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Either way as much as I dread the drastic change to the landscape surrounding the park I am pretty sure that if it is a large B&M coaster and especially if it has a wide train format in the form of a wing coaster or a dive coaster you can count on the area getting razed to look similar to how Wildfire's area looks.

However there is the chance that if it is actually a wingrider they might actually surprise us and do the opposite of how they did Wildfire and keep a lot of the trees as they might be needed if they are using an animal for the coasters theme to simulate flying thru the trees.

Take Wild Eagle for instance:

The coaster apparently soft opened, finally. http://themeparkreview.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=23793&start=9980

And then there is this on Dollywood's page: http://www.dollywood.com/

Here is an archived article on the FSDL railway for those who missed it. http://sdcfans.com/sdc-wiki/sdc-rides/sdc-other-rides/frisco-silver-dollar-line-steam-train/

Selfishly, I pray to God we aren't getting a spinning coaster. I personally don't like much of anything in the spinning camp, and I think it would appeal to a somewhat limiting demographic, too. Of course, that's just my opinion. It would be interesting to know what the results of the survey revealed. Based on how novel the dive coaster category still seems to be in the US, combined with the success and reliability of WF, I would be inclined to believe that HFEC and SDC would favor looking to B&M again to keep the current park momentum going. Excited to find out.

Agreed with these points. Not a fan of spinners myself and I think it would be wise for the park to take what was great about WF and crank it up a notch. WF is still my favorite coaster in the park. At least until next year. lol

I wanna say its on one of the larger structures in the Grand Expo but I cannot think of where exactly.

Since the Dive coaster is likely 2020 and an invert seems less likely for 2017, are we now thinking a launched wing coaster is in the works? Since HFEC seems to have a fixation on launched rides and big coasters (see Lightning Rod) and Powder Keg is very popular despite the maintenance and downtime issues it seems to have, a launched B&M wing coaster (see Thunderbird) would definitely balance out the park on its coaster collection.

I wouldn't mind a 2nd train to be used as a shuttle railway format to supplement the Trams and Buses getting to and from the parking lot. Or an even more ambitious idea would be to use part of the old CC site as a station/roundhouse for a mountainside train journey from the park to Branson. But the latter would likely be a cost prohibitive maintenance nightmare as I have gathered these engines don't handle hills all too well.

This is an interesting and unexpected development to say the least. I assume that's where some of the projected 40 million investment went. I did not think they would be doing two projects simultaneously. Between the two projects this is definitely looking like the largest overall expansion project for the park to date.

Silver Dollar City has received some new steam engines. Makes me wonder if they are gonna build a new railway or expand the existing one somehow.



STORY HERE:
http://www.startribune.com/steam-engines-that-gave-children-rides-sold-to-theme-park/380374971/

It would be really cool if SDC did my ride enhancement suggestion for TNT by making the loop around the top of the lift hill and part of the final drop enclosed. Plus they might have to do this to hide the back lots and the new clearings for maintenance related equipment that will likely come with the new coaster from view of the guests.

I guess mainly I am trying to be optimistic that the ride experience from TNT will not be too severely impacted.

It really is all about the vertical drops. They are much more thrilling than they look. The train design, holding brake, and steep lift hills really amplify it all. I've only been on Oblivion, which has been far out-shown at this point, but it really surprised me with how forceful the drop was. The steep lifts and drop make it much easier to theme as well.

That and the park could really benefit from another rollercoaster with tunnels/interior elements like ThuNderaTion did. I kinda thought that was a missed opportunity when they converted Buzzsaw into Powderkeg. That ride could have totally benefited from that. Just think after that first airtime hill from the launch instead of it curving and dipping into another hill it could have instead went straight into the hillside and through a big tunnel and then out by the railroad tracks to meet with the old Buzzsaw track.

Bat Theme?      Maybe for a wing coaster but for an invert it would be way too close to all the SF batman rides.

That would be my concern as well IF they went with a Bat theme as the GP would probably assume its an attempted ripoff of the various SF Batman coasters. Unless they directly themed it to the cave itself and less on the "Bat" aspect.

And a Dive Coaster themed like Baron does definitely have the SDC style to it. I could see this being a nice addition to the park.

LOL While on this discussion here was my old idea for rebuilding OzCat with modified supports to fit along the hillside. That idea is probably out now as they are more than likely going with a B&M I think. haha

A bat themed B&M Wing Coaster does seem somewhat viable. But the park could still use an invert which would work with that theme too.

Seen a lot of dirt work happening today on service road and on the side of the lift hill on tnt! Alain seen mini excavator tucked in the woods after final drop of tnt. Getting curious as to what's going on, they were hauling loads of dirt from the woods behind eh to parking lot 3. Getting excited, will be there off and on for next five days hopefully will see more hints

While it is probably highly unlikely it will ever happen, I would love to see TNT get refurbed or even extended. Or at least make the top of the lift hill enclosed all the way to the drop as a surprise element. This also makes me wonder if the scale of the new coaster might actually interact with its track quite a bit more than we realize. Not sure how to feel about that.