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Who's idea was the rising table in the Mine restaurant?  This is classic.

I remember taking my in-laws and brother-in-law - our first trip with them to SDC.  We ate in the Mine.  My wife, brother-in-law, and I sat at another table while my parents and her parents sat at the rising table.  My parents had seen it before, but her parents were clueless.  The thing got about as high as it could before my mother-in-law finally says, "I don't know about you, but I feel like I'm Alice in Wonderland!"

My brother-in-law, who also didn't know about the table, got to be in on the joke.  I thought he was going to wet his pants before somebody finally noticed the table was chin-level.

That's what I was wondering.  Is the cave flooded?

If you get a half tour, where do you go out?  Back up the steps?

And tell me more about the Mammoth Room.  Is this something I haven't seen?

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'Fraid out of all the years I've been visiting, I don't remember any of the puppet shows.  Weird!

Anyway, as for the newest show in the Opera House - Headin' West - does anybody else get that the order of the scenes is wrong?  Why do they go to the Rocky Mts., and then to the Great Plains on their way to the West Coast?

I wonder if the day before Easter will be busy or light.  They may be wondering the same thing.

How early do I have to get there to reserve a lantern tour on Saturday?

Can you give some numbers?  Is 15,000 a bbbuuusssyyy day, a busy day, an average day, or a light day?

Any hints on the easiest way to get around?

Ever wanted to get the boat to completely flip over and land upright on the Waterboggan?

Do you think the refreshments at the Echo Hollow show will be better, considering the proximity of the culinary bldg.?

There's a new saloon in town, one packed with action, a larger stage, and room for people to sit.  Located between Wildfire and the Lumberjack Camp, the new saloon boasts a brand new show in which the lumberjacks get in on the action.  They dance on the "root beer barrels", throw axes, climb to the second level, and do other lumberjack stunts.  This interrupts the dancing girls, which include the inimitable Miss Tilley.  It's all the things that make the current saloon show so popular and more!

The old saloon is transformed into something different, but what?  Any ideas?

You can see cheerleaders on ESPN and at the high school football game.  To see a building built without nails, you'd have to go....where?  To Silver Dollar City!

Six Flags used to be about the six countries.  Now the Six Flags name is really meaningless.  They should change it to....what?  Looney Tunes and Marvel Flags?

I like the SDC logo picture.  How about using the advertising on the sacks you get when you buy something.  I don't know if it would work for a header, but it might be interesting somewhere.

Hatfield's Haint was the haunted house show.  It had a great set and special effects, and it was funny in all its quirkiness.  Do you remember the guy going upstairs with his candle.  The candle was accentuated by lighting effects and when he extended his arm - with the candle - into the upstairs bedroom, the lighting was supposed to go with it.  It never did, and the audience thought this "mistake" was hilarious.  The guy then would "ad lib" putting the candle in and out of the room repeatedly to see if the effects person could keep up.  It may have been a real mistake at one time, but they clearly put it in as a part of the show later on.  Of course, a visitor only knew this upon repeat visits, the same way we know the "lost lines" and "breakups" on the train robbery are actually planned.  It just makes it all seem more impromptu.

Timothy Turnbuckle was its replacement, before Cajun Connection and the Haygoods (I don't remember ever seeing the Hughes Brothers.) took over the theater.  Turnbuckle had a nerdy guy in the audience who started the show before the show ever started.  He would take endless flash pictures of the stage and the theater, and as soon as the lights went down for the show to start, he took one last shot - flash - in the dark.  The audience would be laughing at him before it ever knew he was a part of the show.  As I wrote in another thread, though, this show always disturbed me:  how was it that they came to present day to get this guy out of the audience if we were already supposed to be in the 1880s upon entering the park?  This was SDC admitting that we really weren't in the 1880s, and it took away part of the magic.

Again, there are lots of music shows, but if you want to see a comedy, you can't.

Will you be fixing the clock as a part of the revision.  I think it should be set on SDC time.

Also, if you're looking to tweak, you might want to put the missing in in AnnouNcements on the forum index.

I have faith in your vision, Steve.  You're working on a labor of love and it should be something you can be proud of.  It's foreign to me, but you're doing a fine job.  Keep up the good work!

Dusty Chaps!  I couldn't remember his name.  There was such a chemistry between him and Tillie - almost like they were smitten with each other outside the saloon show.  There's no way they could have had such a chemistry unless they enjoyed each other and their jobs.