I agree totally, My kids could care less if they ever set foot in the town again. Shows with no name singers playing other peoples music. Tribute shows, GO carts and arcades do not get them excited.
I have long said that Branson needs a couple major music festivals each year bringing in the NEW top acts.
Some of the newer attractions might be appealing but its the Old Person - bus people stigma that still has the younger generation avoiding it. No offense intended because I am one too. ( OLD )
Branson hung its hat on the Military and Patriotic midwesterner years ago and it will take a lot of marketing and effort to shake that image.
Cough, cough, Lampe, cough, cough.
The folks doing the booking at the Walmart Amp must have unlimited funds cause they pack the schedule.
Light and Sound is good, I have harped that they should do a similar concept around American History.
I have also said that the proliferation of casinos took a bat to Branson's knee caps when it came to bigger names. I stull think a facility that brings in touring broadway productions attached to an upscale hotel could work.
I still think an artificial whitewater/rapids course coupled with rock climbing and mountain biking trails with a hotel /camping and yurts with a snowflex snowboarsing slope could work.
I'm not talking about that halfassed attempt with the snowflex tubing run up the road.
That shot down Indoor waterpark was on the right track with it having an outdoor rapids course.
BKG getting Frontier back could really help SDC rise to a more nationally known park.