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Messages - sdcfan88

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General Silver Dollar City Talk / Re: Ride Station Cameras
« on: July 26, 2023, 08:35:34 PM »
Or have one in front of Mystic River Falls to see if its actually open and operating. lol

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Other Parks / Re: New Park - American Heartland in NE Oklahoma
« on: July 19, 2023, 09:06:25 PM »
^very much this, I put it right up there with Bells returning with the likelihood of this happening. Especially on a Disney-esque scale. Seems to be a bit of a stretch.

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Man this forum is dead. lol  :P
I guess everyone is waiting for the announcement of the worst kept secret.

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Other Parks / Re: [Carowinds] Fury 325 Support Failure
« on: July 12, 2023, 07:54:46 PM »

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Other Parks / Re: [Carowinds] Fury 325 Support Failure
« on: July 06, 2023, 04:10:29 PM »
Another update with a detailed statement. Great transparency with Carowinds and B&M here.

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Other Parks / Re: [Carowinds] Fury 325 Support Failure
« on: July 02, 2023, 03:07:46 PM »
The "band aid" for it ATTM

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Other Parks / Re: [Carowinds] Fury 325 Support Failure
« on: July 02, 2023, 10:55:23 AM »
Well it made national news lol

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Other Parks / [Carowinds] Fury 325 Support Failure
« on: June 30, 2023, 10:27:00 PM »
A major support structure on Carowinds Fury 325 has completely broken apart and the track is visibly floating. You can see the separation clearly as the train flies thru the track. Do note this coaster has some pretty intense G's and has a top speed of 95mph. I have been on this coaster and that is pretty shocking to see, especially for a B&M thats less than 10 years old.

I'd like to know if this literally just happened or has maintenance been cutting back on inspections?

Video of the separation while the coaster passes thru:
https://www.facebook.com/557074658/videos/pcb.10160611978009659/1226349981233922


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I am expecting something similar to how Zambezi Zinger was revived at Worlds Of Fun. It will have the same name, but a much different ride experience.

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Random Talk / Re: Do some dang research....
« on: June 21, 2023, 11:02:07 AM »
There's a lot at play here. It is annoying when people just hop on FB to ask for stuff they could easily figure out or get for themselves. There's a lot of learned helplessness from people who have become far too attached to the internet, and especially social media. Weirdly enough, people aren't as tech/internet savy as they were a decade ago. There's less of a learning curve to use anything anymore and therefore people don't build basic skills to figure things out.

Also, FB sucks in general. Both as a platform and as a technology to display discussions and interact with people. When you comment on an FB thread, the order of comments is moved around based on likes and hidden parameters, so it's hard to follow any kind of flow for a conversation. They also hide a lot of comments based on how a given profile or comment is rated in the algorithm. Message boards like this one are still the best platform for actual discussion and posting information that will be easily accessible for years.

Very much this. Facebook has become an evolution of the high school popularity contest. If you are not part of the "clique" (whatever FB determines it as) you get posts buried and treated as an outcast. Unless you pay to "promote" posts. Twitter has sadly followed this model after what's his face took over. Shadowbanning is a real thing. They can't afford to lose or remove users outright because they depend on them for ad revenue. Plus if it shows their user base is dropping it looks bad to shareholders. I've been using both less and less.

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General Silver Dollar City Talk / Re: SDC Logo
« on: June 15, 2023, 07:59:30 PM »
So the old logo appears to be a log that is the partial trunk of a tree, with some cut off branches.  In a real tree, of course the branches tend to grow upwards.  So, old log has the stumps of the branches going in the same direction like they would naturally.  New one has them opposite which would mean one branch was growing toward the ground. Perhaps overthinking it but IMO new logo would have been a lot better if they did not have them going in opposite directions.

Its actually a good metaphor of the park not being sure what they wanna be anymore. 
:-X ::)

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Thought this was interesting, SDC straight up asking people on Facebook what they want to see come to the park next. It mirrors the discussions we had here. I take it the admin is probably on these forums? https://www.facebook.com/sdcattractions/posts/10161019789837603

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Yeah I was relieved to see more people upset than the select ignorant few that said "Good! Tear that racist POS down." (yes there was one comment I saw on their FB page announcement that didn't have a clue about the Baldknobbers)

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General Silver Dollar City Talk / Re: SDC Logo
« on: June 13, 2023, 02:40:29 PM »
They made it "Facebook official" this morning. I posted a comment on how the bottom limb was facing the wrong direction on the new logo. My comment was swiftly silenced by the person who runs their social media. I am not sure if changing the orientation of the bottom limb was an oversight, or perhaps an artistic choice. Either way, I think the new logo is... serviceable.  ;)

Fixed. Took me a whole two minutes in PhotoShop. lol

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General Silver Dollar City Talk / Re: SDC Logo
« on: June 13, 2023, 03:00:18 AM »
Also interesting to note they went back to the minimalist logo design. Though it's even more minimalist than the old one.

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