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General Silver Dollar City Talk / Re: Theming

« on: March 31, 2008, 08:50:39 PM »

I think Wildfire was an outstanding show of the creative ability of the park. It has a fun, completely original theme combined with excellent theming such as the flying contraption above the gift shop, the sweet scenes with effects in the station, and the various novelties outside the building. What's also great about it is that the ride is positioned within the park so that it pokes out of the trees and commands the skyline around the park, yet isn't right up in the park where it takes away from the atmosphere of the city.

The Grand Expo is an example of an area where I wish SDC had used more of said creative ability. The area is also fun and well positioned within the park so that it can be a part of the park without making the rest of the city feel to much like an amusement park, but it kinda lacks some of the usual special effects that we're used to. I mean, the area is nicely laid out, but it doesn't feel all that much like a grand expo. It could do well  if they added some kind of 'exhibits' or cool randomness to the area to make it feel like you're really in a some kind of odd fair. As it is though, I'm just glad they found a way to add in the family rides some many guests were dying for in a  way that didn't hurt the atmosphere of the park as a whole too badly. I just hope the area doesn't get out of hand with them throwing rides in there. I'd like to see a midway develop there, with one of those ornate shoot-D'-chutes that you see in vintage postcards from past world's fairs.

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Construction/Rumors / Re: New Coaster???

« on: March 30, 2008, 10:00:03 PM »

^I don't think they've messed up in any way, I just wish they included more of SDC tradition in their new developments. I mean, if GE was added 10 years ago, I think it would have held a lot more neat smaller elements, like funky little shops and maybe a few 'exhibits' of some kind. There's nothing exactly bad about the way SDC is growing, I just wish they held back a little more to the old ways. Besides, SDC's main crowd pull is certainly not thrill seekers, at least not in a direct sense. For thrills, there are numerous other parks, but SDC has much higher prestige for a reason.

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Announcements / Re: Check Out The New Site

« on: March 30, 2008, 09:39:07 PM »

Eh, there's not much room as it is, but I'll think about it when I do my revision of the template for the new site system. I really just need to get that new system up and running right now though, it's just been a wild ride with one bug after another popping up and throwing me off track.

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Construction/Rumors / Re: Future Wet Rides

« on: March 30, 2008, 09:36:57 PM »

Take all of River Battle's theming, but make it look like what is found on other Herschend attractions. IE: replace the plasiticy-looking beavers with the bad-A beavers on Topple Tower, the fake trees with more realistic versions, and some of the other randomness on the ride with the likes of what is found on Flooded Mine. I mean think about the Herschend's theming ability; I know it's easier to use the manufacturer's targets, but SDC can do so much better than those.

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Construction/Rumors / Re: New Coaster???

« on: March 30, 2008, 09:33:55 PM »

I too, am torn on the issue.

The thing is that I want to see some more large-scale attractions come to the city, but I want the city to go back to more of the feel it had before the big rides. What I really want the city to focus on is bringing out more heritage and craftsmanship. With this new coaster, I want it to really be part of the park. I want it to be push a classic SDC theme that is accentuated by a new plethora of surrounding shops, crafts, and andyisms. You might be thinking "well hell, that's what TGS was", but no, TGS is great in that it has some great andyisms and a strong theme, but it's pretty much a big ride with a bunch of stalls plopped around it. This time around, I hope to see some games that are actually relavent to the theme, some actual shops that sell more than t-shirts, and maybe some new craftsmen, also relavent to theme.

Again, it sounds bitchy, but TGS and GE have never really felt like they belong with the rest of SDC. I'm sure they will when the areas mature and characterize, but as it is they are kinda wacky. This time around I hope they dig up something really SDCish, that will really accentuate the atmosphere of the park as a whole.

As far as the coaster type itself, any of the above options besides the hyper coaster would be great, though I personally would prefer a solid Intamin Pre-fab woodie.

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Construction/Rumors / Re: Your Attraction Ideas

« on: March 30, 2008, 09:21:08 PM »

Mmmmmm, I could see the trading fort, especially if it was off on it's own from the park, a true new area with more than just a featured ride.

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Announcements / Re: Check Out The New Site

« on: March 30, 2008, 09:16:56 PM »

^Meh, it's a thought, but the thing is that CC and WWB don't usually have enough noteworthy news to warrant a separate page altogether. Besides, it would be harder to find stories and would increase the time needed to get info from the site.

I may eventually have it set up to where news from CC and news from SDC can be sorted, but I've got other things to work out right now.

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Construction/Rumors / Re: Future Wet Rides

« on: March 30, 2008, 08:07:05 PM »

Certainly, they're easily the most popular rides in the park, and they only have a few of them. Of course, I'd rather see them invest in other things other than big new rides right now, but a little Splash Battle, if themed realistically, could be pretty amazing. I just don't want to have a bunch of plastic gleam going everywhere.

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Construction/Rumors / Re: Future Wet Rides

« on: March 30, 2008, 07:53:14 PM »

^Yeah, I don't see Geyser Gulch ever leaving the city. If anything, I can see it getting expanded again soon.

What about right behind the waterboggin finish? If the train tracks were moved into the employee parking lot, there's a huge piece of land there.

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Construction/Rumors / Re: CC's 2008 Project

« on: March 29, 2008, 11:37:56 PM »

Hmmm, apparently Roaring Falls will be themed to the Amazon jungle. Not to bitch, but why did they choose a jungle theme in a 60's park? I mean, it's a fun theme, but couldn't they have done something like a classic flume theme? Meh, I'm sure it will be extremely fun either way though, it'll even feature 2 crocodiles and a hippo that squirt water at passengers.

I'm hoping this thing turns out to be a real surprise, Herschend attractions tend to do that.

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Announcements / Re: Check Out The New Site

« on: March 29, 2008, 10:58:12 PM »

Update: I've worked some more on it, but there's still a ways to go before it can be called anything close to done. I'm getting close to where I could launch it, but I still want to wait a while longer till I have more features done. After all, if I went ahead and launched it now, the only new thing would be the layout, and it isn't all that hot. Once I get all the backend stuff and user-features done, I'll probably design a new skin for it.

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SDC Memories/ Park History / Re: 1960's home movies of SDC

« on: March 29, 2008, 11:51:15 AM »

Whoa, check out the noose in the first video, what a liability...

I had never heard of a fire at SDC, what's the story behind that?

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General Silver Dollar City Talk / Re: Young Christian's Weekend

« on: March 28, 2008, 09:50:20 PM »

It'll probably be a lot better, all the youth groups come and go just for Saturday. It'll probably actually be a really nice, uncrowded day.

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Construction/Rumors / Future Wet Rides

« on: March 27, 2008, 11:11:55 PM »

So I was just browsing through some photos of the River Battle's opening at DW, and I was thinking about the possibility of such an attraction coming to SDC in the near future. It could be a serious possibility, seeing as the what works well at one park always ends up at the other, and the River Battle seems to be a hit at DW.  Besides, it's a solid family/kid-friendly ride that the GP loves.

 The only beef I have with it is that the theming on DW's model is really plastic looking, and it really kinda clashes with the Mystery Mine. In fact, I would go as far as saying that it destroys the atmosphere of that area of the park, and I hope they go back over it in the future and make more of a transition between MM and RB.

That's what worries me about one coming to SDC. As the park grows more and more into a basic theme park, it would be very tempting for the management not to just plop one of these by Geyser Gulch somewhere and just throw in a bunch of the same plastic theming. It would kinda work because that area is already getting off the theme of the rest of the park, but it would start a serious trend of apathy from keeping the park set in one solid feel...

Meh, I just hope that if we get one of these, they theme it a little more realistically than RB. If they went with it, one of these could fit in marvelously at SDC, just so long as they don't cheap out.

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General Silver Dollar City Talk / Re: Young Christian's Weekend

« on: March 27, 2008, 08:10:04 PM »

Get some pictures, if you feel like it. I've heard that Wildfire's queue gets to the point that they have to use the entire building and the overflow, which I have personally never seen before. I haven't a clue what they'll do for PK, on a normal day the queue goes out the building, for this event they may have to wrap it around the park.

It'd definitely be an interesting weekend to go, just to see how the park reacts to 20,000 over-hyped little brats.