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Also being added to Dorney Park is the Fright Pass. Fright Pass is a fast pass for use during the Halloween Haunt. You can only buy them at select locations inside Dorney Park or on the park's website. There are a limited number of passes per day.
More Info on Fright Pass Can Be Found Here: http://tickets.dorneypark.com/shop/shop ... s_list.cfm
Dorney Park to debut Dinosaurs Alive! in 2012
Interactive display will feature 37 creatures in Jurassic park setting.
A Tyrannosaurus Rex will be among the creatures featured at Dorney Park's Dinosaurs Alive! attraction, which will open next summer.
A Tyrannosaurus Rex will be among the creatures featured at Dorney Park's
Along with soaring more than 100 feet in the air on Dorney Park's latest attraction, visitors will be able to step 65 million years back in time.
A life-size Tyrannosaurus Rex, a kids paleontological dig site and at least two remote-control dinosaurs are highlights of Dinosaurs Alive! ????????? a walk-through Jurassic-theme attraction debuting next summer, said park spokesman Charles Hutchison.
Dinosaurs will move, roar and stomp from thematic exhibits spread across four acres beside Steel Force. Dorney Park officials got the green light from the South Whitehall Township commissioners Wednesday night to begin work on the attraction.
About 37 dinosaurs, from the triceratops to the stegosaurus, will line more than 2,000 feet of walkway. The Ruyang Yellow River dinosaur will tower more than 40 feet high, and at least two of the dinosaurs will be controlled by guests, who can use remote consoles to move their arms, tails, necks, mouths and eyes.
"Visitors will be looking at life-size animatronic dinosaurs in a habitat that mirrors what it would look like in the Jurassic period," Hutchison said.
Dinosaurs Alive! isn't the only big attraction that will greet visitors in the 2012 season. Last month, the park announced the latest addition to its roller coaster inventory, Stinger, a 138-foot-tall Scorpion-theme ride that will flip passengers around six inversions at speeds reaching 55 mph.
The $10 million inverted boomerang coaster will rise in the nearly 2-acre lot left vacant when the Laser coaster was removed in 2008 after 22 years in operation. Stinger will provide a 90-second ride similar to the Invertigo coaster at Kings Island, Dorney's sister park in Ohio.
Other new rides, both slower and closer to the ground, debuted this season with the opening of Planet Snoopy. Kids lined up in April to pack into seven new Peanuts-theme rides on a much smaller scale, swooping and swirling in Woodstock Whirlybirds, Sally's Swing Set and the Linus Launcher.
Unlike Planet Snoopy and Stinger, Dinosaurs Alive! is banking on its educational value, hoping to draw crowds from schools and others interested in paleontology. Visitors can learn about what the dinosaurs ate, where they lived and how they protected themselves in their prehistoric world.
"Kids can also feel what it is like to be a paleontologist excavating fossils in a dig site," Hutchison said.
The education will come with a price tag. The fee is expected to be a minimal addition to the cost of general admission, he said. Kings Island charges $5 for entrance to Dinosaur Alive!.
Hutchison said officials at Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom plan to unveil the price and more details about the attraction in the spring.
DINOSAURS ALIVE!
????????? What: Interactive display of 37 dinosaurs planned at Dorney Park in South Whitehall for 2012.
?????????About the dinosaurs: Includes life-size Tyrannosaurus Rex and at least two animatronic creatures that guests can control by remote control.
?????????About the display: Dinosaurs will be lined up along more than 2,000 feet of walkway designed to replicate the Jurassic era.
?????????What else: There will also be a paleontological dig site.
?????????Admission: Not officially announced, but will be in addition to general admission fee. Kings Island in Ohio charges $5.
Interactive display will feature 37 creatures in Jurassic park setting.
A Tyrannosaurus Rex will be among the creatures featured at Dorney Park's Dinosaurs Alive! attraction, which will open next summer.
A Tyrannosaurus Rex will be among the creatures featured at Dorney Park's
Along with soaring more than 100 feet in the air on Dorney Park's latest attraction, visitors will be able to step 65 million years back in time.
A life-size Tyrannosaurus Rex, a kids paleontological dig site and at least two remote-control dinosaurs are highlights of Dinosaurs Alive! ????????? a walk-through Jurassic-theme attraction debuting next summer, said park spokesman Charles Hutchison.
Dinosaurs will move, roar and stomp from thematic exhibits spread across four acres beside Steel Force. Dorney Park officials got the green light from the South Whitehall Township commissioners Wednesday night to begin work on the attraction.
About 37 dinosaurs, from the triceratops to the stegosaurus, will line more than 2,000 feet of walkway. The Ruyang Yellow River dinosaur will tower more than 40 feet high, and at least two of the dinosaurs will be controlled by guests, who can use remote consoles to move their arms, tails, necks, mouths and eyes.
"Visitors will be looking at life-size animatronic dinosaurs in a habitat that mirrors what it would look like in the Jurassic period," Hutchison said.
Dinosaurs Alive! isn't the only big attraction that will greet visitors in the 2012 season. Last month, the park announced the latest addition to its roller coaster inventory, Stinger, a 138-foot-tall Scorpion-theme ride that will flip passengers around six inversions at speeds reaching 55 mph.
The $10 million inverted boomerang coaster will rise in the nearly 2-acre lot left vacant when the Laser coaster was removed in 2008 after 22 years in operation. Stinger will provide a 90-second ride similar to the Invertigo coaster at Kings Island, Dorney's sister park in Ohio.
Other new rides, both slower and closer to the ground, debuted this season with the opening of Planet Snoopy. Kids lined up in April to pack into seven new Peanuts-theme rides on a much smaller scale, swooping and swirling in Woodstock Whirlybirds, Sally's Swing Set and the Linus Launcher.
Unlike Planet Snoopy and Stinger, Dinosaurs Alive! is banking on its educational value, hoping to draw crowds from schools and others interested in paleontology. Visitors can learn about what the dinosaurs ate, where they lived and how they protected themselves in their prehistoric world.
"Kids can also feel what it is like to be a paleontologist excavating fossils in a dig site," Hutchison said.
The education will come with a price tag. The fee is expected to be a minimal addition to the cost of general admission, he said. Kings Island charges $5 for entrance to Dinosaur Alive!.
Hutchison said officials at Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom plan to unveil the price and more details about the attraction in the spring.
DINOSAURS ALIVE!
????????? What: Interactive display of 37 dinosaurs planned at Dorney Park in South Whitehall for 2012.
?????????About the dinosaurs: Includes life-size Tyrannosaurus Rex and at least two animatronic creatures that guests can control by remote control.
?????????About the display: Dinosaurs will be lined up along more than 2,000 feet of walkway designed to replicate the Jurassic era.
?????????What else: There will also be a paleontological dig site.
?????????Admission: Not officially announced, but will be in addition to general admission fee. Kings Island in Ohio charges $5.
Source - http://articles.mcall.com/2011-09-22/ne ... s-launcher
Alt. Source - http://newsplusnotes.blogspot.com/2011/ ... alive.html
