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SDC Memories/ Park History / Re: Random Stuff Round-Up

« on: March 22, 2008, 10:04:44 PM »

^Very neat.

Heh, this might sound weird, but if anyone can get a photo of the stairs, I'm sure visitors to this site will appreciate it.

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Construction/Rumors / Re: New Parking Lot/Road Plans

« on: March 22, 2008, 10:02:33 PM »

^An hour? Damn, I've parked in Notch plenty of times, but there's always been a steady stream of buses. Then again, SDC was totally not expecting these crowds, so I guess you can't really blame them. The increased hours are a welcome make-up.

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General Silver Dollar City Talk / Re: SDC BLOG

« on: March 22, 2008, 10:00:13 PM »

It's not a bad new blog, it's just carefully targeted towards SDC's most valued crowd... but that unfortunately doesn't include me.

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General Silver Dollar City Talk / Re: The "City" Opens

« on: March 22, 2008, 09:59:04 PM »

Aw, not Birdie's Cabin... That was always an awesome place to go and just hang out for awhile to get away from the City, plus it was a cool piece of history and part of an area of SDC that is quickly vanishing.

What was the Duplicating Lathe again?


I'll bet the American Plunge Re-hab will indeed involve major additions to the tunnel, as I'm sure everyone's been disappointed with the blandness of the new tunnel, I dunno about using the old Float Trip trackage though, that could get costly unless they plan on spending some serious dough on this.

Good stuff, I'll need to write a news article about it all once I get the new site running.

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Branson Talk / What happened to Pinnacle Falls?

« on: March 22, 2008, 07:43:47 PM »

Back in 2006, it was announced that a massive new $600 million dollar resort was being built just to the west of Celebration City called Pinnacle Falls, to open in 2008 - but now it's 2008, and there's no sign of it. What happened? After all the hoax Disney rumors, I kinda forgot about it until now, but the artwork for it looked amazing, and I really think it would have pumped a lot of interest into Celebration City.

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Construction/Rumors / Re: CC's 2008 Project

« on: March 21, 2008, 08:18:18 PM »

Kfoster just sent in some Roaring Falls photos. Here's a couple, I'll get them all added to the site tonight.

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Announcements / Re: Check Out The New Site

« on: March 20, 2008, 11:31:47 PM »

Sorry about it taking so long to get the site upgraded - I need to make a couple of small changes to my CMS, then I have to upload and configure quite a bit of stuff before everything can go live. Hopefully though, I'll have it done by Sunday night - I've just been spending a lot of time with my family lately, so I haven't had much time.

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Announcements / Re: Check Out The New Site

« on: March 19, 2008, 07:36:15 PM »

^^Hmmm, well it's nice, but it kinda throws off the flow, and I want to keep the blue colour/texture. Look at the mock up again - http://www.sdcfans.com/test_index.html I was thinking of smaller images sort of like that, maybe in some sort of switcher that changes when you refresh the page.

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Other Parks / Re: Cheerleading Squad At Six Flags

« on: March 19, 2008, 04:32:53 PM »

Meh, it is a welcome attempt to brighten the parks up, but it's not the kind of thing that people like me would appreciate so much... It just doesn't have the same charm as the random novelties at SDC and DW.

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Other Parks / Re: Big Developments at FC

« on: March 19, 2008, 04:28:45 PM »

I just drove past there today - everything is definitely cleared out, ready for something to start, but the park opens in two weeks. Even if they were just throwing up a portable turd coaster, they'll need more time to actually build and test it. Either their planning is seriously screwed up and this new ride won't debut till the end of the season, or we're getting something considerably smaller than everyone is thinking. It was said that this new ride would be a brand new park model of whatever it is though... so I'm thinking we'll just have to wait till August to ride whatever it is.

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Announcements / Re: Check Out The New Site

« on: March 18, 2008, 11:22:06 PM »

^By the time it's done it'll be a lot cleaner, I have a lot of stuff I need to move around.

By the way, if anyone has any photoshop skills, I could use a mono-colored transparent gif to go up in that big empty header area. I'll try to bust something out with the GIMP, but getting anything to properly cut out of the GIMP can be a pain. If you don't understand what I'm asking for, just look at the logo area of the current site - I'm looking for a transparent image of track piece or something SDC to fill that space.

Also, I've only checked out the site in IE7 and Firefox, and I already know there's a bug in IE7, so I'm sure IE6 will have at least a few problems. Let me know about any browser bugs, and what browser you use the most.

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Construction/Rumors / Re: New Parking Lot/Road Plans

« on: March 18, 2008, 11:09:04 PM »

That's too bad, I'm planning to hit the place up in early June, so I guess I'll just have to park way off in the gravel again... How are they going to work around all the daily guests? 

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Announcements / Check Out The New Site

« on: March 18, 2008, 10:29:30 PM »

...Or at least what it will look like - sort of.

This is subject to a whole lot of change, but here's the general template for the new site - http://www.sdcfans.com/test_index.html

The empty top area will be partially filled with some sort of GIF image of either a coaster track piece or SDC's sign. The top nav will hold a drop down containing everything currently situated in the right-hand nav on the current site. Also, I'm not sure about the 'Latest Posts' box, I may switch it to 'Latest Articles' for one of the features I mentioned in another thread.

It may take a few days to get this on the CMS that I built though, I thought I would have it up faster, but I had to go back and re-build a bunch of sloppy CSS. I knew I should have just built it myself...

Anyhow, if anyone has any complaints/suggestions, they had better hedge them now 'cause once I get it hooked up, it'll be hard convincing me to change it.

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Other Parks / Re: Big Developments at FC

« on: March 18, 2008, 08:19:25 PM »

^Huh, I totally missed that when I read the post the first time - the park in question didn't happen to be the park that almost happened around the Tulsa/Bartlesville area in the 80's was it?

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Other Parks / Re: Big Developments at FC

« on: March 18, 2008, 12:52:37 PM »

^^ Those memories may be a little dated. For one, Nightmare Mine has been shut down for years, and there's major talk about removing it soon. The water slides are gone now, and quite a bit of work has been done around the park throughout the recent transition from SF to PARC. It's still not that great of a place, but I think it's on the way to being a pretty fun place. Once they lower the food prices, add some new theming, build that new kiddy SLC, and shape up some general park things, it'll be alright; it's just no SDC and doesn't try to be.