Things That Should Never Be Done at Silver Dollar City

[History Buff]

Discuss...

[Tmboote]

1. Halloween Haunt/Halloween attractions
2. Building rides that are at many different parks in the country.

[History Buff]

Amen!

[Duelist]

Any attraction that breaks the "theme"

[thelarsonsix]

Banning carry in food.

[History Buff]

Exposed plumbing, electric cords, light switches, outlets

Employees with tennis shoes and cell phones

Cardboard boxes for merchandise or produce

[Duelist]

Riding Outlaw Run immediately after eating the Outlaw Run Pizza

[chittlins]

1. Halloween Haunt/Halloween attractions
2. Building rides that are at many different parks in the country.

1) yeah, yeah

2) seriously, let's yank out the flume, get rid of that B&M, parks are full of them, That new shot tower, tear that sucker down, they are at nearly every roadside carny even, forget parks. Take out the swing in GE, that's standard fare. All parks have trains too it seems. ditch it.
 
It's not the ride but the effort put into it from placement to theming.

There's this on a slab of pavement


and then there's this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJ_kU7IesSQ
with lots more that could be done.

Shave is impressed with Efteling's new Dive coaster with custom supports and highly themed queue, so am I, but it's another dive coaster, the 9th. Since Busch Gardens has one at each park, we oh don't need that

coaster construction porn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZK01sL_ZRw

[runner1960]

That whole new area needs to come out and also GE if we are banning carnival attractions and rides that can be found anywhere else. But that's ok with me.

[runner1960]

Adding to my above comment Here is what I think should never be done.

Building off the shelf attractions. Whatever is built should be modified to tell a story or fit the theme well. Outlaw run is a good example. I think they tried but missed the mark with the whole cowboy thing. Not sure how I would have done it different but It just does not fit the rest of the park.

[chittlins]

Adding to my above comment Here is what I think should never be done.

Building off the shelf attractions. Whatever is built should be modified to tell a story or fit the theme well. Outlaw run is a good example. I think they tried but missed the mark with the whole cowboy thing. Not sure how I would have done it different but It just does not fit the rest of the park.

The Bold is key here. As for Outlaw Run, it needed a couple of smaller accompanying rides that sold it's  "westerness". I think Cowboy themes can easily fit in the park. The Saloon Show is straight Western and nothing like that would likely be found in 1880's Ozarks. If anything a relocation of the Saloon to a new venue close to Outlaw Run would help create that "Heading West" feeling better along with a wagon wheel themed ferris wheel and the feedlot/bull themed bumper car ride I showed in previous posts.

We need to can Lost River as well if SDC is above rides the vast majority of other parks ha ;Dve.

The fact of the matter is that GE is a hit with the vast majority of folks that go to SDC no matter how moan about it and the fact that they went out to theme up the new area as well as they did is gravy.

I hope SDC sees the trend in Europa as the smaller parks are really taking theming seriously and building even basic rides that are really detailed.

[Dewayne]

NO SHOWS PLAYING ALL STUPID COUNTRY! Take out the all stupid country shows! PERIOD! Especially Echo Hollow. Turn it back into something good, like what it was 7 years ago.

[History Buff]

And on that note, there must heretofore never be pop or rock music played from the rocks throughout the park - even when the sun goes down.  There is a classier, and more thematic, way of providing a unique experience rather than than another example of what can be done in any small town street dance.

[Duelist]

^ Agree!

[Dewayne]

They are suppose to play Oldies. They need to play them the most, but anything is better than country. I would rather hear nothing, than hear country. Because hearing nothing would be a lot less annoying.