Does anyone know when and why the tunnel was removed from The Beastie? (I refuse to call it by any other name) I rode it this year, and was disappointed by the lack of the tunnel. Was it a safety issue? Thanks for the time.

WHOOHOO 100 Posts. No longer a tourist.

Fairly Odd Parents in, Beastie out.

Car Design, Orange catwalks, tunnel the whole shibang.

Does anyone know when and why the tunnel was removed from The Beastie? (I refuse to call it by any other name)

In that case, I will refuse to call it by any other name than Scooby Doo!

But seriously, Jackson is correct, the tunnel was removed when it became Fairly Oddcoaster. I guess since it was no longer in The Beast family they decided to remove it.

Yep. But that tunnel always scared me. I'm a really tall person (6'6"), and even when I was about 13 years old I'm pretty sure that I could have easily hit my hands on the top of the tunnel if I held them straight up. And with the blistering speed of Beastie, I wouldn't want that to happen.

Fairly Odd Parents in, Beastie out.

Car Design, Orange catwalks, tunnel the whole shibang.

The car "design" was unchanged from when it was The Beastie, same old PTC junior coaster cars with the buzz bars. They just repainted the outside panels of the cars.

Fairly Odd Parents in, Beastie out.

Car Design, Orange catwalks, tunnel the whole shibang.

I realize all that, but Gator answered my question. I'm a "person of exceptional size*" as CF puts it, and when I rode it, I had to have my own car, and I had to sit all the way to the left and have my legs to the right. Things have changed since I rode it 13 times in a row back in the day.

*6'5" 300

I am 6'2" and 200 lbs, and have the exact same issue. Butt to one side, knees to the other. Obviously I rarely put myself through that agony ;-)

Shaggy

I am 6'2" and 200 lbs, and have the exact same issue. Butt to one side, knees to the other. Obviously I rarely put myself through that agony ;-)

Shaggy

Yeah, that sucked.

I remember when I was around 4 or 5 I would get scared before the first drop on beastie and shove my head in my moms stomach.!!

Oh, I remember years ago, The Beastie used to thrill me.

I am very small, half because I'm a kid and Half because that's the way it is, but the tunnel scared me to death, the darkness and all.

I can still remember my very first coaster, Goofy's Barnstormer, Memories...

OK- not calling it Fairly Odd Coaster, Beastie, Scooby Doo, etc...

Here's a Q. and not necessarily to the topic, but when the Nic license runs out.... then what is it called? Back to Beastie or some other new name we won't call it.

OK- not calling it Fairly Odd Coaster, Beastie, Scooby Doo, etc...

Here's a Q. and not necessarily to the topic, but when the Nic license runs out.... then what is it called? Back to Beastie or some other new name we won't call it.

Flight Deck Jr?

Nah...Beaver Land Mine Ride

Nah...Beaver Land Mine Ride

Beaver Land Mine Ride II

Nah...

Son of Beaver Land Mine Ride II

(SOB LMR II)

That's funny. It really does need to have the tunnel back.

does anyone know what color The Beastie was when it was called scooby-doo?(was it the same purple color)And what year did they name it The Beastie.

Scooby Doo was yellow. It became Beastie in 1980. . .

Really???Because I could have sworn i remember getting off The Beastie and there were scooby-doo characters around a little place where you get a photo that they took of you on The Beastie.

Scooby Doo was in the park as a character for many, many years....and did not leave the park just because the ride was renamed....and continues to be in Scooby and the Haunted Castle, under separate agreement through Sally, one of the ride's providers.

Nah...

Son of Beaver Land Mine Ride II

(SOB LMR II)

Fairly Odd Son of Beaver Land Mine Scooby Coaster II

Nah...

Son of Beaver Land Mine Ride II

(SOB LMR II)

Fairly Odd Son of Beaver Land Mine Scooby Coaster II

Don't you have a claim to deny?

I am very small, half because I'm a kid and Half because that's the way it is

Comments like that will not get you a girlfriend...

Ya know, they could enclose the entire ride - it's small enough - and it would be the 1st enclosed wooden coaster anywhere! THEN it could be "Flight of Fear Jr.".

Even though I too am 6' 4" and 280 lbs., I nvere miss this ride. It was the VERY FIRST coaster I ever filmed while riding - back in 1975 - with an 8mm movie camera. And it was yellow back then!

Ya know, they could enclose the entire ride - it's small enough - and it would be the 1st enclosed wooden coaster anywhere! THEN it could be "Flight of Fear Jr.".

Even though I too am 6' 4" and 280 lbs., I nvere miss this ride. It was the VERY FIRST coaster I ever filmed while riding - back in 1975 - with an 8mm movie camera. And it was yellow back then!

Too late.

http://www.rcdb.com/id3397.htm (1897)

http://www.rcdb.com/id2089.htm (1911)

http://www.rcdb.com/id3399.htm (1925 or earlier)

http://www.rcdb.com/id2038.htm (1926)

http://www.rcdb.com/ig215.htm?picture=3

http://www.rcdb.com/id460.htm

All enclosed wooden coasters....

^ Well I'll be a sonofabi***!!!! OK - but it would still be a first for a Cedar Fair park.

Yep, the first modern wooden enclosed was Underground at Adventureland in Iowa. It's a tame carriage device for what amounts to a dark ride.

Then Indiana Beach converted their old near-scenic railway to Lost Coaster of Superstition Mountain, putting in an elevator lift to make unnecessary powering the cars. There is nothing tame about it!

Does anyone know when and why the tunnel was removed from The Beastie? (I refuse to call it by any other name)

In that case, I will refuse to call it by any other name than Scooby Doo!

But seriously, Jackson is correct, the tunnel was removed when it became Fairly Oddcoaster. I guess since it was no longer in The Beast family they decided to remove it.

It will always be the "Scooby Doo to me! I loved that when I was little.

Then it turned to The Beastie...... same coaster, new tunnel, different name.......I liked it.

But now they removed the tunnel? End of an era. Sigh

BTW....What was the original color of the Scooby Doo? Was it yellow? I want to say it was, however I'm not sure.

Ya know, they could enclose the entire ride - it's small enough - and it would be the 1st enclosed wooden coaster anywhere! THEN it could be "Flight of Fear Jr.".

Even though I too am 6' 4" and 280 lbs., I nvere miss this ride. It was the VERY FIRST coaster I ever filmed while riding - back in 1975 - with an 8mm movie camera. And it was yellow back then!

Oops. I missed what you wrote. It was yellow then, sorry I asked what color it originally was.

Well, I was not aware that they removed the tunnel on Scooby Doo (Fairly Odd Coaster). Now I know and knowing is half the battle....