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With the Iron Menace out of the bag, Dorney Park has made some major changes in the park to promote the new ride, and started heavy work on the attraction as well. Guests will absolutely feel the presence of the ride in the park now, with lots of new signage (like this giant one greeting guests in the parking lot) all over the place. With season passes on sale, the ride is obviously tied to promoting them, as well.
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When you arrive at the front gates a new banner advertising Iron Menace and season passes greets you as well. And may I say once more that the new metal detectors are fantastic and so easy to pass through!
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Also right inside the main entrance is this very well done themed display showing off Iron Menace to everyone. It has the ride's logo (which I love more each time I see it and I really hope that molten steel pattern shows up more), statistics, layout and even a screen showing the ride's animation. A no trespassing sign features a QR code that takes guests to Dorney's website for the ride.
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Halloween Haunt preparations are also underway at Dorney Park. Haunt starts on September 15th this year, which sorta frightenigly-on-its-own is only 5 weeks away!
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A big change this year will be that Skeleton Crew - a great live show - and perhaps Port of Call bar and the giant pirate ship props will be back up in Hydra plaza. They lived up here each fall for many years, but with work on Iron Menace going on in the lower park it makes sense to keep that area clear. So far just some of the sets are going up and walled off, so we'll see how much more is added to this area in coming weeks.
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Hard to see but Necropolis is also being set up in the empty field next to Steel Force as it has in past years. The facades are still up for Blood on the Bayou, Tourist Trap, Roadside Stop & Chop and Trick or Treat, so I would assume they'll return. I did not see work on The Lair yet, if that is returning I would expect to see work start soon by Thunderhawk! And we know Enigma isn't returning...
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Because this new yet-to-be-announced Haunted house that is directly tied to Iron Menace's backstory is taking its place! The theming on just the facade is really,
really good and if this is what we can expect from the park with the new coaster's theme.... well then I'm even more excited than I thought I could be! The new haunt will be announced on 9/7/23 and so far we only know that the structure (which is partially in ruins as we can see in the new photos here) is set to be the steel mill's administrative office.
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A second major display has gone up on the work walls that now totally hide the Iron Menace worksite from guest view. Another great look at the ride's layout, logo, theming vibe and the preview animations is offered to guests - lots of which stopped in their tacks to check it out. Also the park has confirmed that the Rita's adjacent to the worksite will be coming down as part of this project, though that was clear from the initial plans filed with the township.
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The work walls obscure exactly what is going on in the majority of the Iron Menace site, and I'm not one to try to look over or climb anything to see. You can see some of the site from the restrooms past Cedar Creek Flyers and right now the crew has started to rip up blacktop on an access road back there and many trees have already been removed, but that's about the extent of things. I'm sure work on the ride's footings will be starting very soon, like maybe this week.
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With the excitement surrounding the ride's announcement Dorney Park has some nice merch for the coaster available already in Good Time Gifts. There are some slick looking shirts, water bottles and drawstring bags that you can pick up when at the park!
That wraps things up for this visit, stay tuned for more as work on Iron Menace continues!
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