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Construction/Rumors / Re: SDC’s 2025 Project(s) and Park Developments

« on: October 09, 2024, 08:35:32 AM »

If this is going where pumpkin plaza currently is, why is Outlaw Run in the background? Lol.

New festival and festival add-ons looks great, I love the idea of making the plaza rotate with the different festivals.

https://www.silverdollarcity.com/theme-park/festivals?fbclid=IwY2xjawFzYI5leHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHbvLRpD7vUbVjlgGH_FljoqhNQimwCv370bVzcyR8LM4Hk4gw0NpcU4AVQ_aem_SakplMkhepCMFQqD9qc3Bg

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Construction/Rumors / Re: SDC’s 2025 Project(s) and Park Developments

« on: September 13, 2024, 04:58:25 PM »

https://www.ozarksfirst.com/news/silver-dollar-city-teases-enormous-expansion/?fbclid=IwY2xjawFRlI5leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHRRdqYkucFqrI3iTja3HYR-3r56khqwCy5WkBSAeBIqyk6GvNQs81aDyvw_aem_9AK3skOrYffvXHlrhW6PcA

Looks like it won't be too long before we know

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Construction/Rumors / Re: SDC’s 2024 Project(s) and Park Developments

« on: March 12, 2024, 08:08:16 PM »

If the voices are the only thing that is "bad" about the ride, then I think it'll be a great success for those young and old, even with heavy rose-tinted glasses.

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Construction/Rumors / Re: SDC’s 2024 Project(s) and Park Developments

« on: November 15, 2023, 06:46:10 PM »

The old tracks were still there as of December 2021, when I got the experience of walking through the ride in the pitch black. (Creepy as hell). The scenes were gone from what I could tell, but there was still the track.

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Construction/Rumors / Re: SDC’s 2024 Project(s) and Park Developments

« on: August 14, 2023, 04:29:26 PM »

I'm assuming that this will be the tunnel that the train is in. I hope that it moves forward in the tunnel toward the track to make it more dynamic.

From what I was told back in winter of 2021 is that it will indeed move forward as you go towards it. I don't think they would change something like that between then and now, but you never know

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Construction/Rumors / Re: SDC’s 2024 Project(s) and Park Developments

« on: August 14, 2023, 12:37:45 PM »

While I know its just concept art, I love how the train scene includes one of the FSDL locomotives, it just ties everything together. This truly feels like a love letter to the original ride while modernizing it.

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Construction/Rumors / Re: SDC’s 2024 Project(s) and Park Developments

« on: August 09, 2023, 09:17:20 PM »

Looks like somebody took some photos they weren't allowed to take, as they were promptly removed from the Facebook group page

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General Silver Dollar City Talk / Re: SDC Logo

« on: June 15, 2023, 07:35:53 PM »

I wish I had enough free time to complain about the direction of branches on a theme park logo

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Construction/Rumors / Re: SDC's 2023 Project(s) and Park Developments

« on: June 13, 2023, 10:49:41 AM »

Not sure if anybody else has noticed, but at the bottom of Wildfire there seem to be new retaining walls and gravel put down. I’ll have to get a picture next time, but I’d assume it’s just to make maintenance easier since it’ll be level ground at certain places

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General Silver Dollar City Talk / Re: Train Crash?

« on: May 25, 2023, 09:19:43 PM »

It’s barely been 80 for the last 3 weeks. Extreme heat didn’t cause this.

Track warp can happen at 80 degrees.

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General Silver Dollar City Talk / Re: Train Crash?

« on: May 25, 2023, 07:43:53 PM »

“ The incident happened around 4 p.m. Officials say the front wheels of car three on the train went off the track by about two inches. It caused cars two and three to separate. Park officials say new safety protocols worked as designed, stopping the train. It also kept all of the remaining cars upright.”

https://www.ky3.com/2023/05/25/silver-dollar-city-shuts-down-popular-steam-train-ride-following-incident-thursday/

So track warp happened due to the extreme heat from the past few days, caused a truck to fall and everything worked upright? Why is this newsworthy?

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General Silver Dollar City Talk / Re: Train Crash?

« on: May 25, 2023, 05:19:53 PM »

It decoupled and stopped at the bottom of the hill, I wouldn’t call that a “derailment”.

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Construction/Rumors / Re: SDC’s 2024 Project(s) and Park Developments

« on: May 03, 2023, 11:10:05 AM »

If you really think the news on Friday is about FiTH 2.0, then get ready to be disappointed. You should save your straw-grasping theories for later in the year, say August/September

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General Silver Dollar City Talk / Re: Train Crash?

« on: April 03, 2023, 10:42:49 AM »

Seems like they don’t know the actual cause and are just throwing out possible causes.

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Construction/Rumors / Re: SDC's 2023 Project(s) and Park Developments

« on: March 13, 2023, 09:16:48 AM »

Everything changes. There is no future otherwise.

SDC has never been about the future:  it is--or has been--explicitly about the past. 

I would be perfectly satisfied--nay, delighted!--with the SDC of 1970, prior to ALL of the coasters.

SDC wouldn’t even be here today if they never changed. They’re a business, just because their theme is about the past doesn’t mean that they have to be stuck in the past with business.