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Hersheypark |"Skyrush"| Intamin Mega

There are 3 trims on Skyrush now, that are less than a foot long to basically control the speed to 76 even.

Here's a picture of one from TPR
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<sarcasm>LET THE WHINING COMMENCE, SINCE HERSHEY LIED TO US ABOUT TRIMS</sarcasm>
 
It might be a trim, it might not, but a guy that basically does all the updates said it was a trim.

Sorry about the length of this post, but it's all necessary:

Just attended an informational session on “Skyrush: Behind the Scenes” presented by Kent Bachman at the Hershey Country Club this evening. Intamin/IntaRide “turned over the keys” to HP today and Kent was on the first ride with humans! As he told me- “words cannot describe it”. He was on a wing seat, and said he was holding on pretty tight!. Some of his more important comments clarified some things we’d been wondering about, and he also shared some new info, some of it from the accelerometers and/or Fred the crash test dummy. I took notes and think I have it all correct:
•The “advertised” ride height of 200’ is the actual drop; the 212’ (from the permit) is to the creek floor.
•Max g-force = just under 5.0 at bottom of first drop. (smile for the camera)
•Max NEGATIVE g-force is -2.0! Now that’s some airtime!
•Although published stats say 5 airtime hills, the data recorder shows 7, including the rear of the train over the lift hill, just as we suspected.
•Max speed has been 76.3 MPH, also at bottom of first drop. This is just outside the planned envelope….he said they MAY (his words) trim it just a shade to 76.0
•Ride time start of lift to return: 63 seconds
•Each train weighs 16 tons, EMPTY.
•I loved this one: 1.5 BILLION scan points were catalogued of all the existing rides, structures, terrain, etc. prior to starting design layouts
•Also as suspected, the two mis-painted cross braces on the south tower were just that, a mistake. They will eventually be blue. LOL
•300 cubic yards of concrete are at the bottom of the lift hill at the station. That’s 48 standard concrete-mixer trucks full.
•There will be no light beacon at the top of lift hill because of its proximity to the Kissing Tower.
•The mini-pile footers vary in depth from 30’ to 130’; Skyrush has 173 support columns for the track; in comparison, Bear has 196, for a coaster 800’ shorter. This was mainly possible due to the double-spine truss design of the track and was an important factor in keeping the costs down.
•And this surprising one… and I specifically asked to make sure I heard correctly: If you are over 6’5” tall, you will NOT be permitted to ride. There will be a guide stick for the ops that has the minimum 54” and the maximum 77”. It has nothing to do with arm reach, but rather the average length of the lower leg from knee to (pointed) toes, which I guess due to the train/seat configuration, could catch on something. That’ll upset some folks, but not as much as if they had half their foot hacked off.
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From TPR
 
So I just got done Driving from Rochester NY to College Park MD. Spent about half the trip in pennylvania so I decided to see how many bilboards etc for Amuesment parks I saw.

Here's the count total

2 Knoebels
1 Dorney
1 Kennywood
19 Hershey (13 Skyrush Specific)


They are advertising the **** out of this thing. Based off what we've seen so far it's gonna live up to the hype.
 
^It definately will in the airtime category! If i remember correctly, Toros strongest airtime is 1.9, with one other hill at 1.7. This means that Skyrush has slightly stronger airtime.
 
Hersheypark |"Skyrush"| Intamin Mega

Hershey never said that it was not going to have trims. They took several precautionary measures to ensure that the wheels would do all the trimming necessary. Plus, they are only trimming .3 mph off of this.....not an additional 5 or so.

All that stuff and more can be found first on the Project 2012 group over on Facebook as they post it there first and only a few of the guys post over on TPR (as the majority there want nothing to do with that site).
 
Regardless, the difference of a couple mph will be negligible compared to ride experience.
 
I don't want to hype it up, mostly as I haven't followed it too strong, but I want to be pleasantly surprised to say the least. Same can go for Verbolten. <3
 
Re: Hersheypark |"Skyrush"| Intamin Mega

And POV IS UP!

Update to facebook now allows me to not get onto the desktop webpage, so yea.....someone else must post link lol.

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