#Kennywood Hours

[pittsburghbeautiful]

Kennywood Park

Exploring the Magic of Kennywood: Pittsburgh’s Amusement Park Imagine a place where nostalgia and thrill blend so perfectly it feels like stepping into another world. This is no mere daydream; it’s Kennywood, Pittsburgh’s premier amusement park and a place of both yesteryear charm and modern excitement. Whether you’re seeking the adrenaline rush of roller coasters or a leisurely stroll down…

[deregirls]

I will never go into a Wawa bc I think people here will smell it on me and I'm already at risk of being killed for not liking the Steelers or owning or wanting Steelers merch. I haven't even ridden Steel Curtain. (bc it's closed)

[thefiendlord]

🎢Punch-Out Wii Very Specific HCs: Annual Trans-Only Get-Together 🏳️‍⚧️

I am so bored and tired at work, so this is what I'm going to do on break. Idk where the idea came from

After pulling from a hat, this year's trip was Kennywood, a theme park near Pittsburgh because it's my favorite place and it's close enough to New York.

Glass Joe (trans man) 🥖🇫🇷

-Got a sunburn because Don's sunscreen was fuckang expired (thanks)

-Split a plate of funnel cake with Disco and gained a life ruining addiction to it

-Threw a fit because the Black Widow was closed by the time they reached that side of the park (secret adrenaline junky)

-Fell asleep during the 2 hour line to the Exterminator so Bull carried him on his back

Disco Kid (trans masc, bigender) 🇺🇸🪩

-Rode the Music Land Express 13 times and screamed the loudest each time (they make you scream to make it go faster)

-Threw up his half of the funnel cake on the merry-go-round (lol)

-Got really antsy during the Exterminator line and started breakdancing, accidentally kicked Hippo's ass and got his ass beat in the ring the next day

-Stunted on all of the carnival games and everyone had to split up carrying the huge plushies

King Hippo (trans man) 🇼🇸🦛

-Started an impromptu candied apple eating contest with a group of people at the park and stunted on everyone

-Unfortunately, could only fit on the Log Jammer and Exterminator. Fortunately, those are in the top 5 best rides, so. A W?

-Stopped the group to pet all the dogs in the park

-So pissed at Disco for kicking him that he tried to rig the basketball game against him by bending the hoop. It did not work.

Great Tiger (trans masc, agender) 🐯🇮🇳

-Used his clones to take up seats when he didn't want to share ride cars with strangers.

-Tried to cheat the carnival games with thaumaturgy, but they were so #rigged it didn't work.

-Wanted to try all of the food shits at the park, and made Don pay for it after he took the last spot on the Comet before it closed for maintenance.

-Almost got heat stroke after forgetting to drink water for the first 4 hours of the trip.

Don Flamenco (trans masc, genderfluid) 🇪🇸🌹

-Paid for the tickets and made sure everyone remembered that for the whole trip.

-Brought all the meds and extra clothes. Half of the meds were expired, though, since they'd been in the WVBA first aid kit for the past decade and he was too cheap to buy some.

-Got really pissy with the staff when they tried to tell him there wasn't a "fast pass".

-Lost his flipflops on the Swings and cried about it.

Bald Bull (trans man) 🐂🇹🇷

-Completely stone-faced on all of the rides, was too scared to ride the water rides, though.

-Yelled at Tiger until he drank some water, and got mad when he tried to drink lemonade instead.

-Carried Joe through half the park because he got tired after walking up all the gotdam hills.

-Ate $20 worth of Potato Patch fries and got a tummy ache. Had a great time, though.

Thanks 4 reading

[radiotow3r]

So, I'm going to an amusement park with some of my friends from high school next week. As many of you know, I am disabled and use crutches to walk. However, I will be staying ALL DAY, from open to close. As much as my crutches help with my mobility, they don't if I'm going to still be walking for 9 hours.

So I've made the decision to rent a wheelchair from the park. I will update this post after the trip talking about my experience. Hopefully, all goes well and I'll enjoy my day without having my disability get in the way.

If any other disabled folk would like to keep up with this to have a first-hand account of the accessibility in the park, it's Kennywood located in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania.

[bumbis]

Waldameer TR

Drove two hours to Waldameer on Saturday (5/27/23). Ever since I found out there was a gravity group so close to me I knew I had to visit. I got there and entered in by the waterpark, took a second to find the back of the park. I noticed it was a pretty busy, which makes sense, it was a long holiday weekend.

Waldameer has never had any admission price, you can get an all day wristband or pay per ride. I headed to the back of the park and boy, Waldameer has a strange layout, its easy to navigate but feels more like a big county fair more than anything. I walked back and saw RFII :D I thought it was over 100 ft, but it's like 85?? DOESN'T MATTER it flies. I haven't been to a park that wasn't kennywood in a while and I was shocked with a drop that steep, especially on a wooden coaster. In the back row you get FLUNG over the drop, then go into that insane sustained hill over the road. loop around, go up another hill and you do it again and go into a fantastic twister section. its so smooth, so fast and the good thing about going on a busy day is you fly into that brake run. I couldn't get enough of it. Overall I rode it 5 times. It was about 30 bucks but damn, I don't regret it at all. What an insane ride. It hits every single time and might have one of the best views on a coaster. I think it's a back row ride, the forces you get in the back is crazy. Easily my favorite wooden coaster I've been on.

[eldritch-whoror]

for everyone who just learned ab kennywood from defunctland, the park brought back a beloved old ride and people waited in line for 5 hours yesterday.

and today another ride got stuck upside down

[beoneofus]

best rides at kennywood?

the phantom's revenge, the sky coaster, the sky rocket, the swingshot, the thunderbolt, the arrow 360 and the black widow.

that black widow though? always gotta wait nearly two fucking hours cause of how long the line always is 💔

[harveydentspocketpussy]

Wait..i saw u said u live about an hour away from kennywood..and i do to..😦

ayy you do?? that's so cool oh my gosh-

[yanderepuck]

Like its friday, I have shit I need to do. He's taking his kids to kennywood(an amusement park), bc he decided to bring them to work with him, but I have to just sit here bored on my ass for two hours??? And can't get anything done that I need to get done??? I should leave like a half hour early.

No. I'm gonna turn the fucking phone off so I can't be called

[g0ttal0ve101]

I hate band camp so much oml 😩

I’m gone for seven hours (8-3) for TWO WEEKS LIKE??? 😭😭😭😭

At least I get a free pass to Kennywood tho 👁

[chuckling-chemist]

“you can find your own fun and hang out with your friends!”

look I appreciate the gesture my dude but i ain’t driving 3 hours and paying 10 bucks to hang out with people on my birthday when i can at least drive 3 hours and go to fucking Kennywood or some shit instead of watching a bunch of fighters posture.

or better, hang out with people that live where i do for free, in a city where there’s events almost every weekend around that time. 

[double-up-rides-blog]

About Me

Hey everyone! My name is Andrew, I’m an aspiring roller coaster enthusiast starting this blog to get a foot into the roller coaster community! I’m also starting an Instagram under the same name, so check me out!

Currently, I have 49 credits. I’m a new enthusiast but with several trips planned over the next few months, it’s a good start! My goal is to reach 100 credits by the end of 2019!

Growing up in a small town in northeast Ohio, I was very fortunate to live where I did, with parks like Cedar Point, Geauga Lake, Kennywood, and King’s Island all only a few hours away. Despite all this access to roller coasters, I never really grew up riding them because they scared me. I was however, fascinated with them. Playing Roller Coaster Tycoon pretty much since it came out, I liked to learn about how these rides worked so I could make realistic rides in my game.

The anxiety of riding roller coasters lessened as I learned how they work, and as I learned about the safety procedures and fail safes there are installed into every ride. So finally in 2010 at 12 years old, I rode my first roller coaster that wasn’t a kiddie ride. It was my third trip to Cedar Point and I finally got on the Raptor as my very first non-kiddie credit. I LOVED it. I didn’t go much bigger that day, however, mostly riding the family rides.

That same summer I visited Kennywood for the first time since I was very little. This was the season Sky Rocket opened, so I got on that one first. I worked my way up, eventually riding every roller coaster in the park, including Phantom’s Revenge. At this point in time, Phantom’s Revenge was by far the biggest ride I rode, and I was so proud of myself for riding it. I became obsessed with roller coasters. I brought out my copy of Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 and started playing religiously, studying on roller coasters and recreating rides near me pretty much every day after school.

The next summer I went back to Cedar Point, and at this point I was confident. I rode everything the park had, despite having a borderline panic attack in line for Top Thrill Dragster. I felt like I could handle anything.

Throughout the next few years, my interest in roller coasters really diminished. Growing up, I had wanted to be a roller coaster designer, but I learned pretty quick in high school that engineering wasn’t for me. I went to some parks here and there on school trips, including HersheyPark and Six Flags Over Georgia, but the interest was just not there anymore.

In 2016 a game called Planet Coaster was released as a new generation of theme park tycoon games. I bought it pretty quickly, but never really got into it. It basically just sat in my steam library for a few years.

In 2017 I started college, moving to Northwestern Pennsylvania, only about 30 minutes from Waldameer. My freshman year was hard, as most are. I faced many mental health issues, but I got through the year. I wasn’t sure I’d be coming back the next year, however, but ultimately I decided to give it one more shot.

Though there were some hardships, my sophomore year was much easier on me. I had an established group of friends, I met my wonderful girlfriend, and I discovered a few of my passions, and ended up rediscovering my love for roller coasters.

In October 2018, my school offered a day trip to Cedar Point for $20 for Halloweekends. Most of my friends being from all over the country, had never been to Cedar Point (some had never even heard of it, which blew my mind), so naturally I talked them all into it and we went. This was also the first year that a little ride called Steel Vengeance opened. The weather was really bad that day, so we only got to ride one ride, but luckily that ride was Steel Vengeance. Oh man, was that one ride all I needed. I was blown away.

Back at school, I became obsessed. Roller coasters dominated the little free time I had. I logged 150 hours into Planet Coaster over the rest of the school year, and became obsessed with enthusiast channels like ElToroRyan, Coaster Studios, Airtime Thrills, Canada Coaster Fan, Theme Park Crazy, etc. My girlfriend and I took a trip to Waldameer to celebrate the end of finals to ride Ravine Flyer II for the first time, which was incredible. I knew pretty quickly I wanted to be a part of this community.

So today, I counted up my credits to 49, and with a few trips to King’s Dominion, Kennywood, King’s Island, Cedar Point and hopefully Holiday World and Six Flags Great Adventure in the near future, I decided to start this blog! Here I’ll be posting my opinions, I’ll talk about my trips, news updates, sharing some Planet Coaster creations and whatever else I feel like doing! I hope you’ll stick around to see where my journey as an enthusiast takes me!

[sleepyinkky2]

Your starting to scare me a little... are you okay?

Mun: I am fine... At the moment... In a few hours I won't be though... KENNYWOOD HERE I COME!!

[blauliebling]

i'm on my phone writing this in a hotel but i need to hurry up and say it before i forget.

if you're planning a vacation & you're not able bodied, here's something you need to know about universal studios via my experience with my mother.

i'm currently on vacation with my parents because i just recently graduated from high school, & a trip to the theme parks in florida was essentially my gift. my mother and i both have crohns; i won't go into the details of the disease since google exists, but there is a wide variation in how crohns might affect your life. for me, it doesn't affect me too much. a couple hours of IV treatment every 8 weeks and watching out for eating too much of one thing and that's all.

my mom is much worse off. she has to go to the doctors almost every week; in addition to her crohns ( & because of it ) she has severe rheumatoid arthritis. her normal walk is a waddle. she's constantly in some sort of chronic pain. her hip dislocates all the time & both sitting & standing hurts, even with her ( legally required ) wheelchair. now she's not wheelchair bound, but she has good days & bad days. theme parks are especially difficult for her with the terrain.

most of the time, when we arrive at theme parks she's given some sort of identification or card ( at disney it's called a DAS for example ). we don't use it for any special treatment other than any other person with a wheelchair needs. the reason for this, even though my mom can transfer into a car/ride seat ( with help from rails and me ), is because waiting in lines that are anywhere from 30 minutes to 3 hours can put her in immense pain. sitting or standing still can really hurt that hip, to the point where I've seen her leave shopping malls in tears because she feels like her leg is being ripped off.

i've been to disney in FL, busch gardens in VA, and kennywood in PA and they've all accommodated her needs. universal however, did not.

my mother was forced to wait in two, three hour lines in excruciating pain with other wheelchair users & even mentally disabled people who should not & could not wait in lines like that. she was told that the only thing they could do for her was give her a wheelchair, but because she already had one ( because you know, we own one ) they couldn't do anything else. "all of our rides are accommodating" they told us, even though many involve stairs in which we had to be taken another route. i watched her have to massage her own legs & have to skip rides because of the wait time, because she was too terrified that she'd be in pain.

you know what universal guest services offered us? a $100+ express pass so she could get in a 'faster line'. not a disabled accommodating line, a faster one.

so, tldr; don't give the universal studios theme park your money, if you can help it, & call them out on their treatment. guest services and many of the ride operators treated us with rude service & did not adequately accommodate my mother & her very prominent disability, + other disabled people i saw today. if smaller, cheaper theme parks can adapt to their disabled guests, so can universal.

[ufcw]

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[junker-town]

The 4 amusement park rides on which you absolutely don’t want to get stuck

10 minutes on a pirate ship is nothing. 10 minutes on the Musik Express is hell.

On Wednesday, western Pennsylvania’s Kennywood Park experienced its second malfunction in as many days when its Pirate ship — an amusement park standby that swings patrons back and forth — lost power to its brake line. The mishap left riders lurching at the bottom of a incomplete loop for what probably seemed like hours but was roughly 10 minutes on solid ground. While no one was injured, enough patrons were shaken up to leave feedback like angry Theme Park Tycoon characters.

“I was terrified. My kids are crying. There was people behind us panicking. There was a guy in front of us, he was ready to get sick,” said one rider, who asked to have his name withheld, told Pittsburgh’s KDKA.

“It just kept on going, and I just got really scared, and I was feeling really sick, and I was crying. I was just terrified,” said rider Evan Paulick.

That’s awful...but it could have been much worse. Amusement parks are basically affronts to the specter of death. It’s what makes them great, but also why you can set a Final Destination movie there and the world will respond “yeah, makes sense, great film.” The Pirate is a simple back and forth experience that gets tamer the closer you are to the middle of the ship. Would I want to be stuck on it for 10 minutes? Adult me says no, but 13-year-old me just threw up a churro in excitement just thinking about it.

But even 13-year-old me knows there are some rides that are strict 90 second experIences before moving on to the Potato Patch for some hand-cut fries. Here’s our breakdown of all the amusement park attractions that would be absolute hell to be stuck on for 10+ minutes.

The Musik Express

The conceit behind the Musik Express is simple. You spin around an inclined plane for two minutes, gradually getting faster and faster while a bored teenager in the booth plays either:

a) music (musik?) that hasn’t been relevant in two decades, or b) music that is entirely inappropriate — for me this was Nirvana’s In Utero, in its entirety, at Warwick, RI’s now-defunct Rocky Point.

What you don’t realize about the Express when you walk up to the line, or even as you’re strapping yourself in, is that it’s essentially an astronaut experiment to see how much centrifugal force a 10-year-old can withstand. As the ride speeds up, you’re flung to the outer reaches of your car. A slick, flat, molded-plastic bench means anyone sitting to your right — sometimes two patrons — are now intimately aware of what you’ve got in your pockets. This is the exact moment Sartre was talking about when he said hell is other people.

But the discomfort trickles away as the ride slows to a stop and you dizzily walk yourself off the pressed metal crosswalk and back to the gum-pocked asphalt of the park. The dulcet tones of Korn’s “Got the Life” fade into the cacophony of bumper cars and carnival games in the background, and in several months, you forget the discomfort of the Musik Express. Until you buckle the world’s least effective seatbelt for a ride the following year.

Now imagine that feeling, on repeat, while gravity smooshes you through 30 to 40% of Iggy Azalea’s The New Classic. Hard pass. Same goes for other spinning rides like the Rotor or Scrambler or anything that counts on centrifugal force to rearrange your organs. — Christian D’Andrea

Ragin’ Rapids

Pretty much every park has a whitewater simulator where you trudge wildly through brown-ish water the same consistency of a low-grade fever in a raft that looks like repurposed tools from an aborted effort to make the world’s largest deep dish pizza. Every ride is the same; you start out calm, bump into a few walls, hit a few manufactured “rapids” that leave itch-water drying on your shorts for the next several hours, and finally gasp in delight as that one strategically-placed waterfall soaks 30 percent of your boat right before the finish.

Typically, you then walk off, wring out your socks, and pray you remembered to bring your hand sanitizer. Instead, consider having to run the course four or five more times, ensuring total soakage. The chlorine in the water, exhausted from its losing battle with the park’s bacteria, decides to take its frustration out on your clothing and skin instead. Every bump increases your odds of accidentally swallowing something unfit for man or beast to ingest. Every trip past the waterfall feels more and more like God is taunting you. — Christian D’Andrea

The Zipper (a special guest opinion from James Dator)

Let’s be abundantly clear on what the “Zipper” is: A ride that was constructed by a group of carnies who checked out a book on medieval torture devices at the library and were like “seems like a good ride.”

You don’t get to sit on the Zipper, not really. It’s a half-standing human-shaped cage of misery. There’s a ever present realization that a few pieces of rusty rebar and fencing is all that holds you back from your annihilation.

Seriously, walk past the Zipper at any county or state fair. You’ll hear a group of people standing around trying to peer pressure each other into riding the Zipper, because the Zipper is an asshole that exists only because it knows people want to seem cool by riding it.

So now we’ve established that:

a. The Zipper sucks. b. People only willingly ride The Zipper out of social fear.

Now imagine being stuck on this thing for a considerable period of time. The ride itself has three points of rotation, two controlled by the ride and a third free pivot on each individual capsule. It’s designed to completely destroy any sense of orientation you might have.

The Zipper (according to Wikipedia) has a MAXIMUM ride time of 2.5 minute. TWO POINT FIVE MINUTES. Even the Zipper’s creators know that this device should not be used for any extended period of time.

I love my life. I really do. If you stuck me on the Zipper for 30 minutes I’d tear a piece of the cage off using my bare hands and commit seppuku.

Disclosure: I rode the Zipper in 2009 at the North Carolina State Fair and threw up my turkey leg. — James Dator

Space Mountain

The thing about amusement parks is that the rides are bad. They terrify me. I don’t like going through sharp turns. I don’t like being in the dark. And I definitely don’t like Space Mountain, the ride that goes through sharp turns in the dark.

The worst part about rollercoasters is that they make me nauseous and scared. That, but in the dark, is cause for an ambulance on its own and if I have to be stuck on that for TEN MINUTES lord help me.

I wouldn’t know where I was, what position I was in, where the end was, if I was hundreds of feet in the air. I wouldn’t know a single thing. So no thank you. Do not leave me stuck there. Unless you want a pile or tears mixed with vomit. — Matt Ellentuck