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Who knew kids would be at an amusement park acting like kids? If only Kings Island catered to middle aged visitors without kids, like the rest of the parks in the industry and their target markets.

I also have a good feeling they're going to go for a hyper with this. It sits right along Hersheypark Drive and they can use their giant lift truss ala Iron Gwazi and make this thing pretty massive and eye catching for everyone driving along there. They'll also have three hypers to go with their three drop towers. Hershey already has one of the most stacked coaster line-ups in the world, an RMC is just the icing on the cake. Beyond stoked for this.

They moved Velocicoaster to Hershey?

Having just spent 2 days there? I'd say it's a park that CAN be done in 1 day - especially if you have the skip the lines passes. (worth it, buy them, even if they don't work on F.L.Y. and you need the "special upgrade ones" for Black Mamba & Taron). so it's not "pay per ride" but each fast queue ticket is good for two rides on most things in the park - exclusions being F.L.Y. and Black Mamba/Taron. BUT if you get the "special upgrade" ones, those also include Black Mamba/Taron as options, along with the others. . just make sure you don't mix them up and use the more expensive special passes for rides that you can use the "regular" fast queue on. as to F.L.Y.. . the only way to get passes (other than going on a trip there with TPR), is by staying at the Charles Lindbergh Hotel - each night stayed there, gives the guest a pass for F.L.Y. thru the special "hotel entrance" to the ride - opposite the candy store. I'd say go there first (everyone seemed to), and queue for F.L.Y. and ride it. .then just hang around the candy store looking pathetic. . and I'll bet Hotel guests will gift you their cards. I know on the days we were there? I saw several hotel guests giving away the "hotel guest F.L.Y. ride cards" to folks in that area. So you'll need a bit of luck - right place/right time.. but you might luck out. OR later in the day, the lines seemed to die down a bit on both days we were there, with less than 30 minute waits towards the end of the day. but you'll want 2 days for the re-rides. the coasters: only two real "duds" in the line up, and even those are only "duds" because they are competing with Black Mamba (best invert I've ever been on), Taron (imagine Maverick - but high up in the air), Colorado Adventure (a spectacular Mine Train that is mostly hidden, and wraps around the fantastic Chiapas water ride - seriously, two lift hills for the mine train on either side of a log flume lift!), F.L.Y. (simply stunning. . no other way to put it), and Winjas: Fear & Winjas: Force - two indoor, intertwined spinners, that have some "tricks" (tracks) up their sleeves. in any other park? Crazy Bats, and Raik would be decent coasters. . here they are just "meh". . tho Crazy Bats now has V.R. which made it a lot of fun to ride wearing. the water rides are both *incredible* and will both get you incredibly wet. so bring a pair of water shoes, and a change of clothes, as even ponchos don't help too much. While the Chiapas flume will get you wet? it was so good, I ended up riding it 3 times in 2 days. But River Quest - as amazing as it is? is like getting dunked into a bathtub. As much as I loved it? never got on it more than that 1 time. (in two days, I don't think I ever saw the Splash Battle. . so think it might be shut down?). there just really are not a lot of Flats in the park (tho the ones they do have are mostly amazing - Talocan is the BEST top spin I've ever been on. . . be prepared for the # of flips, and the intensity of them. And you'll want to ride Mystery Castle over and over, as the different sides seem to run slightly different programs). there's also a completely WTF dark ride (Geister Rikscha) which kind of is like someone went to Disney, rode Haunted Mansion and Pirates, then mixed the order of the scenes up and added a bunch of racisim (and Japanese ghost spirits to what is supposed to be a Chinese dark ride). . . worth it, and we rode it multiple times, but WTF. A great madhouse, a really good screen shooter ride (Maus au Chocolate), and a "never in America, as the lawsuits would shut the park down" funhouse, that I saw multiple folks take tumbles in. . . LOL. . but there was *always* a walk around for the "trick" areas for those that didn't want to do them.

Did you bring a notepad with you? I don't understand all of the clientele comments. Are people specifically looking for a certain demographic to judge, or is it across the board? It's one thing to be comically critical of parks, but there seems to be a growing trend of self righteous coaster enthusiasts. It's the worst kind of toxicity.

Of course you would. You're a coaster enthusiast.

Yes, I'm aware they are definitely tiny, but the location is the equivalent of people who like being able to walk right on the beach... but for a coaster enthusiast. The only negative in my eyes is my snoring will probably rumble the room in such a small space... I can do a Google search for some photos so no need to go out of your way, but thanks!

^ Adding to that, it sounds like one-train operations for the time being, with the other train still in sections on the storage track.

Yes, it's in the comment section on the official Hershey page / post on Facebook, I know that for sure. It was the first thing I checked because a lot of people do fake these kinds of things.

Everything Bert said is one hundred percent correct. If you see the park for the first time - and maybe the last time for some years - don't go for one day. It is a two day park at every time of the year, in every weather. We have been there multiple times one day (with the knowledge to be back with a three hour drive evera time we want). But our last visit with 2.5 days onsite was so different. We will never be there for one single day again. An idea for you, if your schedule is tight: Arrive at day one, stay onsite, leave late on day two. This is the only option.

I mean... It's probably RMC, but I'm with you on your point of view. I'm not necessarily doubting the social media posts, but does anyone have an actual link, or is it just shared screenshot after shared screenshot. Like has anyone seen the original? Personally, I hope they just tear it down after dangling the carrot, strictly for entertainment. This is why I could never own a park...

So far it seems like Titan track is being to used repair and restore existing coasters, not convert them to a different layout, etc like RMC. If this is the main use, I'm cool with that. Not everything needs to be converted. I agree with the above. RMC wouldn't touch that tweet if they weren't involve IMO.

RMC and Hershey is a match made in heaven, can't wait to see what they've come up with.

Dude, do you really think if RMC had nothing to do with whatever is happening here that they would have posted that comment in multiple places/posts?

Before today, I wouldn't have been surprised either way. But RMC is more well-known than GCI's Titan Track and there's the fact that RMC did comment on the park's Facebook post announcing the ride's closure.

Still confused? Same comment from RMC on the Insta post. This is essentially confirmed.

Finally got on Predator with the Titan Track and here are my thoughts - The Good: The Titan Track feels great, it's incredibly smooth and maintains/builds speed better than pretty much all points on the ride The Bad: Coming back out of the Titan Track you are immediately reminded how rough the rest of the coaster is, the speed that you build/maintain through the death turn (that you previously lost due to the track slowing you down) makes the next bit of track feel like getting in a bit of a car accident. Final thoughts: The Titan Track is a huge success and improvement for that portion of the ride, I'd like to see a whole coaster done with Titan Track, but unfortunately with only a few hundred feet on the retracking done on Predator I don't really think it helps the whole experience (even thought it does massively help the one section of track). If Six Flags wanted to keep Predator's profiling mainly the same, but transitioned the whole ride to Titan Track I would not be upset about that at all.

I am confused as to why everyone is dead set this is an RMC knowing that GCI has created their own version of steel track and could very well be overhauling their very first coaster, in every aspect of very first, as they stated the titan track could do inversions and all.

Cool, something else to make Skyrush's line shorter! In all seriousness, I think a park with an RMC, the most batshit insane Intamin ever built, and a host of other fantastic coasters might be in the running for best coaster park in the country once this is up and running.

Adding an RMC into Hersheys lineup is just nuts.

It should be noted that a “Season Pass” doesn’t mean what most people think that it means. It means that it’s good for the Summer season with mystery restrictions. It’s $139 for a pass that’s good from July 1st through September 30th and subject to blackout dates, though they won’t tell you what those blackout dates are. This means that if they offer this for each season assuming price point remains the same, an annual pass is $556 and has blackout dates, making it the most expensive annual pass for any park in America with blackout dates that’s currently offered for sale. I’d actually be excited to buy this if they offer it for Q1, but also how are you going to sell a pass with blackout dates and not tell people what they are?

Got back from a recent trip to Ohio to visit the two Cedar Fair parks in the area (along with other miscellany). I visited Cedar Point for Tuesday, July 5th after waking up early to drive across the state from Cincinnati the morning of (I had rearranged a decent portion of my travel plans last minute). I still got to the park entrance near opening. My adherence to my ridiculously tight schedule probably wasn't necessary as Cedar Point's crowds were very reasonable on that day, and I think the longest line that I waited for at the park was the drop coaster Valravn at 45 minutes followed by Maverick at 30 minutes. I think the rest of the rides I went on were well under 15 minute waits. Overall, I got one ride on every major rollercoaster and two rides on Steel Vengeance. However, I don't feel like I fell in love with any of the attractions. All of them felt reasonably well designed and thrilling, but I preferred Kings Island's more eclectic lineup. Miscellaneous Major Rides Thoughts Cedar Creek Mine Ride - I typically love Arrow Mine trains for how quirky they are, but Cedar Creek Mine Ride doesn't really use the terrain at all which makes it inescapably obvious how bland the ride layout is. It also was down for much of the day. Steel Vengeance - I thought that the mandatory locker system was fine, and the trains were able to leave the station full. However, I experienced the ride in the early morning on a relatively uncrowded day, and I am sure that the locker situation is much more unmanageable with decent crowds. I rode the ride once in the middle and once in the back. Honestly, Steel Vengeance is intense enough that I don't feel like I need to be picky about seat selection. It's probably my favorite ride at Cedar Point by default as it gives a long intense ride that is smooth enough to be re-ridable. Raptor - I was very confused by how the employee on the station platform was doing seat assignments. They would fill up the entirety of the front row line before assigning people to the rest of the train. On the one hand, this policy wasn't the best at filling in empty spaces on the trains which is bad for throughput, but on the other hand, it does mean that I ended up getting a front, middle seat, which probably helped since I generally don't like B&M inverts. Maverick - I think my expectations were too high for Maverick given all the hype, especially since I rode this immediately after Steel Vengeance. Plus the throughput probably isn't as good as other rides in the park making the lines longer. The ride also seemed to break down a bit during my visit, but I don't think that is unusual for Maverick. Theming While the areas near the back of the park have a decently charming western theme, the front of the park feels exceptionally bland. Cedar Point definitely feels like a boring corporate regional park. It somehow doesn't feel like Cedar Point takes advantage of its lakeside location - probably because the waterfront isn't really that visible from the park's paths. Food I ate at Hugo's Italian Kitchen at the front of the park and had one of the crustiest, driest chicken parmesan sandwich that I have ever had in my life. I suspect that other park food options were better, but by this time in my vacation, I was really tired of all of the carbs and proteins that I had been consuming on my vacation (Ohio doesn't have the most diverse food scene in the world) and was happy to have the side salad that came with my meal. Operations I thought that the operations were fine - good even. The park seems to be very strict about loose articles (and glasses) and doesn't offer station bins on its attractions, which probably helps throughput. I sort of suspect that the real issue that people have with the park is that it is too popular for the types of policies that Cedar Fair loves to inflict on its parks. Clientele I was actually bracing for the worst after some of the issues that I had at Kings Island on previous days, as I assumed that Cedar Point was less geared towards families and more geared towards teens due to its lineup of thrill rides, but it was actually fine. I didn't have any problems with the kids at this park. I am not sure if that is a demographic thing, or a midweek visit thing. I noticed that some of the elderly guests were riding the major thrill coasters, which I thought was odd but also pretty cool.

^I definitely understand the surprise/shock factor of seeing the restraints pop up after hearing "All clear," but this is still a very different situation than "one of the operators almost dispatched our train with the restraints up."

57 here and definitely still riding coasters as well.

I don't know if it's the kind of materials used or what, but its looks decerped. I think vaccines should be mandatory before riding it... tetanus vaccines, that is.

Yeah, Storm Runner is open. This is a good year to go to Hershey. The coasters aren’t all open obviously because it’s Hershey and that would throw the universe out of whack, but this year’s customary “Hersheypark coaster that’s closed for way longer than it should be just because that’s how Hersheypark rolls” is Trailblazer and nobody cares about Trailblazer.

What's wrong with you?

Agreed. Phantasialand is normally a one day park, but for first time visitors who have not watched any of the shows yet (they usually run the same shows for multiple years) and who might want re-rides on Taron, Black Mamba and F.L.Y., two days do make sense.

Boo. Hopefully RMC does something a bit more unique this time around. Only so many variants of barrel roll I can take.