Hersheypark: Attraction 2012 Rumor and News Discussion

2011/2012 - New Coaster - (6/2/10) I’m told that small white triangle looking survey markers can be found around the Comet Hollow area. One is even said to be placed right under a section of Great Bear’s track. Anyone have pictures?

Fanatic wrote:I've heard rumors that a roller coaster station might go down at Creekside catering. It could be a tall buiding - a la the Great Bear station which is two stories - which would help if the creek floods.

ChiefRedskin89 wrote:There may not be the room for that giant box of a transfer/storage track but I'm sure room could be made. Also if they are finding straight sections and it happens to be for a coaster its not going to be a spinning ride like you showed. You couldn't find 10 feet of straight track on any make or model of that type of a ride.

Those markings in Comet Hollow are for a new roller coaster. The coaster station will either be at Creekside Catering or where the current Comet Hollow bathrooms, Tilt-a-Whirl, and former Paddleboats were. The coaster will be designed by Intamin or Premier. B&M is out of the mix. The coaster will be coming in 2012, but there's always the possibility it could be bumped up to 2011.

If you were able to walk around the areas where the new coaster will run through, you'd be amazed at the room that there is. Old walkways that haven't been used since the 70s would be used for space. The space between Comet and the Founder's Circle kiddie rides would be used. This won't be a small coaster coming in.

coasteral wrote:I heard from a reliable source that this is a coaster,BUT it will not be a B&M coaster.

(6/14/10) The latest rumors swirling around Hersheypark’s next big coaster project actually now throw Premier Rides into the mix with Intamin as well… and hint that B&M is now more unlikely. Many also seem to think that the project may not be until the 2012 season, though with surveying going on right now, anything can happen.
As for those markers, I’ve been contacted by a reader with some professional experience as an actual surveyor and was told that the markings we’ve seen so far have nothing at all to do with the layout of the project. All of the triangle markings found so far have a “Mag Nail” driven into the asphalt in the center and are actually “Control Points”, which are then usually number sequentially as they are created. These points mark the locations the surveyors use to work from... and not the location of the project itself. If people look hard enough, there should be more of these Control Points discovered around the site, as they are set up in a loop around the actual area where the work will be done. So once all the different Control Points are discovered, we should have a large loop surrounding the overall location of the new project area. However the loop could be quite large... much larger than the actual project itself, as I’m told that the permitter loop would also include any and all sites where other infrastructure work (electric, water, sewer, roads, walkways, etc) will also be modifed or tied into.
So really the best thing to do right now, other than to find more markers, would be to also create an overhead map showing off the location of each discovered and numbered marker as time goes on.

So from the sound of things, these markers are to just mark off the area they plan on working within. If so, then this area should stretch from the Comet Hollow midway to the access road behind Founder's Circle and next to Comet. If this is the case, then there should be more of these markers down by Creekside catering and possibly over in the golf course. I'll see about putting together a map of the markers. By the way, didn't someone a few months ago say something about seeing markers somewhere near the golf course? I'll have to dig that out.