Kennywood is a weird park. Kennywood's latest announcements and rumors for the past couple of years have been even weirder.
Rumored to be one of the parks on RMC's list for 2018 to receive a major coaster as early as mid-2016, the facts and rumors have twisted to the point of reality being warped for the park and anyone following along with the discussions. In 2017, leaked images showed a proposed layout for a coaster occupying the hillside they purchased a few years prior.
They also announced the removal of their famous Log Jammer, the only Log Flume left in the world with a gravity hill. As late 2017 rolled around, rumors surfaced that Kennywood would not be able to build the RMC in the proposed spot due to ground quality issues on the hillside. Another rumor followed around the same time that Kennywood couldn't afford an RMC addition, and instead was looking at other manufacturers with Premier being at the top of the list.
The rumor mill for their next addition has been a roller coaster ride in and of itself, and Kennywood is aware of how closely people have followed them. For their pre-season enthusiast tour, they teased ACE members with a power point slide stating "what's not next" pictured below:
Conveniently, they left out RMC's 4th offering of Topper Track. RMC does not advertise Topper Track as a "hybrid" coaster, and instead states they are wooden coasters. So RMC is still on the table, according to some. Also contrary to the rumors of the hillside being unusable, Kennywood is clearing land where the Log Jammer once stood in a similar spot to where the first proposed RMC layout was supposed to go on Instagram.
Kennywood has also previously stated they planned on bringing back the Turnpike, which was removed for the addition of Sky Rocket in 2009. So who knows where the next bit of rumors and facts will lead.
Rumored to be one of the parks on RMC's list for 2018 to receive a major coaster as early as mid-2016, the facts and rumors have twisted to the point of reality being warped for the park and anyone following along with the discussions. In 2017, leaked images showed a proposed layout for a coaster occupying the hillside they purchased a few years prior.
They also announced the removal of their famous Log Jammer, the only Log Flume left in the world with a gravity hill. As late 2017 rolled around, rumors surfaced that Kennywood would not be able to build the RMC in the proposed spot due to ground quality issues on the hillside. Another rumor followed around the same time that Kennywood couldn't afford an RMC addition, and instead was looking at other manufacturers with Premier being at the top of the list.
The rumor mill for their next addition has been a roller coaster ride in and of itself, and Kennywood is aware of how closely people have followed them. For their pre-season enthusiast tour, they teased ACE members with a power point slide stating "what's not next" pictured below:
Conveniently, they left out RMC's 4th offering of Topper Track. RMC does not advertise Topper Track as a "hybrid" coaster, and instead states they are wooden coasters. So RMC is still on the table, according to some. Also contrary to the rumors of the hillside being unusable, Kennywood is clearing land where the Log Jammer once stood in a similar spot to where the first proposed RMC layout was supposed to go on Instagram.
Kennywood has also previously stated they planned on bringing back the Turnpike, which was removed for the addition of Sky Rocket in 2009. So who knows where the next bit of rumors and facts will lead.
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