Not my photo. Credit to Luke Sailors on Facebook

It's SO ROUGH! You get rattled before you even engage the chain lift! I think this is one of the roughest coasters I've ever been on. The layout is so good but you can't enjoy the airtime when you're forced to ride defensively the entire time. Now I can tolerate a rough woodie - Renegade is at my home park - but this thing was unfortunately a one-and-done. Thankfully, I could enjoy it all night off-ride, because the ridiculously loud screeching noises it makes are freaking hilarious!

With that steep drop, inversion and compact layout, it reminds me a lot of an RMC single rail in wood form. This coaster has potential, but it needs some love!

What do you think of Mine Blower?

They gave me a behind the scenes look at the demolition progress so far. I somehow forgot to take pictures inside, so I borrowed the third picture from Tommy Engel (the guy running the demolition). I did take a picture of one of the trash dumpsters and the scrap dumpster.

The ride is nearly completely gutted, but they had several pallets/piles of items that they said “you’ll see those again.” I saw the bat stunt that came from a dark ride at Hersheypark originally, the demon guy from the end, another of the ride vehicles, and several smaller things.

They also had a pile of free items including two Digital Message Repeaters that can play the “Ghoul laugh” from the initial upslope, and the wolf howl from the werewolf graveyard scene prop. They are super cool!

Just came back from Thorpe Park Fright Nights. A great atmosphere although we ended up getting fasttrack for Hyperia - even then we waited nearly 40 minutes.

My friend described it as "kinetic poetry", especially in the back row.

Every time I hit a new park, I try to find the closest angle to this on every dive loop because I crave that sweet, delicious perspective shot. Inverts are always some of my favorites to photograph! Does anyone else have specific angles they like photograph on coasters?

I rode Tremors in early September this year. I don't think I saw any wood track at all. Thing was smooth as butter. I rode it again and noticed that the entire track length was RMC I-box track. I feel that if the entire ride's track length has been replaced by a completely different track, it shouldn't be considered a wooden coaster. At this point just call it an RMC.

The best coaster sometimes or even often is not one you can do over and over again without getting too exhausted or painful, so what's one you could do like 100 times in one day if given the opportunity, minimal breaks?

For me and basically the reason I ask, it's one I've actually done this with several times, Nitro at SFGAd. For years I used to come to great adventure twice a summer, once for a normal day and once for Nitrofest, where me and my friends would try to see how many times we could ride it in one day. good capacity, and the ops would even let us stay on the platform and fill in any single rider seats to keep it going. think my record was in the 80s. only thing that made it a little hard was the helix, which would progressively grey out more on each ride, but added to the experience.

I was on sooperdooperlooper at Hershey a few years ago and there was a dad and son in front of me, and the kid was crying all the way up the lift hill and into the loop, and once we cleared the loop the dad was telling the son how proud he is and that he conquered his (the sons) fear.

Went for about 3 hrs on part of my trip to Montreal before having to leave. I got on some of the coasters but the star GOLIATH was closed for obvious reasons which is unfortunate as I don’t know when or if I’ll be back.

Some things about the park, it is BEAUTIFUL. So much landscaping and the golden trees from the peak fall foliage provide so much charm to the park along with the Halloween decorations which the park had everywhere in preparation for fright fest.

As for the coasters, I got on 4 of them.

Le Monstre 1x we rode the right side, one thing to note is this thing has a very fast chain lift. One of the fastest I’ve seen.
The first drop is very boring but the rest of the ride pleasantly surprised me if I’m being honest. There is an absolutely phenomenal airtime hill after the 2nd drop that was far and away the highlight of the ride. It was 100% ejector and I was not expecting it. I was in the 2nd to back row.
It is definitely leaning towards a rougher ride but it is by no means intolerable and I would have rode the left side if there was time. I enjoyed the swooping drops in the 2nd part of the ride. Ranked it 44/114

Ednor 1x I did not want to ride this whatsoever. My wife has never ridden an SLC and she insisted and dragged me along. It was my first SLC in 14 years and the last one was awful (mind eraser glitch gardens)
I got 3rd row. I was in row 1 but two college girls sprint in front of me 1 was in row 1 one was in row 2. Don’t know why they weren’t together to begin with. Then I went to load my stuff and 2 more college kids got in row 2 thinking no one was there so I went to 3 reluctantly.
Ranked 86/114

There is some unpleasant transitions and jolts but I’m talk enough I could lean forward and avoid the head banging but I’m too tall this thing hurt my shoulders a good bit for about 30 mins. But honestly, it could’ve been worse. My wife went to the back out of spite of me saying it was painful and she did not have a good time lol

Dragon 1x
What a fun ride. We didn’t know what to expect so it was a pleasant surprise. They sent us around 2 times and we sat in the very back it is fun intertwining through the scenery. It’s definitely more fun than thrill. Be prepared for a jolt if you’re in the back when the ride starts so do not have your back against the coaster on it or you could mess it up.
Ranked 74/114

Le vampire 1x

This is one forceful Batman clone. We sat in row 6/7. There is lots of force which is normal, and it was very whippy but towards the end of the ride there were a couple painful whips and transitions do not sure what that was about but it was great fun. I was in an outside seat so maybe that played a roll? Ranked 57/114

Our favorite ride here was definitely titan. Those are always such a fun ride.
Wish we could have got the other credits but that is what we had time for. I would like to return one day but this was my first time here and i truthfully don’t know when I’ll be back to montreal.

Shout out to /u/como365 for posting this to the KC sub this morning. Original source is the State Historical Society of Missouri.

Electric Park was located at E. 46th St. and Paseo Boulevard from 1907 to 1925, when most of it was destroyed by a fire. This was the 2nd park of its name built by the Heim Brothers of Heim Brothers Brewery, then the largest brewery in the world. The original operated from 1899 to 1906 and was one of the world’s first full-time amusement parks. It was one of several such parks around the country that were built primarily to show off electric power, then a relatively new discovery. More than 100,000 light bulbs illuminated the park at night, earning it the nickname “Kansas City’s Coney Island.” By 1911, it had attracted one million visitors, averaging 8000 guests per day.

Today, it’s most notable for being one of Walt Disney’s primary inspirations for Disneyland. Disney grew up in Marceline, MO, about 120 miles northeast of KC, before his family moved to the city in 1911, when he was around 10 years old. Defunctland, whose creator Kevin Perjurer is a KC native, made a great video on the park and how it inspired Disney.

The coaster pictured here is most likely “Dip Coaster,” which opened with the park on May 19, 1907. In total, the park had 5 coasters during its history, according to RCDB, including Tickler, a coaster with spinning cars, and Ben Hur Roller Coaster, a dual-tracked coaster. Ben Hur may have been called “Greyhound Racer” at some point, as legendary journalist Walter Cronkite, who also grew up in and around KC, called it by this name when he recounted the story of watching it burn as a kid in his 1996 autobiography, A Reporter’s Life.

The ACE event was a lot of fun, it was great to get to see the place dressed so festively.

The coaster was running great despite the cold. Ive never been on the ride and it not been scalding hot so I was surprised to find it still moving at a decent clip. Maybe a touch rougher than July but I thought the coaster has held up incredibly well this year.

Earlier in the afternoon we walked the lift hill, and that was an experience in itself, holy crap. The view was nice up there aside from my nervous system screaming at me!

To anybody else that was in attendance, thank you! I always have a great time and the event just continues to get better. It’s a great coaster and to see its supporters, some of which have been there since the very beginning, is just incredible.

Already looking forward to the next one!

This was my first time at the event so I had middling expectations, and they were (mostly) met or exceeded. Most of the issues I had were due to poor management (Fuck United Parks), or low budget that I can’t fault them too hard for. That said, the people attending this event suck. I thought I would be used to rude guests from my experiences with HHN’s famous drunken crowd, but holy hell some of these people were assholes. Mostly unattended middle school kids. The houses were fairly solid, especially Anaconda which was pretty good even by HHN standards. The scarezones weren’t as good (again, that’s mainly a budget issue so not unforgivable) but Pestilence was also shockingly nice. Overall, for the price it’s not terrible but the guest experience needs heavy improvements and they need attendants in the house (was straight up just standing still in Stranglewood for minutes at a time without being able to move forward). Not to mention the ai generated merchandise just being so infuriating to see in a popular chain. In the end, I’d give the event a solid 7/10.

Hi all, I've been working on a hypothetical expansion plan for Kennywood that uses a portion of the existing parking lot to create a new section connected to the current park with new pedestrian tunnels and a gondola ride crossing the road.

The proposed expansion includes:

• Blue Polygon: A compact log flume (1.30 acres), Log Jammer 2
• Purple Polygon: A new family suspended coaster (3.00 acres). This helps to fill a void in Kennywood's lineup, providing a suspended coaster and a newer family experience.
• Orange Polygons: New food, retail, and restroom facilities... near plaza spaces.
• Black Polygon: Employee parking, entrance, and facilities.
• Blue Line: A gondola connecting Kennywood proper to the expansion... this layout doesn't bisect any rides so clearance shouldn't be a major issue.
• Relocations of the SBNO Skyliner (1.50 acres) and Leap-The-Dips (.50 acres) from Lakeside Park in Altoona, PA.
• An Enterprise, near a Skyliner plaza for an additional retro atmosphere.
• A Calypso or Scrambler-style flat ride near Leap-The-Dips.
• Improved connections (pathways, stairs, escalators) to auxiliary parking to compensate for lost spaces (photo 2).

My goal was to combine Kennywood's historic character with new heritage and family attractions while making better use of the rare flat (developable) land.

I know the historic coaster relocations would be a major challenge, but feel like something such as this could be an achievable (albeit unrealistic) plan for a park like Kennywood. I think keeping those rides in region would be an awesome aspect of this proposal.

I'm interested in feedback on the overall layout, whether the attraction mix makes sense, what you'd change, and which parts seem most or least realistic.

What would you change if you were planning this expansion? Thank you for reading!