- July 10th, 2009, 9:04 pm
#30260
Chocolate? Roller Coasters? Mecca.
Welcome to Hershey, PA. Population: Choclate.
On a side note, I also passed by a Nestle' distribution plant in PA.
Moving on, Today was a beautiful day to go to Hersheypark.
I've been wanting to get to Hersheypark FOREVER. This is a park I've been by, but never to. Just like Dorney. Today was the day!
The front of the park really reminded me of Busch Gardens Willaimsburg/The Old Country/Europe.
Maybe even with a slight bit of Disney thrown in the fountain, for good measure?
First coaster of the day: Wildcat. I hear the GCI trains made it not as fun, but it was still nice.
The mouse was crazy. We got stuck on the brake run for about 10 minutes. I Facebooked from the car.
Live bands in parks are awesome. More parks need to do this. Hersheypark and FMP both had nice bands playing live songs.
I was really looking forward to riding this, but the weight was slightly longer than I'd wanted to wait at that moment. So we went to Stormrunner. I'll explain why that was a mistake when we get to Fahrenheit.
Rode the Boomer later in the evening. It was rather fun, actually.
Mmmm...Stormrunner. I've REALLY been excited about this, and was not let down. Loved it. Just wish it was longer...
Since I didn't get to ride at Dorney, I toyed with riding here, but skipped it and never came back to it.
This ride Kicks major Booty!
The old wooden coaster was more fun than I was lead to believe.
Next was this wonderful beast, Great Bear. I love everything about it. Not the best ever, but it was a solid ride.
I was not impressed with SooperDooperLooper: The Mine Train.
The actual mine train wasn't great either. But this was great:
Best part of the ride. I expected something like Revolution and was let down. It's not bad, just kinda boring.
So we rode the Kissing tower.
Mostly to get shots of the coasters.
You can also see the town from up there. Quaint little town it is.
If only you were really chocolate on the inside...
It wasn't bad, but I'm not a mine train fan.
Okay, so Farneheit. We rode. The line was about 30 minutes. It was okay. The first drop was good, the Norwegian loop was neat, and the last hill was like the one hill on Maverick. But I was expecting it to be more Maverick like and it wasn't. I may have liked it better had I rode it before Stormrunner, though.
The only credit in the park I missed. They closed 5 minutes before we got there. Didn't know it closed with the Boardwalk at 8. Boo!
The boardwalk area is so nice. The tiny Wavepool is cute.
We got our Lightening Racer on too.
Another shot of Wildcat from Lightening Racers.
Didn't ride the Hershey Wheel, but did go and ride Great Bear and Stormrunner again.
After Dinner...
We rode SooperDooper again, as well as the Bear and a shot on the dark ride, which was fun.
It was dark and as the park closed we headed out. Matt and I had skipped Chocolate World going in, but it was still open, so we went and rode the dark ride and I got some chocolate Twizzlers. All in all, a great day. Can't wait to go back to this park.
Welcome to Hershey, PA. Population: Choclate.
On a side note, I also passed by a Nestle' distribution plant in PA.
Moving on, Today was a beautiful day to go to Hersheypark.
I've been wanting to get to Hersheypark FOREVER. This is a park I've been by, but never to. Just like Dorney. Today was the day!
The front of the park really reminded me of Busch Gardens Willaimsburg/The Old Country/Europe.
Maybe even with a slight bit of Disney thrown in the fountain, for good measure?
First coaster of the day: Wildcat. I hear the GCI trains made it not as fun, but it was still nice.
The mouse was crazy. We got stuck on the brake run for about 10 minutes. I Facebooked from the car.
Live bands in parks are awesome. More parks need to do this. Hersheypark and FMP both had nice bands playing live songs.
I was really looking forward to riding this, but the weight was slightly longer than I'd wanted to wait at that moment. So we went to Stormrunner. I'll explain why that was a mistake when we get to Fahrenheit.
Rode the Boomer later in the evening. It was rather fun, actually.
Mmmm...Stormrunner. I've REALLY been excited about this, and was not let down. Loved it. Just wish it was longer...
Since I didn't get to ride at Dorney, I toyed with riding here, but skipped it and never came back to it.
This ride Kicks major Booty!
The old wooden coaster was more fun than I was lead to believe.
Next was this wonderful beast, Great Bear. I love everything about it. Not the best ever, but it was a solid ride.
I was not impressed with SooperDooperLooper: The Mine Train.
The actual mine train wasn't great either. But this was great:
Best part of the ride. I expected something like Revolution and was let down. It's not bad, just kinda boring.
So we rode the Kissing tower.
Mostly to get shots of the coasters.
You can also see the town from up there. Quaint little town it is.
If only you were really chocolate on the inside...
It wasn't bad, but I'm not a mine train fan.
Okay, so Farneheit. We rode. The line was about 30 minutes. It was okay. The first drop was good, the Norwegian loop was neat, and the last hill was like the one hill on Maverick. But I was expecting it to be more Maverick like and it wasn't. I may have liked it better had I rode it before Stormrunner, though.
The only credit in the park I missed. They closed 5 minutes before we got there. Didn't know it closed with the Boardwalk at 8. Boo!
The boardwalk area is so nice. The tiny Wavepool is cute.
We got our Lightening Racer on too.
Another shot of Wildcat from Lightening Racers.
Didn't ride the Hershey Wheel, but did go and ride Great Bear and Stormrunner again.
After Dinner...
We rode SooperDooper again, as well as the Bear and a shot on the dark ride, which was fun.
It was dark and as the park closed we headed out. Matt and I had skipped Chocolate World going in, but it was still open, so we went and rode the dark ride and I got some chocolate Twizzlers. All in all, a great day. Can't wait to go back to this park.
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