shark6495

good point

is it just me or did the original thread disappear?

Well I would have to think the massive size difference has alot to do with the time difference between the coasters. Plus it could be that CF has decided they need to find a way to "fix/change/alter/etc" SOB before they reopen it while FH was much easier to check and since it has no previous incidents it was easier to clear. Sort of if you get pulled over for speeding, and you have no other tickets or record you may get off with a warning where if you have multiple tickets you may get a larger ticket and have your car impounded..... (Just an example)

mrsteele glad you brought this up. The ride may just be down for the rest of the season and we will not know anything new until next season. The difference between Firehawk and sob was a man maybe died because of outside reasons and not the ride

My bad on the double post but a test on KI history I would fail since I am only 23 and only know from personal history about the park. However a common sense test would not be so bad

its also society, everything works well in a small test, when everyone agrees on a certain topic. The problem arrises when more and more people join and other ideas or perspectives are thrown into the mix. The extra ideas are not bad but what is bad is when people can not understand why others would disagree wiith other people. For example I may not like drop zone but someone may take offense and try to bash me for my lack of enthusiasm for rides or something else. I am proud to say I am new to this site and am veryy happy to be able to discuss things on here and try (key word here is to try) and not revert to the LCD (lowest common denominator) in discussions that turn ugly.....

"The lap restraint will follow your lap down into the elevated, reclined seat, so that even if you're small framed, you won't slip out -- well you could, but it would take multiple fractures of both your femurs to do it, and that's not likely to happen on this ride." Dude that made me laugh and think at the same time that it was a DB comment.....

right thats why I was saying I dont remember what it looked like. Congo Falls was over there and King Cobra's que i thought was where deleriums que line is at sort of. And of course Top Guns line ran all the way down but ... what else was there

HTCO what you are missing is the fun factor. There is no reason to stay over there. If you walk through river town you have a bunch of rides and restaurants on either side along with a little atmoshphere and games. Over in Coney Mall you have the games in the middle of the "midway" along with the sounds of the games and many restaurants. IMHO the problem with Action Zone is it feels like a big circle and you rush in do those rides then go and enjoy the rest of the park. For example why would you eat over there when you could walk down the mid way or head over to Octoberfest. Top Gun is so far back there is nothing to watch, and SOB all you can see is the main hill. You do get to watch Invertigo and Drop Tower but not like over by Vortex (I assume you can see plent of DB have yet to make a trip this year I will be going in Sept) and over in Coney Mall you can watch The Racer roll on. Action Zone was nice to sit and visit when they did the stunt show over there. But to be truthful there is not much going on over there to watch. (Not an insult to the rides) plus I believe there is one store over there where everywhere else there are multiple stores in an area....

is it bad i miss King Cobra in the Action Zone...... BTW does anyone have any photos of the Action Zone before SOB was built? But after the Safari Thing ended. I can not remember what it looked like.

wow great info again terpy... but with out seat belts we would hear more people being tossed out of the ride...... but scary thought just thinking about the boat ride capsizing..... and i know im one of those people who try to get the boat to dip hitting the waves.....

yea on WWC, if its a little chilly I would avoid this ride, because i can never get off that ride with out getting soaked...... but hey if its a warm to hot day WWC is a blast

the mayans predicted SOB would fail in 2012... I feel that is the main prediction of there 2012 prophecy

what sort of ride was it? are we talking whitewater canyon ride here? BTW how deep is the water in WWC?

I agree with The Beast, should be one of the first rides you ride. If you have ridden the clone rides before stay away from FOF if the line is outside the building, because it will be shorter later in the evening. Adventure Express is a fun ride that you usually can walk onto. Along with the Eiffel Tower, if you have the time take a trip up it is cool to see all the way around the park, like someone said before its sort of similar to the fountains, you forget how cool it is up there.

well terpy lets not forget that paramount did make the GI Joe movie.....

very true andrew.... thats why i described it like that....

someone had said moving congo falls to river town... man if only there was a log flume ride that took you up into the tree tops and it went back sort of where The Beast is...... sigh...... but then i guess diamond back would a. not be built where it is, b. have a different lay out.... but hey we go cript in river town.... sorry back to the topic... couldnt they just plant a tree or two in Action Zone, it does get very warm during the day and does not look real inviting to go in there.... (theme?)

^^^^ the first hill is very cool. No matter what happens to this ride if it is burnt to the ground or left standing, the current state it is in is sad compared to the first few years of the ride. Knowing you were on a woodie and about to hit the loop was an awesome fear. Mainly that first time not knowing what was going on and looking over your head to see the tail end of the train reaching the loop(whats up front seat riders). Yes I agree Sonny is very rough, and I think the park should do something, if not more so for their own PR than ride safety, Yes SOB is safer than a trampoline..... Side bar for a moment, if everyone complains the ride is too rough why do we keep riding it? I am in the mind set now, that the ride is way to rough and ruins me for a few minutes afterwards, usually a good time to grab food out in the car is following a ride on SOB.... but seriously why do we ride it? Because it is fun, yes it hurts like the dickens, and may actually be causing long term damage that most of us wont see till we are much older, but to be truthful I no longer will offer up my personal opinion of "Its way to rough" because I am stupid enough to keep riding it. I am just like Dakota I keep giving it a second chance. So if you think its too rough dont ride it anymore.... As stated before what do we expect from a wooden coaster going 75 mph and 200 foot drop......... Just my random ramblings for the day

Simple. They have one central database for all the attractions, so you just have to slap the ID of that particular attraction onto the end of the URL and you can get the details for it regardless of what site you're on. If you change the URL to kingsdominion.com, you'll get it there as well. Thats a Nice fancy link there that had a few people myself going for a moment.

thats sad.... like the body sheet in a morgue..... well its not horrible yet right?

not to split hairs.... but no one knows for sure if theres nothing wrong with the coaster.....if there was nothing wrong with it we would have seen it being tested sometime in the past week. But who knows tomorrow morning it could start testing and nothing is wrong.... and not everyone has said tear it down, alot of us have said fix the issues with it or redesign it....

Hey Gang, I feel we are all getting way ahead of ourselves here since we have no idea whats going on. But with that being said I feel this season or next may be one of the last times we get to ride SOB..... but if it is torn down something new will rise in its place.....

paperg some people are not ringing the the death knoll for this ride just yet we are just discussing the problems and coming up with ideas on how to fix it... call is monday morning amusement park owner

it collapsed? shouldnt this have been a sign... like hey guys dont do this?