Coaster reviews

Duration

You get plenty of cycles on this thing. I mostly rode it because I had never done an SBF Visa spinner and there was no line. It's not a particularly great coaster. I'm glad I did it though.

Fun

Steel Dragon isn't a particularly memorable coaster. It's a standard Maurer spinner. It's not a particularly great coaster, nor is it trying to be. It's just a standard spinning coaster, and that's still fun enough.

Airtimes Location Intensity Dead spots

Ravine Flyer II is a phenomenal wooden coaster. Its setting is fantastic, going back into the woods and over a road near Lake Erie. This ride is intense. It's long. It does feel like it loses some steam towards the end, but overall it's still a wonderful coaster that alone is reason to go to Waldameer.

Fun Too short

Comet is simply not a memorable coaster. It's very small and doesn't really pull any forces. It's always fun to do classic wooden coasters, but this is pretty underwhelming.

Airtimes Intensity

Thunderbolt is very fun. My favorite of the three classic wooden coasters at Kennywood. It has some great laterals, and one moment in particular where the airtime was simply insane. It's on a larger scale than the other two wooden coasters, and it uses that to its advantage.

Theming Inversions Capacity

Steel Curtain is all about inversions. And it does them really well. It's also got a Pittsburgh Steelers football theme that isn't the greatest theming in the park or anything, but executed well enough to be fun. Only running one train though, and that lift hill takes forever.

Inversions Dead spots

I rode Sky Rocket first train of the day, so I admittedly likely got a slow ride, but it didn't look like it had really sped up much by the time I left the park. The hangtime on the top hat was great, and it had some fun inversions, but the second half of the ride was so random it detracted from the good first half.

Fun Smoothness Dead spots

Racer doesn't do a whole lot, but for a nearly 100-year old wooden coaster, it's running really smoothly. It seems like it's designed so that one side will always end up winning. It's a fun ride, but not particularly impressive.

Fun Smoothness Dead spots

Racer doesn't do a whole lot, but for a nearly 100-year old wooden coaster, it's running really smoothly. It seems like it's designed so that one side will always end up winning. It's a fun ride, but not particularly impressive.

Airtimes Intensity Too short

Phantom's Revenge is all about airtime. It delivers some of the greatest airtime I've ever experienced. It is a little on the short side, but what it does in a short amount of time is simply fantastic. Excellent coaster.