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Google maps has been updated with a new photo since the clearing started.

Where is the supposed footer? I thought I saw one while riding PowderKeg, but then the next time I looked, it was just gravel.

Looks like that satilite imagery is from 4/21, which puts it before the rumored footers were put in

... Lol and who are you to be talking you dont have any information, Im very sorry I heart your feelings and youre butt hurt that you just found out what you wanted the park to get isnt happening, boo hoo cry me a river. Its okay though, youre in the denial stage of grief, we all go trough it, if you need to seek help I have some great therapist I know, I can get info on which ones are great from my sources, oh let me guest youd rather trust some other guy cause why not. haha

And I'm the one with the "hurt feelings"  it isn't that serious broski

Yeah except my source isnt just a ride op, hes worked at the park for over 12 years, and hes team lead\supervisor at Outlaw Run and Powder Keg. He knows more but cant say any more, he knows the manufacture and the type of ride, he just wont release it. Im sorry but youd be delusional to trust a random name on the internet over a ride op supervisor at the park. Yes you can pretty much rule out a Giga, Im sorry if your hopes were that bro, but he said "Dont get your hopes up for any high thrill attraction, dont expect anything over 200 feet" Im touting the source cause its more valuable than "swoosh" lol, the information is passed along from maintenance, there, get what you want? since you wanna doubt and throw a fit.

And why should we trust a random name on the internet who claims to have his source be a team lead of an attraction (which is a just glorified team member II) over someone who has a near-perfect track record on this forum in regards to new attractions..?

Getting pissy about me doubting you isn't helping your case either. You're merely the dipping dots guy at this point.

Lol, Ima trust my source who works in the park. And TT was just off the path, you aint putting this coaster right off the path, you will require an area to get there. The area is not ready, and wont be till 2027, its a field of literal dirt and rocks right now. Cap, if you work at the park you can get a good photo without breaking the "rules" And Ive heard so many people say "B&M Giga for 2027"

I think I'm going to follow Swooosh's nuggets of information over a random source that's probably a ride op, mainly due to Swooosh's near perfect track record of this stuff. They hardly ever tell any employees what projects are happening, and I worked there when they were building the worst kept secret of the park. Nothing was said by anybody until the announcement date for FiTH.

I do find it weird how you're touting this source like it's gospel but you're still trying to get info that your source at OR surely has access to. Didn't you also say in a previous response that you ruled out a giga personally?

Actually, a b&m hyper wouldn't be redundant to wildfire, side wildfire is focused on inversions, and a hyper would be an airtime coaster. I do agree it needs something to stand out, so maybe it's a wing hyper? That would distinguish it from both wildfire and wild eagle at Dollywood.

It wouldn't be redundant to us thoosies, but it will be to the general public. Same looking trains (in their eyes), same looking track type, the only difference that they would see at the park is that one is taller than the other (I doubt that we will see much of this ride from the path/station). I'd love a hyper as much as anyone else, but I can't see it being that with it being next to Wildfire. A wing would be sweet though.

You do bring up good points with the footers, I personally haven't seen them yet so in my mind any footer can be a giant one I guess haha. However, two standard B&M's right next to each other would rather silly in my mind, especially if one of them is just a taller version of the older one right next to it. The I think there has to be some kind of gimmick with this coaster, no matter the manufacturer, because it'll be sandwiched between a WF and PK. It'll need something to stand out. Maybe Screamscape was correct with it being a new prototype?

Or maybe Buzzsaw Falls is coming back with Mack's water coaster 

I don't think we can accurately guess what manufacturer it is based off a footer description, as Mack has also done large square footers for their Stryker coaster. Hopefully the footer garden grows within the next few weeks so we can  get a better look at them.

As more details start to come out I can definitely envision a Mack Stryker coaster in this area. Maybe it'll interact with WildFire and Powder Keg and going over and below them at points and going out to the woods. I am taking the Screamscape rumor of it being a Mack mine train coaster with three lifthills with a grain of salt for right now.

I was hoping they'd do something cool with the waterfall and the path going from plunge to powder keg like a river that leads to the waterfall that you'd have to cross, but with the retaining wall that idea seems to be shot. I'd love to see more water features like the one next to Wagonworks, flowing creeks just add so much to the area.

Hopefully they'll add restrooms over by Wildfire whenever their 2026 project is completed. I always hated walking all the way to hill street when I worked over there.

Lol, lmao even

Wait, how do we know this is true? They censored the announcement to get people guessing, and I'm not seeing any confirmation on the SDC website.

It's one of the comments, JonnyAmusement wrote it. He is a very big Dollywood poster. They responded that he "won" the season passes they offered if somebody guessed it word for word. I don't actually think that he got it word for word, but he may be close to the real thing. Unless they gave him the press release and he spoiled it too early.

Seems very ChatGPT though. I'd wait until 11 to see what is announced.

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1FmiAa3huv/

Area of the photo makes me think they're already teasing the 2026 project. But I can also see them teasing lift hill walks, I believe Dollywood started offering them this year.

I think if it is indeed Mack then the pattern for our last few coasters is funny. RMC/Mack/RMC/Mack

Completely speculative, but heard that corporate didn't "get" the old backwoodsy style of the park and thought it looked too run down. 

It isn't just a corporate thing unfortunately. I remember remarks from park guests when I worked there talking about how they won't enter a shop or a restaurant because it looked run down and unsafe. I remember hearing that about Wildfire and AP as well because of the looks of the stations and the lifthill of AP.

It's unfortunate, because I love the backwoodsy feel of the park as I'm sure everybody else here does. But I can see how corporate and the general public don't get it as well.

A pipedream that I have for this area that they are doing is that they tear out current waterfall structure and replace it with an actual waterfall created by an artificial stream they make that interacts with the cleared area. I'm sure that won't happen, but I love the little areas of the park that has the small streams

Swoosh, why so many trees cleared out from around Outlaw run? Is this project that massive or that part of a different maintenance project?

Jay

I just saw those photos and that makes me sad. I really hope between that and project 2026 that half of the park doesn't lose the feeling of being "tucked away in the Ozark Mountains".