Joey Cerasi Posted August 20, 2021 Share Posted August 20, 2021 17 minutes ago, KPfan said: I’m not certain if anything has changed so definitely best to get an answer from the park directly. But I know that FunDay tickets bought through local school districts are redeemable for any day during the summer operating season. So I would think that also applies to any FunDay ticket. https://www.kennywood.com/avsd Thanks! This helps a little bit, but even more laughable is that the park is actually closed on 8/26... My friends and I are idiots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PennStater Posted August 22, 2021 Share Posted August 22, 2021 Daily operations ends on 8/23 and we're not open on the 26th. https://www.kennywood.com/calendar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CenturyFlyer Posted September 6, 2021 Share Posted September 6, 2021 Phantom's Revenge is getting a full repaint of its track next season. They're letting you vote if you want the color to change to purple or teal: https://www.kennywood.com/choose-the-color I'm sure that this will be just one of many cosmetic changes next year, as the park will be getting "rebranded" like Lake Compounce was. Also... this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PKI Jizzman Posted September 6, 2021 Share Posted September 6, 2021 Visiting for the first time in 7 years next month. Looks like there's only 2 options for their Fast Pass: $130 VIP $59 skip the line on the coasters once each. For a Saturday in October and Steel Curtain only one train is the VIP pretty much the only way to get multiple rides on it? I'm assuming it's gonna be slammed on a fall Saturday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BRTeller Posted September 6, 2021 Share Posted September 6, 2021 4 minutes ago, PKI Jizzman said: Visiting for the first time in 7 years next month. Looks like there's only 2 options for their Fast Pass: $130 VIP $59 skip the line on the coasters once each. For a Saturday in October and Steel Curtain only one train is the VIP pretty much the only way to get multiple rides on it? I'm assuming it's gonna be slammed on a fall Saturday. Steel Curtain has the absolute slowest operations I've experienced on any coaster ever. The staff is slow, the one train operations are slow. I don't understand it at all since other coasters in the park are perfectly fine, it's like they put the worst employees on the most popular coaster and said "hey we don't need both trains, what's an extra 3 minutes per dispatch on top of the 15". So while you could get a few rides on it, I would plan to buy the VIP pass if you want re rides. I pretty much skip the coaster every time we go unless we have a pass for it. Even the one time the ride had a small wait outside of the station, the wait for that was 45 minutes to an hour for essentially 5 to 6 trains worth of people and that was with two train operation. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PKI Jizzman Posted September 6, 2021 Share Posted September 6, 2021 And as we approach fooseball season, I am assuming it will be ever more popular than usual. I'll be curious to see if they are worse than the Valravn or Cheetah Hunt or Falcon's Fury crews, haha. Those deserve as special place in theme park hell this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BRTeller Posted September 6, 2021 Share Posted September 6, 2021 34 minutes ago, PKI Jizzman said: And as we approach fooseball season, I am assuming it will be ever more popular than usual. I'll be curious to see if they are worse than the Valravn or Cheetah Hunt or Falcon's Fury crews, haha. Those deserve as special place in theme park hell this year. Well my experience this year at Valravn and Cheetah Hunt were lightning fast compared to Steel Curtain. I do remember those two coasters being a bit slow this year, but nothing like how horrible Steel Curtain is. Even SFA wait times and operations were better every single time we've went, even with 1 train operations on Superman with very similar conditions as I described with Steel Curtain it was still quicker. I do want to emphasize this is only for Steel Curtain, I can't think of any other ride in the park that has bad operations. Everything else is lightening fast and particularly the Phantom's Revenge crew is amazing. I highly recommend marathoning that one at night if you have the opportunity. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KPfan Posted September 6, 2021 Share Posted September 6, 2021 Curtain and Thunderbolt were expected to be single train all season. But there have been days where Curtain has been running two trains. Hopefully the planned work for this off season will resolve the issues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taylor Finn Posted September 6, 2021 Share Posted September 6, 2021 2 hours ago, CenturyFlyer said: Phantom's Revenge is getting a full repaint of its track next season. They're letting you vote if you want the color to change to purple or teal: https://www.kennywood.com/choose-the-color I'm sure that this will be just one of many cosmetic changes next year, as the park will be getting "rebranded" like Lake Compounce was. Also... this Was this a survey sent to select guests? I’m a season pass holder but didn’t get this! Holding out some hope. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KPfan Posted September 6, 2021 Share Posted September 6, 2021 It’s photoshopped. There’s only one report of someone claiming to have received the survey. If it was legitimate, there would have been many more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SharkTums Posted September 6, 2021 Share Posted September 6, 2021 2 hours ago, BRTeller said: Steel Curtain has the absolute slowest operations I've experienced on any coaster ever. The staff is slow, the one train operations are slow. I don't understand it at all since other coasters in the park are perfectly fine, it's like they put the worst employees on the most popular coaster and said "hey we don't need both trains, what's an extra 3 minutes per dispatch on top of the 15". So while you could get a few rides on it, I would plan to buy the VIP pass if you want re rides. I pretty much skip the coaster every time we go unless we have a pass for it. Even the one time the ride had a small wait outside of the station, the wait for that was 45 minutes to an hour for essentially 5 to 6 trains worth of people and that was with two train operation. Don't forget it also has the slowest lift hill so it just takes FOREVER!!! 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grsupercity Posted September 7, 2021 Share Posted September 7, 2021 Hopefully Phantom gets painted purple. The world needs more purple coasters lol 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dankeykang Posted September 7, 2021 Share Posted September 7, 2021 ^Especially ones that are operational. *cough* Iron Gwazi *cough* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coasterbill Posted September 7, 2021 Share Posted September 7, 2021 I feel like this is a great excuse for them to paint it in the spring and open it for the season somewhere around mid-August. lol 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disownedpear Posted September 7, 2021 Share Posted September 7, 2021 Looks like purple is heavily in the lead. Why would someone photoshop that thing about Kangaroo, so cruel! Do we know where the ride is now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taylor Finn Posted September 7, 2021 Share Posted September 7, 2021 ^I have no idea. But I will just note this: The Bayern Kurve ride has been replaced with a wooden fence to hide the vacant area. Paratrooper ride has been replaced with some green space. Again, does a pretty good job of hiding what was there. Volcano still has the theming there, but that whole area is very dysfunctional, so not surprised. Kangaroo, though? The operator booth and physical line are still there and nothing has been put into the center space where the ride sat. The optimist in me wants to think the ride is sitting in storage and that they just couldn't justify paying the person who knew how to maintain it this season (or additional employees to operate it). It would be a great "new addition" and I'm certain they understand it is the most missed of the four rides and always was going to be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KPfan Posted September 7, 2021 Share Posted September 7, 2021 What’s old is new again. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PKI Jizzman Posted September 9, 2021 Share Posted September 9, 2021 Welp, guess I'll be canceling my trip. "https://www.kennywood.com/ We regret to announce the Steel Curtain will be closed for maintenance for the remainder of the season. Our park team will be working closely with the ride’s manufacturer to ensure a roaring return next spring. Sorry the text is dark. Steel Curtain closed for the year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boldikus Posted September 10, 2021 Share Posted September 10, 2021 LOL when can we start calling this thing a lemon? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BRTeller Posted September 10, 2021 Share Posted September 10, 2021 29 minutes ago, PKI Jizzman said: Welp, guess I'll be canceling my trip. "https://www.kennywood.com/ We regret to announce the Steel Curtain will be closed for maintenance for the remainder of the season. Our park team will be working closely with the ride’s manufacturer to ensure a roaring return next spring. Sorry the text is dark. Steel Curtain closed for the year. This is probably the best news we've heard on the coaster in awhile. Hopefully this means fixing whatever kinks it has to get it to a somewhat normal operation. Whether that's retraining, second train, or a quicker lift, all together would result in amazing operations but even just one of those things would at least cut down 5 minutes on each cycle. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tndank Posted September 10, 2021 Share Posted September 10, 2021 They had over a year to fix the coaster. Now another 8 months? Maybe S&S will build Vortex as an apology. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coneyislandchris Posted September 10, 2021 Share Posted September 10, 2021 Kennywood and extended ride closures go together just like chocolate and peanut butter. They haven't closed Phantom's Revenge yet for the repainting, have they? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KPfan Posted September 10, 2021 Share Posted September 10, 2021 9 hours ago, coneyislandchris said: Kennywood and extended ride closures go together just like chocolate and peanut butter. They haven't closed Phantom's Revenge yet for the repainting, have they? Revenge is not expected to close for painting. And yeah, the new management team is not happy about some of the prolonged downtime or repetitive issues with certain rides. Obviously not everything can be addressed at once but expect to see more work being done to improve. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coasterbill Posted September 10, 2021 Share Posted September 10, 2021 I don't know the specifics of what's wrong with this thing, but considering it's Kennywood I think it's fair to assume that the park probably shares in the blame along with the manufacturer. I'm not giving them the benefit of the doubt on anything. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bert425 Posted September 10, 2021 Share Posted September 10, 2021 the moment they pulled out Kangaroo and Bayern Kurve ? this park went from "must do again next time in Pennsylvania" to "eh . . been there, got to ride the unique rides and classics before they retired several of them (including the log flume).. no rush to go back" Would I like to ride Steel Curtain? sure. . but not making a trip just for that. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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