at kings island and it definitely made me want to throw up. They are just really jerky.
+KimPossible it was torn down because it was tearing itself apart the original cars weighed as much as a fully loaded concrete truck with no people on it
I was just at the parts barn for it today its still loaded wall to wall with every spare nut bolt washer and nail to be used on the coaster the loop alone has 5 feet of shelving dedicated to just its bolts
Wooden coasters are traditionally rougher, especially if you ride in rows that sit above the wheels. Every time the wheels bounce around and hit bumps in the track, you feel them directly. Since the old SOB cars had three rows, my friends and I would always hop in the middle row and the ride was somewhat bearable. The loop was incredible, it was so big and smooth. It's a shame that it's gone now. It was still closed when I went last year, so I haven't had a chance to ride the new SOB.
Best coaster ever built. RMC could not of improved on it.
they could do it easily
Ethan K I disagree. Did you ever ride this coaster. RMC is not the answer to every wooden coaster. There was never anything wrong with the way this was. Easily a top 2 coaster.
no i did not have the chance to ride the coaster when it was operating, and there were many problems with it, if there wasn't any problems with it the coaster would still be operating. and RMC is the answer to most wooden coasters that are aging badly because the RMC topper track is a cheap and very reliable track that has proven to be a comfortable ride experience. Easily a coaster that wasn't safe enough
Ethan K I'm not saying that this coaster didn't have its problems. It had many from the very beginning. I also realize that RMC is the answer to many aging coasters. But you have to understand. When this thing was running it was truly AMAZING. The layout was phenomenal and it was just an Awesome ride. Came out the same year as MILLENNIUM FORCE, and I couldn't decide which one I liked better. Sure if RMC was around at the time, they could have saved it, but that would have ment changing it, changing the layout, and it wouldn't of been the same. I'm sorry you didn't get to ride it. It truly was one of the best coasters ever built, but it was way ahead of its time, and that is what killed it. It was doomed from the start, but it was one hell of a ride.
Ron Scurti i hate to keep disagreeing with you but Millennium Force does not have a good layout, it's a simple layout.
Minor correction. It was 2006 and they reopened it in 2007 on July 4th. And they had to get rid of the heavy-weight trains because they were destroying the track and caused a support beam to crack in the helix and it hurt 27 people and this resulted in having to remove the loop.
To all the people thinking this deserved the RMC makeover, the ride was pretty much just 3 helixes and a loop.
If u ever rode it, you wouldnt be saying that.This ride broke 7 World records..... Tallest, fastest, longest drop wooden roller coaster. Haha
Also largest coaster to be dismantled (I think).
the helixes are the best ever!
Banshee sucks they should have RMC Son of Beast
Good i miss this ride..... I was 9 when this opened and it was the first roller coaster i went on. Nostalgia is hitting me right in the feels
2018-2019 Anyone?
R.I.P. Son of Beast EST. 2000-2012 at Kings Island in Mason, Ohio USA 🇺🇲 and Randy West Miss Soul Much Forever.
What a huge waste of perfectly good trees. How not to design a coaster 101
+aaaee Actually, the trees weren't perfectly good. The main reason why the ride had problems is because PKI was cheap and used low-grade lumber. I'm glad Paramount sold the park. They were shit at running a park.
Banshee sucks kings island should have RMC Son of Beast
@@ArrowThrills why? ur giving me a headache (just like SOB)
I've been on this ride 3 or 4 times and wasn't aware how long it actually is. I think it's super cool. King's Island rocks.
Wooden roller coasters aren’t supposed to go in a loop.. that’s probably why so many people died on it
Xx Girlygamer xX i just went on the beast and learned about the son of the beast 😲
X dafuango X the only “beast” ride I’m going on is Woodstock express that used to be a beasty ride but they changed the name
Xx Girlygamer xX i never heard of it , at my kings island they just have “the beast “ and this year is its 40th anniversary
X dafuango X I go to the one in Ohio where do you go?
Xx Girlygamer xX me too ! Cincinnati
i was 19 when the SOB was opened. it was the roughest roller coaster i have ever been on. i felt like i had been in a car wreck when i got off it. it beat the shit out of you for all 4 minutes. the loop was huge and probably the smoothest part of the track
heh "SOB" is right =y
THIS IS THE MOST AWESOME ROLLER COASTER KNOWN TO MAN NO COASTER WILL NEVER TOP THE SON OF BEAST & THE ONLY OTHER ROLLER COASTER THAT IS ALMOST IDENTICAL TO THE SON OF BEAST WITHOUT THE LOOP IS THE WHITE CYCLONE IN JAPAN :) HAVE A GREAT DAY :)
T LOU - NO I'M NOT CRAZY I'M AWARE OF THE LAWSUITS !! WHEN THE SON OF BEAST WAS NEW THE ROLLER COASTER HAD 1800 RIDERS PER HOUR !! THE SON OF BEAST SET SEVERAL WORLD RECORDS FOR AWESOME LAYOUT OF THE TRACK !! LIKE OTHER GREAT ROLLER COASTERS THAT ARE OVERWHELMED BY RIDERS & EVENTUALLY WILL NOT PERFORM PERFECTLY & SMOOTHLY THIS IS EXPECTED OF A WOODEN ROLLER COASTER & WHEN THE SON OF BEAST WAS FIRST ON THE SCENE WAS THE MOST AWESOME ROLLER COASTER !! TO CALL ME CRAZY FOR ENJOYING THIS RIDE WHEN THE SON OF BEAST WAS NEW IS IGNORANT & IMMATURE TO CHASTISE SOMEONE OVER A ROLLER COASTER GET A GRIP & GET A LIFE !
Gabby Gustafsen they used cheap lumber. That's the problem and the fact the manufacturer did not fully realize the effect on riders. Not to mention the cars were basically a loaded concrete truck with NO ONE on it rlly. Some people just have to accept that oldie is not always goodie. Or maybe you are a troll.
I never rode Sun of Beast but White Cyclone was very so shaky my teeth hurt lol
@@gabbygustafsen8762 headache, u have caused
@@fishtitan7135 probobly
The unique thing about Hades is that it did the reverse of SOB. The inversion was ADDED later on. From the look of it, it was already an awesome ride without the inversion. They just made it better.
If this coaster were ten seconds longer, it would probably be an execution device
I rode this about seven years ago, when it had the loop. It knocked me around more than a pinball machine, which kept me from really enjoying it. It was kind of cool to go upside down on a woodie though, I'll give it that. Shame it's gone now, the loop I mean.
I like to be scared, but not hurt.
I loved this ride. I got to ride it 4 times with the loop. Too bad about the people who were injured on it.
That coaster hurt like a bitch to ride... once was enough for me.
This definitely looked like the smoothest and funnest wooden coaster. Too bad its gone. Seems like it had a nice view and everything too
This is the best explanation I've heard so far. Being a coaster enthusiast it makes me depressed to know I'll NEVER get to ride this extremely unique masterpiece. Had I known about how harsh the ride really was, as well as the seemingly ridiculous upkeep and other accumulating concerns, I would have made EVERY effort to go to King's Island just to ride SOB while it still had the loop (its first season of operation). R.I.P. to the respectably daring idea of a wooden hyper coaster : (
The fact that this ride totally beats the crap out of you is what makes it so fun to ride!
Man this is a rare video of a rare coaster. A ride without the midcourse brakes into the loop was few and far between after the first year.
Scariest coaster I've ever ridden... due to how it was a tall fast woodie and it made you feel like you may not come back alive. It sounded like nails were flying everywhere when I rode it.
This is one of the greatest roller coasters ever made. Too bad the loop has been taken away.
Son Of Beast just looked like a real good wooden coaster and it truly felt like it belonged there at Kings Island and I've never heard of Hades.
They need to open this back up for the 2012 season. I live 20 minutes away from Carowinds, but i still find it sad Son of Beast closed down. It had the world records for wooden coasters in the categories: Height, Drop, and speed. If it has these many records, it should re-open for 2012 or 2013. Thumbs up if you agree!
Now if you look at SOB's parent, "The Beast". They built this thing to last. I think they kind of knew that this coaster would hold the record for the longest wooden coaster for a long time. Given the advantage that this is a 'terrain' coaster, much of it is on the ground and thus it is easier to maintain then coasters are much taller in stature. This was a concept that proven itself in future coaster designs that took advantage of the terrain.
I wanna ride this so bad! Even without the loop who cares, and I know everyone complains how rough it is but theyre supposed to be!! This ride looks sick.
It was also the only wooden roller coaster to feature a vertical loop, which was removed in 2006 after an incident in which 27 people were injured. The loop was not directly related to the incident, but was removed as a precautionary measure.
This ride is a BEAST, with OR without the loop. I rode it when they still had it, and when they didn't anymore. It's still hella crazy. No wonder why it's called "Son Of The Beast".
I was lucky enough to ride this twice in 2004 while it still had the loop. I remember it being a VERY rough ride, but I loved it anyway. Too bad it's gone, loop or no loop.
i think putting in the pre-manufactured composite track would help this alot. i love this ride and it sucks it's closed. i'd love to see it open again. that ride is beautiful.
great concept, great design, but basically built out of firewood. If you look at track level pictures you can see a lot of it was warped out of where it probably should have been
@JustinTinaFey An accident happened back in 2006. The loop was not directly involved, but was taken out to replace the trains with lighter ones, so that the track would be safer.
Damn! That's a long ass rode! Even without the loop, and not including the chain, it seems REALLY long! And VERY fun!
i remember being at this park, just looking at this coaster and asking myself why its closed. RIP Son Of Beast
SOB was scary fun and painful every time I rode it. The pain was kind of addictive, kind of like eating atomic wings so painful yet you want more. The loop was not the issue it was the excessive weight of the trains that was needed to create the centrifugal force for the loop. This added train weight made the ride very rough and also put excessive forces on the wooden structure.
I'll miss the loop especially since it was the only looping coaster with no shoulder restraints I've ever ridden.
Absolutely BRUTAL ride. It felt like I was getting punched in the stomach for 3 minutes straight... Still...I'm glad I got to ride it before they shut it down!
From what I heard the cars were stopping or abruptly breaking and continuing before the loop causing broken ribs on some passengers. Kings Island said it would be easier for them to service the ride but the upkeep on the loop is easier than the wood segments on the rest of the ride.
Since the loop is gone, the ride is still very rough...
I love coasters but this one is very hard to ride because it still gives your body quite a beating.
This ride is so painful! On that first big hill, you cant even focus on the sweet roller coaster falling sensation it hurts so bad. They even had to take out the loop, its only redeeming quality.
This was my favorite roller coast. A real shame they demolished it.
Just looking at Wooden Roller Coaster 4 makes me feel sick!
There's a news story (also on UA-cam) that says there was a cracked board on a part of the sharp turns before it got to the loop. That's what caused several people to get hurt on the ride. Probably some kind of whiplash or something. It's a shame to see the loop taken down. I wanted to experience this coaster at least once, being the only woodie with a loop. But I guess it was necessary since they changed the cars.
@hockronic The loop was removed in 2006 after an incident in which 27 people were injured. It was not directly related to the incident, but was removed to allow for lighter trains, thus reducing the chances of the 2006 incident's re-occurrence.
Although they did this, the future of this ride is uncertain and has been closed the whole 2010 season due to extremely high repair and maintenance costs approaching 30 million dollars.
I'm sorry that I missed this one while the loop was still in. I live really close to Kings Island so I have no excuse, except maybe the prices. I have ridden The Beast hundreds of times and it scares the crap out of me each and every time! The Vortex, The Beast, and Flight of Fear are my all-time favs. The Racer was my first ever roller coaster when I was about 6 years old.
@TeamApparition Thanks for telling it like it is. At least someone besides myself knows what's up. The heavier trains caused a ledger board to crack in the "Rose Bowl" portion of the ride which caused rider injury. NOBODY EVER fell out of the loop...
I rode this the summer that it opened and it was one of my favorites besides The Beast. I was looking up the past coasters I've been on and just found out today that the loop was removed and the coaster has been offline for 2 years. That really sucks. This was an awesome coaster.
Just from this video, the coaster is fairly new. The nose of the coaster, is shaking left and right. This means a lot of wear to the running rails, and would of caused a lot of maintenance.
@mtefv
the cars the were using on SoB were very heavy, so that the trains could keep momentum when going on the loop. The heavy cars caused stress on SoB's track, which led to some of the supports caving in one area. I believe 13 people were hospitalized because of the incident. So, to be safer, the trains were replaced with lighter trains, and the lighter trains couldn't go through the loop because they didn't have enough momentum
Because they had to change to lighter trains. They used to have heavier trains designed to take the force of the loop, but since the 2006 accident they had to change to lighter trains because the heavier trains were largely responsible for a crack in a portion of the track that sent over 20 people to the hospital. The ride is now currently closed until further notice. Rumor has it that it may be closed for the rest of the season...of course that's only a rumor but no official word on why yet.
i didn't even think it was possible to have a wooden roller coaster with a loop. now i know.
I've ridden the Son of Beast probably 15 times, in positions varying from the very front seat to the very back seat, and I will tell you that while it was definitely one of the roughest rides I have ever ridden, THE LOOP WAS BY FAR THE SMOOTHEST PART!!! The decision to take out the loop must have been made by idiots that have never ridden it.
Omg this was the best rollercoaster ever!!!! ME and my Friend went on it and she screamed her head off, especially on the loop!!!
R.I.P Son of the Beasts Loop
I'm so glad to see this go. The first time I rode it, the loop was still there and I could only ride it once ... it was just too brutal on the body The second time without the loop was miserable! There were predictable stretches of track that would just destroy your knees and neck. They never did get it right and now its a pile of wooden rubble. So much potential wasted ... RIP ... in hell! Although a little rough from all the years of weather ... the Beast still gives one heck of a ride!
So glad I got to ride this .. first year it came out .. was an 1 and 1/2 wait and I waited every minute with excitement ..
The lighter trains for Son of Beast were donated from the "Hurricane", another rollercoaster that was torn down in Myrtle Beach, SC, when the Pavilion closed.
I really miss the days of huge ass wooden coasters. They're just awesome.
If I am not mistaken they decided to take the loop out of this ride. I heard that it the loop was either on a sink hole or it was not very safe. Very good video! I love the fact that the camera does not shake! 5/5
"they wont let me turn around,to take one ore look at my baby,while shes still around"
my 1 regret in life not taking this one last chance to ride,the son of beast.RIP
The accident that happened about 2 years ago caused a piece of wood to splinter and part of the track to kinda sink. The cause of it was apparently the weight of the cars. So they replaced the cars the next year with lighter ones. However, later on it was found out that the cars were not engineered to go through any sort of looping motion, so they tore down the loop and patched that spot up with more level track.
@HaloTrackStudios
The tracks on coasters are all essentilly the same today. They just linked the metal part that the wheels were running on in the wood part to the full steel track.
If I could ride any coaster that's no longer in existence, it would be Son of Beast. I wish it hadn't been so ahead of its time that it no longer exists.
They tried that. They tried to reprofile the ride in a very similar manner as to what they did with the original Rattler. They made several changes which included adding lighter trains. These changes made keeping the loop impossible. They neutered the ride, simply put. It became another Hercules in the end. Now, if they rebuilt it as a hybrid steel/wood coaster, as they did with the new Iron Rattler, then you might have something again. But it would be a steel coaster with a wood frame
If it wasn't constructed soo poorly, It would've probably been a fairly good wooden coaster