eardrumbuzzer

Playing music on a ride is the freaking CHEESIEST thing you could ever do! It does nothing to enhance the ride, it makes other people, like myself, hate the experience. Its embarrassing! LEAVE MUSIC OUT OF IT! When you're on a hyper-coaster of any sort, you want to hear the sound of the ride itself, the chain lift, the sound of metal scraping on metal. You want to feel the thing vibrate. You want to hear the roar of the ride. You don't want some lame song or piece of rap crap playing. A crap piece of music will ruin it! That tie-wearing marketing director for the ride company who thought it would enhance something like an epic coaster ride by pumping in music is a sad limp-d**ked moron who thought "Hey-this would be hip for the kids!" Please. You will lose a major demographic - it is not only kids who come to theme parks. Stop with the music (sic). You will lose more riders because of it. Bad idea.

I was lucky(?) enough to ride the Son of Beast in it's full glory, twice. I agree with practically everyone - it hurt too much to ride! But it really rubs me the wrong way when coasters are "tamed." For one thing, removing the loop was ridiculous; the loop was the the least harmful section. It was a breeze to fly right through it. Then, watching the video of them demolishing it kind of broke my heart. I had high hopes for this thing. I could have "steeled" myself into riding it again the next season by knowing what to expect (and maybe wearing shoulder pads). But in the end, this beautiful coaster left too many bruises and aches and pains to account for it's beautiful, giant wooden presence. I hope that the RCCA, Premiere Rides and Werner Stengel learned a lesson from this failure and deliver a wooden just as big and exciting with more shock absorbent properties.