HersheyPark or Dorney Park? Need advice

If it's free, it's for me, I'll take three.

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I am the kind of person who is impatient and can't stand waiting for too long, and every time I have visited Dorney I have accomplished all the coasters multiple times in about 2 and a half hours (like Danny). Hercules was my first coaster I live about 45 minutes away when I am not at school.

BUT, Hershey has chocolate world. Best milkshakes EVER! Hershey is worth a visit just to go to chocolate world IMHO. Yah the wooden coasters are pretty cool too. The lines every time I was too Hershey were rather lengthy and maybe not as well run as Dorney.

Both parks are definitely unique and pack quite a bit of history.

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Mamoosh said:

...and the mouse [polar opposite of Hershey's mouse, with every possible brake on hard]

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Not this year. The brakes don't touch at all on the top part. You still get a decent kiss from the brakes before you turn into the dips, but it's a vast improvement over last year. The cars still stop in the station - unlike Hershey. They even now uses those oversized pads that slip over the lapbar for when children ride. Seems like a conscious effort to put back most of the "wild" in the Wild Mouse.

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*** This post was edited by Lord Gonchar 7/1/2003 12:45:11 AM ***

Interesting point Gonchar, I'm gonna have to give the wild mouse a spin next time i go over to the park, I haven't ridden it yet this season.

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"You know its a good ride when you come into the final brake run wiping tears from your eyes."

"skip them both and go to Knoebels instead."

D'oh! Why didn't I think of that? That's precisely what I'd do.

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A random Mooshter's Dawntionary listing: Testicle [n.] - a humorous question on an exam.

Not that the flyers at Hershey are bad... they do have potential. When they start up, it feels like they would be real easy to snap. HOWEVER... do not even attempt anything that comes close to a snap... do not even move the sail/rudder more than 6 inches per revolution (okay, that is an exageration), or the op will have a fit! They have a Zero Tolerance when it comes to snapping. It seems that if you do anything other than just sit there and let them go where they want to, they consider this snapping and will verbally warn you at best, stop the ride and tell you to get off at worse (been there, done that). It's not so much that Hershey's flyers are bad... its just that they want to run them as a Family ride... wait... let me correct that... they seem to be taking the line of thought that they are a glorified kiddie ride, rather than the fun ride that they can be.

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Kind of hard to take a post as objective if a park or coaster name is part of the "user name"

Hershey's flyers *are* snappable -- if you work hard at it -- and ride ops were allowing it to happen, at least on my visit on June 18th.

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A random Mooshter's Dawntionary listing: Testicle [n.] - a humorous question on an exam.

What Moosh said....they ARE snappable...a little hard due to the short cables, but snappable....happy that the op running them when we were there was unaware of the strict no-snapping policy....;)

WHY would a park bring in a new set of snappable flyers and then set up such a horrible policy....:(. Instead of having a family ride AND a thrill ride, you ONLY get a family ride....Hershey just plain missed the boat, er, tub, on this one...;)
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