@@Megacat8199 yeah, yet so many POVs today are absolutely terrible because it’s just someone holding onto a camera, instead of actually mounting the camera to the train
@@Megacat8199 The POV of Son Of Beast is mounted to the train, and most POVs of other coasters that aren’t from CoasterForce or Theme Park Review are not train mounted, making them very shaky.
Legend has it SOB was never really demolished. It was RMC'd and the loop added back on. This was filmed in 2020, the uploader just "fat fingered" the year in the description lol.
@@TheBrettYT It could be that you do not have a 4K monitor or device. I have the option to see it in 4K even though my monitor is only 1080p too. It is just that it has a really slow frame rate whenever I put the video quality on 4K.
The thing about son of beast, it was massive. When you rode it, you realized you had zero control over your life. It was just insane that a coaster like this existed. Did it destroy itself due to poor construction? Yes. Did it thrill people who didn’t realize what they had? Yes!!!
@@jonathankaseffpercussion you know it! 👍Us Coaster enthusiasts get around! 😉😂 Kings Island is also my favorite place on Earth, was broke as a kid and it was my home park so it was essentially my Disney! Hope you get out to ride some more great coasters before the summer ends! 🤘
I was 6 years old and marathoning this coaster. I remember my sister told me that the loop was from a different ride and they built around it. I remember getting on top of the first hill, over 200 feet in the air, and freaking out because I saw it was a part of this ride. That's how I went on my first coaster inversion and got rid of my fear of inversions To this day I say it's the best ride I've ever been on. Over 200 coaster credits and nothing will top this. I was 14 when it was finally shut down, only 10 years old when it gave its last ride. Looking at POV videos like this make me confused. The experience I remember was so much better. The track layout is boring and repetitive, but to the young kid in me it was amazing. Regardless, in my books there is nothing that will ever beat this coaster
I like how you literally admit the coaster is shit but you have to like it because of what it represents to your childhood. Kind of hard to convince people its really your favorite out of 200+ coasters when you literally admit its awful.
@@gibiati8295 there's more to a coaster than layout. It was an intense coaster, extremely fast with lots of g forces. Even if the layout was okay at best. Look at the Beast. Beloved by millions for 5 decades, objectively it sucks. More to a coaster than just layout. And I stated there's an emotional connection to this ride so it's even more prominent to me. Without SoB, my favorite would probably be i305, TTD, or Shivering Timbers
This thing looks almost ethereally huge - like you're enveloped in an endless labyrinth of wooden support structure. Totally unlike anything that's been built since.
That midcourse after the first double helix is exactly where I was hoping they would have stopped the ride and rescued us. That double helix was brutal.
Had season passes to Kings Island every year as a kid growing up and I remember watching them slowly build this thing. Everyone was in complete awe of how massive it was. Got to ride it on opening day, fucking insane ride. RIP to the Son of Beast.
My 1st time riding SOB in 2002 and remembering standing in line for 2hrs, witnessing ppl coming off the ride crying and puking. Ive never been scared of any coaster but this ride had me terrified
In my opinion, this may be on par with something like Mean Streak, but obviously this is a lot worse. At least Mean Streak was built by a decent manufacturer.
Despite all the horrible situations surrounding it, it has been my all-time favorite wooden coaster. I am so saddened that it was torn down. I wish Kings Island rebuilt the same ride with a much more sustainable structure and a better coaster designer (screw RCA) rather than replacing it with an inverted coaster. I thought the concept of Son of Beast was genius.
@@twistedgwazi5727 If it wasnt as bakcsnappingly rough and incident heavy I think it couldve gone down as a legend, however thats just my opinion on it.
@@Thim22Z7 I mean just look at the ride. There nothing redeeming to the layout. It could he perfectly smooth and it would still suck, all the drops are shallow and it takes everything so slow that you won't get any airtime anywhere. The giant rose bowl helices look terrible.
@@RobertTheHaunter I don't think so, Japan was a very VERY early adopter of 1080i Video, just look at Techmoan's uploading of a 1993 HD demo tape, used for Laserdisc Muse and D VHS tape demos. This being in 2002, HD available in the US and widely available in Japan. So this being an HD video and having a Japanese narrator in 2002 is very very possible
@@coastaku1954 The other possibility is that it was converted from film. I know the Discovery Channel did a mounted POV of Son of Beast, but I've never seen a high-quality digital version of that. If that was recorded on film, it could be converted into digital HD.
There's a possibility that it was large format like IMAX. That's about the only thing that was available at the time that would have scaled to 4k without becoming grainy.
@@alexv3375 yeah. It would be cool if kings island purchased one for the former plot of land, but with a few restrictions because of banshee taking a minimal amount of the land. I think there is a ton of potential for that idea. That could possibly be the thing to top steel vengeance
Most of the pov videos of this rollercoaster you can hear people shouting out in pain. I am so sorry I never got to ride it. I was only at the park one time when it was still standing but it was not operating. It was so beautiful of a structure, just awe inspiring.
Man, you were truly ahead of the times with your videos. Great quality, stability, etc. Plus, you have footage of some incredible rides that unfortunately no longer with us. Keep up the fantastic work!
Really cool to see such an old POV. For a ride made out of cheap plywood that looks like toothpicks, the scale of this thing will never stop shocking me. I remember as a child I saw a documentary on Travel channel and it had a “teaser” of this ride. I thought it was fake, because wood coasters didn’t have loops. When I finally realized it had been real about five years ago I became obsessed with POVs and the story of it. Also, since this is Japanese and from roughly 2002, I am assuming that this person had a really fancy digital camera that might not have been available in America! 😂 Love how this POV makes it look pretty tame, yet you can see how it’s swaying. And just the size. RMC needs to take this layout and install their own version already….
@@donaldbraskett5545 If that ride is not painful, then I am either a very weak person, or every ride other than that is butter smooth. Even the mounted POV looks rough, and that is a rarity.
Damn if RMC could get their hands on this. I see a 7 inversion masterpiece with those big overbanks serving as wave turns and Imelmans. That structure is massive. Allen shilke came in his pants watching this
I am not a huge fan of RMC, certain elements they really use a lot bother me. That being said, this would have been a perfect candidate had its accident happened 10 years later.
@@thundermagnet idk what they would do with it though. With a layout so large and defined like SOB, I would think the only thing they could do would just be to Ibox the layout as it is.
This coaster was absolutely awesome. I rode it three times and loved it. It wasn't painful at all. I have no idea what anyone was talking about when they say it was bad. Then again maybe the day I rode it, was the best day of its life. Thank you for posting this video!!
Sometimes you come aross rare gems of really old videos with amazing image quality. Incredible. Makes me sad I never got to ride it. Even the sound quality is insane... what camera existed like this in 2002?
Rode it a few times opening year but my girlfriend at the time only made it twice and swore it off after her 2nd ride. I personally remember it being pretty badass and apart from some herky jerky, I dug it. Kinda wish they would’ve just ate cost of making it and did whatever was necessary to keep it around for the long haul 🙌
it could have been done but the structure reinforcement would have been so much work and probably costlier than just building a whole new coaster like they did. RCCA, the designed and builder of SOB, went bankrupt after the lawsuits KI put n them over the shoddy work that went into SOB.
@@Whatchamawhozit This thing really had no chance, even if you tried reinforcing it. They used the wrong type of wood of this as another way to cut costs.
@@Whatchamawhozit it was a flop bc KI built this thing in house trying to save money instead of the more experienced manufacturers of the ride building it
I rode in 2008. I love coasters but this one was nothing but pain in the big turns. It was the kind of pain that you felt 5 minutes later. No work could have saved that coaster. As such, it did vibrate itself to peices and put people in the hospital.
Rode this thing at least 50 times as a kid, never once got worried of it breaking down. Now that I see this video it blows me away how bad of shape the coaster was in and this still has the loop so it wasn’t that old. The Beast was 30yrs old at this point and had better structure and quality of wood and track, it’s amazing this thing only injured people and never killed anyone 😂. Amazing coaster still have dreams about that hill from time to time, as a kid that was my first 200ft hill, totally insane. Fun fact no coaster injured more people than the sun of beast RIP can’t wait to see the resurrection when it comes.
You beautiful beautiful SOB. Glad i got to ride w loop once. that lift hill would sway in the wind like crazy tho!!! Seeing that while sitting in line had me reconsidering everything in life
This looks like a fantastic wooden coaster, and I've watched a few videos on its demise, and still can't understand why many people didn't like it and management ended up getting rid of it. Of course a wooden coaster is going to be bumpier, that's just a fact of life. This seems like the ultimate wooden coaster. I don't get that people claim the layout was boring or uninspired, etc. This was an amazing coaster and it should not have been demolished.
while wooden coasters are obviously rougher than steel ones, this one was just a mess from start to finish because so many corners were cut during construction that it made the ride legitimately dangerous to ride. the ride was poorly built and genuinely unsafe for people to ride.
@@c.nk.01eh, sort of? It had one incident where the track broke and sent people to the hospital. The other incident where a lady claimed she suffered an aneurysm or something was never really proven to be SOB fault, they settled. Cedar Fair actually cleared the track as being safe to reopen after that, idk if they were fearful of future liability or if there were too many maintenance costs where it was a money pit. But to say “legitimately dangerous” is a bit of an overstatement imo.
I rode The Beast numerous times and you felt like you had whiplash! I had moved out of state when this one was built or I would have rode it. Thank you fot the simulation.
1:51 I believe that's the spot where the integrity failed. The track bent and hurt a bunch of people. One of the technicians noticed at the last second and stopped the next car as it was near the top of the initial hill, about to go over and hurt the next group even worse
As poorly as the beast turned out, I absolutely respect the ambitions here. It may not have been as thrilling in person as the video makes you believe, but I love the idea of such a massive wooden coaster that isnt afraid to go upside down
PLEASE Keep this wonderful Video on here.It is super Quality ,full front seat ride,with the Loop.Some of the Videos don't necessarily pre-warn that the Loop is gone.Many others turn out to be a lot of off-ride footage.I was getting crazy just now,but then I found this Video of yours.Awesome.
Great footage of Son of Beast, but honestly was a VERY rough roller coaster to ride. I rode it twice, and then never again. I'm pretty sure it gave me a concussion both times. I always recommended people not to ride it as it was so rough. Many people were seriously injured on Son of Beast until it was demolished some years ago. It's a shame because if it was smooth, it would have been incredible.
How did you film this? I mean the ride hasn't operated since 2009, its been over 10 years. Have you just held on to old footage for all this time? But seriously, incredible work. I grew up with that ride and this is the best video I've ever seen of it!
As a forever Kings Island fan, I never got to ride the Son of Beast before they removed it. (Didn't get to do King Cobra either back in the day) This was a great quality video with a wonderfully shot view. Fantastic job.
what kind of camera for 2002??! holy wow that was awesome. never got to ride this one. had the opportunity back in 2009 sans vertical loop but got sick with the flu and couldn’t go :(
Vortex was great back in the 90s but in 2000 that thing got rough and gave me a headache. Those harnesses are not padded or something because my head kept banging on them something fierce. So, I'm good w/it being gone. Sorry...RIP Vortex. Another gravesite/headstone to add to their cemetary.🎢
SOB looks like it was an amazing roller coaster to experience. i’m sad i was never able to ride it, i was only 5/6 when it opened. if y’all have ridden it, what was it like? ? i’m very curious to hear what past riders have to say about it.
No no NO NO NO NO NO! It was a terrible coaster... it was rough, painful, and has a boring layout, be glad you missed this, as it absolutely beats you up.
@@dibble1331 omg really?? LOL ahhh it just looked so fun! there was a wooden roller coaster in texas called the rattler, but then they changed it to the iron rattler & even though it’s still wooden, it’s not as crazy as it used to be. i guess that’s what i like about wooden coasters LOL i do know they can toss you around like a rag doll though. i’m sorry it beat you up ):
@@MissBunnydollxo Actually Iron Rattler is a hybrid coaster, with steel track and wooden supports, so it’s not really a wooden coaster, and it’s 1,000 times better than the original Rattler. It’s got more airtime, it feels faster, it keeps up a good pace, and it’s got inversions and Rattler had none of that. And also it was very, VERY rough, and was impossible to enjoy, especially since it also lost so much momentum it felt like it would eventually valley. If the original Rattler still operated today it’d probably have graffiti written all over it.
@@dibble1331 you’re right, it is! before, iron rattler wasn’t as smooth at all. i liked it before they changed it, but i love the inversions. i’m not sure if you’ve ridden it before, but superman the same park as the iron rattler in fiesta texas is SO smooth & nice. it’s one of my favorite coasters.
@@MissBunnydollxo Yeah I’ve ridden Rattler, and I don’t miss it, I’d even call it as bad or maybe even worse than SOB. It’s not as rough but it’s like a million times more boring. And yeah Superman is great but because it’s Fiesta Texas its almost always closed, like every time I go there almost every ride is closed.
When the track is visibly janky even in before the lift hill! Thank you for sharing this, it's wonderful footage and I'm morbidly curious about the ride I never had the chance to try
When your POV from 2002 is better than about 90% of the POVs in 2020 because it’s actually train mounted
Bruh facts
Bruh. 👊
lmao son of beast was demolished in 2012 so it would be impossible to take a pov in 2020
@@Megacat8199 yeah, yet so many POVs today are absolutely terrible because it’s just someone holding onto a camera, instead of actually mounting the camera to the train
@@Megacat8199 The POV of Son Of Beast is mounted to the train, and most POVs of other coasters that aren’t from CoasterForce or Theme Park Review are not train mounted, making them very shaky.
Guy: Literally time travels with a modern camera to ride an old ride.
Also guy: “Sorry for the image quality.”
That looks like one of the very rare S Video Cameras that existed back then
4k was first released to the public in around 94-95, but equipment was still unheard of
Legend has it SOB was never really demolished. It was RMC'd and the loop added back on. This was filmed in 2020, the uploader just "fat fingered" the year in the description lol.
@@jimmie_g you would be able to see it in the park lol
It is called upscaling
"Image quality is low"
No it is not. It is the highest quality video of Son Of Beast I have ever seen. Nice job dude
The Video In The Ride Was 720p dude
@@TheBrettYT It could be that you do not have a 4K monitor or device. I have the option to see it in 4K even though my monitor is only 1080p too. It is just that it has a really slow frame rate whenever I put the video quality on 4K.
The most impressive thing about it is it's age
@@TheBrettYT That's still miles better than any other POV of this coaster.
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The thing about son of beast, it was massive. When you rode it, you realized you had zero control over your life. It was just insane that a coaster like this existed. Did it destroy itself due to poor construction? Yes. Did it thrill people who didn’t realize what they had? Yes!!!
Looked amazing. Shame it was a pos that hurt people
You felt like you'd been in a car accident after you got off of it! Insanity at its finest!
Typical roller coaster in ohio
I puked when I got off it. I was in so much pain. But I'm glad I got to ride it for credit. I actually rode 3 times but got sick the last time
I've never gotten sick on a ride before. This was horrible
I thought such clear footage of this ride just didn't exist with the loop. I was wrong. Thank you.
@@jonathankaseffpercussion you know it! 👍Us Coaster enthusiasts get around! 😉😂 Kings Island is also my favorite place on Earth, was broke as a kid and it was my home park so it was essentially my Disney! Hope you get out to ride some more great coasters before the summer ends! 🤘
@@DuecePiece that’s how I am with Great Adventure. You get lucky when your 20 minutes away home park is good!
This is the highest-quality POV video I’ve seen from before the 2010s
I’ve watched way too many and I think you’re right, this is exceptional
This POV looks so smooth for a ride so rough
01:43 smooth??
@@MaxiP_Rollercoasters smoother than most pov's, and it just makes it look bumpy, not rough. But it was really rough
Son of Beast? More like “Son of Pain”
@@Howlingburd19 I heard it was really bad
Lol what?? It looked like it broke bones
I was 6 years old and marathoning this coaster. I remember my sister told me that the loop was from a different ride and they built around it. I remember getting on top of the first hill, over 200 feet in the air, and freaking out because I saw it was a part of this ride. That's how I went on my first coaster inversion and got rid of my fear of inversions
To this day I say it's the best ride I've ever been on. Over 200 coaster credits and nothing will top this. I was 14 when it was finally shut down, only 10 years old when it gave its last ride. Looking at POV videos like this make me confused. The experience I remember was so much better. The track layout is boring and repetitive, but to the young kid in me it was amazing. Regardless, in my books there is nothing that will ever beat this coaster
Face/Off was where I got over my inversion fear, but the irrational dread was still there. You can thank the SOB for killing that too!
I like how you literally admit the coaster is shit but you have to like it because of what it represents to your childhood.
Kind of hard to convince people its really your favorite out of 200+ coasters when you literally admit its awful.
@@gibiati8295 there's more to a coaster than layout. It was an intense coaster, extremely fast with lots of g forces. Even if the layout was okay at best. Look at the Beast. Beloved by millions for 5 decades, objectively it sucks. More to a coaster than just layout. And I stated there's an emotional connection to this ride so it's even more prominent to me. Without SoB, my favorite would probably be i305, TTD, or Shivering Timbers
my first inversion (technically two) was on shock wave at six flags over texas lol
@@cryptic4762 Have you ridden SteVe?
This thing looks almost ethereally huge - like you're enveloped in an endless labyrinth of wooden support structure. Totally unlike anything that's been built since.
Mean Streak had a similar feel.
And felt similarly rough 🥴
The Twister at Knoebels in Pennsylvania is also a wooden coaster that is very twisty turny and shaky. Not as tall, but very similar looking.
Those non-airtime hills probably pull exactly 1 positive G all the way thru.
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By far, the most intense coaster I've ever ridden. R.I.P. SOB.
Old Coasters never die,
They simply fade away!
@@whereisthedollar IN this case it collapsed to the ground and broke into several pieces
lucky prIck
This is the best POV on the internet of son of beast
That midcourse after the first double helix is exactly where I was hoping they would have stopped the ride and rescued us. That double helix was brutal.
I felt like my head was going to pop off at that point
Had season passes to Kings Island every year as a kid growing up and I remember watching them slowly build this thing. Everyone was in complete awe of how massive it was. Got to ride it on opening day, fucking insane ride. RIP to the Son of Beast.
What a visually stunning coaster. It’s a shame it wasn’t safe enough to remain open.
My 1st time riding SOB in 2002 and remembering standing in line for 2hrs, witnessing ppl coming off the ride crying and puking. Ive never been scared of any coaster but this ride had me terrified
I think this was the ride that they kept shutting down because it was so “jarring” people were getting back injuries. After riding it, I believe it.
Yes, yes it is.
I have never been so beaten up by a coaster
In my opinion, this may be on par with something like Mean Streak, but obviously this is a lot worse. At least Mean Streak was built by a decent manufacturer.
I rode this with the loop. What an amazing roller coaster. It kicked your butt from start to finish.
Despite all the horrible situations surrounding it, it has been my all-time favorite wooden coaster. I am so saddened that it was torn down. I wish Kings Island rebuilt the same ride with a much more sustainable structure and a better coaster designer (screw RCA) rather than replacing it with an inverted coaster. I thought the concept of Son of Beast was genius.
I’m glad we have Bashee
Eventhough SOB is so infamous this pov looks so good Im really sad I didnt get to ride it.
Nah, this video makes it apparent how boring, forceless, and rough this ride was. Thank God it's gone forever.
@@twistedgwazi5727 If it wasnt as bakcsnappingly rough and incident heavy I think it couldve gone down as a legend, however thats just my opinion on it.
@@Thim22Z7 I mean just look at the ride. There nothing redeeming to the layout. It could he perfectly smooth and it would still suck, all the drops are shallow and it takes everything so slow that you won't get any airtime anywhere. The giant rose bowl helices look terrible.
@@twistedgwazi5727 STFU
@@nunyabiihz8922 I mean it's a terrible forceless layout but ok
Would love to know the model of camera that recorded this almost 20 years ago. Amazing.
I think he probs used AI to upscale it
@@RobertTheHaunter I don't think so, Japan was a very VERY early adopter of 1080i Video, just look at Techmoan's uploading of a 1993 HD demo tape, used for Laserdisc Muse and D VHS tape demos. This being in 2002, HD available in the US and widely available in Japan. So this being an HD video and having a Japanese narrator in 2002 is very very possible
@@coastaku1954 The other possibility is that it was converted from film. I know the Discovery Channel did a mounted POV of Son of Beast, but I've never seen a high-quality digital version of that. If that was recorded on film, it could be converted into digital HD.
@@A.F.Whitepigeon Hmmmmm, that could be it as well
There's a possibility that it was large format like IMAX. That's about the only thing that was available at the time that would have scaled to 4k without becoming grainy.
This was clearly 2001, since King Cobra is still intact.
King Cobra closed at the end of the 2001 season, so it is possible it was standing there before they took it down.
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@@poptartbumblebeepoop9540 😐
@@crow_scripts 😐 shutup
@@poptartbumblebeepoop9540 go and give the iPad back to your mom, looks like you need a break from it.
Man... looking at this, I'm just thinking to myself what a superb RMC Hybrid this would have made had they kept the structure for long enough!
Should rebuild it with the old blueprints but just as an RMC lol
@@DepravedCoTApologist it's totally possible. Just need a park with enough money that wants to invest lol
It wouldve been impossible to rmc since the thing that made the ride unsafe and rough was the cheap, lazily built support structure
@@reymen1313 Even so... an RMC of that particular scale is a nice thought, right?
@@alexv3375 yeah. It would be cool if kings island purchased one for the former plot of land, but with a few restrictions because of banshee taking a minimal amount of the land. I think there is a ton of potential for that idea. That could possibly be the thing to top steel vengeance
Most of the pov videos of this rollercoaster you can hear people shouting out in pain. I am so sorry I never got to ride it. I was only at the park one time when it was still standing but it was not operating. It was so beautiful of a structure, just awe inspiring.
i know, right ??? one of my earlier memories is staring at a shadowy, SBNO Son of Beast. absolutely insane, man.
Man, you were truly ahead of the times with your videos. Great quality, stability, etc. Plus, you have footage of some incredible rides that unfortunately no longer with us. Keep up the fantastic work!
Hikawa Rides should change the name to “Marty McFly rides”. How you pulled this off is suspicious. Damn good quality.
How sad that it isnt still around. I was awed when i saw the loop in the middle of the ride! On a wooden roller coaster! And it went on forever.
Really cool to see such an old POV. For a ride made out of cheap plywood that looks like toothpicks, the scale of this thing will never stop shocking me. I remember as a child I saw a documentary on Travel channel and it had a “teaser” of this ride. I thought it was fake, because wood coasters didn’t have loops. When I finally realized it had been real about five years ago I became obsessed with POVs and the story of it. Also, since this is Japanese and from roughly 2002, I am assuming that this person had a really fancy digital camera that might not have been available in America! 😂 Love how this POV makes it look pretty tame, yet you can see how it’s swaying. And just the size. RMC needs to take this layout and install their own version already….
Cheap plywood? I just saw a documentary on it that said it was made from Douglas fir.
Absolutely the best wooden roller coaster ever. Got to ride it 5x in a row on an autumn night around Halloween. Rest In Peace, Son of Beast. 😞🎢
you do know people (including people of a younger age) were seriously injured on this ride.
@@wat-ro2vt lol
@@wat-ro2vt lmao
Absolutely the worst wooden roller coaster ever 😫
i remember going to kings island and seeing the abandoned son of beast ride, wanting to ride it but never opening, sad to see such a cool ride closed
You would probably change your mind about it if you actually rode it lol
I rode the monster that was son of the beast with loop and without prolly no coaster will ever give u the ride this did
@@donaldbraskett5545 Intense and painful, I would imagine.
@@NiirTheRaccoon not really
@@donaldbraskett5545 If that ride is not painful, then I am either a very weak person, or every ride other than that is butter smooth. Even the mounted POV looks rough, and that is a rarity.
Bro the quality of this video is INCREDIBLE
Damn if RMC could get their hands on this. I see a 7 inversion masterpiece with those big overbanks serving as wave turns and Imelmans. That structure is massive. Allen shilke came in his pants watching this
This ride was a literal mess even before it opened, one of the very few actually unsafe roller coasters to ever operate.
I am not a huge fan of RMC, certain elements they really use a lot bother me. That being said, this would have been a perfect candidate had its accident happened 10 years later.
@@thundermagnet idk what they would do with it though. With a layout so large and defined like SOB, I would think the only thing they could do would just be to Ibox the layout as it is.
This coaster was absolutely awesome. I rode it three times and loved it. It wasn't painful at all. I have no idea what anyone was talking about when they say it was bad. Then again maybe the day I rode it, was the best day of its life. Thank you for posting this video!!
I agree, I rode it twice and didn’t think it was that bad either. I even thought the beast was / is a better coaster.
That SoB beat the hell out of me every time!! Although it seemed to be less rough after they took out the loop.
I agree it was an awesome ride. It definitely beat you up a little, but not any worse than other wooden coasters
This is one of the best son of beast povs I have ever seen!
Amazing... This ride looked absolutely crazy. Obviously the best quality there is.🤩
It’s definitely crazy but not a good kind of “crazy”
The video looked great for 2002.
Still looks alright for today, even.
Probably enhanced
How was this filmed in 2002? This quality meets today's standards.
Idk but atleast we can see the quality better... :)
@@MissingNo2k Pretty sure this is video
This is insane i did not think anybody had pov footage of the legendary looping son of beast!
Not only does the video look better than some current day POVs, but it somehow makes the coaster look smooth.
this is probably the best pov that i’ve ever seen of this coaster
How is the image quality low, this is honestly the best recording of the ride.
I’ve never seen a wooden roller coaster with a loop. Wow. Amazing
Imagine Son Of Beast RMCD
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It’d be like Hakugei honestly, not sure if I spelled that right tho..
@@ArtiicXD wayyy better than hakugei
Godddddd. If only.
Kinda boring with the layout they would have to work with
Sometimes you come aross rare gems of really old videos with amazing image quality. Incredible. Makes me sad I never got to ride it. Even the sound quality is insane... what camera existed like this in 2002?
Mini DV was a thing, which was capable of 1080i video. Also there's 35mm film and IMAX formats.
Thank you for preserving this roller coaster on video.
Wow I can't believe that a pov this good of SOB exists. Thanks for this.
Rode it a few times opening year but my girlfriend at the time only made it twice and swore it off after her 2nd ride. I personally remember it being pretty badass and apart from some herky jerky, I dug it. Kinda wish they would’ve just ate cost of making it and did whatever was necessary to keep it around for the long haul 🙌
I remember the lift hill being so loud that you could hear it from the parking lot 😂😂😂
This would have been awesome with a RMC retrack.
it could have been done but the structure reinforcement would have been so much work and probably costlier than just building a whole new coaster like they did.
RCCA, the designed and builder of SOB, went bankrupt after the lawsuits KI put n them over the shoddy work that went into SOB.
@@Whatchamawhozit This thing really had no chance, even if you tried reinforcing it. They used the wrong type of wood of this as another way to cut costs.
@@Whatchamawhozit it was a flop bc KI built this thing in house trying to save money instead of the more experienced manufacturers of the ride building it
I rode in 2008. I love coasters but this one was nothing but pain in the big turns. It was the kind of pain that you felt 5 minutes later. No work could have saved that coaster. As such, it did vibrate itself to peices and put people in the hospital.
@@crow_scripts actually, that is not true. In the accident report, they state that the wood was of good quality
This POV makes the ride look fairly smooth....and this ride was anything but smooth.
ikr sob litreally was terrible it was so rough i got brusies and couldnt enjoy it at all
Wow this phenomenal!! I’m impressed by how good this pov looks!
The first ride I worked at kings island. Long live SOB
Best POV I've ever seen for SoB.
Amazingly clear POV of this coaster.
How can a ride be so rough that you can literally see the mistakes in the wood track
So glad I got to ride it when it was a fresh new baby. This park has changed so much in the last 20 years!!
It was crazy watching the whole thing sway when you were waiting in line from the ground as the car would go around the curve to the first big drop.
When I saw this in ElToroRyan's video, I couldn't believe such a high-quality POV existed. Thank you for uploading this.
最近の動画、うちにあるDVDと全く同じ内容のものがUpされてるから、主さんも持ってるんだなって謎の親近感が湧く
Rode this thing at least 50 times as a kid, never once got worried of it breaking down. Now that I see this video it blows me away how bad of shape the coaster was in and this still has the loop so it wasn’t that old. The Beast was 30yrs old at this point and had better structure and quality of wood and track, it’s amazing this thing only injured people and never killed anyone 😂. Amazing coaster still have dreams about that hill from time to time, as a kid that was my first 200ft hill, totally insane. Fun fact no coaster injured more people than the sun of beast RIP can’t wait to see the resurrection when it comes.
Wow where has this great quality video been hiding of Son of Beast!!! This video actually makes the ride look fun!
You can legit hear and feel the roughness in the footage...
Respect for him waiting 19 years just to upload this
This is from the Discovery Channel . I’m gonna assume they some how got a hold of the original tape and converted into a format to look good on YT .
This was made at the latest 2001 because King Cobra was still there, otherwise best POV for SoB I've ever seen.
This ride was awesome ! Miss it . Rode it back when it still had the loop
俺が産まれる前の世界をこんなに高画質で見られるなんてすごいな
What are you saying?
@@DarkBloxOfficial”It’s amazing to be able to see the world before I was born in such high resolution.”
@Lavend3r.Dreams Yeah for 2002 the camera quality is very good!
I agree @@Lavend3r.Dreams
first time I rode was the fall of 05'. I'll never forget this. it bruised the hell out of my knees from what I remember
This is one coaster I missed out on. I want to go back in time and ride it.
Maybe an organized effort by coaster lovers can bring it back with better materials than what was used on the Son of Beast.
You beautiful beautiful SOB. Glad i got to ride w loop once. that lift hill would sway in the wind like crazy tho!!! Seeing that while sitting in line had me reconsidering everything in life
This looks like a fantastic wooden coaster, and I've watched a few videos on its demise, and still can't understand why many people didn't like it and management ended up getting rid of it. Of course a wooden coaster is going to be bumpier, that's just a fact of life. This seems like the ultimate wooden coaster. I don't get that people claim the layout was boring or uninspired, etc. This was an amazing coaster and it should not have been demolished.
while wooden coasters are obviously rougher than steel ones, this one was just a mess from start to finish because so many corners were cut during construction that it made the ride legitimately dangerous to ride. the ride was poorly built and genuinely unsafe for people to ride.
@@c.nk.01eh, sort of? It had one incident where the track broke and sent people to the hospital.
The other incident where a lady claimed she suffered an aneurysm or something was never really proven to be SOB fault, they settled.
Cedar Fair actually cleared the track as being safe to reopen after that, idk if they were fearful of future liability or if there were too many maintenance costs where it was a money pit.
But to say “legitimately dangerous” is a bit of an overstatement imo.
@DounutDeduction"caused many people to be sent to the hospital" did it though?
I rode this ride many times between 2000-2002 it was MASSIVE that's the thing that I remember most about it
Unpopular opinion: there’s needs to be more wooden looping coasters
I rode The Beast numerous times and you felt like you had whiplash! I had moved out of state when this one was built or I would have rode it. Thank you fot the simulation.
im honestly just in awe of the quality of this pov
This is the BEST onride from son of beast
1:51 I believe that's the spot where the integrity failed. The track bent and hurt a bunch of people. One of the technicians noticed at the last second and stopped the next car as it was near the top of the initial hill, about to go over and hurt the next group even worse
Yea that’s the section called the rose bowl where the support cracked and caused injuries
So glad I got to ride that in all its glory. It was such a fun coaster.
木製コースターで一回転できるんやな笑
落ちそうで怖いから無いと思ってた
This is not 4K60, but it is the best quality video of the looping son of beast I've seen by far.
As poorly as the beast turned out, I absolutely respect the ambitions here. It may not have been as thrilling in person as the video makes you believe, but I love the idea of such a massive wooden coaster that isnt afraid to go upside down
PLEASE Keep this wonderful Video on here.It is super Quality ,full front seat ride,with the Loop.Some of the Videos don't necessarily pre-warn that the Loop is gone.Many others turn out to be a lot of off-ride footage.I was getting crazy just now,but then I found this Video of yours.Awesome.
This POV is excellent. Can I use it in an upcoming video? I will provide full credit to your channel!
How's it going? @ElToroRyan fancy seeing you here
WE ALL KNOW WHAT THIS MEANS
OOHHHHHHH YEAH
Problematic coasters
My first credit, but damn 6 y/o me was happy to get off it
Great footage of Son of Beast, but honestly was a VERY rough roller coaster to ride. I rode it twice, and then never again. I'm pretty sure it gave me a concussion both times. I always recommended people not to ride it as it was so rough. Many people were seriously injured on Son of Beast until it was demolished some years ago. It's a shame because if it was smooth, it would have been incredible.
How did you film this? I mean the ride hasn't operated since 2009, its been over 10 years. Have you just held on to old footage for all this time? But seriously, incredible work. I grew up with that ride and this is the best video I've ever seen of it!
As a forever Kings Island fan, I never got to ride the Son of Beast before they removed it. (Didn't get to do King Cobra either back in the day) This was a great quality video with a wonderfully shot view. Fantastic job.
King Cobra was my favorite
I actually rode this ride in 2003 and the loop made me sick. 😂😂 I literally threw up after getting off.
I don’t think it was the loop that did that. I think it was ur internal organs getting thrown around from the roughness.
@@glooper OMG yes...the roughness of the ride was terrible!
For this being recorded in 2006 or earlier it’s damn good quality
how'd they get a camera on this without it falling off?
super glue
Duct tape
A suction mount probably
This is an insanely high quality video for being shot in 2002.
Are you sure this is 2002? Because by 2002 standards, this quality is stunning!
画質良いですね😄ジェットコースター乗りたくなりました☺️
what kind of camera for 2002??! holy wow that was awesome. never got to ride this one. had the opportunity back in 2009 sans vertical loop but got sick with the flu and couldn’t go :(
Amazes me I rode this thing 20 times in my life, and somehow I am alive. This is one of two coasters in my life that beat me down.
I think this coaster would've been so epic if RCCA didn't do a poor job constructing it
idk looks forceless
Rode it opening day. It was rough and intense then, while such a fun ride, it definetely hurt riding shortly into its very short life.
画質綺麗〜…😧
This and Vortex were my favorite roller coasters! I haven't been to kings island in a while but I know they tore this ride down.
They also tore down Vortex as well. :(
@@bmorr How sad, The memories that they took from us. :(
Vortex was great back in the 90s but in 2000 that thing got rough and gave me a headache. Those harnesses are not padded or something because my head kept banging on them something fierce. So, I'm good w/it being gone. Sorry...RIP Vortex. Another gravesite/headstone to add to their cemetary.🎢
SOB looks like it was an amazing roller coaster to experience. i’m sad i was never able to ride it, i was only 5/6 when it opened. if y’all have ridden it, what was it like? ? i’m very curious to hear what past riders have to say about it.
No no NO NO NO NO NO! It was a terrible coaster... it was rough, painful, and has a boring layout, be glad you missed this, as it absolutely beats you up.
@@dibble1331 omg really?? LOL ahhh it just looked so fun! there was a wooden roller coaster in texas called the rattler, but then they changed it to the iron rattler & even though it’s still wooden, it’s not as crazy as it used to be. i guess that’s what i like about wooden coasters LOL i do know they can toss you around like a rag doll though. i’m sorry it beat you up ):
@@MissBunnydollxo Actually Iron Rattler is a hybrid coaster, with steel track and wooden supports, so it’s not really a wooden coaster, and it’s 1,000 times better than the original Rattler. It’s got more airtime, it feels faster, it keeps up a good pace, and it’s got inversions and Rattler had none of that. And also it was very, VERY rough, and was impossible to enjoy, especially since it also lost so much momentum it felt like it would eventually valley. If the original Rattler still operated today it’d probably have graffiti written all over it.
@@dibble1331 you’re right, it is! before, iron rattler wasn’t as smooth at all. i liked it before they changed it, but i love the inversions. i’m not sure if you’ve ridden it before, but superman the same park as the iron rattler in fiesta texas is SO smooth & nice. it’s one of my favorite coasters.
@@MissBunnydollxo Yeah I’ve ridden Rattler, and I don’t miss it, I’d even call it as bad or maybe even worse than SOB. It’s not as rough but it’s like a million times more boring. And yeah Superman is great but because it’s Fiesta Texas its almost always closed, like every time I go there almost every ride is closed.
When the track is visibly janky even in before the lift hill!
Thank you for sharing this, it's wonderful footage and I'm morbidly curious about the ride I never had the chance to try