The Exterminator

The key to getting on the exterminator is to go on an offpeak day like I did or go when the park opens. Offpeak days are usually during the week. In my case it was a Mon. Our wait outside the attraction was about 10 minutes. Once inside it took another 20 max. Normally I avoid this ride if the lines are long but this time we lucked out.
It is a wild mouse type of ride in the dark with warnings and lights flashing at you from time to time along with the exterminator himself. There are a bunch of twists and turns that it reminded me a little of Space Mountain but on a much smaller scale. True, it isn’t Disney but the wait inside is more comfortable and the ride itself vicious! Cars proceed on a constantly moving track which helps with getting on and off so easily.

The line so long and it is always long to I have never waited in less than 40 minutes to get on the Exterminator but I do love it so much. I don’t think there is any one ride like it in any park in the tri-​state area. I like that it’s indoors that makes it all the more thrilling.

The Kennywood Krucible Part 4:
Wielding little else but confidence over having reduced Cosmic Chaos to Earthbound Order, we went after The Exterminator next, Kennywood’s «dark ride.»
A foreboding waiting area is decorated with faux electrical panels as a breeze wafts over sweat-​sticky skin. Once inside a car, you’re tormented by figures in Hazmat suits as well as gigantic rats with fiery coals for eyes after a steep, inclined mine shaft leads you towards hell. Whether or not you’re vermin or prey becomes confusing and irrelevant, especially when you’re alternately spinning and plunging in aphotic surroundings.
120 seconds passed, and were back into the light again. The Exterminator had been terminated. Our souls were safe for the time being.
I said to Kay, «I want The Phantom’s hide, now! I can’t wait until nightfall.»