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You have to remember the thing with YouTube and social media in general is many people try to make crazy outlandish posts that grab attention to drive clicks and engagement. Always ask yourself... "Does this sound realistic?"

Yeah I'm skeptical of that report too. When I was there at the end of April, there wasnt even footers in place yet. If there's anything present it would have to be in a staging area first given the timeframe.

That being said I wish the park would get away from area/ride replacements and focus on additions instead. They have the land and soon to be Resort to justify it.

I won't lie, I will be disappointed if its yet another ride replacement. Sadly it is looking more likely. Again it seems corporate is dead set on wanting to get rid of old parts of the park piece by piece over preserving what they have while expanding. Though I would have still logically seen Flooded Mine being the next one to go. TNT was much lower on the list.

I'm betting the worker getting killed was a factor too, possibly as part of an out of court settlement that the ride be retired.

^very much this, I put it right up there with Bells returning with the likelihood of this happening. Especially on a Disney-esque scale. Seems to be a bit of a stretch.

As I had always said lol but indeed I was surprised that even the RV park portion of this failed too.

Video dropped teasing whats coming: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkG2uvGhq7Q

R.I.P. to the wooden coasters. I doubt they will keep them to spec and will eventually replace them sooner than later.

Macks take on Dollywoods Mystery Mine would be a fantastic addition to the park though I had always suspected they would have used the land where Flooded Mine and the Waterboggan Tower currently sits.

Lost Gravity's layout would be a reference to how the ride would likely be designed. Hopefully it would be better themed though with multiple pass thru elements and tunnels. I also hope this isn't meant to be TNT's replacement thematically. That being said I wish the park would get away from area/ride replacements and focus on additions instead. They have the land and soon to be Resort to justify it.

I remember the top complaint when Grand Expo was new was the lack of tree canopy making that area too hot to hang out in during the summer. Some additional somewhat mature foliage around the tables would help the new area out a lot as the trees in Grand Expo have grown in quite nicely offering shade making it feel less like a former parking lot.

I really hate how HFEC follows these greedy industry trends now. As if trailblazer wasn't bad enough.

1000% this. The parks are becoming too corporate now and it shows. Most notably in the past 5-6 years or so.

Apparently image insertion is broken so here is a repost. These were taken around a week ago.

Some construction photos I took recently.

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Or even a small footprint low height terrain wood coaster like Prowler or Zambezi 2.0

Honestly if they go with a "feet dangler" I'd hope its finally gonna be our version of Wild Eagle. For a long time their business model seemed to be when one of the two big Herschend Parks adds something, the other does a similar version sometime later. We are due. Plus it would be a standout over Patriot up the road at WOF.

Though it would be cool if Wildfire got a refresh with a Wing Coaster configuration but that would probably be too costly (and impractical) to do without rebuilding it because the station and track would have to be re-engineered.

Overall I still feel like the layout of Apollos Chariot should be a reference of what we might expect based on the land that's been cleared. https://rcdb.com/531.htm#p=81430

If it's a Mack it might be something like Alpina Blitz but slightly larger. https://youtu.be/FcvSZwQfFB8?si=W-OFp4sOabYvwFuh

Thinking from the marketing standpoint with the upcoming resort, its likely gonna be a big crazy coaster that will be a standout design in the region to entice people to come to the park and stay at the resort. A Mack Hyper/Giga would be the logical choice as a standout. However, they may consider B&M for overall reliability so they won't repeat the downtime issues with some of their new rides in recent years (looking at you Mystic River) and of course B&M has better PPH capacity overall if they are looking at increasing the crowd draw to the park. While Dollywood does have something unique from Vekoma with Dragonflier and Big Bear they may be seen as being too similar to Patriot and Mamba up at Worlds Of Fun. (not that those are bad coasters by any means) What the region lacks is a B&M Hyper/Giga, Dive, and Wing Coaster which the latter does exist at Dollywood and could be worked into the Ozarkian Daredevil-y and/or the Inventors theme at SDC as a flying machine. They could also give it a 200+ foot drop to dethrone Mamba as tallest drop in the region or something to that extent. (use your imagination here)

If it's who I think it may be we might not see components and track staged until July maybe August. Reason we saw stuff so quick with Time Traveler is due to the logistics of the terrain and the fact that parts were being shipped in all the way from Germany.