SonofBeast07

Bear 1: "hey look they have food" Bear 2: "and they are bringing it too us!" Bear 1: "chomp... eww it's arby's" Bear 2: "eww..yuck!" Bear 1: "I'll just go for her fingers... tastes better"

I think an iron horse track with steel structure would fare nicely in the rose bowl. If you fix the roughness there you fix a majority of the ride. I think the park would like to fix more than just some 500-700ft of track, but it'd be a cheaper fix to at least get the ride back up and operating with a more desirable ride experience.

I saw an advance screening of it last night. It was awesome. A lot of times people get poked in the eyeball though. All the characters are awesome.

i was down there over winter. they were really moving fast to get everything done. i'd expect them to hit the target date in the spring.

? he trashes augmented reality! i think it's really cool. check it out

^ ha that's quite a statement

i wasn't proposing it as a serious idea. just a thought

i wasn't going off that. the website is quite inaccurate. i bet the two rides get like 700 people an hour with beast being on the higher end with 3 trains. but beast sometimes has to wait for a train to go over the lift and it has old fashioned manual releases that can take a while for the operators to use. which is why it isn't as high as it could be. modify the block system and slap some timberliners on it and beast would be a relatively quick line. beast manual release(box on side): newer style release on new ptc's and g-trains (yellow pedal):

i wonder if we can consider the addition of trim breaks on The Beast a new ride lol. i hate them soo much.

Um it wasn't? When I was always there it was like a half hour and the park wasn't crowded. Thats highly unusual. everyone was arguing about que length so i responded. about The Beast and sob. lets take the period from mid 2007-mid 2009. both rides had good uptime during this period. both rides had similar capacity and lines. my point is SOB is a decently popular ride. definitely not a Diamondback or a Firehawk, but..

^ yes i realize all this. this has all been discussed before. i was talking about the line and not popularity. But if we're gonna talk about that, SOB and The Beast have similar capacities + or - 100 people and they usually have similar length lines. If Beast is a better ride and a more popular attraction then why does this happen? I'm not saying SOB is the a hugely popular ride, but it seems like whenever someone talks about que lengths there is another person right there to remind us all that that doesn't mean anything.

ha, sob was a major attraction in the park. it had a line when the park had an average crowd. even after the ride was closed people would still run to it when the park opened. to your average park goer it wasn't a rcca or part premier or gerstlauer. it was a giant coaster in Action Zone that had some mystery to it. I don't see why it's so hard to grasp SOB with a line? I waited in line plenty of times this season. Usually 15-30min on an average day during the regular season. Sometimes there would be an hour and a half line. Most people I hear doubting the line I bet rarely rode SOB this year.

I've ridden it hundreds of times, it has its bad days, but overall its great. And no i'm not crazy, just happen to like a polarizing ride.

for how much money they would put into fixing sob they would have to advertise. an x2 sort of deal.

can't wait

to think, if a group cut in front of you or you had stopped for a drink you would have been on that train

Poorly written article

well they only mention a fraction of coasters he's had involvement in on that timeline, you have to go to the individual year to find them all. but i'm sure he was upset that they didn't use his pre-fab technique

just drove by the park, looked like lights near the top of the rosebowl were on, not the block brakes though

i took a gamgle there considering Firehawk, but he said a hanging coaster. Firehawk does hang from the track.

KI already has 4 hanging coasters

Look, lets use the old adage of "like father like son". When Beast first opened it had a painful double helix and trains that didn't track well. Sob has a painful double helix and trains that don't track well. Later they fixed the helix and changed the trains on The Beast. If you make son more like father maybe you just might have another world class ride for the park. I feel like I get a ton of flak for liking the ride and I understand why people don't like it. But if the park is willing to give it another shot why would you be so against it? Who knows what the ride could be like next year? Maybe it would still suck in some peoples eyes, but it could also transform into a fun ride. The park has the financial and attendance figures in front of them. They've been holding off on any sort of an announcement while they take their time to figure out what to do. I agree with Shark6495, we should just sit back and enjoy the show.

By that logic an elevator built from Firehawk scrap will break down once a day with people on it

About all you could demolish would be the rosebowl. The lift hill and first drop are only a few FEET away from Adventure Express and Flight Deck. You would have to dismantle most of the ride. And I'm doubtful there is much you could do with used heavily treated wood. I think it's funny that most people on here accept that the future of the ride is destruction, as if the extensive testing in the past few weeks means nothing. I just hope that the park doesn't cut corners if they decide to invest in the ride.

^ no hands up