Roller Coasters From the Past
Sep. 22nd, 2011 08:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kybearfuzzHappy Green Shirt Thursday! We're nearly there, y'all, just one more day!!!
Last night I was chatting a bit online before bed and I found the flyer card for the Cincinnati Comic Expo from last weekend. On this one was an image of Wonder Woman, Batman and Batgirl fighting in the Cheetah on a roller coaster with a bat theme. It struck me as very familiar when I first saw it and remembered it's The Bat from King's Island. It made me think of other roller coasters I'd always heard about but never ridden, like the Screamin' Demon. So I did a bit of online research on them before bed.
King's Island was a three hour drive from my childhood home in Kentucky. My parents took the whole family there when I was four (1977) and I didn't go again until I was probably a senior in high school (1990). The 1977 trip was a miserable, hot "are-we-there-yet" debacle that my parents refused to repeat. So I missed out on the 'Demon because I was too little to ride it, as it was operational from 1977 to 1987. I missed The Bat completely because it was only open from 1981 to 1984. However, I remember my cousins and friends telling me how fun they were, so in my mind I recall thinking how cool it would have been to ride them. I was happy to see the Bat has not been forgotten and it made a cool backdrop for the Expo ad.
For the folks who have been recently via Pride Night and other occasions and don't remember these rides, The Bat was situated where the Vortex is now. The Screamin' Demon was somewhere around the Son of Beast area. In the list of defunct KI roller coasters, I suspect the "Son of Beast" will probably join these two in the future as it seems like one of those rides with inherent safety problems. At least that one I can brag about having ridden. :)
Last night I was chatting a bit online before bed and I found the flyer card for the Cincinnati Comic Expo from last weekend. On this one was an image of Wonder Woman, Batman and Batgirl fighting in the Cheetah on a roller coaster with a bat theme. It struck me as very familiar when I first saw it and remembered it's The Bat from King's Island. It made me think of other roller coasters I'd always heard about but never ridden, like the Screamin' Demon. So I did a bit of online research on them before bed.King's Island was a three hour drive from my childhood home in Kentucky. My parents took the whole family there when I was four (1977) and I didn't go again until I was probably a senior in high school (1990). The 1977 trip was a miserable, hot "are-we-there-yet" debacle that my parents refused to repeat. So I missed out on the 'Demon because I was too little to ride it, as it was operational from 1977 to 1987. I missed The Bat completely because it was only open from 1981 to 1984. However, I remember my cousins and friends telling me how fun they were, so in my mind I recall thinking how cool it would have been to ride them. I was happy to see the Bat has not been forgotten and it made a cool backdrop for the Expo ad.
For the folks who have been recently via Pride Night and other occasions and don't remember these rides, The Bat was situated where the Vortex is now. The Screamin' Demon was somewhere around the Son of Beast area. In the list of defunct KI roller coasters, I suspect the "Son of Beast" will probably join these two in the future as it seems like one of those rides with inherent safety problems. At least that one I can brag about having ridden. :)
