Reese's Xtreme Cup... Peanut Butter vs Chocolate

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SLFAKE said:

As stated... I like my dark rides scary... if a little corny. I know this could never happen because of copyrights... but I want to see... The Hershey Bar character decapitating a Snickers bar with a chain saw...

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What about cutting off his nuts?

Hershey Park is not overly corporatized even though it sits on the plants property, The coco smell in the air and Chocolate World. Inside the park, You barely get any feeling that Hershey is forces down your throat. Sure there are things like the lighting on the Ferris Wheel and the Kissing Tower but it isn't all KIT KAT THE RIDE ect.

However, Hershey to me has a lot more in common and more marketable to it's best interest than say PARAMOUNT and it's rides based on 10-20 year old movies that in some cases are out of circulation or weren't that big of movies to begin with. That or they won't pay the royalties to use some of their major hit names like THE ROCK or MISSION IMPOSSIBLE (STill in production BTW)

At least at Hershey you can buy their product and BTW, It's three times better right on the plant grounds :)

Chuck, still worried about the 800 pph capasity for this new ride.

I'm loving this idea! I have a soft place in my heart for dark rides anymore. Probably has a lot to do with having young children, but they're fun too.

Plus, I love Reeses, (and chocolate, in general), and the video shows a hockey scene, and I'm really loving that.

I think the marketing thing is hilarious. I am very interested in the ride JUST to see how they can incorporate extreme sports and chocolate bars.

It sounds like a blast........

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Ride it, Smell it, Play it, Taste it, Win it!

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The visuals that comes to one's mind.......:-O I hate chocolate, but I am eager to see this ride. I am sure it will be just as disturbingly funny as Garfield's Nightmare. ;-)

-Tina

*** Edited 10/26/2005 9:43:38 AM UTC by coasterqueenTRN***

Chuck: Yeah, I tend to overlook cheap marketing ploys when it comes from Hershey because it seems less sinister there. You can't remove the chocolate factory from the equation, nor would you want to. But I still don't care for the weird Reese's concept. As I said, they already have a darkride hyping Hershey products (well not IN the park but close enough).

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Charles Nungester said:
Inside the park, You barely get any feeling that Hershey is forces down your throat. Sure there are things like the lighting on the Ferris Wheel and the Kissing Tower

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Is the lighting on the Ferris Wheel even Hershey Chocolate / candy / product themed? I thought that was based on the multi colored "pin wheel" design that the park adopted as its logo sometime in the late 1960's or early 1970's?

It doesn't give me anymore of a sense of urgency to visit than I previously had, but I'll be sure to ride it when I finally get there. That will be approx 2020 at my current rate.:(

"Peanut Butter vs Chocolate'

I thought Vs. topics were strongly discouraged... ;)

Sorry, someone was GOING to do it...and you expect it of ME, so... :)

*** Edited 10/26/2005 7:27:29 PM UTC by rollergator***

I wonder whether Hershey Character Extreme Sports Athletes wear Reesie "Cups?"

If nothing else, the announcement of this ride will allow for the posting of many puns.

The idea seems uber-lame. The ride video makes JIYI look like a masterpiece, personally, I'm not going to make a special trip to the park for this ride at all.

It looks cute and all, not something to attract, but something to round out the experience and satisfy guest who do visit.

Not every addition that makes sense has to be an over the top, marquee ride to drive gate numbers.

This makes equal business sense in that it adds something the park currently doesn't have, satisfies a need and in turn completes the park experience making the guest potentially happier with their vist and more likely to return.

Sometimes I think that we get caught up in that mentality that adding bigger, better, more is what works. Sure, this won't make people come out, but it will make the people who do show up happier in the long run.

Ugh. You guys all suck (well, the ones that don't agree with me anywho ;) ).

Don't you get it? It isn't about the ride! You get chocolate at the end! Duh! This will be the most popular ride with children and familys in the park!

I smell success. And it smells like Hershey.

Maybe it's the mulch you smell, Tek ;)

As for me, I enjoy the chocolate at the end of the Hershey Chocolate World ride...plus, this is an actual dark ride with competition and thrills and fun...and chocolate! Me and my stomach will enjoy...

It's not just the Chocolate at the end... the last time I was at Hersheypark this year there were guys walking around with these carts that looked like ice carts. However, instead of ice inside they had Hershey candy-based "rice krispie treat" type things (I forget what they were called exactly). They were giving them away for free. No restrictions or gimmicks.. just out there to put a Hersheypark Happy smile on your face.

And indeed, it worked. :)