Yoshi Posted October 16, 2019 Report Share Posted October 16, 2019 For I think the first time, Dorney was open for Columbus Day. They added it as an operating day around 2 months ago and didn't do much to promote they were open like an e-mail to everyone on their e-mail list. With not many people knowing the park was open and operating hours of 11 - 7 with no Haunt, crowds were low even for Dorney. Steel Force was dispatching trains with as few as 4 - 6 riders. Besides the usual rides, I spent some time at the Monster Jam Thunder Alley temporary attraction. It is in the lower section of the park near Possessed and Cedar Creek Flyers. There are multiple monster trucks on display, some of which you can sit in the driver's seat of, displays on the parts of trucks and how some of the features are built. There is also a kids play area and the most important attraction, the chance to ride in a monster truck. The course is where Stinger was and is 2 laps because the track is shorter than the versions from other Cedar Fair parks. 2 trucks are running, Megalodon and Grave Digger. Each truck seats 10 people plus the driver and usually 1 truck is running while the other is loading riders. It takes a while to load each truck and for everyone to get buckled in. Because of that, the capacity is extremely low, probably around 200 riders an hour at the most. When I was at the park on October 5th, it was an hour wait and I heard waits can get up to 90 minutes (the wait time sign even has a 150 minute marker on it). Since it was a low crowd day, the wait was around 25 minutes. Even going through the course slower than a professional would drive, it was a bumpy ride and you get slightly thrown around. My favorite part of the ride was when the truck goes in a small 360 circle. It almost was like a flat ride. It was more fun than I was expecting a much better use of the space compared to Stinger being there. It's too bad it's only a temporary exhibit and will be leaving at the end of the season with the Stinger ride area empty again. This might have been my last trip to Dorney for the season and if it was, even though I spent less time than ever on the ride side of the park this year, I still thought it was a great season mostly because of the water park and water rides. This game added for Haunt wasn't running today. The skeleton's arms move and you have 15 seconds to get 2 out of 5 foam brains into the baskets to win a prize. How the arms are made. The park added these decorative cakes to the turntables of the Whip for the 100th season. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Master Posted October 17, 2019 Report Share Posted October 17, 2019 (edited) I was there on Sunday, the Haunt was pretty busy that night. Glad you had a good season there. Sadly my season there wasn't good. Edited October 17, 2019 by The Master Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yoshi Posted October 17, 2019 Author Report Share Posted October 17, 2019 If you renew for next year, I hope next season is better for you. I did have some minor problems and issues this season like at times slow water park operations, some of the stores not knowing how to redeem an All Season Fast Lane transaction or difficulty riding Aquablast as a single rider multiple times (I thought I would just ride with 2 other people or another single rider) but I run into issues like that at all parks. Last month at Hershey for the 2nd trip in a row I was told single riders weren't allowed on the Whip even though I knew they were wrong (no signs anywhere like at the ferris wheel and nothing mentioned on the ride safety board at the entrance). I e-mailed the park and they told me that the policy is single riders are allowed and would let the ride operators or management know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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