So all's fine around here. Little chilly; this is looking to be the coldest Memorial Day weekend in a long while. But that does mean I don't have anything worthy of reporting today. Sorry, dear ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunnyhugger. Please instead enjoy Kennywood photos.
Boat going up the Pittsburg Plunge to produce a whole lot of water splashing around!
A gift shop and couple of food places in the Lost Kennywood area. We knew the area generally was themed to the old Luna Park, Pittsburgh, this particular set of buildings was themed to ... some Massachusetts park, I believe it was.
The fountain at the head of the Lost Kennywood reflecting pool. Also people eating from the Potato Patch's auxiliary outlet.
There was a booth selling miscellaneous weird old stuff that looked like someone was cleaning out a surplus room. We didn't get anything but there were things we had to photograph, like this Kennywood picture from the 70s(?) listing a Smithsonian list of top coasters. Note that the Great American Scream Machine there is the one in Atlanta, not the Great Adventure one. The Coaster at Dorney Park is now known as Thunderhawk and we've been on that. I think #5 was what we knew as Montana Rusa at La Feria Chapultepec but can't swear to it.
A leftover or maybe never-used T-shirt design with lots of Kenny Kangaroo.
And here's a leftover or maybe never-used T-shirt with a more beak-snouted Kenny Kangaroo than usual, and a lot of plush.
This must be an un-used t-shirt design for Exterminator, from before they decided to use a crazed rat theme. Or when they thought maybe they could make a licensing deal that didn't pan out.
Steel Phantom was the original incarnation of Phantom's Revenge. I'm not sure this was the Steel PHantom's original design. Looks a little Doctor Doom-y to me.
At some point during the day I broke away from bunnyhugger to ride Aero 360, the elongated rigid-arm swing ride. Wasn't much of a wait!
Here's Steel Curtain, which didn't run that year. It hasn't run since a week or two after our KennyCon 2023 visit.
In the evening light this color and shade really caught my eye.
The queue for JackRabbit, which has been spruced up with some nice paint and some very pixellated renditions of old park photos. Note the old Jack-Rabbit station overhang on the right there.
Trivia: Though he conquered Venice, without the city putting up any defense, Napoleon never set foot in it. Source: The Riddle of the Compass: The Invention that Changed the World, Amir D Aczel.
Currently Reading: The Harvey Comics Companion, Mark Arnold.
