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.
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...
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.
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.
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