With the announcement of the Miners Mountain Express....which is a replacement ride for Thunderation, does it seem like SDC has really become dormant since 2018? Everything that the park has done since 2018 has been a replacement ride for something they already had. 2020 was Mystic River Falls, 2024 Fire in the Hole, 2027 MME....The park has done some transformations on the west side after the fire, and they also connected fireman's landing to the Grand Exposition, but it seems like the park over the last 10 years has just been a big maintenance (replacement) program.
I'm just wondering if this trend continues until the whole park is touched, or will they branch out to something unique sometime soon?
Jay
They might do something unique by 2029 or 2030
They added the plaza🙃 and next year we get a hotel.
But yeah, it's new stuff but has all been basically a replacement not expansion. Hopefully they will do a real expansion soon.
I don't know if the plan was to keep taking out then (basically) replacing or if they were going to add something and the situation arises where something has become more expensive to repair than remove. I'm sure it was more cost effective to take out FITH and Lost River than continuing to repair them. I did like the old FITH and Lost River better than I do their replacements but it is what it is.
Flooded Mine WILL be next, especially if more of the founders start dying off. Rumor is it hasnt been touched because Jack Hershend was pushing back on some of the proposed changes.
It is crazy how SDC has remained in the same general footprint replacing old sections of the park while Dollywood in the same general timeframe has pretty much tripled in size with a few casualties along the way only being their version of River Blast and the Waterboggan.