As part of the Nantimi promotion that Coasterdom took part in, I was invited to go to Hersheypark and experience Fahrenheit. The plan was to enter the park at 9:30 with the other Nantimi winners and have 15 minutes of ERT on Fahrenheit. Unfortunately, Fahrenheit valleyed on the first test run of the day. By about 12:00 or so they had a crane on site and were beginning to do work in order to get the train down. By about 3:00 the ride was freed and testing began. The coaster opened at about 4:15 or so.

The coaster surrounds the line. You are so close to the ride that half of the line is covered by protective netting. If the line is full, it should take about two hours or so to get through.

The station for Fahrenheit is massive. Almost like a church. They do assign seating except if you are willing to wait for the front. Fahrenheit also has a single riders line that looked to be moving really fast. The trains are your typical Intamin trains, with a silver body, navy blue seats, and orange restraints. Unlike Storm Runner, there is no grab bar on the seat in front of you to assist in getting out of the train.

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Hershey was kind enough to invite me out to take a spin of Fahrenheit for it’s opening day. A ride review will follow later tonight, I’ll just explain the 80 or pictures I took of the ride.

97 degrees and fallin fast. Lots of airtime to go around also.

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• Off season work on coasters
• Kevin’s Trip Report of KD, BGE, and SFA
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Kings Dominion has started running their new commercial for Dominator and I have to, its kind of funny. You can check out the video below and then I’ll follow up with my comments.

At first I was thinking, “O.K. they figured out the neon effect for the camera.” But then the voice started and made it sound like an earth shattering experience. Side note, I would love to have one of those awesome “movie trailer” voices. It’s not a bad commercial by any means, I just found it humorous. Especially the last few seconds when the ground comes flying up and a giant logo drops from the sky. It really reminds me of Tatsu’s commercial, which you can see below. I’m not going to be the typical complaining enthusiast, but there are some obvious similarities between the two ads.

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This is one of the final picture galleries that I took last summer. I told you that I was going to try and space the releases out to cover the off season, and I went a bit beyond that. There are about 40 pictures in total. Overall I really enjoyed both parks (Walt Disney World kills Disneyland in almost every way) and I can’t wait to get back there once they redo California Adventure.

You can view the Disneyland gallery here. And you can get the California Adventure gallery here.