The ride reopened in May. The ride and its trains, which were manufactured by Premier Rides, underwent minor changes during the first few years. This included new lapbars , the placement of new anti-rollbacks , and the reduction of six cars per a train to five cars On July 9, , an incident occurred on the ride that resulted in the hospitalization of over twenty riders. The attraction was immediately shut down and did not reopen until the following summer, now with new trains which were manufactured by Gerstlauer and previously operated on the Hurricane: Category 5 roller coaster at Myrtle Beach Pavilion in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina and sans the signature loop.
The loop itself was not responsible for the incident, but in order to accommodate the new, lighter trains, the loop had to be removed. It was found that the structure was not designed to bear the weight of the track and trains. Son of Beast was closed for the rest of the year due to the accident. The park announced on December 13, that Son of Beast would reopen in However, the new lighter trains were not able to complete the loop and finish the rest of the track layout, so the loop got removed from Son of Beast.
A straight piece of track was built in its place. The coaster would go on to operate for two more years. However, some sections of the layout were still rough. Following reports of a woman critically injuring their head while riding Son of Beast due to the rough ride on June 16, , the ride was closed down. The ride then remained closed during and with no clear fate. On July 27, Kings Island announced that the ride would be demolished to make way for future developments.
There is a tribute to the ride in Banshee's queue line, it is an eternal flame and a gravestone with a marketing piece for the ride with underneath it. The ride was referred to as a wooden hyper coaster, which the ride's manufacturer, the Roller Coaster Corporation of America, had previously discussed the addition of to Kings Island. The ride was the second longest wooden coaster in the world after its "father" The Beast. It was also the world's tallest wooden roller coaster and at the time the world's only inverting wooden roller coaster.
Despite the fact that other wooden roller coasters with inversions have been built by manufacturers such as Rocky Mountain Construction and The Gravity Group, LLC in recent years, none of them have thus far featured a vertical loop, meaning that Son of Beast is the only wooden roller coaster in recent times to have featured a vertical loop. The Son of Beast had three big drops, including a foot drop after the lift hill.
It had a terrain layout, like the Beast. After rolling out of the station, the train makes a left turn and drops 51 feet. Following a left turn, riders head up the foot tall chain lift hill. At the top, riders turn right and drop feet at a 56 degree angle, reaching a max speed of 78 mph.
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Son of Beast opened on April 28, , despite some notable issues with the support structures that delayed the opening. The entrance notably featured the same crate seen at International Street, but it now featured a massive hole in it, with the ride's logo inside, indicating that the creature had escaped and is on the loose. On July 9, , a structure failure caused one of the ride car trains to come to a sudden stop. This event injured 27 people, with nineteen requiring hospital treatment, though no one was killed or succumbed to their injuries.
The ride remained closed for the remainder of the season, where it would receive lighter ride cars and the removal of its signature loop in order to accommodate the lighter cars.
The ride reopened on the Fourth of July the following year, nearly a complete year after the accident, still retaining its record as the tallest and fastest wooden coaster even without its loop. On June 16, , a woman claimed to have burst a blood vessel in her brain as a result of the ride during her visit to the park on May 31 of that same year. This claim was notably suspicious for multiple reasons, the first being the fact that such an incident was reported several days afterwards, and the second being that no such injury was reported to the park's first-aid stations.
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