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Announcements / Re: Upgrades Underway... Again

« on: June 29, 2008, 12:27:07 PM »

^The events pages and calendar are pretty screwed up right now but you just put them up so they'll be fixed soon I'd suppose.

Yeah, I plan to sort out the events and news pages eventually. I'll add a side menu that sorts the news/events into months and then a select box so you can choose news/events for each separate park. Plus, that calendar will be fixed up to show crowd levels and events better.

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General Silver Dollar City Talk / Re: Security, bag checks?

« on: June 29, 2008, 12:19:05 PM »

Bag checks aren't that big of a deal, but I agree that many parks and indeed, much of society is abandoning common sense when it comes to security and is merely putting on a show. In this day and age, you just have to do what you can. It's not nearly as dangerous as the media will have you think anyway, stuff is just more easy to report on these days.

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Announcements / Re: Upgrades Underway... Again

« on: June 28, 2008, 03:11:03 PM »

Does anyone have any comments on how the site works for them? What do you all think of the tabbed news box? I still have a lot of changes to make, including a lot of styling on the news pages and especially some of the content pages, but as far as getting to the content, is everything working all right?

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Other Parks / Re: SF Magic Mountain: ANOTHER new coaster?

« on: June 28, 2008, 02:42:36 PM »

I'll believe the terminator woodie thing when I see it. Can't they think up new themes anymore? I'd love to see them try to do something without a commercial brand.

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Construction/Rumors / Re: New ride concept survey

« on: June 28, 2008, 02:39:34 PM »

I'm going to close this topic, use the 2009 thread.

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Construction/Rumors / Re: New Coaster???

« on: June 28, 2008, 02:38:01 PM »

^Oh there's space for a large one, believe me, there's space for anything and more within SDC's land. If, or rather when, they spring for a wooden coaster, I really do hope it'll be a mid-sized type similar to EK though, as that really is the perfect size for a woodie. Anything larger just breaks down into a painful experience for most of the GP after a couple of years.

Imagine if they dug a big pit, or hollowed out a space in a gully, and just crammed a uber-tight woodie into it, like the Boardwalk Bullet... That's my fantasy for the park, but in reality I think we're in for a G-fighter next. The Herschends are just really into recycling what works - not that that's necessarily bad or anything. I'm just glad they customize everything to the individual park.

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Announcements / Re: Upgrades Underway... Again

« on: June 28, 2008, 12:05:31 AM »

Spoke too soon again. The Calendar is actually done (well, enough for now), but I ran out of time to add it to the site, and I know what to do for the RSS feeds now, but I spent a lot of time trying to figure out whether or not my server would support PHP5 so it didn't get done either. I'll get those features up in the next couple of days. 

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Construction/Rumors / Re: SDC's 2009/10 Project

« on: June 27, 2008, 11:12:41 PM »

About how we were all focused on a new coaster for next year, and Dale's comment above about Tom and Huck always pulling schemes on people, so why wouldn't the Herschends...I have a feeling we were had!  Misled!  Tricked!  Bamboozled!  I mean HFE telling a group of coaster enthusiasts that '09 will be their biggest capital investment to date, so we assumed it would be a coaster (as they probably hoped we would).  Then we find little clues and rumors along the way to further our beliefs that it will be a coaster.  Now we find out it's a splash battle ride themed to Tom and Huck to stay true to the Landing's theme.  It's almost like HFE were scheming like Tom and Huck to get us to believe it would be a coaster, then we find out their new ride is a Tom and Huck themed ride, but not a coaster.  I just think that's really ironic!   And I have no problem with it not being what I've been expecting.  It's much more fun to expect one thing, then get something completely different, especially when it comes to SDC and new attractions.

I wouldn't go there. What makes you think SDC would go through the effort of subtly tricking the total of maybe 50 fans who actually pay attention to the park closely enough into thinking they were planning a coaster, then shatter their hopes? Even if there was a larger following it wouldn't make sense.

I'm getting really pepped up for this ride though; I don't really care about the ride itself, but everything that I hope will come with it has piqued my interest. Like I've said before, this can be pulled off so well, and they're off to such a great start by staying so true to the Tom and Huck theme. I really think this whole area is going to get such a really high quality, disney-style makeover that it no one will even remember what it was like before.

I'm ready to see some construction, has anything new happened at the site yet? It hasn't even been 4 days since the last shots, but meh.

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Construction/Rumors / Re: SDC's 2009/10 Project

« on: June 27, 2008, 10:09:21 PM »

^^That's what I was thinking of. Thinking about it, I actually can't see SDC setting up that small, worn carousel up again. If they're going to re-introduce such a potentially popular ride back to the park, they'll do it with style. Hence, the carousel of seasons or something similar. It will be a centerpiece somewhere.

As for hopes for a new coaster to be squeezed in for 2009 - forget it. Really, I know we (ehm, I guess it's more like "I") were confident that one was on the way for next year, but either plans changed, we got the wrong tips, or the tips were misheard in the first place. Maybe coaster con'ers are supposed to be excited about this, it certainly has the potential to be a great ride.

I would actually be somewhat irked if they had tried to do both this and a coaster at once. I mean, SDC is a carefully planned out park, and it is much better for doing so. If SDC just started crapping out rides all over the place we'd be just like any other park. I prefer them to take things as slow as they need to so that they can fill out the whole park experience smoothly. I'd rather see them abandon any ride plans for awhile and spruce up the other aspects of the park than ruin the place by going the Dollywood route. (Not that the Dollywood isn't a great park or hasn't benefited from it's new rides, it just isn't SDC).

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Dollywood Discussion / Re: Dollywood set for major expansions

« on: June 27, 2008, 07:20:01 PM »

^To say that that's unbelievable is an understatement. I've noticed that the DW fanbase is far more eccentric and youthful than at SDC, producing much wilder rumors that stick around for years. The Vekoma Tilt was an epic fail, and the Herschends would never go near it, just in case anyone was wondering.

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Announcements / Re: Upgrades Underway... Again

« on: June 27, 2008, 05:30:40 PM »

^I'll make those changes tonight.

Additionally, I'll be whipping out a calendar feature later tonight as well, though it will lack the color-coded feature that displays the guesstimated attendance level of the given day. I'll add that in later. Hopefully I'll get around to adding an RSS feed as well, for the few who actually use them.

I'll also be working on the new attraction review system, which will replace the static pages used now. The park info pages are being left in their crappily formatted state for now due to this.

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Announcements / Re: Help SDCFans Out

« on: June 27, 2008, 05:09:18 PM »

^Thanks man, I'll probably try one out later on.

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Dollywood Discussion / Dollywood set for major expansions

« on: June 27, 2008, 03:37:33 PM »

It sounds like DW is on the path to another set of massive expansions, though these rumors are very hyped up by the online DW fan community. From the sounds of it, their next new roller coaster will be something entirely new to the industry, or will at least have a surprising gimmick of some sort. I was assuming that after the massive success of PK at SDC, DW would get their own version.

This year is still up for grabs as far as we know, though it sounds like it will be another ride. DW sure is buying them up nowadays; when was the last time they added anything other than a ride? Maybe a Screamin' Swing is in the works.

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Ozark Marketplace / Re: Dollywood Fansite?

« on: June 27, 2008, 02:31:25 PM »

^I'm actually going to add all that in later today, but the focus of this site will always stay pretty centered around SDC itself. DW could support a thriving site all by itself.

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Construction/Rumors / Re: SDC's 2009/10 Project

« on: June 27, 2008, 11:49:15 AM »

^It's not physically possible for the tree house that I'm talking about to be incorporated that way. What you see in the concept art is a different tree house that is merely theming.

The current tree house can't really be fixed or moved at this point to my understanding, so it'll pretty much have to be torn down, and this would be the year to do it. The question really is whether or not they're planning to rebuild a new tree house type of attraction in it's place.