Dorney to receive new rides in 2004

Needed to be redone, but they could have widened the switchbacks instead and extended the queing area outside of the building. Anything instead of replacing that beautiful building with that cheap-looking gazeebo.

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-Rob
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Are these the kind of swings you're looking for Bill? ;)

-Danny, hopes Bill didn't want a Yo-Yo or the Golden Zephyr from DCA
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Wow, don't even remember those Danny....and that's a Zierer swing set, with the ultra-cool lighting package I get so much good-natured ribbing about...wonder *how* I missed those, guess four hours really WAS cutting Dorney a little close...;) On the flip side, we DID get to Knoebels a little earlier...:)

Hmmm, so now what do we want for Dorney's '04 expansion....besides the obvious Sally-brand dark ride...
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I still say bring in a Huss Giant. Particularly a giant frisbee. They are highly marketable and can compete with Hershey's new rocket. Ya know, it's something you can put on a commercial and gain on that.

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Enjoy the rest of your day at Dorney Park and Wildwater Kingdom.

A Huss Giant would be pretty cool, but very doubtful. I don't believe that in addi to being the first in the chain to get a floorless, that they would be the first to get a Huss Giant. Anything they get for 2004 will most likely be minor, and most of the attention will go into the floorless, since by the description, it sounds like there will be some major excavation.

I kinda remember hearing that there was a Chance Chaos in storage somewhere for Dorney. Anyone else remember that one?

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Eastcoaster
Rideworld

Don't hold your breath, but another CF park is rumored to be receiving a Giant.

Get your Muisc Express rides while ya can ;)

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*** This post was edited by MagnumForce 9/10/2003 11:31:39 PM ***

Oh so someone else has heard that as well? Music Express looked rather tattered when I was at the park here in August. I think a HUSS ride would do wonders there.
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The only problem with a Huss Giant ride would be the same problem that Dorney has when adding a new coaster- the neighbors. I would assume that they would complain about an enormous spinning ride just as they complain about a tall & noisy coaster. I wonder if Dorney would go through all of the aggrevation for a non-coaster ride?

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-Rob
A.C.E. member since 1990
Posting @ Coasterbuzz since 2000
E.C.C. member since 2002

If I wanted to live in a quiet neighborhood, the 1st place I wouldn't want to live is next to an amusement park. First place I wouldn't shop for real estate would be in s whitehall. I think the neighbors in that area need stop being so bossy to dorney. I never remember it being such a huge deal as it is now. When you are arguing with dorney about the color of the water slides that they are installing, something is askew. Someone has someone wrapped around their little finger, I'm sorry. Reminds me of a past relationship, a very abusive one at that.

*** This post was edited by DorneyDante 9/11/2003 12:39:12 PM ***

I think the neighbors were used to Dorney being a small, local park, and when they started expanding and adding larger rides, then they started to raise a fuss. Personally, I think you're an idiot if you move next to an amusement park and expect peace and quiet, but then, this world is filled with idiots. These neighbors of Dorney's have unfortunately caused them many problems in the last (Dorney was supposed to receive the coaster that became Valleyfair's Wild Thing in 1996 but the problems with the neighbors forced a delay and caused Steel Force to be built in 1997), and I don't see why they'd stop complaining now when they always seem to get their way.

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-Rob
A.C.E. member since 1990
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E.C.C. member since 2002

How would Wild Thing have fit where Steel Force is? Do you mean rather that Dorney was suppose to be the first CF park to receive their hyper? Also, you made a very good point Rob about what type of park Dorney used to be, rather than what it has become today. I probably wouldn't have minded living next to Dorney anytime before the late eighties either. Today, you couldn't pay me enough to live next to Dorney with all the people, cars, noise, lights, activity, etc.... There are people who literally live next to the water slides in WWK and a few yards from the lake turn on Hercules (well not anymore). The major thrill park that Dorney is striving so hard to become is really being hindered by its residential location. Not quite sure what the resolution is here or how the park will evolve into the park that it wants to become given its location.

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From what I understand (keep in mind that I could be hideously wrong here), the Wild Thing was originally designed for Dorney. That meant that the lift would have started by the lake where Hercules turn is/used to be. It would have travelled parallel and in the same direction of Thunderhawk and have the turnaround section behind the Thunderhawk's turn and in front of Laser. When the park was denied approval, it became too late for the park to build the ride for the 1996 season and the ride was "sent" to MN while a new design was completed for Dorney. I think that one of the things that got the design approved was the fact that the lift hill was moved to the other end of the site, as far away from the houses as possible.

Having heard lukewarm reviews for Wild Thing, I would say that Dorney got the better ride.

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-Rob
A.C.E. member since 1990
Posting @ Coasterbuzz since 2000
E.C.C. member since 2002

Interesting, I had never heard that before. Not saying I don't believe you, I just never heard it before. Wow, thank god it turned out the way it did, I also never really heard good reviews about Wild Thing.

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Mamba is th real cream of the crop. All of the Morgan hypers are too ho hummish for me sans Phantom's Revenge. But then again, it's a Morrow ;)

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I'm pretty sure that story is accurate... can anyone else back me up on that one? I have heard that Mamba has a better second hill and the cool head-choppers on the turnaround, but SF's final speed hills are better.

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-Rob
A.C.E. member since 1990
Posting @ Coasterbuzz since 2000
E.C.C. member since 2002

I just looked at that turnaround Rob on Wild Thing and I am not convinced that that design was for Dorney. I don't see how it could have fit in the area where Steel Force's station is today.

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*** This post was edited by DorneyDante 9/12/2003 12:53:38 PM ***

It is possible that the turnaround section was possibly expanded because of extra room at Valleyfair, but I am 99% positive that the general Wild Thing design was originally Dorney's.

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-Rob
A.C.E. member since 1990
Posting @ Coasterbuzz since 2000
E.C.C. member since 2002

Actually, Wild Thing's turnaround would fit in the Steel Force station area, but it would extend all the way over to the Laser across the marshland that is now the overflow parking lot. I'm also glad it turned out the way it did, because it saved that land for something else in the future, and I still believe something will go there other than parked cars.

If I had the opportunity, I would buy one of the houses neighboring Dorney, and I wouldn't give them a hard time about building anything.

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I'll back you up on that one Rob. I also remember hearing about Wild Thing being designed for Dorney, but shipped to Valleyfair at the last minute for the reasons you stated. I am so mad that I wasn't able to get to Dorney until most of the changes were made by Cedar Fair.

As a matter of fact, I remember the first time I went to Eastcoaster back in '93 ( I think), Dorney announced that JTTCoTE was to be removed. After all the hissing stopped, they defended themselves by saying, "We are not a museum"!! Typical response from the heads of a park that doesn't care about being creative to save a classic ride. Cedar Fair isn't interested in Dorneys heritage PERIOD. Heck, they don't even care to replace Hercules with the properly designed WOODEN replacement.They are replacing it with more metal. Very, very sad in my opinion.

I guess in a few years when Mean Streak becomes more of a liability to them, we'll see it get replaced by some over- hyped metal contraption too. But only when they are comfortable with their coaster numbers being more then any other park.

Listening to you and Dorney Dante talk about the old Dorney Park reminds me of all the gradual changes I've seen in Sandusky since the late 1960's. I think Brian Noble stated above how he remembers the old Fun House, EarthQuake, and Pirate Ride at Cement Point. I miss those rides too. I can maybe see the FunHouse being removed becuase of the litigious society in which we all must live, but to remove the EarthQuake for Bearstein Bears was ludicrous.

Then, to remove the Pirate Ride when it easily could have been updated, was just as bad. I lost a lot of respect for that place at that point. Those two rides were bought from the defunct Freedomland in the mid Sixties. Sally Corp.was around too when the Pirate Ride was destroyed, so there is no excuse there either.

Trying to reason with some of these corporate owned parks is like trying to reason with the Vancomb Lady from Mad TV. ;-)

Wood anything else is just an imitation

Dorney was very cool in the pre Cedar Fair days. Although from what I remember hearing wasn't Dorney starting to have financial problems in the early 90's before Cedar Fair took over? I heard somthing along the lines of Wild Water Kingdom actually supporting the park. Although Dorney lost it's old charm I think that it was for the better. I just glad CF took Dorney over rather than Six Flags. Only if the Kennywood Corp could have bought it back then I think Dorney would have kept it classic charm.

I remember JTHCOTE! That huge dragon was awsome! That would have been somthing cool to bring out of storage for Hallo Weekends and made it smoke.

For 2004 I'd like to see a the wishful dark ride or some bumper cars. I don't consider those Krazy Kars bumper cars to me their more like bumper boats on land. I wonder if they still have their old Lusse's in storage or if they sold them. I just think Dorney need at least another dozen good flats in the park. If I plan on spending the entire day at Dorney without going to the waterpark I find myself tireing of the park by around 3 or 4 pm.

What ever happened to their Paratroopers? For a while it was in pieces on the hill behind the employee parking lot behind Steel Force.

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