Today, Hersheypark announced their new for 2020 attraction, Chocolatetown! This new experience will feature shops, merchandise, restaurants, and of course, a B&M hyper. The site came with a timeline of Chocolatetown milestone dates, which will be posted below. What are your thoughts?

 

 

http://www.hersheypark.com/chocolatetown/

 

 

Update: On January 9, Hersheypark added another page to the Chocolatetown site. The link is attached:

 

http://www.hersheypark.com/chocolatetown/map.php

 

Looks like a lot of buildings.  I really like the design of some of the buildings.  Lots of wide open space.  The entrance to Hershey always seemed very constricted and narrow. 

 

From what I can tell, there is no mention of the name of the coaster, other than that it is their "15th coaster."

This looks really nice. I wish KI would make more of a "Citywalk" in front of KI.

Chocolate hyper coaster which will essentially be the front gate coaster that the park lacks. Talking about the coaster, it looks like it'll take a lot of inspiration from Mako with a second half of twists, turns and a lot of flyovers and path interactions as opposed to older hypers.

 

The milkshakes at Hersheypark are incredible.

Oncredoble addition. 

I'm kinda torn by this.  I actually really, really like HP's entrance as is.   However,  I do agree it can be improved a little bit.  I'd rather this have been a 2nd entrance than a re-vamp of the current entrance as I think HP really could use a 2nd.  A new coaster is always welcome, and I'm glad HP is acquiring surrounding land to expand upon.  It's been like pulling teeth for them. 

On 10/3/2018 at 4:13 PM, teenageninja said:

The milkshakes at Hersheypark are incredible.

Will you take me next year? Or we could do Dollywood or something else. 

I might have to make a trip back to HP in the coming years to see this. This is going to drastically change the entrance to HP, but it's for the good considering what a major park they are at this point.

I like how parks are constantly trying to improve guest's experience within the park. The entrance looks extremely inviting and gives off a Cedar Fair feel as they have been adding front gate coasters to their parks in the more recent years.

Hersheypark is a park I would love to get back to sometime soon.  I went there shortly before I started dating my wife, and she has never been there.  It is definitely a fun place to visit (as is Dorney).

After visiting the park tonight, I can see why the new entrance is needed. It wasn't crowded at all (most waits for the coasters were 5 - 15 minutes except the coasters running 1 train like Great Bear) and getting there at opening, the line to get into the park was all the way to where the tram drop off is. It took 15 minutes which isn't terrible but on a crowded day it would probably take much longer.

There's going to be another announcement about Chocolatetown in January! Who's excited?

As @Maverick44 mentioned in his "Hersheypark 2020 Coaster" thread, the new B&M coaster in the expansion will be announced on July 24 at 10:30. Here's a screenshot from the official Chocolatetown site with the date of the announcement:

 

 

Here's the teaser Hersheypark posted on September 12, just because I feel nostalgic: