{"id":213,"date":"2019-07-24T21:43:48","date_gmt":"2019-07-25T01:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.themeparkarchive.com\/blog\/?p=213"},"modified":"2020-01-07T00:40:42","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T05:40:42","slug":"hersheypark-announces-candymonium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themeparkarchive.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/hersheypark-announces-candymonium\/","title":{"rendered":"Hersheypark announces Candymonium!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hersheypark announced today that in 2020 alongside the opening of its new entrance area named Chocolatetown, it will debut its 15th roller coaster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.themeparkarchive.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/candymoniumsevenacrescale-441270-1-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.themeparkarchive.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/candymoniumsevenacrescale-441270-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.themeparkarchive.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/candymoniumsevenacrescale-441270-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.themeparkarchive.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/candymoniumsevenacrescale-441270-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.themeparkarchive.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/candymoniumsevenacrescale-441270-1-624x351.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Candymonium ride layout<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Candymonium is being claimed to be &#8220;The World&#8217;s Sweetest Coaster&#8221;.  This B&amp;M hypercoaster will feature a 210 foot lift, contain 7 airtime hills, and reach a top speed of 76 MPH.  The ride&#8217;s length is 4,636 feet long and will accommodate 3 trains, each themed to different Hershey&#8217;s products: Hershey, Reeses and Twizzlers.  The ride will traverse 7 acres.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Chocolatetown expansion in whole is a 150 million dollar investment by the park.  Along with the new rollercoaster, the area will feature a restaurant, ice cream parlor, gift shop, Starbucks, fountain and relocation of the park&#8217;s carousel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.themeparkarchive.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/candymoniumplaza-783959-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.themeparkarchive.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/candymoniumplaza-783959-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.themeparkarchive.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/candymoniumplaza-783959-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.themeparkarchive.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/candymoniumplaza-783959-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.themeparkarchive.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/candymoniumplaza-783959-624x351.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Candymonium station and entrance plaza<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>All in all, Candymonium should be a perfect compliment to the park&#8217;s other hypercoaster: Skyrush.  We look to hearing more and following the construction of this ride as we near its Summer 2020 opening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>15th rollercoaster for park will be a B&#038;M Hyper that is the cornerstone of Chocolatetown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":215,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-hersheypark"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themeparkarchive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themeparkarchive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themeparkarchive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themeparkarchive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themeparkarchive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.themeparkarchive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":340,"href":"https:\/\/www.themeparkarchive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions\/340"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themeparkarchive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themeparkarchive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themeparkarchive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themeparkarchive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}