Demolition has begun on Kings Island’s Son of Beast roller coaster. Work on the project is expected to be finished by early 2013. Staff photo by Nick Daggy
File photo: (Left to right) Barbara Colnar, marketing communications manager for King’s Island, Bill Linkenheimer, president of American Coaster Enthusiasts, Michael Black, president of Roller Coaster Corporation of America, Tim Fisher, executive vice-president of Paramount Kings Island and Werner Stengel, a roller coaster designer, look over a model of Son of Beast prior to it being built at King’s Island.
MASON —
Kings Island amusement park is selling off pieces of a trouble roller coaster that is now being torn down.
Plaques with a piece of track from the Son of Beast coaster are for sale for $99.99. Pieces of the wood structure are being offered for $49.99, and structural bolts for $24.99.
Billed as the world’s tallest and fastest wooden coaster and with a signature loop in 2000, the ride was idled repeatedly. It closed for nearly a year for reconstruction after a 2006 accident injured more than two dozen people. It closed again after a woman reported being hurt in 2009. Park officials considered options, then decided to give up on the ride.
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