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General Silver Dollar City Talk / Re: The Hobos of Hobo Junction Have Been Found!

« on: July 02, 2018, 11:31:12 AM »

Just to let you know, those photos are not current, and the hobos haven't been there in quite a while.  :-) 

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Other Parks / Re: Six Flags St. Louis Typhoon Twister closed

« on: July 02, 2018, 11:27:26 AM »

yep, thanks to Schlitterbahn, almost anything with a water park is going to be blown out of proportion for a while.  It actually seems like it's an overreaction on the part of the park as well.  Wonder how long "until further notice" will be.  If it's typical it should already be reopened.

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Dollywood Discussion / Re: Lawsuit

« on: July 02, 2018, 11:24:54 AM »

I agree- it'll be a settlement and pretty quick.  Something like that isn't preexisting.  The biggest key will be if they went through first aid at the park to establish that the injury happened at the park on the day they are claiming.  If so, then there's the paper trail evidence and it will be a quick settlement.  But if they didn't do that and just left and went to a doctor later, then it gets a bit more complicated.  Hard to know since the article doesn't give any of that info, but I'd be surprised if they didn't go through first aid at the park.

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Random Talk / Re: Your Travels Thread (2018)

« on: July 02, 2018, 11:15:21 AM »

Arrived home from an incredible trip to Israel yesterday.  Absolutely fantastic.  Now only have 4-5000 photos to dig through, plus video and more.  LOL  Going to take a while to get it all posted, but when I do it'll show up on my Sir Willow Facebook page.

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Construction/Rumors / Re: New Steam Engines Arriving at SDC

« on: July 02, 2018, 11:13:46 AM »

During your on-train footage, was the passenger who talked the entire time with your party? I apologize if she was, but I would be irritated if someone yammered on and on for the entire ride. It's hard enough to hear the conductor without someone else talking the whole time.

Not with us.  It was just me and another guy, no women with us this time.  And yes, she talked a lot!  lol

sir wallow, I noticed in the video there were a fireman and an engineer in the cab. Do you know if this was just because of the inaugural day or will this locomotive require a 2 man operation?

They had 2 for the first day, but it only needs one to run.  The second person would be the "fireman"- in the old days the guy that would shovel coal into the firebox.  But since that has been converted to diesel instead of coal, that position isn't needed anymore.

Sir WALLOW!   
Perfect Fruidean Slip. 

    Guess I can't say I'm surprised at your amusement Swoosh. 

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Construction/Rumors / Re: New Steam Engines Arriving at SDC

« on: June 18, 2018, 06:38:21 PM »

Video clips are live.  https://youtu.be/Vkc4_czKmPc

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Construction/Rumors / Re: New Steam Engines Arriving at SDC

« on: June 18, 2018, 05:27:47 PM »

Was this engine running last week?  Kept forgetting to look at the number of the engine every time it went by but it had a great whistle.  Big improvement over previous whistles in my opinion.

No it wasn't, at least not during park hours.  Today was it's first official day of operation.

Photos posted at https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.933831653463736.1073741835.552161658297406&type=3 and video coming in a bit.

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General Silver Dollar City Talk / Re: Last Season for Cedric and Cajun Connection

« on: June 18, 2018, 04:57:02 PM »

I myself have always liked the Cajun Connection and tried to catch a set everytime I was there.   But...I have to admit it is probably time for a change to be made.   Yes, Pure Heart moved on (or pushed on) and also Frisco Jack & John the second string band disappeared a couple of years ago.  Not sure what happend there,  it could have been just a retirement thing.  They would play in place of the Pickers when they were gone.  I also enjoy the Sons Of The Silver Dollar but the way its going they just might be next.

Pure Heart is still doing a lot of singing and shows around the area, but not as much as they used to, even when they worked at SDC.  But you can catch them here and there.

Frisco Jack retired about a year back.  I haven't seen John in quite a while though.  Not sure what happened to him or if he's even at SDC anymore.

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General Silver Dollar City Talk / Re: Fire In the Hole/Flooded Mine

« on: June 18, 2018, 04:53:41 PM »

Rode both today and there was no soundtracks/ music on both.  FITH had the Ned Flanders line and the "Fire in the Hole" on the drop, but pretty much no other sounds.

Flooded mine had none of the sound track working at all.

it was really odd with both of them being so quiet.  And kind of sad.

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Construction/Rumors / Re: New Steam Engines Arriving at SDC

« on: June 18, 2018, 04:24:47 PM »

I've got a bunch of various stuff uploading before I leave for Israel tomorrow, but I was out there and got several photos and video segments.  Look for it to be posted in a couple of hours if I don't overwhelm my bandwidth.  :-)

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General Silver Dollar City Talk / Re: Christmas 2018 attendance projections

« on: June 11, 2018, 07:46:10 PM »

I really want to take my family to SDC to see all the lights but I am afraid of the crowds. I am thinking of visiting on Thursday, November 8th because I have read Thursdays are best but I wasn’t sure if that held true with Veteams’s day being that weekend. Anyone have advice?

So I'm reading your post and everyone's response, and I have to admit, I'm a bit confused.
You're wanting to come on Thursday, Nov 8th.

Veterans Day is technically Sunday, Nov 11th, and will be observed on Monday the 12th, which is AFTER you would visit.  It really shouldn't affect the day you would want to visit at all.  If you were talking about the Friday, Saturday, or Sunday of that weekend, then yes, I would expect it to be packed busy on all of those days.  But on Thursday?  It should be pretty light crowds I would think.

Unless they are doing the Thursday cheap tickets still at that point in time.  Then it can be pretty busy.

So if there are no Thursday cheap tickets, then your Thursday before Veterans Days should be a great time to visit, as I would think the crowds wouldn't hit until the day after.  But if they still have the Thursday specials, then yes, the Sunday previous to that would be better.

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Branson Talk / Re: Fritz's Adventure

« on: June 10, 2018, 09:10:07 AM »

I don’t see how they stay in business with how outrageous the prices are.

Because even with those prices they get a lot of people visiting.  I've had a number of friends go, and they've always commented on how busy it's been.  Even during the week.

And then add in an amazing number of school field trips to it...  I don't think they are hurting at all.

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Branson Talk / Re: Bigfoot sues man over review

« on: June 09, 2018, 09:18:57 AM »

^^
All could be true...  Not wanting to start an argrument...   

What I wonder..
IF it is/was a bogus review, why did he rate it at 3 stars? instead of 1..
The quoted review is not "strongly" worded, or nasty...

IF I feel a negative review is merited,,,,  LOL.  Believe me!  it is negative..

Supposedly he originally gave it 3 stars then changed it to 1.

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Branson Talk / Re: Bigfoot sues man over review

« on: June 08, 2018, 05:41:36 PM »

On another forum one of the comments said that the Bigfoot owners don't think the reviewers ever took a tour since the tours are $40 and not $10. The owners think the review was fake and are suing on that basis.

The review is almost surely a fake.  They information they give about the prices and what they supposedly did on the tour are both obviously factually wrong for anyone who has been there.  Here's what I wrote in a couple of spots talking about it:

 I don't think the lawsuit will help. If you've been to Bigfoot (I have) you will realize the problem isn't that it is a bad review. It is a blatantly false review. It's all a lie, from the cost to what you do. With that part being false that indicates that the story about the phone calls almost surely is as well. And I'm sure that is why they are suing. A fabricated, falsified review of lies is libel and slander. But people aren't going to see that. They are only going to see them suing over a bad review. That isn't what is happening but I think the suit will do more harm than good in the court of public opinion, which often doesn't pay enough attention to understand details like that

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Construction/Rumors / Re: Future SDC Development Speculation (Long-term)

« on: June 02, 2018, 06:28:20 PM »

I believed at one time Dollywood had an indoor 3D  flying theater  that featured Dolly and a Cousin  in a Bi-plane flying over the Smokies. Dose that still exist?

No ride anymore.  It's a show theater now. When I was there last summer it featured a show called "My People, My Music" that features one of Dolly's brothers, cousins, and a couple of other family members.  It is also running again this year https://www.dollywood.com/themepark/Entertainment/My-People