http://www.themeparktourist.com/features/20140119/15858/dangerously-thrilling-3-extreme-roller-coasters-pushed-limits-too-far?page=1

Neat article, about three coasters ahead of their time.

Bet you cant guess #1:

Wow, sound like Revere Beach Lightning should've been one. SOB never claimed any lives and it certainly wouldn't have reopened just 20 minutes after the body was recovered.

I thought this topic was about coasters ahead of their time. This was more about unsuccessful coasters that pushed the limits too far.

When I saw the title of this topic, I was thinking more along the lines of something like The Bat. It was ahead of its' time in the fact it was the first and was only unsuccessful due to no banking on the tracks, not due to injury and death.

The first two sound really dangerous.

Well think of it in this manner, had any of those coasters been built today by people like RMC with their technology they would more than likely run great.

Yeah, I hope that you didn't think that I was implying that the subject title was misleading. I was just saying that is what popped in my head when I read the title.

I would have to agree with you that today's manufacturers would be able to build those same coasters safely and successfully.

On a side note, I remember watching a coaster program on the history of roller coasters and they mentioned one (can't remember the name) that had a full-time nurse at the station. It had a nasty reputation. I'm thinking the Crystal Beach Cyclone may have been the one. The show also mentioned that as some of these older coasters, as they got bad reputations for injury made them all the more popular. It was kind of like you survived riding.

I would have to agree with you that today's manufacturers would be able to build those same coasters safely and successfully.

Including the one with a gap in the track? I don't think so....

The gap was filled in. So, yes.

Well with today's tech you could create it so it would appear to have jumped a gap. Wood coaster goes up a little hill the wood disapears the track is merely steel track (thing the transition for the loop on SOB, then it goes back to being all wood again as it goes back down. The affect would appear to the riders that is just jumped a gap.

Double Post because the previous got liked:

I wouldnt consider SOB to be before its time. If the ride was built by the original crew the ride may not have had such a disastrous future. I wonder what affect the Paramount Park owners at the time had on the future of SOB