Today we ventured out to a local amusement park. A fairly large one known as Kings Island. We have been several times in the last month or so due to receiving Gold season passes for next year as gifts.

Let it be known that I am a Roller Coaster freak! I love riding coasters. Bigger, faster, higher, more loops, more helixs, etc. make for a better ride.

Kings Island was opened around 1972 and I was around 12 years old. The first time that I rode the Racers (2 identical tracks side by side) I was hooked. After that I wanted to ride nothing else but Roller Coasters.

Over the years KI has added quite a few new coasters. The year that The Beast went in was amazing, Waiting in line for 3 or more hours to get on that ride was normal, and well worth it too. Many coasters have come and gone over time. Most notable was The Bat. It was the first "hanging" coaster, suspended on a steel track by rollers from above in a small black 2 seat car. That was a wild ride in its time! Of course let a few people get mangled, permanently disfigured, and /or killed and they take a wonderful ride away.....

Then came The Son Of Beast. Longer, higher, and faster than the original Beast. The thing that they left out of the description was ROUGHER! This coaster is like one long painful car wreck. The big drop leaves you weightless as you freefall at a high rate of speed, the drawback to this is that when your weight returns at the bottom of the hill, it returns with a vengence as you careen through a series of highbanked high G 360degree plus turns and several bone rattling direction changes leading up to the tight helix loop (steel) all included on the most violent wooden coaster frame imaginable.

It doesn't scare me, it HURTS me. My neck is stiff and my spine is out of alignment from todays ride. I will try to never ride it again.

More about this later..... I have to try to get in bed, and hopefully I will be able to get OUT of bed in the morning.

posted by еdë §tèé£ at 9:54 PM
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 Ðµdë §téè£ commented at November 8, 2004 at 6:30 PM~  

I intend to make the trip up to Cedar Point one of these days but between work and life in general there never seems to be time to make it up there.

How many days would you suggest to allow for riding every coaster at Cedar Point?

 MELIS commented at November 9, 2004 at 9:43 AM~  

Cedar Point is the bomb!! It makes KI look like kiddy land!!! AWESOME Try going in spring or late in Oct. The lines aren't that long than! They have the BEST Coasters In The World!!!! You can do all of the coasters in 1 day, if you pick a day when kids are in school!

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