Wow. They left it standing until 1984 though. Wait a minute...

Where have you heard this?

who has a picture of the front of the red train? If Ty had every weathervane in the park ...

Actually, I only bothered to ride Son of Beast twice this whole year... However, from Ride Warriors Weekend:

You can see the 1 on the left-side- the same spot as the 1 on the blue train. This means the red-train is train number one, the blue-train is train number two.

^As in my post 2 hours ago, the number on the fiberglass is the car number, not the train number. The blue train is number 2. If the 1 is on the same spot on both trains, how does that make the blue train number 1? It means that it is the first car.

^Oops, got the two mixed up! Knew what I was talking about, just typed it wrong... fixed now

^I figured thats all that happened. Good eye on the 1 in the corner though, I couldn't see it for the longest time.

I just noticed that man behind the red train. He looks important.

that's a pic from 2007

No isn't look at the picture above and tell me they are not the same trains come on lol!

No isn't look at the picture above and tell me they are not the same trains come on lol!

they are ALOT shorter

um, i posted the pic. i think i know when it was taken. i was when they were testing the trains back before the ride re-opened in 2007

I agree with Cedar Pointer how could these trains be able to handle the speed,roughness of SOB because thats what bothers me about it now how come it wasn't taken into consideration that it would be able to handle it for years and years of use? The old ones were on with SOB when it was built so was there too big of a rush to open SOB after and the new trains were bought used and could this have been a big issue now???

I was working at the park today and SOB was tested today. I remember someone last week saying that there was a train being tested, so I just wanted to confirm it as well. I only saw/heard one train all day though, so the testing wasn't continuous. I don't really know what this means for its future, if anything.

Do youj know which train it was?

I dont remember if it was the red or blue one, does it matter?

Click and Clack on Car Talk seem to think the color of a car matters when making a diagnosis....

Terpy, just sayin' (and those guys have degrees from M.I.T.)

Terp you have become cooler in my book because you listen to NPR....

Click and Clack on Car Talk seem to think the color of a car matters when making a diagnosis....

Terpy, just sayin' (and those guys have degrees from M.I.T.)

I'm trying to determin if that was a jab or not......I hate it when people provoke me yUcK!!!

Oh well, not every one from M.I.T. can be a genius.

Hey I really wish the old trains would return with the old Son of Beast. the loop was amazing and the roughness was great.

Click and Clack on Car Talk seem to think the color of a car matters when making a diagnosis....

Terpy, just sayin' (and those guys have degrees from M.I.T.)

I'm trying to determin if that was a jab or not......

Yes, it was a jab or not.

I'm tryin' to "determin" if they teach geniuses how to spell in Massachusetts!

Terpy, who loves to provoke good friends

i wish they would bring back the thmeing too. i love the picture with the eyes. i would really love some tunnels (at the bottom of the first drop and in the rose bowl,like his father.

Click and Clack on Car Talk seem to think the color of a car matters when making a diagnosis....

Terpy, just sayin' (and those guys have degrees from M.I.T.)

I'm trying to determin if that was a jab or not......

Yes, it was a jab or not.

I'm tryin' to "determin" if they teach geniuses how to spell in Massachusetts!

Terpy, who loves to provoke good friends

HaHa did not see that, my spell check must have been programmed by some one from Harvard.

...or Yale. Yalies have trouble spellin'.

Terpy, he of the blue state school

The good trains! LOL

Whats wrong with the people behind you!

Whats wrong with the people behind you!

It was a scary ride, back in the day!!! LOL

They saw the tape... the one with the little girl.. in the well..

^just about to say that ha!

I wish they would at least ATTEMPT to bring the theming back.

The themeing SoB had? When? In 2000?

Sorry, that was a pathetic attempt at themeing to begin with, and, rather confusing as well.

The backstory for SOB is really good, but the park didn't enforce it. I bet no one in the GP knew the backstory, infact I bet not many enthusiasts did know it and still don't. If PKI would of made the theme obvious, showed videos in the queue, had a better station and queue line, ect... than I think SOB would of been a much better attraction. Theming can make an okay ride be amazing.

All I remember about theme on SoB, was a bunch of old animal cages that were busted open, and laying around.

Was that it?

Please enlighten us on what the story was.

Seeing that picture of the old trains brought back memories - of being tightly pinned-in to that seat to the point of almost not being able to exhale. I still rode the coaster. I'm just glad I was never stuck on it's circuit. There might have been another law suit!

Tomkatt7 I posted the story back on page 78... At least a short summary of it...