Crossing to the other side of the ravine one final time the Thunderbolt turns you around and then drops you down the largest drop of the ride which happens to be the last.
Standing majestically over the park and running down through the Thunderbolt's ravine stands what used to be the Steel Phantom but is now the Phantom's Revenge.
With the new Phantom's Revenge trains gone are the painful over the shoulder harnesses that have been substituted with comfortable lap bars.
When Kennywood changed the Steel Phantom to the Phantom's Revenge they removed it's loops and kept it's legendary drops including it's twisting first drop.
Kennywood copied the first drop from Six Flags Great America's now defunct Shockwave coaster for the Steel Phantom. The drop on the Shockwave was one of my favorites and it's nice now that the Steel Phantom has turned into the Phantom's Revenge that I can experience it without any head banging due to shoulder harnesses.
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