I've been going to Hershey for over 50 years and I absolutely loved that rendition of the Chocolate World ride. It was simple, not real flashy but I think that was is charm. Thank you for posting.
Thank you so much for posting this. My family went to Hershey every year on Presidents' Day weekend from 1978-1989, and it was our tradition to ride Chocolate World at the end of the trip (a big deal since Hersheypark was never open at that time of year). We bought our first video camera in June 1987 and brought it with us to Hershey in February 1988 so that we could finally have a recording of this beloved ride. It turned out to be closed for refurbishment. We were among the first people to ride it in April 1988 when the new version opened. We found the 1988 version to be inferior. They were trying to update it by having a robot tour guide on a video screen, in order to bring the ride into the computer age, but the robot was intrusive and annoying, and we preferred the classic charm of the original ride. We were really disappointed that we never got a recording of the original version. For the past several years I have searched TH-cam every so often, hoping that someone who had a recording of the original ride might have posted it. I was delighted to see that you have a video and shared it. It satisfies a longing, and a regret, that I have harbored for 36 years. Thank you! -- One question, though - what was the "refurbishment" that was done in 1987? What elements were changed that year, right before shutting it down for the big renovation of 1988? This video appears to me to be the original version of the ride as I remember it from the late 70s and early 80s.
The waiting queue now has pictures of smiling adults harvesting the cocoa beans. Times have changed for sure. The 90s ride I remember started by talking about the Hershey Chocolate Factory in Hershey, PA, but since that was torn down and chocolate production diversified out of Hershey, it starts with signing cows. Hope the kids still like it.
I always wondered if Hershey had to get permission from Disney to build the this ride, since the moving platform and never-stopping cars are a type of " Omnimover" system, which is patented by WED Enterprises, the manufacturing division of The Walt Disney Co.
Considering it was built by Arrow, the same company that had built all of Disney's Omnimovers prior and most since, I would assume WED Enterprises approved its construction.
I could see why the newer ride has less history and detailed facts as kids today have much less attention span. It just demonstrates how the chocolate is made now.
7:30 Hershey’s Chocolate Hershey’s Chocolate It’s a Hershey’s Chocolate World. Wherever you go No matter how far Your always near a Hershey bar. Hershey’s Chocolate Hershey’s Chocolate It’s a Hershey’s Chocolate World. If you're the travelling kind, wherever you roam It's good to find a friend from home A Hershey's Chocolate Real milk chocolate Hershey's - The Great American Chocolate Bar!
My dad always sang this instead: Hershey's Chocolate, Hershey's Chocolate We get stuck in your throat When your trachea starts to ache-ea Man, that's all that she wrote!
All I had was 87, 95, and 04, which are on this channel. I've also supplied a copy of the original audio of the ride's "great american chocolate bar" theme song (unknown year) to Disney Lovers Hersheypark. 1988 (the CP1 robot version) is my favorite version though, and this is the only video I know of it: th-cam.com/video/Q4lAhLs0FxM/w-d-xo.html
I've searched and searched but can't find any videos of the old ride where there was a little robot in front of the car narrating thru the ride. Now it's a screen with a woman speaking.
Okay as a kid I would definitely cry on this for little kids this looks scary AF the voice so deep and the darkness no characters just trees and life lol
I've been going to Hershey for over 50 years and I absolutely loved that rendition of the Chocolate World ride. It was simple, not real flashy but I think that was is charm. Thank you for posting.
Thank you so much for posting this. My family went to Hershey every year on Presidents' Day weekend from 1978-1989, and it was our tradition to ride Chocolate World at the end of the trip (a big deal since Hersheypark was never open at that time of year). We bought our first video camera in June 1987 and brought it with us to Hershey in February 1988 so that we could finally have a recording of this beloved ride. It turned out to be closed for refurbishment. We were among the first people to ride it in April 1988 when the new version opened. We found the 1988 version to be inferior. They were trying to update it by having a robot tour guide on a video screen, in order to bring the ride into the computer age, but the robot was intrusive and annoying, and we preferred the classic charm of the original ride. We were really disappointed that we never got a recording of the original version. For the past several years I have searched TH-cam every so often, hoping that someone who had a recording of the original ride might have posted it. I was delighted to see that you have a video and shared it. It satisfies a longing, and a regret, that I have harbored for 36 years. Thank you! -- One question, though - what was the "refurbishment" that was done in 1987? What elements were changed that year, right before shutting it down for the big renovation of 1988? This video appears to me to be the original version of the ride as I remember it from the late 70s and early 80s.
This was the version I first experienced and I never thought I'd see it again. So great to see this video.
At least we know how a Mr. Goodbar is made.
Thanks very much for posting this. Brings back a lot of memories.
Little did we know, the pickers in the fields were often kids (as they had small hands) and led abusive lives working long hours for little pay.
The waiting queue now has pictures of smiling adults harvesting the cocoa beans. Times have changed for sure. The 90s ride I remember started by talking about the Hershey Chocolate Factory in Hershey, PA, but since that was torn down and chocolate production diversified out of Hershey, it starts with signing cows. Hope the kids still like it.
I hate the singing cows!!!
I always wondered if Hershey had to get permission from Disney to build the this ride, since the moving platform and never-stopping cars are a type of " Omnimover" system, which is patented by WED Enterprises, the manufacturing division of The Walt Disney Co.
Considering it was built by Arrow, the same company that had built all of Disney's Omnimovers prior and most since, I would assume WED Enterprises approved its construction.
yea what’s unique is that this ride and the haunted mansion r the same systems and were built around the same time
Wow I really needed to see this they should have kept the chocolate world just like this this is what I remember going there as a kid
I could see why the newer ride has less history and detailed facts as kids today have much less attention span. It just demonstrates how the chocolate is made now.
i think in the line after seeing history you see where they get the stuff.
7:30
Hershey’s Chocolate
Hershey’s Chocolate
It’s a Hershey’s Chocolate World.
Wherever you go
No matter how far
Your always near a Hershey bar.
Hershey’s Chocolate
Hershey’s Chocolate
It’s a Hershey’s Chocolate World.
If you're the travelling kind,
wherever you roam
It's good to find a friend from home
A Hershey's Chocolate
Real milk chocolate
Hershey's - The Great American Chocolate Bar!
The theme song of the entire company.
Wow they kept it the same
My dad always sang this instead:
Hershey's Chocolate, Hershey's Chocolate
We get stuck in your throat
When your trachea starts to ache-ea
Man, that's all that she wrote!
Was this used to be lost media or some sort? Because I never seen the older version of the Hershey chocolate factory ride.
That's pretty much exactly what it is.
@@SooperEggs ah, in that case, thank's for finding this piece of lost media.
do you have any more of these video like the 1988 version?
All I had was 87, 95, and 04, which are on this channel. I've also supplied a copy of the original audio of the ride's "great american chocolate bar" theme song (unknown year) to Disney Lovers Hersheypark.
1988 (the CP1 robot version) is my favorite version though, and this is the only video I know of it:
th-cam.com/video/Q4lAhLs0FxM/w-d-xo.html
0:54 That sounds _exactly_ like one of the sound effects used in Duck Amuck.
I've searched and searched but can't find any videos of the old ride where there was a little robot in front of the car narrating thru the ride. Now it's a screen with a woman speaking.
Sounds like I'm watching a 1980s Epcot ride.
The "Test Kitchen" looks like something out of the Carousel of Progress
@@mjb6991 Agreed! In fact that is EXACTLY what is looks like!
@@mjb6991 Interesting.
Incredible
Okay as a kid I would definitely cry on this for little kids this looks scary AF the voice so deep and the darkness no characters just trees and life lol
this is the version i remember....and like