Steel Phantom, Kennywood 1993.

[@hugh2hoob668]

*That ominous climbing SOUND love it !* 2:00 2:00 *THE ORIGINAL STEEL PHANTOM* 👤🎭🎢

[@JesseJames-rg7vg]

That is so funny u would say that.My 2 favorite sounds i remember at Kennywood: that "clapping" sound the Swing-A-Round used to make and the other sound,exactly as u described it,that ominous,clmibing,cranking sound the Steel Phantom used to make before it was remodeled.

[@MrCrash-hz8xy]

Jesse James yeah it doesn’t really sound like that anymore which sucks

[@hugh2hoob668]

@@JesseJames-rg7vg magic carpet and Pirate ship were scary sounds too haja

[@hugh2hoob668]

@@JesseJames-rg7vg that sound was like a gulliotine going up this just had that "this is your last moments alive" feeling to it

[@JamesAC17GA]

I long for those style of roller coaster trains, and track to come back soon.

[@VanessaMakesVideos]

Wow this looks like one of the greatest roller coasters out there and it doesn't exist now, wish I could've went on it.

[@WheelinWeenie]

It’s still there, it just got remodeled by Morgan and is much better than it used to be.

[@hugh2hoob668]

[Dax] Furious Baco Yeah it sucks now its like every other cookie cutter six flags coaster booo

[@chrismaniatis9044]

No you don't, it feels worse than getting the scabies

[@Stagnant_Gravy]

@@hugh2hoob668 completely false. Most coasters like it have large hills that give you floater airtime, Phantom has small hills that give ejector airtime. And that airtime hasn’t became common until the last few years.

[@jawoody9745]

Phantom's Revenge is impressive and a hell of a lot of fun but I still prefer the original Steel Phantom. This isn't the first time they've deconstructed an intense ride to make it more palatable for other, less adventurous coaster riders. Give me inversions!! 4 of them!!

[@psyclonesteve]

Yeah, I said that when I was in my 30's LOL :-)

[@johnfoltz8183]

At the same park they took an old 1920s wooden coaster in 1968 and transformed it into the ledgendary Thunderbolt.

[@psyclonesteve]

I was lucky and young enough to enjoy Steel Phantom, Phantom's Revenge would probably suit me a lot better now I'm getting on a bit ! :)

[@billnumber3324]

I don't miss the way the old Phantom smacked your head from side to side, but I do miss the loops.

[@Darkaxelgaming-tt7ip]

Could imagine if the inversions were at least bigger it would be at least more tolerable.

[@reminiscer15]

Yeah from my understanding, that's why they got rid of the inversions. Too many complaints of people getting hurt, if there was more room to make the inversions bigger then I'm sure it would've worked out.

[@nikkibaby222]

@@reminiscer15 they could’ve just kept one or two of them and then made those two bigger and maybe not as close together

[@reminiscer15]

@@nikkibaby222 Yep absolutely agree.

[@SebisRandomTech]

It's so amazing how much has changed at Kennywood.

[@roblove1869]

Shit really hauled ass through those inversions

[@reminiscer15]

Lol yep and I think the speed in which the train went through the inversions is what caused the head banging.

[@MySparkle78]

I remember when this ride first came to kennywood, me and my cousins kept getting on it LOL!

[@clintparker]

That's cool! How was it? I was born in 2002 so I've only ridden it as Phantom's Revenge

[@dailylifewithsteve4460]

If i ever opened a theam park or roller coaster manufacturing company i would make this my top priority rebuilding this marvel of a ride

[@sweepersmusic]

"earrings of any type are not permitted on this ride" omg lol aka "your head is about to be smashed into a thousand pieces"

[@usair1232]

I think the date might be wrong, I see the Pitt fall and that was built in ‘97 …. Nonetheless, I love the clanking noise, how it echoed around the park !

[@psyclonesteve]

I think they took so much footage at each visit and may have mixed up the dates. I will try and check this out. thanks for the heads up. Take care. Sharon

[@kevin-727]

You have some great shots of both coasters!

[@HockeyGUY66871]

The Phantom's Revenge is my favorite ride at Kennywood

[@psyclonesteve]

Great ride ! :-)

[@rollercoasteraddicted.882]

Im glad it is fun for more people opposed to being more fun for a selected few who were tough enough to handle the roughness. However, I wish I was alive to ride it just at least a few times when it was better. That looked like A COASTER!!!!!!!

[@MrCrash-hz8xy]

I don’t miss getting beat up on this ride but I do miss watching it in action. It was a better ride to watch than phantom’s revenge

[@laneesha1000]

I live in pittsburgh and MMAAANNN oooohhh MMAAANNN that's steel phantom was something else...lol I'm glad they changed it cause I needed Advil everytime I got off that ride

[@psyclonesteve]

It's certainly a lot smoother now ! :)

[@ThatTechguy5000]

***** Smoother but the end kiils your neck

[@psyclonesteve]

really, why, what's happened to it ?

[@WheelinWeenie]

+that tech guy , you just have to be ready for that one airtime hill

[@DF-ky6nv]

SOMEONE IN HIS COMMENT SECTION WITH COMMON SENSE, GOD BLESS YOU

[@johnashley327]

I remember riding this and feeling like I was going to break my neck.😂

[@TB473]

Wow. This is very similar to phantoms revenge. First two hills are basically the same as the phantoms revenge.

[@mhtube01]

They are, Morgan didn't even replace the track on the drop when they first remodeled the coaster in 2001 so part of it was still Arrow. In 2014 I believe the drop track was replaced with Morgan track but the chain lift, station, switch tracks, and I'm assuming the brakes are still Arrow. You can tell them a part by looking at them, even though they're almost identical. If you look at certain POVs here on KZbin, you can see at the top of the lift hill where the Arrow and Morgan track were welded together.

[@ADrunkBassist]

I'm glad they got rid of those loops. There's a reason all those people were holding their heads coming off of the ride.

[@DF-ky6nv]

jbiafra08 God bless you for having common sense that an airtime filled Morgan hypercoaster is better than a rough arrow

[@Stagnant_Gravy]

I have a soft spot for classic arrow loopers, but based on my experience with them, SP was probably a head blender. Ridden PR more than any coaster I’ve ridden and I’m glad we have it. Only Arrow I’ve ridden that I want gone is Anaconda at KD, really upset when Vortex at KI was removed. These larger loopers are slowly going extinct.

[@jmanx360]

Exiting to the left on Phantom's Revenge? How did that work?

[@NicoWashowich]

I'm confused nobody ever mentioned if there were trims on the second drop but it looks like there is right at the start of the drop

[@psyclonesteve]

It was quite painful through the loops, I don't know if it would have been more painful with earrings ! lol :-)

[@KeepRidinCoasters]

I was looking to create a new video on my channel about the Steel Phantom, would you mind Steve, if I would use some of your footage for it? I'd give you the proper credit on the video and in the description. I really wish that I would have been able to ride this coaster! Looks painful but fun! Let me know - Thank you - Brandon

[@ldhproductions112]

May I use this in a video of mine documenting how the public got us the phantoms revenge? I’ll give you full credit.

[@psyclonesteve]

Hi, Steve would have liked you to use this video so please feel free to do so but please do credit.

[@ldhproductions112]

psyclonesteve thanks, but the video may take a while.

[@CanobieCoaster]

Great footage! Could I please borrow a section of this for my review of Phantom's Revenge? I will give full credit to this channel and link back to this video.

[@psyclonesteve]

Hi Canobie Coaster, go ahead. Keep Safe!

[@CanobieCoaster]

@@psyclonesteve Thanks, you too!

[@JohnMichaelSudol]

The best steel roller coaster ever built. Such a shame for it to succumb to castration because it was way too much ride for the pussies. Blessed to have been able to ride it.

[@mr.jamster8414]

Before my time lmao. That one in Singapore had some fast loops on it though, but it's not as big a ride as this one. Now it's the same as every other bloody "Hyper Coaster" By the looks of things.

[@mr.jamster8414]

Argh, even then the loops on that one look like nothing compared to this, even when I rode it in the rain and the damn thing didn't slow down it still wouldn't be as cool.

[@psyclonesteve]

I think Phantom is a lot more comfortable ride, especially for us older riders ! :)

[@mondobizarrro5468]

If only it had lapbars....

[@coasterdaddy7123]

This footage is great! Is it ok if I use some of it in a video I am working on? Full credit would be given.

[@psyclonesteve]

Hi, Steve would have liked you to use the footage, but please do give credit to both him and Andrew 'Anton'Marshall who filmed it.

[@MySparkle78]

Do they still have the Jack Rabbit?

[@psyclonesteve]

Yes they do ! :-)

[@johnbrooks715]

At 0:44 did I see a "Paramount Parks" shirt on the guy in the front seat? Kind of odd especially since Paramount had acquired all the Taft Broadcasting/ KECO parks just half a year before that. It's odd how he would be wearing it at a non-paramount park.

[@psyclonesteve]

When we visited the USA with the club we would travel light, buying T. Shirts at the park we visited and wearing them the following day at the next park we visited, I'm not saying that is what is happening here, but there's a pretty good chance it is.

[@johnbrooks715]

Makes sense especially if you were constantly traveling and always on the run. :)

[@Alexandermagno1111]

I agree with They take off all the old school good stuff

[@ThrillsofColdplay]

On my Roller Coaster Heaven Channel I’m making a video compilation of currently operating roller coasters when they originally opened can I use some clips of this

[@psyclonesteve]

Hi, Steve would like Music Of The Thrills to use what you need but please give credit 😊

[@ThrillsofColdplay]

@@psyclonesteve don’t worry

[@briis4n]

This ride isn't gone but I hate how it got remodeled :(

[@WheelinWeenie]

It’s better

[@dawnphillians7936]

See in 2016 the phantom (witch I ride like 29 times) doesn't have a loop and it's a lot taller and it's green not a wood color...... Witch if you thought I go to KennyWood alot,CONGRAGULATIONS UR RIGHT

[@mintyshake6121]

It looks like a lot of fun, but I'm glad Phantom's Revenge is there. If a ride has to tell you to take off your earrings, that's a bit of a problem right there.

[@psyclonesteve]

It did give your head a little bit of a rattle on those restraints ! :-(

[@mintyshake6121]

I never got to ride it myself because I was too little, but my parents did. They said that despite the ride being a lot of fun, they got pretty bad headaches and had to take a break from going on other rides for a bit, even the tame rides like the Turtle!

[@psyclonesteve]

Yeah, your parents are right, Phantoms Revenge is a more comfortable ride in my opinion as well.

[@ThatTechguy5000]

***** The end of the Phanoms Revenge fucken stucks

[@DF-ky6nv]

ThatTechguy5000 that's the best part tough, making you fly up out of your seat

[@JAXXNCREATED]

what a fucking beast

[@Ataraxia462]

This must have been from the late 90’s. Pittfall didn’t debut until 97.

[@brycefourn2001]

Awesome offride video! I agree that The Phantom's Revenge is very better than the Steel Phantom.

[@andrewmarshall9309]

+BryceFourn 2001 Thank you, you are very kind.

[@rockroll_pat2890]

Very better?

[@DF-ky6nv]

Rock&Roll_Pat yes... Amazing airtime, smooth like butter, and very fast.

[@psyclonesteve]

banged your head around a lot more though as I remember ! :(

[@saaaahduuuuude1228]

Also, the coaster comes so close to the path after the inversions without a fence. People had common sense back then I suppose.

[@Songsandcoasters122]

Now replaced with phantoms revenge why didn't that least put one loop and a corkscrew!

[@psyclonesteve]

It was the loop and corkscrew and head restraints that battered your ears as I remember ! :-)

[@Songsandcoasters122]

I know but they could put 1 loop in there

[@DF-ky6nv]

Cp Dizzyollie phantoms revenge is a hypercoaster, meaning it focuses on airtime and speed, not inversions.

[@HockeyGUY66871]

If you want to ride one with loops, ride Sky Rocket

[@dailylifewithsteve4460]

Cp Dizzyollie if they would uave got a b and m or even intimin they may still have inversions

[@briis4n]

No more loops :(

[@psyclonesteve]

You'll probably appreciate it when you get to my age ! Lol :-)

[@briis4n]

Lol :)

[@ThatTechguy5000]

They should add the loops back, with new technology they can make it smoother and not as bad as it used to be.

[@Alexandermagno1111]

You are totally right

[@DF-ky6nv]

It's a hypercoaster tho, and that means it focuses on speed and airtime, not inversions

[@dailylifewithsteve4460]

ThatTechguy5000 agree like even hire chance rides the buyer of morgan who made the remodels bc the ride is so smooth with morgan track and chance track is the same so retrack it a 3rd time and put loops back in boom perfect ride

[@theonecolt7835]

Wait, wasn't this Morgan?

[@psyclonesteve]

This is the Database info ..Originally built by Arrow Dynamics and called the Steel Phantom. During the 2000-2001 off-season Morgan was brought in to make some modifications: The original 4 loops were removed. The height remained the same as the lift hill was unchanged. The drop increased from 225' to 228' feet. The length was increased from 3000' to 3200'. The original ride time was 2:15. The trains were modified removing the over the shoulder restraints.

[@theonecolt7835]

So they get credit for 3 feet, 4 less inversions, and trains, good job guys.

[@psyclonesteve]

Yeah, that about sums it up :-)

[@davidtyree5979]

cant forget the lackluster paint job too...lol

[@elevatoralarmcoasterandarc1214]

At 0:22, an announcer tells riders to remove their earrings before riding!

[@lochnessamonster1912]

I didn’t listen and one of the rides (I rode it many times) I had to pull the post of an earring out of my neck after. Lol

[@arborist460]

This was vortex supped up...

[@RollerCoasters62719]

Even with the trims, it still goes too fast on the inversions

[@andrewmarshall9309]

Yeah shame its gone isn't it.

[@BackFirePerformance]

God the original "Steel Phantom" looks like it was so much more exciting than Phantoms Revenge, Phantoms Revenge to me just seems like a dumbed down, wannabe of a hyper coaster :(

[@WheelinWeenie]

MaDd VTEC The phantoms revenge is taller and has a bigger drop,, Learn your facts

[@DF-ky6nv]

Phantom IS a hypercoaster. It has a drop over 200 ft.

[@johnscott353]

both coasters are exciting, but the original was definitely more intense. When I first road the revenge I thought it sucked cause it was missing that intensity. But each year I ride the revenge the more I appreciate the redesign. You shouldn't have to be on an exciting ride but have a headache for an hour after. And even though the bunny hills aren't as intense as the loops the ride overall is still a blast. The original was good to experience once, but your head and neck will thank you riding the revenge.

[@marny129]

Phantom's Revenge is TERRIBLE compared to the original STEEL PHANTOM! My all time favorite roller coaster!

[@saaaahduuuuude1228]

I know you like it because of your age but the castration as it was so eloquently put is truly a shame and to see these old Arrows brought down or turned into Morgan's is quite sad.

[@exiledrabbit]

This ride just wasn't well designed it was way too fast with way too many G's for the track especially considering the vest restraints. Also the fact Arrow refused to adjust the element size meant you had a coaster going into the inversions way too fast. Just watching the off-ride looks painful, the second half of that boomerang is just ridiculous.

[@reminiscer15]

I agree and I think that was a major factor in removing the inversions. I never got to ride it myself but just watching it go through those inversions looks painful and in some POV's you can see people's heads banging against the shoulder restraints.

[@exiledrabbit]

@@reminiscer15 imagine going over 80 mph on the same track as Corkscrew, just wild!

[@reminiscer15]

@@exiledrabbit Yeah that would be too much.