People who think Steel Phantom is great....

Have to ride the GREAT AMERICAN SCREAM MACHINE at Six Flags Great Adventure.I am just trying to persuade everyone to come on over and try the Scream Machine.I also feel the CHILLER is VERY EXCITING.If you like SUE,you have to ride the CHILLER.I wish SUE had more hang time and went in a total loop.Kind of like the Looping Starship.:)

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"Let's Take This One For A Ride !"
-DC Talk,'Luv Is A Verb'
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The Steel Phantom is being removed for the same reasons the Crystal Beach Cyclone was. Declining ridership and increased maintanance costs. When you can just walk on to a ride with little or no waiting it's not a good sign. Couple that with the headaches they have had with it (some of them since when it was new)and you can pretty much read the writing on the wall

Yeah, but Shivering Timbers is like always a walk on. That is an amazing coaster. I think it is a bad sign for the park that nobody goes there.

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DOWN WITH TRIM BRAKES!

ST is not always a walk on. Go to Mich. Adv. on a Saturday in July or August and you will wait 30 to 45 minutes. Not a long wait but certainly not a walk on. You have to keep in mind that MA is really just starting to expand and is half a water park also. This park actually seems to get a little busier every year. I think once they add their hyper coaster it will really put them on the map. Of course who knows when that will be!

I've ridden both Phantom and GASM. I don't find Phantom boring at all. I actually like it better than GASM, to be honest. Having said that, I can't wait to see what Kennywood replaces it with...

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Phantom is one of the best coasters in the world. I dont find a 225 foot plunge down a ravine into a 80 mph turn dull. I actually find Phantom a better and more thrilling ride than Millennium Force.

I agree that the 225 drop into that ravine is a thrill of a lifetime. Rode it for the first time a week ago and still want to find just one more day to go back. It's incredible to stand in the station, feel the rumbling of the train overhead, then see it disappear over the cliff. Just a wicked ride. I was yelling "save the phantom" on the way back in. Like Back to the Future "save the clocktower!"
It was the first ride this summer where I needed to use both sides of the walk way to exit. I was completely disoriented....so I rode it again.


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There's nothing like a woodie...

I rode it the first year it was open and loved it:).
I really think the park is actually scraping it for more space:(.

I rode it 3 years ago, and I actually think I sat in the smoothest 2 best seats: front and second-from-back. I didn't even know those were the 2 seats where I could get the smoothest ride. It was all just coincedence that I sat there! So, of course, I really didn't think the ride was all too rough. I remember one really bad bump going into the corkscrew, but that was it. The 225 ft. drop was really intense... more intense than any part of MF and it also seemed alot faster than MF. I will really miss the ride a lot, so that means Kennywood better put in something awesome to replace it!

It's worth going back just to get some more of their french fries.

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"Let's Take This One For A Ride !"
-DC Talk,'Luv Is A Verb'

First of all, let me just say I LOVE the Steel Phantom. Second, the short lines are the best feature! There is never a wait for this incredible roller coaster! Low Attendance is awesome! But the new coaster, I can guarantee will have VERY LONG LINES (at least in it's first few years of operation, even if its not too good). Just look at Aero 360. Great, fun ride, but longest line in the park! 45 minutes for a middle saet, 1 hour and 15 min. for front seat! Its fun, but not better than the phantom! Anyways, yesterday, I rode Steel Phantom 12 times for a final good bye, my last time ever riding it. I live in MN but i come out here every year for Kennywood. I even kissed one of the cars good-bye.

The Phantom is awsome! I don't think its as rough as OLFOF or the Chiller. It's just a fast intense coaster. I hope Kennywood surprise us and adds to it on the helix. Instead of turning into the station how about another drop down the ravine and more inversions near the rapids ride. Then yet another drop into the ravine and finally back to the station. It still has the momentem in the helix for more trackage. Then I think it would be the only coaster in the world with 4 100+ foot drops!
I like GASAM as well. We got about 20 rides in the back seat on a rainy Wednsday night this summer in about an hour. The ride opp was letting us stay on if no one was in our line. I love the rapid inversions. I don't like hanging on the OTSR thru loops and corkscrews. GASAM just rips thru the corkscrews. Another of my favorite Arrow loopers.

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Parks hit for 2000!
PKD,BGW,Knoebels,DP,HP,PKI,HW,SFKK,SFA,SFNE,LC,GE,QP, Camden, SFO,CP,WL,IW,KW,Lakemont *** This post was edited by coasterpunk on 8/7/2000. ***

I AM very excited to see what the new KW coaster will be.I went there this summer for the first time and I really loved it.I love the really old rides like the Old Mill.I wish I went on that at night,I think night time might have enhanced it-especially when it went outside and I saw the crypt in the corner had the purple/black lights. KW is truly a unique place.

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"Let's Take This One For A Ride !"
-DC Talk,'Luv Is A Verb'