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General Silver Dollar City Talk / What was your favorite SDC experience, show, ride, or tasty eatins' in 2011?

« on: February 25, 2012, 06:22:08 PM »

My favorite experience last year would have to be listening to Eden's Edge in Echo Hollow.  I also enjoyed watching Nick Wallenda fly in on a helicopter and perform his aerial stunts.  I don't usually watch Echo Hollow shows, so this was fun!

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General Silver Dollar City Talk / Flash Mob

« on: December 26, 2011, 09:41:19 PM »

I was watching a flash mob video that a friend sent me today and began thinking about how cool it would be if someone would put one together at the park.  Think of the possibilities - patriotic songs during July, campy kids' songs during Kids Fest, the Turkey Tango during November...

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General Silver Dollar City Talk / What do you think would improve the fall festival?

« on: October 24, 2011, 08:51:30 PM »

On our last visit to the park, my husband and I started talking about the changes we noticed during the fall festival and what we thought would improve it.  We both noticed that beyond Main Street there were no fall decorations (this was mentioned in another thread, also).  We miss the way it used to be decked out! If I could figure out how to post pics, I have some from two years ago that show the City in it's glory. We were glad to see they were still making sorghum, but you can't smell it as you enter the park like you could in the past. Mostly we thought about food (hey! It was lunch time!) - such as how much better it would have been if we could have found ...caramel apples, pumpkin funnel cakes (still thinking about those! sigh!), chili and cornbread, beef stew, apple cider (both hot and cold), and hot chocolate.  We live near an apple farm that sells apple cider slushies that are to die for!  I think if SDC offered them, we'd be standing in long lines waiting for them!  Maybe I should suggest that to them.

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General Silver Dollar City Talk / Fire in the Hole Ringtone

« on: October 09, 2011, 10:57:08 AM »

Someone recently (I think) posted a ringtone they made re: Fire in the Hole.  I thought it was really cool, but I've searched high and low and can't seem to find it?  Anyone remember it?  Do us commoners have the right to use it?  (Not that I'll ever figure out how to get it on my phone! But I would try!) 

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General Silver Dollar City Talk / SDC Ride Accessibility Policy

« on: August 20, 2011, 09:28:25 PM »

Does anyone take issue with SDC's new policy of handing out passports for those of us that are "disabled" and would like to enjoy the rides?  Many rides have a separate "handicapped entrance".  In the past this would allow you to get on a ride w/o waiting and also allow you to ride twice.  The new policy is to enter the handicapped entrance, get a time stamped in your passport (which is equal to the wait time of the general public standing in line), and come back at the designated entrance at said time.  I don't mind waiting at all, but...that means that if you need
a chaperone or happen to be using a wheelchair, someone is probably pushing you up and down ramps, getting the passport stamped, pushing you back down the ramp to wait out the designated time, and then pushing you back up/down the ramp to get on the ride.  On shorter wait times, by the time we left the ramped area it was time to turn around and go back.  My husband was exhausted by the time he pushed me up/down the ramp twice at American Plunge just to get on the ride.  On the lost river boats we stood in line for an hour to get my passport stamped (ride time - return in 1 hr.) and discovered that the rest of our party had already finished riding before my "designated ride time", so we just left.  I would not mind waiting for awhile at the handicapped entrance, but the new plan is ver discouraging for the poor chaperone that has to do everything twice!