![]() Journey up a steep, 100-foot incline before diving downhill at speeds exceeding 50 mph where you'll be greeted by one of the largest splashes in Hersheypark®! Bystanders be ready! Watching from Tidal Force® water ride bridge is guaranteed to leave you just as soaked as the riders! The Chocolatier Restaurant, Bar + Patio. ![]() Something that is importante to mention: I attended the park 2 days after Sandy hit the East Coast, and must say that the staff was really accesible and didn't reflect the "local atmosphere" of an after-disaster week. The tour is amazing, since Hershey's history (the man and the town included) is so incredible to get to know!Īlso, the section were you create your own kisses packages is a great treat for the young ones. Not because my creation skills are amazing the chocolate itself and the ingredientes were the best they could offer, so the taste turned out to be unbelivable! Getting to know the entire line of production is really cool, and the bar I made was one of the best I've eaten in my life (the best chocolate I've eaten by Hershey, for sure!). I grant you the 4D isn't really worth its price, but making your own chocolate bar was definitly a MUST-HAVE experience. What a shame you didn't want to do the entire Chocolate World experience, Robert! Sit in Chocolate World's food court, and you might as well be in a brighter, funner, sweeter version of the Sunshine Seasons food court in Epcot's The Land pavilion. The Jim Henson Company worked on Chocolate World's 4D show, Hershey's Great Chocolate Factory Mystery. The dark ride in the pavilion, Hershey's Great American Chocolate Ride, tells the story of the making of Hershey's chocolate products in a 10-minute musical narrative, designed by The Goddard Group, a major themed-entertainment design firm that also helped create The Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man, Jurassic Park: The Ride, and Terminator 2: 3D, among other attractions around the industry. To apply this analogy, Hersheypark takes the Six Flags approach, while Chocolate World goes the Disney/Universal route. Disney and Universal want these rides, shows, and other experiences to boost your appreciation for their theme - not the other way around, as with Six Flags and Superman. They're trying to lead you to into a deeper relationship with those franchises, rather than settling for you simply enjoying a few moments on a ride with their name. But in the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, or Cars Land, or the Be Our Guest restaurant, Universal and Disney are going beyond simply name-checking something you already know and love. It simply name-checks Superman, to exploit your already-existing affinity for that character in the hopes of transferring some of that affinity to the ride. ![]() At Six Flags, a Superman roller coaster doesn't do anything to deepen or inform your relationship with the DC Comics icon. It's the difference between how Six Flags treats Superman, for example, and how Universal treats Harry Potter or Disney treats any of its character franchises. Every moment inside Chocolate World is designed to deepen your connection with - and affinity for - Hershey's chocolate brands. Chocolate World doesn't simply name-check Hershey products, as Hersheypark does. That's not the case over in Chocolate World, which is unmistakably all about Hershey, chocolate and forever equating the two. An infrequent visitor would find it difficult to tell the difference between Hersheypark and similar parks such as Busch Gardens Williamsburg or Holiday World. If you're thinking about chocolate, it's simply about eating some more of it, as you might in any other iron park. When you're visiting Hersheypark, you're thinking more about airtime and visuals and speed and all the other things we think about when we're riding rides. ![]() Hersheypark is, at its heart, a regional amusement park that simply references the Hershey brand without really exploring it or trying to deepen your relationship with it. (Both companies are controlled by the Hershey Trust, established by Milton Hershey, who left his companies to the Trust.) Chocolate World is run by the Hershey Company, the chocolate makers, and not by the separate Hershey Entertainment and Resorts Company that runs Hersheypark. Compare this attraction with Hersheypark next door, and it's like you're looking at two different companies' approaches to implementing the same theme. ![]() Imagine a completely corporate Epcot pavilion, one dedicated to telling the story of chocolate - as made by the Hershey Company, and you'd have Hershey's Chocolate World. Three singing cows host your dark-ride trip through Hershey's world of chocolate. ![]()
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