Nemesis Inferno
Strata Poster
Hello everyone from the States, I'm currently sitting in a Holiday Inn typing this fun stuff up...
Anyway this is gonna be a park report more than anything as days of doing other things aren't really being done due to time and what-not...
Anyways, after an hour delay on the plane and a long immigration queue we got to Getteysburg ready for the first park...
Park 1 - Hersheypark
Ah, two great things in life combined into one nice place, coasters and chocolate... All set up for a tasty day in general...
Got to the park at 9:30 and it looks so beautiful, lots of trees and nice buildings introduce you to the park and really have a good atmosphere with very well chosen music to aid along (Lollipop for example) with it...
These reports are basically gonna consist of ride reviews, so let's go...
Stormrunner
First ride of the trip and an Intamin, which naturally, was shut first thing... However, we were only waiting for an attendant to appear and within a few minutes we were sat on the front ready to go...
This is the best Accelerator I have been on... Simple as... Not the fastest or the biggest but the extra inversions and what-not made it a very good ride overall, indeed, the Flying Snake Dive and Zero-G were perhaps the two best moments of the ride and it didn't really lose its speed throughout, certainly a great way to start this trip...
9/10
Sidewinder
Oh joy, a Boomerang... Either way it's the loudest and smoothest, with only one rough point for me, so defo one of the better ones, but still, it's a Boomerang...
6/10
Roller-Soaker
To look at this ride is very interesting, it looks very interesting the closer you get to it since the floor around it is very very wet and it kinda gives it a different type of anticipation to it...
We got on the ride, left the station and stopped... The look of the attendants I could tell was the obvious "Why has it stopped?", so we ended up waiting for 10 minutes whilst the engineers sorted it all out for us... But there was no problem really...
The ride itself is very basic and not a lot to it, but the interaction with the water really gives it a fun and silly edge over other rides, so it was a good ride for what it was...
7/10
Wildcat
First wooden of the trip and the first GCI is a good idea considering the more recent GCIs being very well-recieved and it would be interesting to see if the original had some of the elements now famous with GCI...
It does have the twisty drops and small rises and dips, which do make it a good ride, but it is slightly rough on the edges, even for a woodie, nothing too painful but is still very good...
7/10
Wild Mouse
Another basic layout, and it's always weird for me to see a 'plain' one since I'm used to Rattlesnake, and this was a very good one actually, very quick and the brakes neither slowed it down too much nor hurt... Very solid clone here...
7/10
Lightning Racers
This was a ride I was looking forward to after furie's glowing review of the two in his report of Hershey, and neither disappointed...
They were both very good rides, great drops and turns everywhere, and the way in which you never really knew who was going to win until the end at some cases was an excellent part of the ride... Not many actual duelling parts but the ones that were there were very well done and it was just generally a good ride...
9/10
Trailblazer
The first old school ride done on this trip and it's an Arrow Mine Train... And the shortest non-powered I've been on...
With that fact, this isn't the best ride, one drop was decent but that was about it... Certainly the worst coaster in the park in comparison to the others because of similar types...
5/10
Great Bear
Over to the other side of the park and the first real queue since all the others were literal walk-ons, but this was due to the poor ride team it had more than anything... The best example of their ineptness was the opening of the gates when the other train had stacked... When the train should have long gone, it was horrific to watch as a ride op myself considering we get moaned at with stacking trains...
The ride itself was very different for a B&M invert, the random 360 helix before the first drop being the first thing different, then the straights later on... It was different, but it wasn't a good different unfortunately, the ride had few real moments of force so definitely one of the bigger disappointments so far...
6/10
ZooAmerica
After lunch we popped into the zoo which is free with park admission, it was very small and hilly so was very interesting in that respect... No meerkats but this was kind of made up through the wee Pararie Dogs who were similar...
Either way, it wasted 45 minutes...
Sooperdooperlooper
Now for the classic Swarz looping coaster, having only done Scorpion and Revolution these are usually a treat, and this one was an excellent ride, the first drop especially was very forceful, which made a mockery of Great Bear completely... Seems that even evolution can sometimes fail in some senses...
After the loop it was a general meander but still was a very fun coaster, and a lot of little kids came off wanting more, so it fills that gap very very well, solid coaster for the park...
7/10
Comet
The second classic coaster, and this time a Woodie, our ride was delayed however because of a 'protein spill', where me and my parents were the only ones who laughed, but the ops were incompotent again, taking 30 minutes to clean it and not even getting the people off the other train first before cleaning it, again, horrible to watch as a ride operator myself...
The ride was great fun however, giving me great hopes for my next stop Kennywood, as this gave some great airtime throughout and was just generally a fun ride, excellent stuff...
7/10
Reese's Extreme Cup Challenge
The weather was slowly taking a turn for the worse so we decided to take cover into the shooting dark ride...
It was short, but fun, the random coaster-esque drops gave some extra amusement to it, and it was just generall a fun ride to be on...
7/10
Farenheit
The last coaster to ride was the newest ride at the park and the most interesting looking of all of them... However it looked like they had jut taken a train off for whatever reason, bringing them down to two, and resulting in an hour queue for us...
The ride was an interesting experience, getting used to the slight wait for the chain to engage on these vertical lifts now, but waiting for the little pushing devices was very amusing... The drop in the back car was very forceful and the first half of the ride was smooth and fun...
Then the corkscrews came... And they brought headbanging, which was such a disappointment considering how new the ride is, but it's kind of typical of Intamin now to have headbangers so not to unusual, overal the ride was a good experience overall and would definitely have done it again if not for the long queue...
8/10
Chocolate Tour
The rain restarted after we got off Farenheit so we legged it to the innards of the Chocolate World, for the little fake tour of the factory...
It was nice to sit down for 10 minutes and just enjoy the tour, although the singing cows were random but they weren't over-used so not as annoying as they could have been...
The free chocolate at the end was also a bonus...
Unfortunately now the rain was set in for the night, and they had shut Stormrunner and Farenheit due to it so I couldn't get any video footage of them, making a video of the park a void idea... Indeed, I won't be doing anymore videos because of the way in which I cannot enjoy the park as much, and I really prefer taking pictures of new parks now instead...
Hersheypark is a great park overall, in my view the rides are very much above average and give a great ride (bar Great Bear), and the general atmosphere of the park was very good...
The waterpark is also very big and you could easily spend a day there instead if you wanted, maybe taking in the odd ride as well...
The park gets a 9/10...
Next up - Kennywood
Anyway this is gonna be a park report more than anything as days of doing other things aren't really being done due to time and what-not...
Anyways, after an hour delay on the plane and a long immigration queue we got to Getteysburg ready for the first park...
Park 1 - Hersheypark
Ah, two great things in life combined into one nice place, coasters and chocolate... All set up for a tasty day in general...
Got to the park at 9:30 and it looks so beautiful, lots of trees and nice buildings introduce you to the park and really have a good atmosphere with very well chosen music to aid along (Lollipop for example) with it...
These reports are basically gonna consist of ride reviews, so let's go...
Stormrunner
First ride of the trip and an Intamin, which naturally, was shut first thing... However, we were only waiting for an attendant to appear and within a few minutes we were sat on the front ready to go...
This is the best Accelerator I have been on... Simple as... Not the fastest or the biggest but the extra inversions and what-not made it a very good ride overall, indeed, the Flying Snake Dive and Zero-G were perhaps the two best moments of the ride and it didn't really lose its speed throughout, certainly a great way to start this trip...
9/10
Sidewinder
Oh joy, a Boomerang... Either way it's the loudest and smoothest, with only one rough point for me, so defo one of the better ones, but still, it's a Boomerang...
6/10
Roller-Soaker
To look at this ride is very interesting, it looks very interesting the closer you get to it since the floor around it is very very wet and it kinda gives it a different type of anticipation to it...
We got on the ride, left the station and stopped... The look of the attendants I could tell was the obvious "Why has it stopped?", so we ended up waiting for 10 minutes whilst the engineers sorted it all out for us... But there was no problem really...
The ride itself is very basic and not a lot to it, but the interaction with the water really gives it a fun and silly edge over other rides, so it was a good ride for what it was...
7/10
Wildcat
First wooden of the trip and the first GCI is a good idea considering the more recent GCIs being very well-recieved and it would be interesting to see if the original had some of the elements now famous with GCI...
It does have the twisty drops and small rises and dips, which do make it a good ride, but it is slightly rough on the edges, even for a woodie, nothing too painful but is still very good...
7/10
Wild Mouse
Another basic layout, and it's always weird for me to see a 'plain' one since I'm used to Rattlesnake, and this was a very good one actually, very quick and the brakes neither slowed it down too much nor hurt... Very solid clone here...
7/10
Lightning Racers
This was a ride I was looking forward to after furie's glowing review of the two in his report of Hershey, and neither disappointed...
They were both very good rides, great drops and turns everywhere, and the way in which you never really knew who was going to win until the end at some cases was an excellent part of the ride... Not many actual duelling parts but the ones that were there were very well done and it was just generally a good ride...
9/10
Trailblazer
The first old school ride done on this trip and it's an Arrow Mine Train... And the shortest non-powered I've been on...
With that fact, this isn't the best ride, one drop was decent but that was about it... Certainly the worst coaster in the park in comparison to the others because of similar types...
5/10
Great Bear
Over to the other side of the park and the first real queue since all the others were literal walk-ons, but this was due to the poor ride team it had more than anything... The best example of their ineptness was the opening of the gates when the other train had stacked... When the train should have long gone, it was horrific to watch as a ride op myself considering we get moaned at with stacking trains...
The ride itself was very different for a B&M invert, the random 360 helix before the first drop being the first thing different, then the straights later on... It was different, but it wasn't a good different unfortunately, the ride had few real moments of force so definitely one of the bigger disappointments so far...
6/10
ZooAmerica
After lunch we popped into the zoo which is free with park admission, it was very small and hilly so was very interesting in that respect... No meerkats but this was kind of made up through the wee Pararie Dogs who were similar...
Either way, it wasted 45 minutes...
Sooperdooperlooper
Now for the classic Swarz looping coaster, having only done Scorpion and Revolution these are usually a treat, and this one was an excellent ride, the first drop especially was very forceful, which made a mockery of Great Bear completely... Seems that even evolution can sometimes fail in some senses...
After the loop it was a general meander but still was a very fun coaster, and a lot of little kids came off wanting more, so it fills that gap very very well, solid coaster for the park...
7/10
Comet
The second classic coaster, and this time a Woodie, our ride was delayed however because of a 'protein spill', where me and my parents were the only ones who laughed, but the ops were incompotent again, taking 30 minutes to clean it and not even getting the people off the other train first before cleaning it, again, horrible to watch as a ride operator myself...
The ride was great fun however, giving me great hopes for my next stop Kennywood, as this gave some great airtime throughout and was just generally a fun ride, excellent stuff...
7/10
Reese's Extreme Cup Challenge
The weather was slowly taking a turn for the worse so we decided to take cover into the shooting dark ride...
It was short, but fun, the random coaster-esque drops gave some extra amusement to it, and it was just generall a fun ride to be on...
7/10
Farenheit
The last coaster to ride was the newest ride at the park and the most interesting looking of all of them... However it looked like they had jut taken a train off for whatever reason, bringing them down to two, and resulting in an hour queue for us...
The ride was an interesting experience, getting used to the slight wait for the chain to engage on these vertical lifts now, but waiting for the little pushing devices was very amusing... The drop in the back car was very forceful and the first half of the ride was smooth and fun...
Then the corkscrews came... And they brought headbanging, which was such a disappointment considering how new the ride is, but it's kind of typical of Intamin now to have headbangers so not to unusual, overal the ride was a good experience overall and would definitely have done it again if not for the long queue...
8/10
Chocolate Tour
The rain restarted after we got off Farenheit so we legged it to the innards of the Chocolate World, for the little fake tour of the factory...
It was nice to sit down for 10 minutes and just enjoy the tour, although the singing cows were random but they weren't over-used so not as annoying as they could have been...
The free chocolate at the end was also a bonus...
Unfortunately now the rain was set in for the night, and they had shut Stormrunner and Farenheit due to it so I couldn't get any video footage of them, making a video of the park a void idea... Indeed, I won't be doing anymore videos because of the way in which I cannot enjoy the park as much, and I really prefer taking pictures of new parks now instead...
Hersheypark is a great park overall, in my view the rides are very much above average and give a great ride (bar Great Bear), and the general atmosphere of the park was very good...
The waterpark is also very big and you could easily spend a day there instead if you wanted, maybe taking in the odd ride as well...
The park gets a 9/10...
Next up - Kennywood
