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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.

The pizza buffet is in the Mill Restaurant during Kidsfest.

I tend to agree with Coaster about the confusion, but when you get all the content in that may not be the case.

We're bringing some people who haven't been in 15 years.  How fun it is to look at the park through new eyes!

I hate having to park in Notch or way down on Indian Point, but I guess we'll have to do what we'll have to do.

That, my friend, will be something to look forward to!

I would like it even more if they didn't tell the public when it will happen - just let it happen seemingly at random.

I did get on the site to find the show schedule - looks pretty light, but that's what I expected.  It'll be nice to visit before a festival hits.  The festivals are nice, but I enjoy just seeing the park without all the hoopla occasionally.

They list the ride opening times on the link, too.  It looks like everything but the Waterboggan will be open.  They also say that the furniture store will feature a new style of furniture, and there is a "new" Christian store on Main Street.

The Saloon show was terrific in the late 80s.  I am too young to remember the Carrie Nation show, but would have loved it (along with a little introduction to history).  The show I remember most featured an actress, playing Tillie, who really stole the show.  There were ad libs all over the place, and we couldn't stop laughing.  It was corny and fun.  That was before Mean Murphy came onto the scene.  As I mentioned in another thread, the bartender was always afraid that his brand new St. Louis mirror would be broken in a scuffle, and sure enough, the strobe lights flashed as a panel on the mirror slid to reveal a broken version of the mirror.

They also made a point of saying this was a "family show" and something was said of the painting of a scantily-clad women above and to the right of the mirror.  Before our eyes, the woman's arm pivoted to cover herself more appropriately.  As a kid, I thought this was rich.

I don't remember a medicine show, but I do remember the Toby Show.  I'd like to more about the Rainmaker and the Undertaker, as they are some of my favorite characters.  It makes me sick every time I see the Rainmaker's wagon not being utilized these days.  People walk by and can't appreciate what it really is.  I remember the Rainmaker would bring a kid up onto the contraption, and he would ask, "How long ya been on the wagon?"  One of the jokes that only the adults laughed at.

I agree.  I've never thought they were very overpriced considering they have such a captive audience.  And they'll give you all the water you need for free (though you have to pay for bottled).

(Just don't fall for the pizza buffet thing when it's offered.  They should pay us.)

Thanks for the info about the map.  I was on at 2:00 this morning and it had not been updated.

Is there also a show schedule?

I do believe Talking Rocks is one of the best caves in the area - maybe the best.  I remember when I was a kid, and one of our family vacations was to hit all the show caves we could in the Arkansas and Missouri Ozarks.  One was TR.  I never heard any of the rocks actually talk and that confused me.

TR is over 90% still "living".  It is very wet compared with caves like Marvel and Fantastic, and the formations are many and dense.  It is, of course, smaller than Marvel, but it's worth the trip if anyone gets the chance to visit it.

From the website, there are other caves on the property and people can pay extra to take more wild tours in those.  I wish the website would be updated (as it has some obsolete information) to show actual photos or the tours and things.  Maybe they could get creating and make a video of it like they have for Marvel.  They could sell both videos at both locations.