Intimidator 305 X 4 - The last North American giga I had yet to ride. Reptilian X 1 - I mainly just rode this to send a pic of the train to my girlfriend (she did the new design lol). It’s hard not to just consider this a flat ride, but eh… it’s fun I guess. It’s a bit freaky to be thrown into the restraint while facing the ground and being upside down at times. I’d heard one side was way more intense than the other but let’s just say that I’m now a bit concerned with my ability to procreate in the future because the boys took quite a beating down there 😭. Figured I’d give it a go on the opposite side and it was almost TOO intense. Tumbili X 2 - I hadn’t done one of these before and my first ride was laughably mild (didn’t flip once). Front row ride, and there was just a lot of head-banging / vibrating / shuffling going on and I just wasn’t feeling it. I’d ridden it way back in 2000 as a little kid at Six Flags Ohio and remembered liking it, but this was fairly brutal and probably the 2nd roughest B&M I’ve ever ridden. The last time I was at this park was probably sometime around 2003 - 2004 so it had been quite a while.Ĭrowds were minimal at best (I later found out that a lot of schools in VA are still in session so that explains it).ĭominator X 1 - Started off my day here and I hate to say it but this absolutely sucked. I was in Richmond, VA this past Wednesday for work and decided to stop by King’s Dominion. Behold the resurrected Son of Beast.Here I am on another flight home with nothing to do so here’s another trip report. So, with all the hype, we went to work creating a virtual version of an RMC Son of Beast. Even though the park announced antique cars (which was desperately needed by the park), it led the Coaster Nation Team to wonder: What would an RMC Son Of Beast look like? The rumor spread like wildfire when WCPO (a Cincinnati news station) made a report implying that there was a chance that the ride would be returning. Last summer, word spread round the coaster forums that Kings Island would be receiving a RMC recreation of the Son of Beast. The ride was received with rave reviews, and set the stage for future conversions such as Iron Rattler, White Whale, Storm Chaser, and Cedar Point’s Steel Vengeance. In 2011, Rocky Mountain Construction performed their first “Iron Horse” conversion on the Texas Giant, a wooden coaster that had a reputation for it’s intense rides. The only remains of the former Son of Beast is its tombstone, and it’s station, which was reused for a haunt.
The ride was torn down in late-2012, and the site was reused for the iconic Banshee.
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However, the ride’s intensity caused a series of issues, that led to the eventual closure in 2009.
The ride was extremely smooth, and provided some of the most intense g-forces found on any wooden coaster in the world. Son of Beast was Kings Island’s largest investment to date when the ride made it’s debut in April of 2000. However, the most fascinating what-if would be if the monstrous Son Of Beast was overhauled by Rocky Mountain Construction. In the amusement park industry, there’s a ton of them: what ifMichigan’s Adventure built their hyper coaster, what ifSix Flags sold Magic Mountain, and what if Sea World Ohio never sold to Six Flags. In any industry there’s always hypothetical “what-ifs” that could have potentially created interesting scenarios.
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