Hershey announces Skyrush for 2012

SFGAdv lover said:
Why did they let SkyRush's media fail so much?!?

They spent all their time designing five phony websites to give clues that didn't make any sense.

^How did/do you feel about Fahrenheit? Just wondering, as it didn't seem like anything too special.

I with you guys. They created some really clueless clues, and then the big announcement is such a flop. The ride kind of looks like a flop too, but no one will know for sure until someone rides it.

Fahrenheit was a big flop in my opinion as well, Billy. I wondered why on earth the park would build another red structure that went straight up and then straight down. Hersheypark has kind of been striking out a lot over the last few years, in my opinion. At least this new coaster isn't red, with a straight up lift and a straight down drop.

Fahrenheit is orange.

I wouldn't go as far as to call Farenheit a flop. Yeah it's nothing special, but it's fun. At 12 mil. I believe it cost, a good bang for the buck. One thing I like about hershey is they have rides that are fairly unique. Skyrush is nothing new or special, but it has enough interesting details to make it worth a trip. Most of us were assuming it was a plain intamin hyper, and as it turns out its that and a little more. I will be interested to see how this thing passes through Comet. I havent seen a rendering that shows this yet. Could be Phantom through Thunderbolt type of head chopper.

I believe that the two just cross each other once. Skyrush's lift passes over Comet's first drop. The rest of Skyrush goes around Comet.

^From the posted plans, it looks like Skyrush will have a lift similar to I-305; 2 large supports. I bet you will actually be able to see them more, at Hershey.

edit - From the looks of it, they are really wenching the ride in tight. That's good stuff, interaction between coasters!

Wenching?

That's down at the PA Renaissance Faire.

^Around here, too (missing Moosh!!!)

The part of the video I found most surprising is that before 1996, Hersheypark had only 4 coasters.

I was going there for years when it only had 3. It was still a great park. It's sometimes hard to remember the days when just a handful of rides could keep me entertained for an entire day. I could have been happy marathon-ing the 'Looper and riding nothing else all day.

Vater said:
I was going there for years when it only had 3. It was still a great park. It's sometimes hard to remember the days when just a handful of rides could keep me entertained for an entire day. I could have been happy marathon-ing the 'Looper and riding nothing else all day.

Before I started visiting Hershey semi-regularly in the early 2000's (it's a three hour drive for me) my last visit was in 1977, the year Sooper opened (and the year my dad passed, that's how I remember it.) It was a 7th grade class trip. SDL was literally the only thing I remembered from inside the park (I could never forget the Chocolate World tour)

First time posting, just joined Coasterbuzz. Has anyone taken a look at the pictures of Skyrush on Keystone Thrills? I wanted to get some thoughts on the current progress of build as well as any thoughts on how it is going to be.

Skyrush seats:

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/420118_1015070...8969_n.jpg

pretty pretty!

Very nice, different, but very nice.

I like the new seat configuration, and that they are lapbar only. I was there this past weekend to go to the Hershey Story museum, snapped a few pics. The track should be complete any day now. Looking forward to my first lap on the front outer seat and second on rear outer seat. ;-)

Pictures of Skyrush from last weekend.

http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k258/emoppin/IMAG0405.jpg

http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k258/emoppin/IMAG0395.jpg

http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k258/emoppin/IMAG0394.jpg

http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k258/emoppin/IMAG0393.jpg

Why am I still not excited about this coaster? At least it's not red with a straight up and straight down segment like the last two new coasters.

I wonder why they went with Intamin and not B&M.

Two guesses: Price, or B&M already had maxed out their capacity for the year.