Josh Davidson Posted June 13, 2008 Posted June 13, 2008 Since most of you have never seen this, I went to Knoebels and Hershey last year. Had the time of my life; Knoebels even made it to my number one park and Phoenix was my 100th coaster. Well here is the report from that awesome time! Now I have 166 credits and a new camera, so the pictures aren't the exact quality like the rest of my trip reports, but still decent! Well enjoy. After a four and a half an hour drive, we made it to America's middle of no where park: Knoebels! Cheers for no metal dectors and security freaking out cause you got a camera! Cheapest park in the world, I love it! Woah, the main reason why we came to Knoebels. To see Flying Turns under construction still! Coming Soon: Josh the Ride .rowls:. Alright, this ride took my expectations and threw it, I mean it threw it out of the window. This baby was SO smooth, so much air time, such a great layout. Blew me away, actually making me come back to ride it five more times. It was almost my 100th credit and is third on my top ten. This is like god's own coaster. 0 Whats better, the no seat belts, that no staff checks the restraighnts, or the no airgates? Ugh, looks so awesome! Hey, heard of this ride called Whirlwind? Yeah.. thats gone! Train ethusiasts, here you go! Haha, the name does not even live up to how twisted this ride is. Alright, this ride might be one of the best looking coasters I've ever seen, and a tad bit rougher then Phoenix but it was still amazing. My fifth favorite woodie. I swear this ride has like ten different logos for the name. Such a beautiful coaster. Knoebels likes wood. We got wood. This is for all the lift chain ethusiasts. Thats me on the buttom left on Looper. Thats me, attemping to get back upright. We got stuck inverted, ah I loved it! Dude, I told you they got wood! I love parks in the middle of no where! Close up on train for you guys. Don't believe me about the air time on this bad girl, look at the girl in the third row. I just love the look of this coaster, I just don't know why. Truly one of the best rides I've ever ridden. Worth's the trip to the park itself. No bumper cars can come close to this! I hit a car so hard, that its metal frame came off! Unbelievable. Me knocking off the metal frame on the yellow bumper car. Thats me jumping all the way on the left. Finish off Knoebels one last time with the best woodie in Pennslyvania! Now to Hershey! Hour and a half later that night, we got to the Hershey Lodge! Its only 7:30pm too. Just some of the 14 Hershey products I had over the three days. So it was 8pm, and the park was still open and I had nothing to do, so I took the shuttle from the Hershey Lodge over to the park for the last hour! I got there at 9pm, exactly one hour till closing. Hershey goes so far out as to theme there trash cans! First ride of the night, RIGHT AFTER coming from Knoebels the same day. Grabbed back row with a ten minute wait. Sweet! A other area of a theme park themed after my backyard: Alantic City... Next morning, I came to the park 8:30 in the morning to try out Sweet Start! Sweet deal. Comet Hollow was open early so we grabbed walk ons on both Superdooperlooper and Comet. DUDE! Like, its a ghost town... me like. First morning test run. One of the best inverts in the world. Don't blaim Intamin, blaim Global Warming! This ride is still incrediable, but seems to have gotten a bit rougher since the last time I rode it two seasons ago. First public train out, front row. Very picture-istic coaster though I should add. Its like Alantic City! Except colorful... clean... and yeah. WILDCAT! The new trains have helped the ride out SO MUCH! Now I can actually say I enjoyed it. Its only rough now at the buttom of the first drop and the last turn. Moved up actually to my top ten woodies as number 8! Yo kid! Move your hand. My baby. I rode this thing 12 times total, six on both sides. 5 times front, one time back on both sides. Two train wait really for the whole day! Ride 1 of 6 on Thunder. Dude, this thing in person is just HUGE! Of course, my homeland follows me... <_< Its in the zoom. I still do not get the theme of the ride, but it still has a sweet name. GREAT BEAR! I spent the whole night trying to find all those stars to make a bear... didn't work out! Thats a big invert. Broken down. E-vac time! -Insert your own caption here- Happy 100 to a special someone... -_- I know im Jewish... don't have to be jealous. The kissing tower is actually stuck on top of the tower during this picture. It would be up there for about two hours. Eatting kisses. Hershey! Anyone know one of my cat's name is Hersey? Yup, and the other one is named Smores. I really love this picture. Yum. I really like this picture. Sweet deal. Haven't I said that all ready? Its the cookie that thinks, its a fruit. Sadly I realize I never filmed in this spot... :mellow: Such a beautiful park, and yes the Kissing Tower is still stuck in this picture! LIGHTNING RACER! My first ever credit.. yup it was my first ever coaster back in 2000. And finish off with me kissing the logo to my ride. Well thanks for checking out the pictures. The whole trip was fun! I got my third new favorite coaster, Wildcat moved up on my list, Knoebels became my favorite park, rode these kickass bumper cars, and my new favorite park food. Well thanks for reading!
TheRapidsNerd Posted June 14, 2008 Posted June 14, 2008 Looks like you had a good time there. Some good shots of SR. Thanks for posting this.
dockers Posted June 14, 2008 Posted June 14, 2008 Thanks for posting this great TR. Me and my family are planning on hitting up Pennsylvainia around the same time. Were the crowds bad?
Josh Davidson Posted June 14, 2008 Author Posted June 14, 2008 ^Knoebels' longest wait was fifteen minutes top for Phoenix, and it was also only running one train. That park was so dead, it was crazy. So not use to it with the parks I normally visit. Hershey on the other hand was a 45min-hour worth of waits. Though the woodies were only 1-2 train waits. Great Bear, Storm Runner on the other hand were like a hour worth of waits. Still not bad though.
Jayjay719 Posted June 14, 2008 Posted June 14, 2008 Awesome trip report Josh. Hershey is one of my favorite parks, as well as Knoebels. Have you been there yet this year? Try and go to ride Fahrenheit. Hopefully Flying ages...errr Turns opens up this year.
Josh Davidson Posted June 15, 2008 Author Posted June 15, 2008 ^Heading West to Hershey after my BGE trip in July. Sadly due to gas prices, no way I'm heading any more west for Knoebels and Flying this year.. even my baby Phoenix.
Jayjay719 Posted June 15, 2008 Posted June 15, 2008 ^Aww, well atleast you get to go back to Hershey. Who knows if Flying Turns will even open this year.
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