Spring Time in the Park - 4/3/2010

I am going off to Hershey in a few hours for their second day of the pre-season. Full PTR when I get back around 10 or 11 tonight. (9 or 10 site time.)

Have fun!

Why the hell do parks open up so late? I guessed I'm spoiled having parks open in February.

No, I'm spoiled. My parks are open year round

Jake, there is a little season up here called "winter". It sucks.

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"sucks" is a bit of an understatement!

There are about 50ish pictures, so, yea. Be ready.

For the second day of the pre-season, Hershey needs to work on the basics. If your arcade games dont work, dont plug them in and let guests know. Please?

The park was PACKED! Really surprising until we remembered that tomorrow is Easter Sunday. Lines were all over the place. Every open ride had at least a 20 minute wait. Longest wait was about a hour and 15 minutes but that was only due to a small issue at Fahrenheit.

Storm Runner, finally, after 5 years of trying, I got on it. While it "did" stuff, it was sort of a case of anticapointment. Oh-well.

I also have a new #1 wooden coaster. Wildcat fully loaded kills Phoenix IMO and take the place as my favorite wooden coaster. It really shows when a GCII is half or less loaded compared to fully loaded in terms of speed.

Red side of Lightning Racer was winning all day. Fun ride. IMO its a bit better then the green side but not by much. Falls into #5 on my wooden list taking the old Wildcat spot.

Comet was a nice little out-and-back coaster. Nice to see that Hershey still uses skid brakes like Knoebels. If only on A ride.

Fahrenheit is always great. While it did brake down for 20 minutes, and caused us the longest wait, it still delivers. Good #2 coaster in my steel ranking.

Great Bears second train was still in rehab for being addicted to steel rails. The one train out there though was showing off a new paint job. I skipped it due to a one train operation. SooperDooperLooper was also skipped to get the Comet credit. I love a good Swarskopf(sp?) though. Wild Mouse was over-flowing the queue and not worth the wait when I got to that area. I also skipped Sidewinder for obvious reasons. The water-coaster was closed for obvious reasons. I mean, its not summer yet.....is it?

!!!Picture Time!!!

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Originally posted by Tetsu
I also have a new #1 wooden coaster. Wildcat fully loaded kills Phoenix IMO and take the place as my favorite wooden coaster. It really shows when a GCII is half or less loaded compared to fully loaded in terms of speed.

Red side of Lightning Racer was winning all day. Fun ride. IMO its a bit better then the green side but not by much. Falls into #5 on my wooden list taking the old Wildcat spot.

I'm continually astounded that anyone even likes those two rides. To be fair Wildcat I can see WAS probably good when it didn't have the pussified trains and it was "okayish" when I went on it.

Lightning Racer on the other hand is like a forceless B&M without the loops. It's just plain terrible and totally airless.I rode both sides very close to the front 2nd or 3rd row and in the very back row and all of those seats did NOTHING for me. The only wooden ride I've been on that is worse is Mean Streak. Even American Eagle is better than those things because you at least get jackhammer air (barely any but more than the GCI's) in the backseat from the trains bouncing around down the first drop.

Anyways it looks like you had fun and thanks for the pictures.

Jakizle, there is this thing called "winter" where temperatures go below freezing and things called "ice" and "snow" make everything absolutely miserable. I know this is difficult for people to understand that live in areas of nice weather (bastard!)

Umm, American Eagle has more than jackhammer air. Floater airtime between the lift and the helix, ejector right after the helix, and three more spots of airtime after that.

EDIT: this video shows it pretty well:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Seh4Mvneq0