HERSHEYPARK 2006?

yeah, that was why I said 'dancing chocolates'. ;)

No interactive dark rides even come close to combatting the king of them all. MIB Alien Attack.

I love interactive darkrides. I've ridden quite a few (LC's Ghost Hunt, Disney's Buzz Lightyear, USF's Men in Black and the Den of Lost Thieves rides at IB and Wildwood) and they are all a lot of fun. The biggest difference between traditional darkrides and the interactive ones is that shocking surprises have been replaced with more humorous scenes, probably to give riders more things to shoot at without losing their concentration.

A great park would have both if it were up to me, but I'd much rather see an interactive at Hershey instead of no darkride at all. Besides, kids love the interactive aspect and if that gets them interested in the concept of darkrides (which I'm sure many couldn't care less about), I don't see them as being a bad thing.

...except for Buzz, which really did STINK.

Ghost Hunt, DoLT, and Pistoleros ROCK, I actualy prefer the more "low-tech feel" over what I get from MiB. Don't get me wrong, MiB almost always gets a visit when I'm at "the complex", but it doesn't have the same *fun factor* as the Sally-brand rides do...

For ME personally, I love the Devil's Den, Dante's Inferno, Spook-a-rama, etc., but they're not really the rides that draw the young kids in the way interactives do...

Of course, after Puyallup's Ghost Pirates and the Lewis and Clark Adventure at Oaks, virtually anything else suddenly feels like Knoebels' Haunted Mansion, LOL...

Screamscape (take that for what it's worth) has been talking about a car/race theme to the new Hershey dark ride since early September.

As far as passive vs interactive dark rides - I far and away prefer the interactive side of things. I've ridden way too many to list here and always find them enjoyable.

The only knock I have on the Sally dark rides that I've gone on (Ghost Hunt at Lake Compounce and Scooby Doo at Carowinds) is that the capacity is terrible. The only other interactive attraction that I've ridden with worse capacity is the flume ride shooting gallery at Buffalo Bill's in Primm, Nevada.

Central Florida does it right. Men in Black has two loading stations -- and a single rider line to fill in the gaps of its 6-seats -- while Buzz Lightyear is in a perpetual loading state.

A small park like Holiday World can really use a Sally dark ride but a bigger park like Hersheypark may be biting off more than it can chew when folks begin belly-aching about the long line.