I love how the promo video for Iron Rattler uses the same snake that was used in the Diamondback promo. haha

Intamin prefab wood hyper coaster? I'd love to see one go there, just put the lift a little further away from Adventure Express and Flight Deck.

Great Idea! At least if another wooden hyper coaster came to Kings Island now, technology has advanced since the age of SOB and maybe a smarter plan would be made for such a coaster.

Intamin prefab wood hyper coaster? I'd love to see one go there, just put the lift a little further away from Adventure Express and Flight Deck.

Great Idea! At least if another wooden hyper coaster came to Kings Island now, technology has advanced since the age of SOB and maybe a smarter plan would be made for such a coaster.

In all honesty I was expecting more of a response against this idea, but I'm glad you share my enthusiasm! And if you look at the facts, Colossos is very close to 200ft. and its still going well, and El Toro goes 70mph so its stress factor must be close to SoB's and it hasn't degraded. And are all 4 Prefab Intamins in Mitch Hawker's top 10? I think if you take the successes of SoB and implement them on a coaster without all of the critical design flaws, we could have one of the best coasters around!

Update: The last pieces of Son of Beast have been removed today. The lift hill to be exact. Will post pictures soon.

It is already being talked about in the other SOB thread.

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That is a complete thought, I thought...

I want something totally unexpected, but not like Dinosaurs Alive unexspected.

Like a new area or like a record breaker that craps all over kingda ka, that thing has been in a rain for to long. I would prefer some thing traditional, like with a lift hill but with 400-500 feet tall drop.

I strongly suspect you are going to be very disappointed. Think of a nice diversion, not a record breaking behemoth. The coaster czar has retired.

I agree Terp. However i do expect there to be a large thrill to be placed there but it will most likely be something that is definetly better than Diamondback of course.

I agree Terp. However i do expect there to be a large thrill to be placed there but it will most likely be something that is definetly better than Diamondback of course.

So you think they will move The Racer over there and change it back to how it originally ran?

Only time will tell what that space is done with....

I strongly suspect you are going to be very disappointed. Think of a nice diversion, not a record breaking behemoth. The coaster czar has retired.

Many of you should read this again!

I strongly suspect you are going to be very disappointed. Think of a nice diversion, not a record breaking behemoth. The coaster czar has retired.

Many of you should read this again!

NOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!

A Fan in Denial.

I say they should put in a B&M Strata Coaster..........................................

I say they should put in a B&M Strata Coaster..........................................

I say they won't and they shouldn't...B&M said they wouldn't go over 300ft; which they did; so I doubt they'd go to 400. If I'm correct that a strata coaster is 400ft?

He was joking.

I'm sure if someone was willing to pay for a 400 foot B&M they would build it. Finding someone willing to spend that much would be nearly impossible.

If it were at Kings Island, step one would be excavating a huge, deep hole....

I say they should put in a B&M Strata Coaster..........................................

I say they won't and they shouldn't...B&M said they wouldn't go over 300ft; which they did; so I doubt they'd go to 400. If I'm correct that a strata coaster is 400ft?

B&M has never set a cap on their coaster hight. As said in an interview with Walter. No one has ever asked for it.

EDIT:

Right at the one minute mark.

I think it was mentioned before on PointBuzz that B&M was originally in on the Millennium Force project, but the cost for them to build 300 feet at that time was in the thirty million dollar range. Cedar Point, of course, ended up going with Intamin.

Insert obligatory Interpreter reference to a big blue B&M at the Point. Which pretty much is true now, anyway.

I didn't want to bring that up.

I'm hoping for a Gravity Group wooden roller coaster. Something similar to Voyage, but this time bring back the loop.

Gravity Group has said they are comfortable with inversions but not with loops.

I never heard that before, but that is really interesting. Did they give any reasons why?

Not that I'm aware of.

They did, but I can't find which video from IAAPA it was in.

^ I recall seeing that in a video as well, but I can't find it either. I'm pretty sure the reasoning was that vertical forces are much lower in a corkscrew than in a vertical loop.

I'm pretty sure that was the reason too, but did not want to misquote them.

I've already learned my lesson about misquoting!

^ Found it:

The comment was from Rocky Mountain Construction, not Gravity Group. Both of them are doing similar inversions with wood supports, so the same reasoning would seem to apply.

It's good to avoid misquoting or misattributing quotes, especially when the people quoted aren't on the forum to correct us!

That isn't my source. It is my understanding that Gravity Group is also not comfortable doing loops on wooden coasters at this time. Something about no way in Hades.

Whatever would go in the area left by SOB would be a better made ride.