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Kennywood served as the inspiration for "Joyland Park" in LJ Smith's teen horror novel The Forbidden Game: The Kill. Kennywood served as the main inspiration for Jennifer Cruise and Bob Mayer's novel Wild Ride. The writers acknowledged the park by thanking "Kennywood for giving us a place to start thinking about Dreamland".
Steel Curtain is a steel hypercoaster at Kennywood in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania, United States.Manufactured by S&S – Sansei Technologies, the coaster reaches a height of 220 feet (67 m) and features either eight or nine inversions, [a] including a 197-foot (60 m) corkscrew considered to be the world's tallest inversion.
Phantom's Revenge is a steel hypercoaster located at Kennywood amusement park in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania.It originally opened as Steel Phantom in 1991, featuring the fastest speed and longest drop of any roller coaster in the world.
In 1969, a small "speed bump" hill was removed from the inner helix near the loading station. Thunderbolt was rated the #1 roller coaster by the New York Times in 1974. On May 16, 1968, a 15-year old boy from Greensburg died after a fall from the roller coaster. The exact cause of death was stated to be under investigation but has never been ...
In September 1998, Kennywood officially announced Exterminator as their sixth roller coaster and the park's first indoor coaster, complementing the park's history of iconic dark rides. Described as "a subterranean roller coaster adventure", the ride is fast, rough, includes a few sudden falls, and ends with a fast finale that includes flashing ...
The roller coaster was built in 1985 and had previously operated at Wiener Prater in Austria and Alton Towers in England, before opening at Idlewild in 1993. Kennywood continued the Macdonald tradition of offering large-scale entertainment, presenting circuses, lumberjack and acrobatics shows, and stage performances at the new Hillside Theater.
USA Today panel ranks Hersheypark, Knoebels and Kennywood high on "10 Best" list. ... dive into an 82-degree drop, invert 4 times, and stalk your prey through the world's largest underflip on ...
The first Kennywood Racer was a side friction roller coaster built in 1910 by Frederick Ingersoll. It was a twin-track racing coaster designed by John Miller that cost nearly $50,000. When it was built, it was the largest racing coaster in the world. [citation needed] The original Racer had two trains which raced side by side on two separate ...