Amazing Ride.

Just for refrence this is the coaster grave yard. As you can see this shows the King Cobra track. Unfortunately this portion of google earth hasn't been updated since 2004. I'm pretty sure that between then and now, all the track has since been sold as scrap.

Has anyone ever been back there?

Since Terpy didn't say it yet, I will.

Yes

but, they still have the cars for it, you can see them by the fence when going through the employee entrance.

There use to be sections of the track along with the lift tower up on the hill behind SOB, back on the way to the greenhouse. There are quite a few things back there, old tram cars, old HB benches, and way back in the trees a feeding/sleeping house from the safari. . .

If someone was interested in purchasing one of the old HB benches who would you call?

I don't know who you would call. I don't know that the park would even allow you to purchase any of the benches, especially since HB may be coming back within a year or two . Although, with CF's debt, they just might sell you a bench, though it probably wouldn't be too cheap.

Anyways, I would try calling/ sending an email to the PR guy, a manager, or try calling guest relations and see if they can point you in the right direction.

any pictures?

http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?rtp=adr....TE4MDA1MzcxMDk0

okay this link takes you to the end of Kings Island drive, and if you switch to birds eye then go to the field by Son of Beast you can see the ghoster coaster's track, and you can also see the old nick central sign.

On tha map you can also see,

Two haunt hurses (maby three)

The Phantom theater cars bunched up in a group

giant spongebob in storage lot (depends on what you view shows, mine keeps changing

the wole Adventure Express ride

piles of green track (king cobra?)

rusted track

orange track and possibly monorail cars, i cant tell (looks like a white bus

i'm pretty sure that all of the monorail cars are at jungle jim's, with two setting out front of the store and the rest over at the loading station

Those cars are old Tram cars. There are still a couple of those parked back behind Son of Beast.

I have quite a few pictures taken by me of the King Cobra track in the graveyard from 2005. They're around here somewhere. I may have to do some searching.

Also there are quite a few trams parked back behind SOB. While driving through that area it reminds a person of the "elephant grave yard" from the lion king... only with trams...

oh that was my second guss i forgot about them at the time and whare is Jungle jims, if its still there.

http://www.junglejims.com

http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?rtp=adr....TE4MDA1MzcxMDk0

okay this link takes you to the end of Kings Island drive, and if you switch to birds eye then go to the field by Son of Beast you can see the ghoster coaster's track, and you can also see the old nick central sign.

That map is kind of cool (if not a little weird), in some images you can see the GWL under construction, in others it fully complete. Also, just up the road from KI/GWL, you can see the old driveway entrance to the old College Football Hall of Fame and the floodlights for the field they had on site (Moeller used to play there back when I was in High School). For those too young to know, this was one of Taft Broadcasting Co's failed ideas to build a resort area around KI.

I remember when I went back there behind the green house, there cars and parts from the old HB rides, Trams, HB benches, and even went back and saw the animal feeding house. I remember you could see the tall black fence, with barbwire at the top, must have been close to 12 feet high. I wish I took pictures but there were three of us in the truck, and I was in the middle.

I just jaw Jungle Jims on TV it was on the travel chanel

http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?rtp=adr....TE4MDA1MzcxMDk0

okay this link takes you to the end of Kings Island drive, and if you switch to birds eye then go to the field by Son of Beast you can see the ghoster coaster's track, and you can also see the old nick central sign.

That map is kind of cool (if not a little weird), in some images you can see the GWL under construction, in others it fully complete. Also, just up the road from KI/GWL, you can see the old driveway entrance to the old College Football Hall of Fame and the floodlights for the field they had on site (Moeller used to play there back when I was in High School). For those too young to know, this was one of Taft Broadcasting Co's failed ideas to build a resort area around KI.

If you look over in the coaster graveyard (behind X-base) the picture changes too. Sometimes it'll be current, with Firehawk in place and with a variety of things back there, most of which I can't make out. Some look like orange barrels from the Worksite haunt, and a bunch of cars from various attractions. Sometimes it'll be older, without Firehawk and the only thing back there is piles and piles of King Cobra track. On the current view, it looks like the only remaining KC track is a brake run.

I rode it once, and (how to put this without offending anyone....) I could barely walk after that experience.

Never rode it again after that.

So, I guess you could say you did not have a ball on that ride!

Terpy, trying to be good...

So, I did a Google Earth search last night and looked at the graveyard area near The Racer... in addition to a couple of large white trucks, and a large orange container of some sort, I noticed two rows of what appear to be green-ish yellow coaster track.

The map image is dated July '10. I know King Cobra is supposed to be long since scrapped and off-site, so what ride could these bits be from? Is it at all possible there are a few remnants of Cobra remaining?

Here is the link to video of HB Land, circa 1998, with special focus being on Ghoster Coaster. I never got the chance the experience this ride, and considering how slow and dull it looked, I didn't miss much.

Oh, yes you did! It stopped rather abruptly, and had a rather large "saddle horn." Males only wished they missed that horn at the end of the ride...because they didn't. It was a stop not soon forgotten.

I loved that ride! I miss it.... I only road it once and it hurt when it went through the block breaks!

I got the opportunity to ride Ghoster Coaster once and from what I remember it was more like a leisure stroll atop the trees, until the very end, then ouch. The only calling card for the ride in my opinion was the elevator style lift system.

I too had the opportunity to take one spin on the ride. I`m glad I was able to, if nothing else to say that I was able to ride the ride. It was not a very enjoyable ride experience by any means. I suppose it was a nice kiddy coaster, but the capacity on the ride was not great when the cars only held two people at a time!