Hershey Goes Full Hershey, "Shaq-ifies" Laff Trakk for Halloween
A few years ago (before Candymonium) I thought that it was odd that Hersheypark had almost no tie-ins to their IPs. I now greatly regret thinking that.
Get ready for a bigger, bolder, XL ride through a Shaq-ified world of giant glowing gummies, bass-pumping beats, and over-the-top fruit-flavored mayhem. Shaq-A-Licious Laff Trakk is only available during Hersheypark Halloween!
On one of my early visits to HP, many years ago, I finally asked someone
“So where’s the chocolate?”
“What?”
“The chocolate stuff. I can smell it (like baking brownies or chocolate cake) but I don’t see any.”
“Oh, sir, that’s coming from the factory over there. We don’t really have a lot of chocolate here in the park. You can go to the Hershey ride thingy outside the park, there’s a big outlet store there”
“…”
Weird.
Notices that Hershey is also spamming the fact it's all inclusive for their event all over the page.
RCMAC:
On one of my early visits to HP, many years ago, I finally asked someone
“So where’s the chocolate?”
“What?”
“The chocolate stuff. I can smell it (like baking brownies or chocolate cake) but I don’t see any.”
“Oh, sir, that’s coming from the factory over there. We don’t really have a lot of chocolate here in the park. You can go to the Hershey ride thingy outside the park, there’s a big outlet store there”
I had the same thought after my first visit to the park. Why wasn't the monorail layout designed to travel through the chocolate factory?
-Uncle Jay
It was a better part before they started slapping candy wrappers on everything. I don’t consider that thing mean it’s more like Six Flags putting a Snickers wrap on a roller coaster train. It’s just advertising
jkpark:
Why wasn't the monorail layout designed to travel through the chocolate factory?
Seems logical but they’re glad they didn’t.
Tours stopped to prevent piracy and I think the factory finally closed, moved to another location. My favorite thing is that it travels down the downtown street so we can see the Hershey Kiss street lamps.
Once from the monorail we saw that it must’ve been end of shift because the doors opened and employees just poured out to the lot. And, they were HAPPY! Laughing and talking all the way.
2 thoughts. Either they really loved their jobs or they were really glad to be outta some hell hole.
The factory is in fact gone (and replaced with a kind of mall I think?) Given its age, I can’t imagine running a monorail through it would have been simple.
If I recall correctly, the monorail did originally go to the factory. It didn't go inside but there was a station there and you could get off and take the factory tour. They later built the fake factory tour and that station was abandoned, eventually being removed about 10 years ago.
I do miss the whole park smelling like fresh chocolate.
Hi
RCMAC:
Tours stopped to prevent piracy and I think the factory finally closed, moved to another location.
Piracy?
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