Great coaster. Video really doesn't do it justice and makes it appear more rickety than it is. It's an incredibly smooth ride. It's nearly 100 years old, still packs a bit of punch, and the double-dip is still a thrill as you lift up and swear you're going to fly out. So grateful that Kennywood maintains their three classic coasters so well. It would be a shame to see these rides go away.
I loved that leather strap they used in the name of safety. It gives a vague sense you're not going to fly away when you hit the double dip. I think those little "trust the physics" moments are missing in modern coasters...
I grew up in the neighborhood too! That was my first coaster. I was just a little bugger but I remember my butt leaving the seat on the double dip! I could hear people on the rides as a kid from my bedroom. Made going to bed a little difficult!
I remember as a kid walking up to the Jack Rabbit ride with my brother and some friends, they were all tall enough to ride and I wasn't so had to sit outside the ride and wait. I moved away but went back to visit 15 years later and finally got to ride it. Kennywood was and still is this magical place for anyone that grows up in Pittsburgh or other cities and towns nearby.
The shaky camera is creating a false impression about Jack Rabbit being rickety, when it's actually one of the smoothest classic coasters out there. The roughness is due to the poor POV. There's even noticeable shimmying just heading up the lift. I love the channel, but scrap this upload; it's not doing a good coaster any favors.
Amazing to consider this coaster's nearly a century old. Looks like they've kept it well maintained, other that some spots where the paint could use some touch-up work.
It's nice to know that a classic amusement park like Kennywood is still doing well, even though it's not affiliated with one of the major mega-companies
Why does everyone hate this coaster so much. It has the best stand-up airtime in the world and who cares about a little rattle? It's made in 1927 for god's sake!
Dude ur so right I live in Pittsburgh so that’s like the only park I can go to. If you try the ride you WILL be hooked on it and want to ride it again.like people say it’s not a good ride because its rough like wow stop being a bitch and actually be like “WOW THAT WAS A GOOD RIDE” lol u know?
Remember riding this when I was a kid and had the great fortune to be able to experience it here with my 6 year old daughter for the first time this past week. As many have pointed out that double dip gives you such a feeling of airtime it's hard to replicate even 90+ years since its construction.
i love the nostalgia of these old woodies and cant wait to get on the 3 old timers at Blackpool next week . Gimme old wood over new steel any day of the week
lol I live 45 min from Leap the Dips and I constantly am watching online for openings I want to ride it before some idiot decides its cheaper to destroy it or something. I certainly hope if the owners ever fall on hard times they contact the Knoebels to adopt it.
When I went to Kennywood in 2017, I missed out on the opportunity to ride the Jack Rabbit because in my hometown of Irondequoit, NY, we have Seabreeze Amusement Park which also has a Jack Rabbit coaster, also opening in 1920. I will say this layout is a lot more unique than ours. Our Jack Rabbit is loaded with tons of airtime and a big tunnel at the end.
All the wooden coasters at Kennywood are solid gold. Fun rides. Still fast and exciting. Sometimes I prefer these to modern wooden coasters. I ride the Phantom or Sky Rocket once or twice when I’m at Kennywood but the wooden coasters I ride numerous times. They are still just fun as hell.
Almost flew completely out of the car on the double dip when I was a kid. I've been terrified to ride coasters since. Watching this is like therapy. My mom forced me to ride the Laser Loop later that day. I almost passed out.
What's with all the negative comments on this coaster? RMC, GCI, or "Thunderbolt is the best ever" fanboys? I mean, really. How the heck is this on it's last legs? You can see with your own eyes how well this ride is maintained by noticing-new wood, sections clearly painted within 1-2 years and also new looking, and the fact it runs smoothly around the turns, just from eye view of the video. The train also isn't "PTC" it's styled to older with padding on the bottom and sides. If you've ridden "Coney Island Cyclone(not any of the clones/copies)" you know. It's like if GCI existed in 1920 for seating. Not to mention it has three trains, it has a freakin back up! Now the only problem here is why the camera is so shaky at the beginning, that is not real on the ride at all.
It went on it yesterday and while we were going up for the double dip we broke a fuse and it stopped. The Iron curtain also stopped. We were all chill a about it and our ride got resumed, despite that its 100% my favorite ride!
Love your channel guys, but you should really pull this down and film it again next time you're back. Almost unwatchable! This is such a smooth coaster, too.
My first coaster. Terrified me, at 8 yrs old. Turned me into a full fledged adrenaline junkie. Always out for the next big thrill, after incredible hulk. Love the double down, from the back seat.
This vid doesnt do the double dip justice. The coaster secures the 2 riders in each car with a horizontal bar, but if u jam ur hand in between the bar u can basically ride without anything holding you in. The double dip would literally throw u out of ur seat and u had to catch yourself before it tossed u from the coaster.
@@brookenjonas That was how John A. Miller did it back in 1920. He took advantage of the hilly terrain available to him to save money on support structures.
Kennywood has ravines on the right side of the park and in the upper left corner of the park. Back in the 1920’s (before Environmental Impact Permitting) the designers used those features as natural drop offs. In their largest woodie, The Thunderbolt, the loading station is on the edge of a ravine. They simply release the tension brake and the train immediately drops into the ravine. The last drop in the Thunderbolt is actually the deepest one (again because it drops into the ravine).
Back in the early days of kennywood, someone would have to STAND AND LEAN OUT OF THE TRAIN with an oil can to lubricate the ride properly. There are pictures in one of those "Pittsburgh History" books showing a man doing it. People were nuts
Some sources say this was the first coaster to have upstop wheels. If that is true, then nearly every existing coaster in the world is a descendant of it.
So you want to get rid of the oldest continually operating coaster in the entire world, with ACE plaques and a national historic landmark status for a fricking log ride?
Seatbelts on coasters are not the primary locking mechanism. In fact, they are just a redundancy. The seatbelt’s only purpose is to make the coaster look safer.
Yeah and it's interesting to think what they could do with a layout this unique. Just look at what they're doing with Hurler's unique layout, Twisted Timbers looks like it's going to be an incredible ride.
it was a bit disappointing that you couldn’t hear screaming of all the people on the ride ik it’s only one person on the ride during this but screaming just makes it so much more enjoyable not to sound weird or anything but it just seems more fun when you hear screaming people
This is also late but, it has to be one of the smoothest classic coasters out there. There is a slight rattle to it but that rattle adds to the ride a bunch
I know this is very late but. I feel it should not be retracked at all.. it would ruin the classic wooden coaster feel.. I live close to Kennywood and the slight rough feeling adds to the ride a ton. A retracking would actually make the ride worse.
It got its name due to the ride being an accedent, it would littrally jump off the track ( as rabbits do) and picture taken. In the video you hear constant clunks untill it jumps, when you ride it, you feel like your on a swing. And this was my first roller coaster when I was 2.
Great coaster. Video really doesn't do it justice and makes it appear more rickety than it is. It's an incredibly smooth ride. It's nearly 100 years old, still packs a bit of punch, and the double-dip is still a thrill as you lift up and swear you're going to fly out. So grateful that Kennywood maintains their three classic coasters so well. It would be a shame to see these rides go away.
Where is the 70 ft drop?
@@davidadams2395 I might be wrong, but it's probably the last drop before the brake run.
@Parker Gray Doesn't mean anything. Woodies can have big drops too.
@@davidadams2395 It is right after you make the turn @ 1:29
The back seat is the best place to ride Jack Rabbit. You literally get lifted out of your seat on the double dip. Nothing else like it!
agree
Every time I ride it I am so glad that bar is their cause I would have flown out so many times if it wasnt
You get airtime on the double down. Is that what you're saying?
I like Crabs Maybe they are trying to say it is really strong airtime
@@Stephenp503 Yes I do
Lived n grew up by Kennywood...best part is being in last seat on the double dip....you get some air time 😂😂
I loved that leather strap they used in the name of safety. It gives a vague sense you're not going to fly away when you hit the double dip. I think those little "trust the physics" moments are missing in modern coasters...
I live in Pittsburgh to
I grew up in the neighborhood too! That was my first coaster. I was just a little bugger but I remember my butt leaving the seat on the double dip! I could hear people on the rides as a kid from my bedroom. Made going to bed a little difficult!
one of my favorite rides, started going on this at 4 years old!
I live in Pittsburgh lol
On coasters like this, mounted POV's are not the way to go.
And it makes the coaster hills appear smaller
I agree! This is a very smooth wooden coaster...
Man, it's crazy how with a mounted camera you still get a brief idea of what the airtime is like 😂😂🤣🤣
@@karenkramer3760 agreed. I was shocked with how large they were when I rode it
I remember as a kid walking up to the Jack Rabbit ride with my brother and some friends, they were all tall enough to ride and I wasn't so had to sit outside the ride and wait. I moved away but went back to visit 15 years later and finally got to ride it. Kennywood was and still is this magical place for anyone that grows up in Pittsburgh or other cities and towns nearby.
The coaster celebrates it’s centennial this year! Happy 100th Jack Rabbit!
The shaky camera is creating a false impression about Jack Rabbit being rickety, when it's actually one of the smoothest classic coasters out there. The roughness is due to the poor POV. There's even noticeable shimmying just heading up the lift. I love the channel, but scrap this upload; it's not doing a good coaster any favors.
Yeah I was about to say that looks incredibly painful
No its load and bumpy it's made of a lot of wood
It’s a really old wooden coaster it’s gonna be rickety and shaky but the camera shake is little bit to shaky
@@bellacarone2401 you're brain might as well be made out of wood but it has no wrinkles
@RainWanders its not painful at all
Amazing to consider this coaster's nearly a century old. Looks like they've kept it well maintained, other that some spots where the paint could use some touch-up work.
It's nice to know that a classic amusement park like Kennywood is still doing well, even though it's not affiliated with one of the major mega-companies
For anyone thinking this must be impossibly rough, its just because its being recorded by a mounted camera. It’s actually surprisingly smooth
Word. Rode it today so I can confirm: very smooth ride for such a classic coaster.
I agree!
Why does everyone hate this coaster so much. It has the best stand-up airtime in the world and who cares about a little rattle? It's made in 1927 for god's sake!
1920 :) Racer is 1927
Kennywood_Miller my mistake. I'm glad you weren't a bitch about it like the majority of TH-cam
Dude ur so right I live in Pittsburgh so that’s like the only park I can go to. If you try the ride you WILL be hooked on it and want to ride it again.like people say it’s not a good ride because its rough like wow stop being a bitch and actually be like “WOW THAT WAS A GOOD RIDE” lol u know?
I love this coaster... this video shakes way more than the ride itself.. it’s a great smooth ride!
I remember when I was 4 I rode on this in the last row, when i got air after the first drop I started crying. I’ve only rode on it once since
same lol but i was like 8 or 9
The first real rollercoaster I rode back in the 70's.This one holds a very special place in my heart.
cant believe this ride is 100 years old. my first and favorite coaster
Remember riding this when I was a kid and had the great fortune to be able to experience it here with my 6 year old daughter for the first time this past week. As many have pointed out that double dip gives you such a feeling of airtime it's hard to replicate even 90+ years since its construction.
This ride is smooth, watch any other POV, this camera is poorly mounted and makes it look like a rattly and rickety ride.
Memories! My very first roller coaster decades ago!
Mine too!
i love the nostalgia of these old woodies and cant wait to get on the 3 old timers at Blackpool next week . Gimme old wood over new steel any day of the week
It may be old, but at least it's open. Unlike SOME OTHER historic coaster in PA *cough* Leap the Dips *cough*.
Lucas Bradley leap the dips is open
Lakemont is closed for this summer while they remodel the park.
jordan roy there were loads of rides called leap the dips, there was once one in Cedar Point.
lol I live 45 min from Leap the Dips and I constantly am watching online for openings I want to ride it before some idiot decides its cheaper to destroy it or something.
I certainly hope if the owners ever fall on hard times they contact the Knoebels to adopt it.
Interesting chain lift and layout in general.
When I went to Kennywood in 2017, I missed out on the opportunity to ride the Jack Rabbit because in my hometown of Irondequoit, NY, we have Seabreeze Amusement Park which also has a Jack Rabbit coaster, also opening in 1920. I will say this layout is a lot more unique than ours. Our Jack Rabbit is loaded with tons of airtime and a big tunnel at the end.
I like how this coaster will be 100 years old next year and it still was number 20 on the wooden coaster poll
Happy 100th birthday to the Jack rabbit will always be my favorite ride at kennywood
All the wooden coasters at Kennywood are solid gold. Fun rides. Still fast and exciting. Sometimes I prefer these to modern wooden coasters. I ride the Phantom or Sky Rocket once or twice when I’m at Kennywood but the wooden coasters I ride numerous times. They are still just fun as hell.
Remember almost flying out of the seat on the double dip on a band trip in high school
You have to love roller coasters that take your picture when you're on them! So very awesome, and to buy them as well to take home with you too!
This is literally one of the smoothest wooden coasters ever.
The Jack Rabbits is probably my favorite roller coaster at Kennywood.
Same
Almost flew completely out of the car on the double dip when I was a kid. I've been terrified to ride coasters since. Watching this is like therapy. My mom forced me to ride the Laser Loop later that day. I almost passed out.
What's with all the negative comments on this coaster? RMC, GCI, or "Thunderbolt is the best ever" fanboys? I mean, really. How the heck is this on it's last legs? You can see with your own eyes how well this ride is maintained by noticing-new wood, sections clearly painted within 1-2 years and also new looking, and the fact it runs smoothly around the turns, just from eye view of the video. The train also isn't "PTC" it's styled to older with padding on the bottom and sides. If you've ridden "Coney Island Cyclone(not any of the clones/copies)" you know. It's like if GCI existed in 1920 for seating. Not to mention it has three trains, it has a freakin back up! Now the only problem here is why the camera is so shaky at the beginning, that is not real on the ride at all.
I remember waiting in line for that roller coaster a year ago for an hour, good times!! xD
Reese Elizabeth
I don’t think I’ve ever waited an hour for a kennywood coaster
Same xD
I LOVE the old wooden coasters.
Kids as young as 4 can ride this, but it's fun as hel for all ages.
The bumpyness just makes it better!
So awesome remember that double dip
It went on it yesterday and while we were going up for the double dip we broke a fuse and it stopped. The Iron curtain also stopped. We were all chill a about it and our ride got resumed, despite that its 100% my favorite ride!
Love your channel guys, but you should really pull this down and film it again next time you're back. Almost unwatchable! This is such a smooth coaster, too.
Seeing this pov before the ride got going I could smell the grease and old leather seats. Nostalgia.
Kennywood look hard af
That's awesome I remember that being the first roller coaster I ever rode !!!!
I miss the old days
Okay but that double down in real life is really awesome!!!
My first coaster. Terrified me, at 8 yrs old. Turned me into a full fledged adrenaline junkie. Always out for the next big thrill, after incredible hulk. Love the double down, from the back seat.
The camera doesn’t do the double dip justice
I was blown away by how intense this ride was
This ride is incredibly smooth for its age
A nice coaster I love going on it
Best air time element period
This vid doesnt do the double dip justice. The coaster secures the 2 riders in each car with a horizontal bar, but if u jam ur hand in between the bar u can basically ride without anything holding you in. The double dip would literally throw u out of ur seat and u had to catch yourself before it tossed u from the coaster.
thx for the video !
The camera is shaking so much it makes it look like the ride is awful. It's. Actually great
All I want to say is , Take It for a spin , You will be thrilled ! Make NO mistake.
Very strange and interesting layout.
dan man that’s just how kennywood does it🤷🏼♀️
@@brookenjonas That was how John A. Miller did it back in 1920. He took advantage of the hilly terrain available to him to save money on support structures.
Kennywood has ravines on the right side of the park and in the upper left corner of the park. Back in the 1920’s (before Environmental Impact Permitting) the designers used those features as natural drop offs. In their largest woodie, The Thunderbolt, the loading station is on the edge of a ravine. They simply release the tension brake and the train immediately drops into the ravine. The last drop in the Thunderbolt is actually the deepest one (again because it drops into the ravine).
does it use a stationary second chain as the antirollback? if so that is an uninique idea
This coaster reminds me of the ones you find in abandoned theme parks.
Wow looks so old
I liked
Christ on a bike the 100 year old POV video is more watchable than this!
Back in the early days of kennywood, someone would have to STAND AND LEAN OUT OF THE TRAIN with an oil can to lubricate the ride properly. There are pictures in one of those "Pittsburgh History" books showing a man doing it. People were nuts
Shows one doing it on video in the Kennywood Memories documentary.
I lost a couple fillings just watching this video.
Hi and love to my friend Lois. Who had lots of fun on this coaster.❤
Some sources say this was the first coaster to have upstop wheels. If that is true, then nearly every existing coaster in the world is a descendant of it.
Did you film it with a paint mixer?
This roller coaster turns 100 this year!
I just went to kennywood
That ride scared the bajeezus out of me when I was 8. That double dip made me fly out of my seat and I lost it.
If we give this up, can we get the Log Jammer back?
So you want to get rid of the oldest continually operating coaster in the entire world, with ACE plaques and a national historic landmark status for a fricking log ride?
@@bandmfanboy I agree with you, but put some respect on Arrow flumes lol
Fun fact: its called the Jack Rabbit because it has a double dip so you catch air
As of earlier this year, the Jack Rabbit at Kennywood has turned 100 years old. (1 century old)
Ahhhh yes an old fashion wooden coaster
Love it!
It used to have only a strap across the lap to keep you in.
Why is it kinda built like the bobsleds?
great memories..double dip:)
For years as I kid I was convinced the last cart actually lifted off the track on the double hill
It sort of does, in a way.
I rode this ride with my friend it was fun although the seatbelt was lose and they didn’t tighten it but i think me and my friend did
Seatbelts on coasters are not the primary locking mechanism. In fact, they are just a redundancy. The seatbelt’s only purpose is to make the coaster look safer.
The back seat is the way to go on the jack rabbit
This would be an interesting RMC project.
Yeah and it's interesting to think what they could do with a layout this unique. Just look at what they're doing with Hurler's unique layout, Twisted Timbers looks like it's going to be an incredible ride.
Tyler Wood NO!! This coaster is way to historic it would be an awful idea to RMC this
I love RMC as much as anyone, but none of the coasters recognized by ACE as landmark's or classics should even be considered for RMC treatment!
It's a national landmark; so in theory, it would sound good. But I'm pretty sure they cant tamper with it too much.
who remembers the seat belts on this ride when they used to be bungee cords?
A new fresh paint of white paint is what this ride needs.
it was a bit disappointing that you couldn’t hear screaming of all the people on the ride ik it’s only one person on the ride during this but screaming just makes it so much more enjoyable not to sound weird or anything but it just seems more fun when you hear screaming people
how about a stabilizer
Just my speed! Thanks!!
I hurt my back watching this.
Late reply but it’s not nearly as shaky as the camera would suggest
This is also late but, it has to be one of the smoothest classic coasters out there. There is a slight rattle to it but that rattle adds to the ride a bunch
ok but that refreshment place always had the best chicken fingers
Best to sit in the back seat on this coaster.
Go jack,be the rabbit
Well they could paint the entire coaster and not only the visible parts from the midway.
The thing some of u hate about it is that it's do shaky and bumpy
This looks like it was flimed by the principal from Beavis and Butthead lol
YASSS DOUBLE DIP
i rode this and the zero gravity was wack dude. not even kidding thought i was gonna fall out
GCI Retracking, Yay or Nay?
(In before the Steel Snobs come in and demand it be RMC'd.)
I know this is very late but. I feel it should not be retracked at all.. it would ruin the classic wooden coaster feel.. I live close to Kennywood and the slight rough feeling adds to the ride a ton. A retracking would actually make the ride worse.
Kennywood’s woodies are retracked in house. And they do almost as good as GCI does theirs.
@@Stagnant_Gravy We need more amusement parks willing to do in-house maintenance like Kennywood.
Also the crappy camera placement doesn’t do it justice at all, cuz this video makes it look as if it’s a slow coaster which it actually isn’t.
You need a gimbal.
A little bit bumpy there.
Super fun
The camera had a seizure
Was it scary
It got its name due to the ride being an accedent, it would littrally jump off the track ( as rabbits do) and picture taken. In the video you hear constant clunks untill it jumps, when you ride it, you feel like your on a swing. And this was my first roller coaster when I was 2.
icebberg lol i didn't ride it till i was 4
Speaking of "accidents", my cousin pooped his pants on this coaster when we were 4 or 5 years old.
Tmi dude.
This is very late, but. This ride was designed with up-stop wheels so that the trains would not fall off the track.
No way. You have to be as tall as Kenny Kangaroo to ride the Jack Rabbit.
Pittsburgh classic.
Why do you guys keep changing your channel font?
1:38 you literally go off the track
How To Draw It doesn’t but it definitely feels like it. Great air.
Oh I see, it's just so rough it feels like it, thanks
How To Draw I wouldn’t say it’s rough. It’s actually pretty smooth for it’s age.
True
I'm going to Kennywood today, and I'm gonna ride this
That double drop tho……