Steel Phantom - The Final Day (60FPS Extended Version)

[@nfcoasterferg]

i could just listen to the sound of that arrow chain lift all day

[@timothylampel815]

Yesssssssss!!!!!

[@itdbfrtwthm]

I get to hear Magnum all day long while I work. Good times.

[@KoasterKid95]

I'm so glad you recorded this on that day 22 years ago. I was five and just missed the height requirement that year. Here I am, just turned 27, and I look forward to going to Kennywood with my own children someday. The last few minutes of this reminded me so much of the Kennywood Memories documentary. Thanks so much for sharing!

[@SeanFlaharty]

Thank you for watching!

[@senseivegan]

I'm originally from Pittsburgh and I remember the original Steel Phantom! I actually prefer it over Phantoms Revenge. It's still one of my favorite roller coasters. Great video Thanks for sharing.

[@MrCrash-hz8xy]

Same here I liked steel phantom more

[@SeanFlaharty]

Thanks for watching. While I do miss how intense Steel Phantom was, I do enjoy Revenge quite a lot. I haven't ridden Revenge nearly as many times as I did the original Phantom, but I think Morgan did a decent job with the new version.

[@Charles-tt3dr]

I like OG Phantom better myself.

[@senseivegan]

@@Charles-tt3dr Me too!! We were some of the lucky ones who got to ride it.

[@TheRubiksPilot]

Dude, this is awesome. Being born in 2003, I obviously never got to ride the steel phantom, but this was the ride that made me a roller coaster enthusiast. Every time I go to kennywood I try and imagine where the loops used to be lol. This video was absolutely amazing. Thank you Sean!

[@SeanFlaharty]

Thank you for the kind words! I appreciate that.

[@Coasterkitty7]

My very first trip to Kennywood was in the summer of 2000. I wasn't a huge fan of Phantom but Phantom's Revenge has always been one of my favorite steel coasters. Thanks for sharing that!

[@SeanFlaharty]

While I do miss the intensity of the original. PR is the better ride in my option. It's so easy to ride and re-ride. It doesn't beat you up.

[@boydaegu]

This is so sweet. Thank you for uploading this.

[@SeanFlaharty]

You are very welcome. I appreciate you watching it.

[@Chenovski00]

Again, thank you so much for these videos Sean!

[@SeanFlaharty]

You are welcome! More to come.

[@HockeyGUY66871]

So kinda fitting that Steel Phantom closed September 4 2000, well on September 4 2022, i got my 1000th ride on Phantoms Revenge! And on September 4 2021, i got my 600th ride on Phantoms Revenge.

[@SeanFlaharty]

That's pretty cool.

[@RMsteelerfan7]

Nice video! Dude I wish I waited making my Steel Phantom history video, this footage would’ve been a lot better! Keep it up with the amazing videos!

[@SeanFlaharty]

Thanks! I had this re-rendered for months but wasn't sure about uploading it as I was having some issues with KZbin. I almost shut the channel down for good last July but once everything was better, this was one of the first I released.

[@MrCrash-hz8xy]

Another great steel phantom video 😎 I’ve watched this video multiple times now 😂 Miss this ride. 3:17 to 3:30 I can listen to the chain lift sound for hours. I love when the train crest’s the top of the hill and the sound of the chain lift kinda switches up. It’s like a lower pitch sound when it gets to the very top. Can’t forget the trim brake sound too 4:16

[@SeanFlaharty]

I love those sounds also. Kings Island recently released a video on their channel which includes one hour of The Beast's lift chain. Maybe I could release a 24-hour loop of the Steel Phantom lift sound. Ha ha.

[@UberBeavis]

Wow. 22 years has flown by.

[@glutenskababe]

crazy how you used to be able to get so close to it. of course i dont know if you still can because ive never been there, but i couldnt imagine any modern coaster allowing that. what a dream.

[@SeanFlaharty]

To be honest, I don't know if you can get that close nowadays, and I have ridden the newer version. I haven't been to the park in quite a few years and need to revisit, once the issues with the latest coaster are fixed. Anytime I have wanted to visit, Steel Curtain is closed.

[@glutenskababe]

@@SeanFlaharty that sucks. steel curtain really does look amazing. i was out there to see family but i couldn’t make the time to go to any theme parks unfortunately.

[@SeanFlaharty]

@@glutenskababe I hope to finally ride Steel Curtain in 2024. If it keeps breaking down then my guess is the park will remove it within the next couple of years. I hope not but I don't blame the park.

[@crouton3455]

awesome footage!

[@VinceHere98]

I was born in 1998 so I sadly never had the chance to ride Steel Phantom before it was transformed into Phantom’s Revenge. Obviously none of us early Gen Z’ers never did, and I doubt I’ll ever have any luck finding one my age who rode Phantom before all 4 inversions were scrapped and replaced with airtime hills and over-banked turns as part of the Revenge treatment. If anything, it would be nigh-on impossible as most early Gen-Z’ers were only 3 years old at the time, and thus have only ridden Phantom in its current form (I mean probably even before 2009, when part of the Arrow track from the first drop until the big hill before the second drop into the ravine was replaced with Chance/Morgan track, but that’s just it). I do look forward to riding Phantom’s Revenge one day when I visit Kennywood for the first time. I live in NJ and the city of Pittsburgh (where Kennywood is located near) is a couple hours away from where I live, so it would be a pretty long road trip, but definitely worth it nonetheless.

[@SeanFlaharty]

Being a huge fan of the original, I had my doubts that Kennywood would make a better ride. While I do believe Phantom's Revenge is the better ride, I do miss the intensity of what Steel Phantom would deliver.

[@MCSlammerMcJammer]

The batwing entrance & exit looked brutal! Would've loved to ride it once and never again lol. Really glad they decided to give it a second chance instead of scrapping it.

[@SeanFlaharty]

Steel Phantom was easily the most intense Arrow looper I had ridden. During an ACE event in 1998, there were just a handful of us that rode that thing in the dark, dozens of times without ever leaving the train. It was incredible but not for everyone. When they announced it was closing, I was really bummed. Having said that, I do think Revenge is a better ride.

[@GuyT-z7o]

thanks for the memories

[@SeanFlaharty]

Thank you for watching.

[@aleya1225]

I wish I could experience kennywood in the early 2000s and 90s

[@ellexking9136]

I had the opportunity to ride Steel Phantom before the trim brakes were added on the incline going into the loop. I said a few choice words I definitely won't repeat.🤣

[@SeanFlaharty]

I only got a few trimless rides on the coaster during the morning hours. It was incredibly intense, even with the trims. I still miss that intensity.

[@ellexking9136]

@@SeanFlaharty I miss it too. BTW, what happened to the video you posted on the 1st test run on Mean Streak in May 1991. Unfortunately I couldn't be there for Media Day, because Saddam Hussein wanted to act a damn fool, trying to take over Kuwait

[@SeanFlaharty]

@@ellexking9136 Are you referring to the news story taken on media day? I have never seen footage of Mean Streak's first test run. All the news stories I had on my channelI had to remove when KZbin tried to take me down last spring.

[@ellexking9136]

@@SeanFlaharty It was the video that showed some of the catwalk handrails weren't finished near the top of the lift hill yet. I was posted as Mean Streak 1st test run. The funny part about that video was, you could see a construction worker standing on the outside of the catwalk handrail as the Train traveled down the last small dip, just before the right turn into the brake run.🤣🤣

[@coastqr5123]

Man I wish I could have ridden this, but it was long closed by the time I was tall enough to ride it and I live on the west coast. How does it compare to Viper at SFMM? I love Viper and have so much nostalgia for old school massive Arrow loopers!

[@SeanFlaharty]

I thought Steel Phantom was more intense than Viper but Viper was the smoother of the two. I rode Viper last year and had a good ride on it. Out of the three large seven-loopers that Arrow manufactured, Viper has always been the smoothest I have ridden. Vortex and Steel Phantom felt kind of similar in regard to roughness but there is something about Viper that makes it easier for me to enjoy, while remaining intense.

[@elevatoralarmcoasterandarc1214]

We got more footage of the ride's final day!

[@ThyPandora]

Never got to ride Steel Phantom, it's descendant (Phantom's Revenge), is a fun ride but not anything top ten worthy! Thanks for the upload! :)

[@MCSlammerMcJammer]

Not anything top ten worthy?? 😢

[@SeanFlaharty]

You are welcome. Thanks for watching. I love PR and do think it is a better ride, but I do miss the intensity of the original. It was bonkers.

[@Wolverinefan616]

Im from Pittsburgh and I didn't even know there was a Ride before the phantoms revenge

[@SnoopyMan6000vids]

My favorite lift hill sound and it sounds like Magnum

[@atmeElijah]

That little splash of green test paint at the bottom of the first hill makes me kinda sad. Sure this coaster knocked ya around a bit. But it was truly insane to ride! And it's the type of coaster you never could get used to. Know matter how many times you waited in that line, the anticipation was real.

[@SeanFlaharty]

While I was a big fan of the original, I have to say, I enjoy riding PR more. However, I haven't ridden it in well over ten years now so I don't know how it is running.

[@jordanasel3745]

I never rode the steal phantom but I heard it’s better then the phantoms revenge.

[@SeanFlaharty]

I didn't''t find it to be better than PR, just more intense. I loved it but do think PR is the better ride though.

[@Quit3Cut3]

The original hurt like hell. The revenge hills they added still hurt, if you’re small enough and not holding on you’ll get lifted out of your seat and slammed back down into it. Not nearly as bad as son of beast in kings island though. That hurt like a bitch though!

[@SeanFlaharty]

The original had an intensity that I still haven't felt on another Arrow looper. I know there aren't many of them around anymore but I still try to ride one when I am at a park that has one. I was at Six Flags Magic Mountain a couple weeks ago and took two rides on Viper. I really enjoyed that ride.

[@jbmiller3280]

For those who never had a chance to ride Steel Phantom but want to know what you missed: Sit in a bean bag chair and have 3 grade schoolers simultaneously use wiffle bats to hit you on the shoulders and on the side of the head.

[@SeanFlaharty]

Ha ha. It was quite an intense ride but I never really had issues with the roughness. Not sure if it was my height or I just braced for the rougher transitions but I loved to marathon ride the coaster during a few ride sessions. Many of my other friends really hated the ride.

[@rcr01111]

I remember this as a kid. Stuffed paper towels in my shoes to get on Steel Phantom because I was a half inch short of the 52 inch requirement. I think the height requirement, intensity of the ride as it was a classic arrow looper it would give me a headache if I rode it twice. Pretty sure parts of the track including the loop were starting to deteriorate and this was always a known issue on Arrow coasters due to bends and curves not being designed by computer and just hand bent and made. PR solved all those problems. Back to Steel Phantom -The height requirement mostly locked it out for teenagers and adults only and there was never a long line in its late life.

[@timothylampel815]

Lift still sounds the same lol

[@SeanFlaharty]

I believe it's the the only remaining Arrow track left on the ride. Maybe the station track as well.