Cedar Point Woodie

I remember reading thst no other park would build a coaster longer than Beast out of respect for the park; I figured it was less about respect and more about how many parks have that much acreage to play with?

One of the things I love about Beast is that sprawling ride through the woods.

I'm a Marxist, of the Groucho sort.

Both Steal Dragon 2000 and Ultimate are longer than the Beast, though they are steel coasters.

I'd rather be in my boat with a drink on the rocks,
than in the drink with a boat on the rocks.

The Beast is a very scenic coaster. If another park can justify the cost to build a wooden coaster longer than The Beast, they will do it. But after 38 years, I don't think it's ever going to happen. Wooden coasters are the best under 100 feet, and shorter in course length. The few large wooden monsters constructed in the early 1990s just didn't work. Needless to say, looks what's happening to Mean Streak.

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Cincy's Coney Island, working with Taft Broadcasting on the park that would become Kings Island, acquired 1,600 acres. Most parks just don't have the land to build coasters on the scale of the Beast; KI is still sending coasters out into that back acreage.

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I'm a Marxist, of the Groucho sort.