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Re: SDC's 2017 Project Part 2
« Reply #255 on: March 21, 2017, 04:58:37 PM »
Thats better LOL,,,!!  thanks swoosh..  Hope they "pretty" up the backside a little bit..  Looks bad for now, sorry to see the orecart gone..  was good touch to have one there , and then one inside at the restaruant too..

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Re: SDC's 2017 Project Part 2
« Reply #256 on: March 21, 2017, 07:38:27 PM »
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Re: SDC's 2017 Project Part 2
« Reply #257 on: March 27, 2017, 11:10:10 AM »
nice update pics...  signs in park look good, i was able to make a round the park between rains..  area looks nice...

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Re: SDC's 2017 Project Part 2
« Reply #258 on: April 08, 2017, 01:08:24 PM »
Finally seeing midtown in person now and all our fears seem to have been for naught. Or at least they took our worries into account. No obvious supports or cheap false facades, but they did replace a roof and do a number of building improvements. The stuff for the christmas displays is well hidden under boxes and such for the time being.

The tree house being gone looks weird, but the ghost trap really stands out now and it is fixed up and working well.

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Re: SDC's 2017 Project Part 2
« Reply #259 on: April 08, 2017, 03:41:29 PM »
^Would we not think that the facades are removable for the rest of the season and only installed for OTC?
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Re: SDC's 2017 Project Part 2
« Reply #260 on: April 08, 2017, 04:13:17 PM »
Finally seeing midtown in person now and all our fears seem to have been for naught. Or at least they took our worries into account. No obvious supports or cheap false facades, but they did replace a roof and do a number of building improvements. The stuff for the christmas displays is well hidden under boxes and such for the time being.

The tree house being gone looks weird, but the ghost trap really stands out now and it is fixed up and working well.

Yeehaw!  That gives me hope that the PTB do treasure the small things that make it SDC!
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Re: SDC's 2017 Project Part 2
« Reply #261 on: April 08, 2017, 04:14:29 PM »
^Would we not think that the facades are removable for the rest of the season and only installed for OTC?

That was my thought as well when I read that above. 
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Re: SDC's 2017 Project Part 2
« Reply #262 on: April 08, 2017, 05:40:02 PM »
^Would we not think that the facades are removable for the rest of the season and only installed for OTC?

I was concerned that even if the facades were temporary, the supports and modifications to hold them would be garrish. That turned out not to be the case.

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Re: SDC's 2017 Project Part 2
« Reply #263 on: April 09, 2017, 09:54:01 PM »
I thought it all looked nice my first trip through..  want to look it over again, with a little more time my next trip...

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Re: SDC's 2017 Project Part 2
« Reply #264 on: April 10, 2017, 04:52:20 PM »
Off topic from the current discussion, but I read somewhere on TPR that they redone some track and replaced the steel wheels on Outlaw Run with the traditional polyurethane wheels? Apparently its providing a much quieter and smoother ride experience now. I will have to check this out when I go up on Wednesday hopefully.

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Re: SDC's 2017 Project Part 2
« Reply #265 on: April 10, 2017, 07:52:10 PM »
OR was definitely quieter when we rode it during spring ride days

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Re: SDC's 2017 Project Part 2
« Reply #266 on: July 11, 2017, 10:54:56 PM »
I really would appreciate it if someone would post photos of the old treehouse area. I would like to see how it looks with the treehouse gone. I am sad it was removed...so many fond memories of it from my youth and when I was assigned to work there in the early 1980s. It was a great attraction. Thanks in advance.
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Re: SDC's 2017 Project Part 2
« Reply #267 on: July 11, 2017, 11:00:57 PM »
I really would appreciate it if someone would post photos of the old treehouse area. I would like to see how it looks with the treehouse gone. I am sad it was removed...so many fond memories of it from my youth and when I was assigned to work there in the early 1980s. It was a great attraction. Thanks in advance.

http://www.midwestinfoguide.com/2017/03/sdc-treehouse-removal.html?m=1
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Re: SDC's 2017 Project Part 2
« Reply #268 on: July 11, 2017, 11:29:41 PM »
Here you go, Junior. I posted this in the 2018 thread a few weeks back.

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Re: SDC's 2017 Project Part 2
« Reply #269 on: September 24, 2017, 10:31:36 PM »
Park Update:
-New location of the New Magic Box
-Engine No. 6 by the Frisco Train Station
-Repainted Flooded Mine sign

http://www.midwestinfoguide.com/2017/09/park-update-sdc.html
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