Tidal Force Being Retired After 2026
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This thing lasted about 10 years longer than anticipated.
So after like ten years of “guys they’re removing Tidal Force” it is actually happening. This has been some time coming.
There is something in the cooker.
There is something in the cooker.
"When a vessel takes its last voyage, we believe it deserves a proper send-off." 
We'll see what they do, but that'd be a great way to further expand the very busy waterpark. Would prob crush the dreams of the people who remain clinging onto the pipe dream of them relocating the water park across the street.
Boardwalk expansion. The one that matters because it's one of the last significant additions they will make without significant ride losses.
EDIT: Thinking more in depth a little here too - it's going to do a nice job of connecting the OG part of Boardwalk with the wave pool area.
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I don't think relocating the water park ever was/is on the table. Relocating Midway America would have been the best option, but with Wildcat's Revenge being recently done it might take quite some time to come to that conclusion.
I tell you what though - if you had some money and wanted to make a ton of money, put in an awesome waterpark somewhere between Hershey and Elizabethtown.
Interesting thought here on the landlocked nature of Boardwalk - it's almost the same size as the used area for Soak City's 2 areas if they put TF's plot into it.
@the_pantsmith I'm not disliking that you posted this (because it is a nicely done concept), rather the concept of a coaster being in the last Boardwalk expansion area is a misstep.
It makes me sad to think about but does anyone else see a future where Lightning Racer is removed to make room for further waterpark expansion? It's in sort of an isolated spot, takes up a lot of room inside the water park area and probably costs a good amount to maintain / retrack. Couple this with the lower ridership due to it being in the back of the park and its unfortunately a sensible proposition.
Yea I reckon more waterpark stuff is a good idea. Hershey is really well stocked on pools and smaller stuff so a new slide tower would do. Body slides are cool but don’t really handle crowds well, Proslide could probably whip up a nice raft slide or two. People will eat them up.
That being said unless they go crazy there could still be room around the splashdown area for something else. I have seen firsthand that Hershey was looking into another major dry park addition, one not water ride related. I don’t know if this is it or if that’s even going ahead, but we shall see.
That being said unless they go crazy there could still be room around the splashdown area for something else. I have seen firsthand that Hershey was looking into another major dry park addition, one not water ride related. I don’t know if this is it or if that’s even going ahead, but we shall see.
Don’t think it’s so likely. Waterpark is popular but doesn’t need THAT much room right now especially if Tidal Force’s site gets used. Having the coasters there right now is more valuable than another seasonal slide tower or two. Only way I can clearly see it is if Tidal Force is completely replaced by a coaster and Hershey decides to grow the Boardwalk into a huge second gate waterpark.
No insider information on this but more speculation from friends I have that cover the park, but more likely you would see them go to one side operations, do a full Titan track conversion, or allow GCI to do some other work.
Without it Hersheypark would have one woodie on Comet without many places or options at add another. They could, if they wanted, push something back against Park Blvrd as much as possible and build in a whole new area to get back there or they risk cutting off what little land they can expand into.
The other more “petty” part would be that taking out Lightning Racer takes out two coasters from their coins meaning having to build two to get back up to their count. They could do something cheap like a ZSpin or SkyrocketII for one of them but I don’t personally think that’s where they would want to go.
The other issue it can create is if Boardwalk were to keep growing, where do you stop cutting out rides? LR wouldn’t be the last thing people would call for being cut to make room. What’s next? The flats? Wild Mouse?
Personally I think long term relocating maintenance and team member offices elsewhere on site, and claiming that land for expanding to two gates. In fact splitting Midway America, Boardwalk, and a new area into a “Hersheypark Shorline Acres” wouldn’t be a bad park branding. Give it all 40’s/50’s Americana vibe. Then if they wanted LR can be relocated to that flat land and Boardwalk expanded.
(Note accidentally posted in Woodstock Express thread)
I wonder if boardwalk would be better off if it was built somewhere else like on another piece of land
As much as I would love to have a new coaster, they need to put a new waterpark expansion here. The Boardwalk does not have nearly enough slides for the amount of people it draws in. This is the waterpark that gets lines for its wave pool and lazy river, and have lines for the tubes and mats just to go wait in line for the actual slide. New waterslides would be incredibly beneficial to the Boardwalk.
Don’t go acting like you’re special, that’s how waterparks work. The secret however is a modest amount of tubes per slide to keep most of your wait at the bottom. That way the line will moderate itself at a slightly full couple of switchbacks and not grow to insane lengths. Or you can do the Saint-Sauveur method of having a hundred tubes at a single flume and a line hidden from sight. But I digress.
What makes this manageable however is a variety of slides to soak people up and yeah Hershey’s Boardwalk doesn’t have that. Their best quick fix is more than one multi-person raft slide, it can allow people to ride in groups and eat up crowds if you run enough rafts between them. Holiday World pretty much laid the groundwork for how a high-budgeted park-attached waterpark lineup should look like, and the answer is tons of pools and higher capacity slides, no large body slides as those don’t soak up people. This is my way of saying that drop pod slides at the Boardwalk will fix nothing unless two very appealing raft slides are put in first.
I mean, next year is the twentieth anniversary of the water park area opening (as crazy as that may be).
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This is my ideal scenario. They desperately need waterpark expansion and (.::.prepares for incoming tomatoes.::.) Lightning Racer is mid at best, realistically like a 3/10 coaster.