 Welcome back everyone. This is Coaster Daddy here and today I would like to discuss my recent experience at Kennywood in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania as I got the chance to visit this classic amusement park for the first time in about eight years on July 28th, 2019. Starting off the day here, things weren't the greatest. I and my brother decided to get to the park for the opening and the park actually opens at 10.30 but the rides and stands and everything start to open at 11 o'clock as it says on their website but I was really concerned as we're walking into the park because it's 10.30 and we see absolutely no rides running which that was really concerning to me. I know that Kennywood is known for their bad operations so I was thinking of that as we're going and it's like oh boy they're not even testing the rides yet and the park is opening up with rides supposed to be opening in half an hour. Our strategy was to get into the park head straight for steel curtain so we could get that out of the way and at least get one ride on it because we knew lines would get really long for it. We had an issue with our tickets but we did fairly quickly get through security get in the park and we got into the line for steel curtain at about 10.45 and of course they didn't have actual queue line open yet since the rides weren't opening until 11 but steel curtain along with all the other rides was not testing. Slowly as it got closer to 11 we started seeing some of the rides doing test runs but steel curtain did not do one test run until a few minutes after 11 o'clock. This is the brand new start attraction of the park and they're not even testing it until after opening time which is just absolutely crazy to me. After we saw it first test we didn't see another train for probably another 20 minutes or so so we did finally see another train and then shortly after they opened it up but we waited from about 10.45 until almost 11.30 till they finally opened it up and once they opened the ride up we waited for about an hour and a half as we actually got onto the ride a few minutes before one o'clock and it was pretty hot on this day and you know they have some like small covers over the queue line and everything that you know kind of helped to shade you a little bit but it's pretty hot and the operations were awful here and the line was just moving so slow once it did open and it took forever to finally get it open so it was kind of frustrating but we eventually got on steel curtain and I will be doing a separate review of that later on so I will reserve my thoughts on that ride we did get to ride that which was great and then we went on to ride aero 360 it was actually my first time riding this what a what a great flat ride I love this ride lots of amazing hang time it just flips you upside down and you're just hanging there for several seconds before you finally topple over to the other side and it's great to continue on with our day we ended up going over riding phantoms revenge jackrabbit we basically got on all of the rides that we wanted to a lot of the major stuff my brother really wanted to get on exterminator he loves that ride I think it's a pretty fun wild mouse but the lines get really long for that that was no exception on this day the line was just way too long for us so we never did get to that and we never did racer either neither one of us are the biggest fan of racer it's just kind of boring to be honest it doesn't really do a whole lot even though it's a classic ride there's not really much to it as where the other two wooden coasters in the park they have something that really makes them stand out we rode skyrocket twice which I'm very happy to say is finally back open I'm so glad they got this ride open is a really fun ride and a great coaster for Kennywood so we got two rides on phantom two rides on skyrocket everything else that we rode we got on once the only major coasters that we didn't ride work exterminator and racer I was really happy with the amount of stuff that we ended up getting on because the operations were just horrendous here and lines moved pretty slow they were running one train on a lot of this stuff for a good portion of the day more on that later and it was also pretty busy this day on this sunday that we went it was actually really busy a lot of the lines were pretty long one thing that we were really frustrated with we waited probably a good half hour for phantom's revenge the first time we rode it and when we're in the station and we only have a couple more cycles of the ride left to go until we board the ride they finally decide to put a second train on the ride and this is at three o'clock in the afternoon on a busy sunday like why I just don't understand why they had to run one train on so many of the major attractions here on a sunday in the summer and this was also the case with thunderbolt we rode thunderbolt after phantom's revenge and they were also putting a second train on that while we were waiting in line the operations here were honestly just really atrocious and I've heard a lot of bad things about Kennywood having bad operations so it wasn't that big of a surprise this is something they really need to improve on because overall Kennywood is a fantastic park I've always loved Kennywood and they have a great awesome collection of classic rides and some modern ones and it's just a really unique park but the operations just really can damage your experience here they can make the park just not nearly as fun as it should be we did have fun on this day but it was still just really exhausting because it was so hot and the lines were moving slow we did get a break at one point we went into the 4d theater that they have and that was kind of cool you know they have effects in there you get misted with water and air and stuff like that that was kind of cool and a nice way to escape the heat we didn't eat any food at the park this is one thing I was disappointed to find out about Kennywood is food prices because as I said I've been to Kennywood several times before this but I was a lot younger and the last time I had been here was eight years prior to this my parents would always take us and we would always eat food at the park and it was always very reasonably priced well that's changed now it seems like they've brought in a lot more chain places I noticed a couple chain places there I believe and the food prices just seem to like have gone way up compared to what they used to be so didn't eat any food here they do have their famous potato patch fries which I can say are amazing I've had those several times before so if you're just going to Kennywood for the first time I would suggest trying those of course they have the Noah's Ark which is the only one left in operation in the world I believe to the best of my knowledge it's definitely the only one in the United States for sure so that's really cool I actually got to experience this in its new form I had forgotten that they overhauled this ride or this walkthrough I should say I'm not sure exactly what year it was but they renovated at some point and it's totally different now than what it used to be on the inside but I really liked it it was really nice what they did with it I thought now a couple of major rides here weren't operating as normal or were just closed completely when we were here and what I mean by that is swing shot the sns scream and swing ride that they have was only running one side I don't know what was going on with the other side but they're only running one side on that and then their max air style ride that they have black widow that was closed and somebody was saying that it's been closed for weeks now and a part is broken so I don't know exactly what's going on with that one thing I kind of wanted to touch on in this video too is some of the presentations of the rides could be improved on here definitely a couple of the rides could really use a repaint like really really bad thunderbolt could really use a repaint and phantoms revenge is just looking really not that great it's just kind of getting outdated looking because of the awful paint job that it has it's not an awful paint job I love the color scheme and everything but the paint is so faded and it's chipping away in so many spots and it just looks awful the station is just really really outdated because the station was actually used for laser loop the schwarzkopf shuttle loop coaster that was at the park back in the 80s that was removed for the original steel phantom and then the steel phantom utilized that old station and then the station continued to be used when steel phantom became phantoms revenge so the station is very old and it has not been updated it doesn't have air gates in it there are no gates at all you're just like waiting there and there's just there's nothing in front of you while you're waiting for the train to come in it's just really outdated this ride could really use some tlc I know rampaging rex did a video not too long ago that I watched where he talked about phantoms revenge and how it could use some restoration I think that's a great video I'll link it in the description so you guys can go check it out but yeah I think phantoms revenge could really use some tlc being one of the star attractions of the park and just seeing it looking like this it's kind of sad to be honest but still what a phenomenal ride I mean one of my absolute favorite rides I've been on fantastic I'll be doing a separate review of that ride as well so I'll reserve some of my thoughts on that until later on overall Kennywood is a great park I would definitely suggest going out here and visiting this park it has a pretty solid coaster collection definitely a lot of great classic rides and some good modern thrill rides and a lot that the whole family can do really very beautiful park the operations are bad and that could definitely be improved a lot but I would still see just coming out and checking this park out just be prepared for that thank you guys so much for watching this review of Kennywood let me know your thoughts in the comments below hopefully this review helped you out a little bit in planning your future trip to Kennywood don't forget to like comment subscribe like my page coaster daddy on facebook and follow me at coaster daddy official on instagram thank you guys so much for watching this is coaster daddy bye