A Hershey Bar holding a fire hose sprays a mist on visitors entering the ride, where a sign warns “you will get wet.” The “will” is underlined.Īfter you squish off the ride you can buy Roller Soaker beach towels for $12.99 at the Dry Dock Trading Company gift shop, as well as shirts, sunscreen, water shoes and sun glasses. Roller Soaker, which cost nearly $8 million, is not a first-of-its-kind roller coaster. It is a larger and more elaborate version of a ride named Nickelodeon Flying Super Saturator, introduced in 2000 at Paramount’s Carowinds park near Charlotte, N.C. Both rides were designed by Setpoint Inc. Hersheypark is celebrating its 95th season. If you’ve not been to the 100-acre park for about 10 years, you’ll be astonished at how much it has grown. Roller Soaker is the ninth roller coaster in the park, which claims more than any other amusement park in Pennsylvania. Lightning Racer, a wooden coaster with “dueling” racing cars, opened in 2000 Great Bear opened in 1998 Wildcat, a cyclone style wooden coaster, opened in 1996.Īfter riding Water Soaker, recommends Bachmann, go on the big coasters to get spun dry.Ĭurrently, four of the park’s top five rides are roller coasters: Great Bear, Lightning Racer, SooperdooperLooper, which was the first looping coaster on the East Coast, and Comet, a wooden coaster installed in 1946. ![]() The only exception is Coal Cracker, a flume ride. ![]() Hersheypark does not have a separate water park, but its half-dozen most drenching rides - including Roller Soaker - are concentrated in one area of the park, which now has two changing room buildings with individual stalls and lockers.
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