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Other Parks / Re: Bell's Developments
« on: May 11, 2023, 06:22:13 PM »
So who paid for all of these traffic studies etc? The California people, the Bells people?
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General Silver Dollar City Talk / Re: 2023 Crowds / Trip Reports
« on: May 10, 2023, 06:17:35 PM »
The old train wreck stuff is gone? That sucks.
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Other Parks / Re: Bell's Developments
« on: May 10, 2023, 05:04:30 PM »
Well, as expected this was all a bunch of talk with no substance.
https://www.newson6.com/story/645b9cd645c74007eb848293/company-opts-to-sell-land-proposed-as-new-bells-amusement-park
https://www.newson6.com/story/645b9cd645c74007eb848293/company-opts-to-sell-land-proposed-as-new-bells-amusement-park
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General Silver Dollar City Talk / Re: Train Crash?
« on: March 31, 2023, 09:38:41 PM »
So in other words, it was 100% negligence and lack of proper maintenance and standards on the part of the park
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Construction/Rumors / Re: SDC's 2023 Project(s) and Park Developments
« on: March 29, 2023, 06:21:28 PM »My cardiologist says the same thing about the risk vs. reward of pork rinds.
Actually pork rinds are healthy.
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SDC Memories/ Park History / Re: Memories of FITH
« on: March 26, 2023, 06:11:50 PM »
I really hope before they shut it down for good we can get a lights on walk thru video of it. Or better yet, have some days where it is ran with the lights on. If they did that, I might actually come over this year.
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Construction/Rumors / Re: SDC's 2023 Project(s) and Park Developments
« on: March 19, 2023, 08:10:00 PM »
It appears they have a fence around the water tree with trash barrels in front of it? Does not look like you would be able to see that anymore. Perhaps it no longer works or nobody cares anymore.
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General Silver Dollar City Talk / Re: SDC gets sued
« on: March 18, 2023, 08:57:57 PM »
Perhaps it would have been much cheaper to just repair the channel on the old ride instead of having to have the newest tallest fastest most complicated whatever.
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General Silver Dollar City Talk / Re: SDC gets sued
« on: March 17, 2023, 09:59:08 PM »
I will say I am not surprised either. I think that ride is a turd actually. Anytime I have ridden it, it seems really rough. We took our 14 year old on it last season and at the top of the lift when just as it started out the chute his lap belt came undone. I am really not sure how that happened as it was for sure secure when we left the station. He was freaked out and basically went down the drop unsecured. I also seem to recall a post or story somewhere about some people getting hurt on it and them shutting it down for a while. Maybe this is related.
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Construction/Rumors / Re: SDC's 2023 Project(s) and Park Developments
« on: March 13, 2023, 07:00:27 PM »
It is almost as if they need 2 separate parks. A theme park with rides and a separate park that is like SDC originally was.
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General Silver Dollar City Talk / Re: Train Crash?
« on: March 07, 2023, 08:35:59 PM »
Exactly. Businesses that claim they can't get anyone to work should more accurately say they can't get anyone to work for the wage they want to pay. I have seen some fast food type places around here crying about that when they are still trying to pay minimum wage or close to it. I think even McD and places like that are paying $12-15 a hour which seems crazy for those types of jobs. The way the prices are going up, places like SDC should be able to afford to pay quality employees.
And yes, the few times we were there last year, most, if not all, of the ride operations seemed to be lost and not sure what to do. Seemed to take longer to get rides loaded and dispatched that in the past. At least that is how it seemed the times we were there.
And yes, the few times we were there last year, most, if not all, of the ride operations seemed to be lost and not sure what to do. Seemed to take longer to get rides loaded and dispatched that in the past. At least that is how it seemed the times we were there.
JJH my thoughts are similar to yours, I appreciate you sharing your thoughts.
There is not a labor shortage as much as their is a shortage of people willing to work at the rates SDC is paying, if they had significantly raised their hourly rates, they could have filled the open positions and been very selective about who was hired.
The 2022 season,I noticed several rides where pre-ride safety instructions weren’t given. I’m assuming that’s was related to short staffing and maybe they had people filling in from other areas of the park, but that should be written down in an operating manual for each attraction and someone operating the ride should know they have to read it. It raises questions of if the operator is skipping that step what other steps are they skipping, do they know how to respond if x happens? X being an abnormal condition but one that happens and needs to be responded to correctly for safe operations.
If you’re disciplined and making safety a top priority it’s very rare to have 3 freak accidents in a couple years. It’s not impossible but it’s rare.
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General Silver Dollar City Talk / Re: Train Crash?
« on: March 06, 2023, 09:22:28 PM »
At the end of the day, the buck stops with management. I would assume more specifically Brad Thomas.
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SDC Memories/ Park History / Re: Memories of FITH
« on: March 05, 2023, 09:48:33 PM »
Yes, welcome. I look forward to hearing stories about FITH.
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Construction/Rumors / Re: SDC's 2023 Project(s) and Park Developments
« on: February 21, 2023, 06:58:57 PM »
Yea, I really like Titan too. Their problem seems to be about half the rides are closed on any given day.
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OFF TOPIC: SFSTL vs SFOT
STL has a better wooden coaster collection.
STL has the better Freeze (especially now that oT’s goes fwd not backwards)
Both parks have dead areas.
STL has better parking
Both have terrible ride ops
OT is horrible to get to with all of the construction and not the best neighborhood
Honestly the coaster collections are pretty similar, OT does have Titan which gives it the edge barely.