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I certainly preferred Flooded Mine as a traditional dark ride, but that's my childhood memories.  I would like to see a NightFlight style dark boat ride and then, if people are really clamoring for it, add a shooting gallery somewhere else in the City.  I just don't see a strong public desire for that anymore, though.  A lot of parks have gotten rid of shooting rides and/or galleries over the last 20 years. Just my perspective. 

"Two in the front seat, two in the back seat, and only one in the middle" has become part of my family's everyday lexicon.  The Flooded Mine is something all four generations of my family can do together, regardless of the shooting or not.  I hope it gets a faithful reinvention somewhere on park.     

We've gone vertical!

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I rode AP this summer for the first time in probably 32 years.  I remember there being statues/heads in the tunnel that seemed to watch you as you passed.  There was a spray of water across the tunnel that turned off just as you exited. There was a whirlpool with props floating around it.  I realize AP will look much different once the MME construction is done, but shoot is it lame right now.  Tunnel, tunnel, tunnel, construction walls, drop, beautiful float through thick trees, unload station.  I hope it gets some love as part of Daredevil Pass.  After all, it was the original "Society of Ozarkian Daredevils", right? 

Here's a decent video from several years ago:

https://youtu.be/Dvg_3xLa14I

From Ozarkly:
A massive 15-story headframe towers overhead and the mine shaft beneath it is flooded. Water pours into the valley below, collecting in a rough-hewn pond. A weathered sign explains that the collapse sealed off the mine's inner passages.


Any ideas on what this might mean for The Flooded Mine?  Still on track for a FITH style rebuilt/replacement?   

Thoughts on what will go on the FITH 1.0 plot of land?

^ The area is shown on the SDC website: https://www.silverdollarcity.com/miners-mountain-express

Thanks!

I think it's worth giving some credit to Swooosh/MidwestInfoGuide for the very early rumors about it being themed towards the ozarkian daredevil society, with the whole new land being called Daredevil Falls

I must have missed something... isn't Daredevil Falls the flume ride at Dollywood?  Is there confirmation that MME is part of a land/expansion and not just a ride? 

With that being said, a work whistle sounding every time a train dispatches would be cool

Yes!

I don't know, maybe if it was a little work whistle it would be cool. The Silver Bullet at Frontier City had an air horn that was blown at every dispatch, and it got old pretty quick.

Jay

Maybe something more akin to the fire/blast effect when PowderKeg launches. 

I've noticed that the new rock work on the back side of the Lumbercamp falls has a significant gap between the retaining wall and the new rock work.  Any ideas if there will be a water feature on the MME side? 

It seems fundamentally counterintuitive to have a mine train coaster without it going underground at some point. I'd say that confirms one of two scenarios. A) This ride will be going underground somewhere, but the feature is not currently visible and/or hasn't been constructed yet or B) this ride isn't going to be a mine train coaster at all. The theming cues in place certainly seem to point to the former. Any mine themed ride that stayed entirely above ground would feel like a huge miss. I would hope the candles included in the recent influencer teaser box were a metaphor for a significant subterranean feature as well.

To that point, could an "underground" show building be in the valley to the west?  It would make sense if it's being constructed and then covered. 

I remember seeing the model for Thunderation in 1992 and I thought the entrance to the mine (at the end of the helix) was the absolute coolest part of the whole ride.  "But Dad, it goes UNDERGROUND!"

I did a little more searching and I see that Nora's Ridge just purchased that parcel in 2025 and just had it rezoned (C-2) this past June.  Any chance that's a shell corporation for Herschend? 

[resort infrastructure]

Keep an eye on who owns land between the apartments and the new resort.  Seems like there's been some interesting occurrences here lately. 

I'm digging into the Stone County GIS data... looks like there are three companies that own land between the park and the resort: Destiny, Fulton BSH, and Nora's Ridge.  I assume the last one is a legitimate condo/timeshare/short term rental development.  I have no idea what Destiny does other than own land all over the area.  The one that piques my interest the most is Fulton BSH as it appears to be a "back-end corporate holding shell used by out-of-state institutional investors to purchase, develop, or finance premium commercial real estate tracts—such as high-end vacation rentals, resort infrastructure, or major acreage".  In 2023, they received $5.2 million from Bank of America.  I'm not a local, so I don't know anything personally about these companies.  Am I on the right track? 

Not sure if it's been mentioned, but the presumptive load station now has walls/siding going up on the PK side.  Sorry - no pictures. 

I know enough to take non-official comments with a grain of salt, but yesterday our cave guide was talking about how SDC is always growing and expanding and then he explicitly said they're opening a new resort and "moving White Water there next year."

Not news... just passing along the comment. 

I didn't get screenshots either but here's what I posted after I got the survey with the 3 choice names:




I got an email a couple of hours ago from SDC about the naming of a new family coaster being built.  The name choices were:

Miner's Rush
Prospector's Rush
Daredevil Railway

I was asked which name I preferred (I picked Miner's Rush) and which names fit in with the theme of the park.  I was then asked who I thought the name would appeal to (pre-teens, teens, adults, older adults, etc).  Then I was asked to put the names in order as 1st, 2nd and 3rd choice and I put them in the order above.  The first questions asked were if I and my family were season pass holders and to choose from the last 5 years if we had bought season passes (we have all 5 years).  Unfortunately this sounds like a T-N-T replacement to me.

None of these names have any active, pending, or historical filings in Class 041 (Amusement Park Services) with the USPTO.  I can't imagine SDC would publicly release potential ride names without having secured (or at least applied for) the trademark first, be it through a shell company or outright. 

I wonder how long they'll leave Thunderation SBNO before tearing it down, considering they aren't in a rush to year down the original FITH.

I have no inside information, but I think the difference is visibility.  FITH is a large building in a "corner" of the park; TNT is clearly a ride visible from both Valley Rd and Time Traveler.  I think that makes a difference from a PR perspective.  I also imagine the 2029 project will need to go on the TNT side of the park for crowd management, unless they are really all in on expanding towards the resort, which makes sense but would take a lot of infrastructure work.