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Branson Talk / Re: Branson in January and February
« on: January 11, 2019, 08:08:19 PM »
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Branson Talk / Re: Branson in January and February
« on: January 11, 2019, 01:15:45 PM »
Yes to all of those that they mentioned. Also:
Hughes Brothers start doing shows again the first week in Feb on Tuesdays and Thurs- Saturdays.
SIX starts up first week in March, so a little after you're looking for.
Bigfoot, Titanic, Hollywood Wax Museum, Promised Land Zoo, Ripley's, and the tower at Shepherd of the Hills are all open as well. Supposedly the tiger sanctuary is, but I've never been there.
The magician Reza is also supposed to start up again in Branson Feb 15.
Now I've just got to find a weekend to get the family together and go check out the Escape Code and Axe Game. I. Will. Make. It. Happen. :-)
Hughes Brothers start doing shows again the first week in Feb on Tuesdays and Thurs- Saturdays.
SIX starts up first week in March, so a little after you're looking for.
Bigfoot, Titanic, Hollywood Wax Museum, Promised Land Zoo, Ripley's, and the tower at Shepherd of the Hills are all open as well. Supposedly the tiger sanctuary is, but I've never been there.
The magician Reza is also supposed to start up again in Branson Feb 15.
Now I've just got to find a weekend to get the family together and go check out the Escape Code and Axe Game. I. Will. Make. It. Happen. :-)
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SDC Memories/ Park History / Re: cloggers
« on: January 09, 2019, 04:32:16 PM »
Not sure about back then, but in recent years they've had a youth clogging group in the park every summer. For several years they were performing at the gazebo. They last couple of years they were at the Boatworks theater. Great kids, great dancers, and yes lots of energy!
We'd have fun when they would occasionally get to take a break and ride train. I enjoyed giving them a good ribbing if I saw them.
We'd have fun when they would occasionally get to take a break and ride train. I enjoyed giving them a good ribbing if I saw them.
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General Silver Dollar City Talk / Re: 2018 Trip Reports
« on: January 08, 2019, 09:06:49 AM »
Very interesting reading. We were there on the 22nd and it was a grandpa- one I knew well in fact- and all the lights worked just fine. I was very pleased since I was video taping it. I honestly didn't have a clue they were using grandmas this year as anything more than an emergency measure.
The lights not turning on and off during the show is concerning, as that's run by a person and a light board during it. That really makes me wonder what was going on with the person in the shack who was supposed to be doing that part. Especially since it seems it was happening on much more than a rare occasion.
Really makes me wonder. But almost everyone I knew and worked with on the train is gone now, and the ones that are left... Still close with a couple engineers, but even there has been a bunch of turnover in the last year to year and a half.
The lights not turning on and off during the show is concerning, as that's run by a person and a light board during it. That really makes me wonder what was going on with the person in the shack who was supposed to be doing that part. Especially since it seems it was happening on much more than a rare occasion.
Really makes me wonder. But almost everyone I knew and worked with on the train is gone now, and the ones that are left... Still close with a couple engineers, but even there has been a bunch of turnover in the last year to year and a half.
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Random Talk / Re: Your Travels Thread (2019)
« on: January 06, 2019, 03:46:06 PM »
A few things on the calendar at this point:
Feb 19-26 Walt Disney World with my daughter, including a day at Universal Orlando
May 20-24 approx Kentucky, including the Ark, Creation museum, and a day at the St Louis Zoo on the way home
July 22-Aug 5 Orlando, including Disney and hopefully Sea World, Busch, and maybe Legoland if we can work those in. We'll have business meetings the last 5 days of that or so.
Oct 1-7 Disneyland in CA First time back there in 15 years so really excited about that.
Who knows what else will pop up, but if it's like the last couple of years we'll likely have a couple of other things added to it as well.
Feb 19-26 Walt Disney World with my daughter, including a day at Universal Orlando
May 20-24 approx Kentucky, including the Ark, Creation museum, and a day at the St Louis Zoo on the way home
July 22-Aug 5 Orlando, including Disney and hopefully Sea World, Busch, and maybe Legoland if we can work those in. We'll have business meetings the last 5 days of that or so.
Oct 1-7 Disneyland in CA First time back there in 15 years so really excited about that.
Who knows what else will pop up, but if it's like the last couple of years we'll likely have a couple of other things added to it as well.
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General Silver Dollar City Talk / Re: 2018 Trip Reports
« on: January 06, 2019, 03:38:26 PM »The younger son was disappointed to see that the figures were lit throughout Grandma's Christmas story (and that it wasn't grandpa). I can only guess them timer was not working right, and they didn't bother to fix it so late in the season.
Grandma? Wonder what prompted that. They must have had some grandpas call out and didn't have fill ins.
BTW, the lights are not on a timer. There's 2 "grandpas" out there at a time- while one is telling the story the other is sitting in the shack listening on a monitor and keying the lights on and off as well as starting and stopping the music to go along with the granpa telling the story. If it was a "grandma" telling the story (already unusual) it's possible that there was another sub in the cabin running the lights/ music and maybe rather than miss a cue decided to just leave them on.
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Construction/Rumors / Re: SDC's 2020 Project(s) and Park Developments
« on: January 06, 2019, 03:34:06 PM »
Local papers and news outlets have now picked up on it. KY3 and Springfield News Leader have both had features on LR being gone and a lot of construction happening, so the word is definitely out now.
Quite interesting to be hearing speculation and thoughts both out and around the parks. While the new version of LR seems to be pretty much a lock, it feels like a good bit of the overall project is still in flux. That's not surprising though. There were parts of FL that were still influx, including the placement of some rides, even up to a month or two before it was done. So I'd honestly be shocked if there aren't things that change- even possibly some of the rumors on certain structures that may or may not be removed as part of it.
A lot of it is going to be wait and see until Spring.
Quite interesting to be hearing speculation and thoughts both out and around the parks. While the new version of LR seems to be pretty much a lock, it feels like a good bit of the overall project is still in flux. That's not surprising though. There were parts of FL that were still influx, including the placement of some rides, even up to a month or two before it was done. So I'd honestly be shocked if there aren't things that change- even possibly some of the rumors on certain structures that may or may not be removed as part of it.
A lot of it is going to be wait and see until Spring.
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Announcements / Re: Spam Attack
« on: December 31, 2018, 12:53:12 PM »
I haven't seen the email. But then it's also very likely that, depending on what was in it, that my filters caught and destroyed it before I ever saw it.
Thanks for your diligence!
Thanks for your diligence!
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General Silver Dollar City Talk / Re: SDC ringtones
« on: December 28, 2018, 06:54:09 PM »
Thanks! I actually downloaded the originals and then just added an .mp3 tag on the end of the files and they worked great.
Thank you so much for uploading these! They're the original ones I was looking for.
Thank you so much for uploading these! They're the original ones I was looking for.
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General Silver Dollar City Talk / Re: SDC ringtones
« on: December 27, 2018, 11:19:02 PM »I was digging through my phone and found these!!!
Those look like they might be awesome. For some reason when I downloaded them none of the files had extensions, so I'm not sure what type of files they are. mp3's?
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Random Talk / Re: New rides, ideas and entertainment development that catch your fancy
« on: December 25, 2018, 04:39:43 PM »Let the hype begin
https://youtu.be/SowdvPryB2g
I'm looking forward to it. Looks like I'm on track to see the California version in October.
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General Silver Dollar City Talk / Re: 2018 Trip Reports
« on: December 22, 2018, 04:28:01 PM »^It would’ve been about 8 when I was on Time Traveler yesterday and the back two rows were empty then.
That would have been a couple of hours after we had been watching it. It's possible in that case that it might have been due to staffing levels- that they didn't have enough workers to man all of the loading spots on the train to check restraints and so forth, and if lines weren't bad then they would have kept it at just loading the front half rather than try to find enough workers from somewhere to open up the rest of the train. That would be my guess, but it's only a guess.
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General Silver Dollar City Talk / Re: Attendance numbers
« on: December 22, 2018, 11:03:51 AM »The Holiday Vacation Weekend has officailly started..
Nice weather,
19,800 people...
Was there really that many people out there Friday? It didn't feel like it at all. Felt much more like a 14k crowd maybe, even a bit less, than a 19k crowd. Lots of walking room in most of the park, and lines for the rides and side shows weren't bad. Second parade was completely empty and only took us about 10 minutes to get a tram out of the park after it.
I was very glad though that we purchased the show lover's pass for Dickens and Wonderful Life. :-)
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General Silver Dollar City Talk / Re: 2018 Trip Reports
« on: December 22, 2018, 11:01:27 AM »Was at the park today and just wanted to mention a few things I noticed/found interesting:
1. I liked Christmas in Midtown, but I definitely understand why some people say it’s too much
3. Outlaw Run had two trains running today, while Wildfire only had one which seemed weird to me. In July when I was at SDC, Wildfire ran two trains the whole time while Outlaw Run ran one, and I hadn’t seen Outlaw Run use both trains in a while.
4. My phone said it was 36° out tonight before Time Traveler closed and 35° before Powder Keg And Wildfire closed. So, either my phone’s temperature was five degrees off what SDC thought the temperature was or they don’t actually close the rides at the posted temperature guidelines.
5. Time Traveler was running two trains but wasn’t using the last two rows of either of them so I wonder what was wrong there.
1. I love it, but I can see how it could be overwhelming to some. But if you're coming for lights- and many are- there isn't anything better in the country.
3. It could have been a maintenance issue with one train- maybe needing a bit of work done or something else. The number of trains running isn't always dependent on the crowds, often it depends on which trains are available from maintenance due to what they are working on with them.
4. As others have said, the temp your phone shows is based on weather information from a station that the app relays to you. Different apps will even show different temperatures, depending on which station they are getting their info from. Sounds like they may have been getting info from either Springfield, or even the Branson airport, which can vary quite a bit from the park.
5. I've heard various theories on why the sometimes leave back cars empty on the ride. Honestly not a clue. But last night when we were watching it run from the porch it looked like they were running full trains on it. Other times I've seen them leave the last car empty. Not a clue on it. I gotta remember to ask a couple of my friends who have worked on it, but never remember when I see them.
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General Silver Dollar City Talk / Re: SDC 2019 Operating Hours in December
« on: December 22, 2018, 10:53:46 AM »
I'm absolutely positive the online calendar isn't correct at this point. Not sure if it hasn't been updated or there is some sort of other glitch, but there's no way that it's accurate for when they'll be open next December. At this point in time I'd ignore it and expect them to get it fixed later on.
The pdf file attached above has the correct calendar and hours.
The pdf file attached above has the correct calendar and hours.