"It's a lot like Blackpool Pleasure Beach" | Kennywood Review

[@yourexperienceguide]

0:07 slight error, the park is located in West Mifflin which is near to but not Pittsburgh.

[@coasterhockygamingboy9549]

It’s fine It’s still part of the Pittsburgh Metro area

[@pittsburghthrills1281]

You can take the Airport shuttle from PIT to Greenfield. From there, you can walk to Squirrel Hill and take the 61C directly to Kennywood’s staff parking lot. There is then a short walk to the entrance, if you were wondering about public transit.

[@yourexperienceguide]

Thank you 😊

[@Travelmatt23]

Kennywood looks a lovely park with some amazing classics. Definitely on my bucket list.

[@yourexperienceguide]

Well worth tying into a trip to Cedar Point 😀

[@jamesklatt]

My five favorite traditional amusement parks 1. Kennywood 2. Knoebels 3. Lake Compounce 4. Santa Cruz Beach and Boardwalk 5. Canobie Lake Park

[@yourexperienceguide]

I’d love to visit the other four listed 😀

[@JoelBrewton]

Great video! I've been going to Kennywood since I was a kid, and I had the privilege of going to Blackpool Pleasure Beach, in 2015, with the American Coaster Enthusiasts! I definitely agree with your statement regarding the similarities between the two parks. While the two parks are VERY different from one another, they have a very similar theme and atmosphere to them. Also, The Big One quickly cracked my top-five favorite steel coasters. Please feel free to lemme know if/when you're coming to the park again, and maybe we can meet up. BTW, fun fact: The Thunderbolt actually opened in 1968. When the coaster first opened in the 1920s, it was known as The Pippin and had a considerably different layout. The park basically did the same thing to The Pippin that they would later do to the Steel Phantom, and transformed it into the Thunderbolt by keeping its signature drops while giving it a new layout. The Pippin WAS designed by John A. Miller, but the Thunderbolt was designed by Andy Vettel.

[@yourexperienceguide]

Thank you Joel! We are very hopeful of being over in 2022 at Kennywood and then again on our club tour trip in 2023! I’d forgotten that about Thunderbolt, damn it! Thank you

[@kevinhashimoto8367]

Great video scott! May have to go once restrictions are lifted!

[@yourexperienceguide]

You should, I think you'd love it

[@Amitymatt._]

Great video pleasure beach experience 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻❤️

[@yourexperienceguide]

Thank you

[@janeth8506]

The classic parks are the best ! Thank you for the history behind the park.

[@yourexperienceguide]

Thanks Janet

[@DisneyMarkUK]

This park looks fab and is on my wish list, great video Scott

[@yourexperienceguide]

You’d love it Mark, definitely

[@jessicabedo-keathley1309]

Love Kennywood. I’ve been going there since the mid 1980’s. You could take an Uber which would be less of a hassle or just message me, I’ll come pick you and the boys up! 😁

[@yourexperienceguide]

Awesome, does it feel like the park has changed loads in that time?

[@danielbooth2982]

I loved the vlog of this visit and loved this as well. Very weird how similar the 2 parks are. I miss the whip, turtle chase and the Ark at BPB.

[@yourexperienceguide]

It was so good to see those kinda rides at Kennywood but I do understand why BPB closed theirs .

[@alexgray7422]

I just watched your Kennywood vlog last night 😊 one of the parks I'm desperate to visit!

[@yourexperienceguide]

Brill, hope you enjoyed the vlog 😀

[@SeanFlaharty]

Nice video! Blackpool is easily one of my all-time favorite parks in the world. It has been way overdue for a visit. It's been since 2002. Thanks for the credit as well.

[@yourexperienceguide]

Thank you Sean! Really appreciate your help with this 😊

[@TheeZzzz]

I live by this park.have been to this park almost every year of my life.its definitely a great place with a family appeal.i recommend it to anyone that is into this type of parks

[@yourexperienceguide]

It must be great being local to this park

[@Beefybleep]

Great video guys getting me through the last lockdown hopefully 🙏

[@yourexperienceguide]

Thank you, it’s not easy at the min but hopefully I can keep things interesting

[@sammorris6104]

Definitely on the to do list for our US trip. Pennsylvania has an excellent selection of parks

[@yourexperienceguide]

Definitely, hope to go back sometime

[@jm252]

I used to love going in Noa's Ark... Great times at BPB :-)

[@yourexperienceguide]

It was great fun

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

Wow that park looks so cool , great video 🧱👍🏼

[@yourexperienceguide]

I can't wait to return someday, thanks guys

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

@@yourexperienceguide 🧱👍🏽

[@MatthewRambles]

Kennywood look great 😊. Does anyone know whereabouts was the Whip was at Blackpool Pleasure Beach? 🤔

[@yourexperienceguide]

Beneath the Revolution, the Dodgems are there now

[@MatthewRambles]

@@yourexperienceguide Thanks 👍

[@kkrispy2009P]

Very nice Scott thanks 4 sharing

[@yourexperienceguide]

Thank you

[@wickericon9579]

I love blackpool pleasure beach it one of my all time favourite places to go and kennywood on my bucket list to 🙂

[@yourexperienceguide]

I'm very sure BPB fans will love a visit to Kennywood if they get the chance to go

[@leonhutchinson8264]

oh my god turtle chase and the whip my 2 most missed rides at the pleasure beach i would do anything to ride them 2 again.

[@yourexperienceguide]

Trip to Kennywood? ;)

[@mjbari3]

Hi yinz at Blackpool Pleasure Beach! I'm an ACE'r in Pittsburgh, and hope to see you at KW for the ACE Con next year, or whenever it is! My name is Mar-Jean Zamperini. Want to visit BPB someday; was in Liverpool in April of '16, but couldn't swing a trip there.

[@yourexperienceguide]

Hey, thanks for watching and commenting. I'd love to attend an event with ACE someday.

[@alfnsue]

Very similar to pb, looks like a great place 👍😎Thank you Scott 👍

[@yourexperienceguide]

Really enjoyed it there, thank you for watching 😊

[@CanobieCoaster]

Unfortunately ride closures are common here, but the ride lineup is so deep that it's possible to still have a great day despite closures. I agree, Phantom is one of the best coasters in the world.

[@yourexperienceguide]

Hopefully we’ll have no trouble getting on Sky Rocket next time

[@CanobieCoaster]

@@yourexperienceguide Or Steel Curtain. That was my kryptonite in 2020 since it was down for the year.

[@yourexperienceguide]

Canobie Coaster Typical, I can’t blame anyone for it not being open when we went. It had no first drop 🤣

[@joehung1552]

Half of Thunderbolt opened in 24 as the Pipen. It was modified in the 60's to it's current form.

[@yourexperienceguide]

Yep, accepted my slight error on this on another comment 👍

[@kevinseymour8793]

I kind of expected Coney Island to have a similar feel to BPB and was a shade disappointed but Kennywood as your excellent video showed, really does feel as close to BPB as I will ever see. Damn good stuff these last few videos 👍

[@yourexperienceguide]

Thanks Kevin, lockdown is forcing me to be creative and think differently than ever before for videos. I’d love to go back to Coney Island and Kennywood sometime.

[@johnvega6325]

Nwhy did the Ark shut at Blackpool? Loved it and the Morecambe one back in the day

[@yourexperienceguide]

It was closed with 9 other attractions due to low ridership at a time when BPB had to cut costs.

[@Duffster115]

Thank You! Kenny wood is an amazing Park in my opinion it is the Best! Thanks for understanding whats going on with Kenny wood a lot of people just viciously attack it and don't understand, but i understood, I was a bit upset, but I understood, and can't wait to go a record amount of times for me this year! There is, at least hear in America, No Park like Kenny wood! BTW they have amazing Holiday events at Kenny wood like Phantom Fright Nights you should check it out one day! I couldn't be more proud to call Kenny wood my home Park!

[@yourexperienceguide]

I would be very proud if it was my home park too, awesome place with some fantastic attractions. I’d love to come back some day, if it’s not this year it’ll definitely be next.

[@eddienhp]

That almost reminds me of Blackpool Pleasure Beach!

[@yourexperienceguide]

They’re definitely similar

[@eddienhp]

@@yourexperienceguide, I know!

[@jzarbaugh]

I’m curious if you got to see Leo the Paper Eating Lion? From the photos I have seen at Blackpool Beach, they used to have a Porky the Paper Eater- Leo’s friend who lived in a mushroom and ate rubbish right from your hand. Butlins also had Porkys starting around 1965. Now that I think about it, Blackpool May have had the tiger and another animal- inspired by Porky.

[@yourexperienceguide]

I don't remember it, but the whole day came around and went again very quickly

[@jzarbaugh]

@@yourexperienceguide Do you remember if Blackpool had a talking vacuum trash can shaped like an animal? I have never been to Blackpool, but would love the opportunity to visit.

[@yourexperienceguide]

@@jzarbaugh I think so, but it hasn’t been there for a long time now

[@colintait7139]

I really enjoyed the 🇺🇸 trip Phantoms Revenge looks awesome thanks for the upload and all the best 🎢👍🎢👍🎢 p.s what do you think of the new coaster rumored to be getting built in Saudi breaking all the records I hope it happens....🙂

[@yourexperienceguide]

Thank you! I think they’ll happen mate

[@lane6866]

Don't know if you heard that new management is taking out a number of older rides :( The Kangaroo, Paratrooper, Bayern Kurve and Volcano. The first two in particular are very old and rare. The other two are more mid century-1970sish.

[@yourexperienceguide]

Did you watch the whole video? From 6:54 I talk about ride removals without naming individual attractions. Older rides can’t live forever.

[@lane6866]

@@yourexperienceguide Yeah, got there right after I hit send. lol. Age and scarcity of rides are something that former ownership were much more sensitive to the value of.

[@yourexperienceguide]

lane6866 Fair enough, I can’t imagine it was a decision taken lightly by their management.

[@manchester1972]

Great review

[@yourexperienceguide]

Thanks Paul

[@JamesTaylorMain]

"But better." In my opinion, I would say that the rides at Kennywood look better than the ones at Blackpool Pleasure Beach (even if I'm comparing Phantom's Revenge to the Big One, and I haven't ridden all the rides at both parks).

[@yourexperienceguide]

I just like that they’re both very similar and excellent in their own ways.

[@jonah5175]

I’m guessing Sky Rocket was closed lol.

[@yourexperienceguide]

Jonah517 It got a mention, but yes it was closed unfortunately.

[@GoproTimeTravel]

Nice👍🏼

[@yourexperienceguide]

Thanks for watching

[@alfiefuller3627]

Is it just me that when they go on any ride with air time they say air time air time and every body looks confused. I do it especially on icon

[@yourexperienceguide]

You're confused by why people say airtime or what airtime is?

[@alfiefuller3627]

@@yourexperienceguide sorry I wrote it wrong It was meant to say am I the only one who does that on icon or any ride

[@seano5242]

Did you say no restraint 🙃

[@yourexperienceguide]

sean o Yes

[@seano5242]

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