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SDC Memories/ Park History / Asphalt

« on: May 23, 2023, 06:51:22 PM »

They're paving the main road through my town (I live on that road).

I told my sister, "It smells like Silver Dollar City!"

She replied, "I miss that smell."

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Random Talk / Re: I got this in e mail today...... white wing lodge goes condo??? ( yeah right!!)

« on: May 20, 2023, 07:16:08 PM »

But is are their enough gullible people that will buy them?🤣

Yes. 

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

« on: May 15, 2023, 09:57:26 PM »

Oh yeah, bring back the hobo shower! Turn your heads, ladies!

The other way, ladies.

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General Silver Dollar City Talk / Re: 2023 Crowds / Trip Reports

« on: May 09, 2023, 10:01:43 PM »

Random note: On both days when riding Thunderation, they announced that iPhones left in the cubbies need to be turned off or put in airplane mode. Does anyone know why that would be? No other ride made that announcement.

The only thing I can think of, is Apple Watches paired to iPhones using crash detection, but even that doesn't make sense.

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Other Parks / Other parks lose old favorites, too.

« on: May 09, 2023, 09:58:24 PM »

Even though I live 15 minutes from Santa's Village, I've never been there. It's mostly geared towards families with younger children.

I do know it's themed to the North Pole and back, and everything is Santa-/Christmas-themed.

Even they are doing away with an old favorite ride to make way for something new. This was originally at Benson's Wild Animal Farm, another NH attraction that was open from 1926-1987. Santa's Village opened in 1953, and is still growing.

https://www.wmur.com/article/rudys-roller-coaster-santas-village-retiring-new-hampshire/43832138
 

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

« on: May 03, 2023, 06:34:20 PM »

Double posting because I've just seen the announcement myself. The fact that it's a photo of mystic river with the 'i' in BIG turned into a '1' is interesting. Maybe they want to try for another Guinness world record this summer? Or maybe it has something to do with mystic? That ride has been causing all kinds of problems...

Part of me expects they want to find a way to rework it without admitting it is a disaster. Seems like they wouldn't do that at the start of summer though. It's made it this long.

B1G is also commonly used for the Big Ten athletic conference.

Maybe they're trying attract more Ioweenians and Illinoisyans.

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Construction/Rumors / Re: Your Attraction Ideas

« on: April 18, 2023, 08:13:24 PM »

The first thing that popped up in my mind was Diving Bell 2.0

https://youtu.be/i3u04ZhalaU

The human and physical elements were a huge part of the Diving Bell.

That system looks impressive, but if it's just motion inside a big video screen, it wouldn't be the same as spraying water, boards blowing in, etc.

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SDC Memories/ Park History / Glass blowing

« on: April 16, 2023, 10:09:55 PM »

If you ever spent hours fascinated by the glassblowers (as I did), you'll enjoy this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1KT8PS6Zs4

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SDC Memories/ Park History / Re: FITH loading dock memory

« on: April 10, 2023, 01:25:39 AM »

That's some serious old school '70s way of doing things! LOL

For the sake of safety, I'm glad they have better control systems now, but I do miss those days. (But, I can't remember the loading queue ever being empty back then; we were mostly lined out all through the Firemen's Cemetery.)

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General Silver Dollar City Talk / Re: Train Crash?

« on: April 04, 2023, 07:44:59 PM »

If SDC wanted to add an in-theme period skit, there are quite a few folks around who still know how to roll a spike maul (the technique for driving spikes).

I use my old "snipe" skills for splitting wood, but it's the same technique.

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

« on: March 23, 2023, 04:08:47 PM »

No offense, but Miss Mary has been gone for decades
It’s time to retire that statement. It’s old, tired, and irrelevant.

Don't worry, the concept has been retired and replaced with the new, tiresome, and irrelevant to the 1880s theme.

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

« on: March 22, 2023, 11:05:25 PM »

(we have new shade structures going in over the queue area)

In Miss Mary's day, we called those "trees".

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

« on: March 19, 2023, 05:14:40 PM »

Opening Weekend Park Upgrades/Updates
https://www.midwestinfoguide.com/2023/03/city-update-sdc.html

Interesting. That rubber at the crossing could be set in a way that it flexes down for the train wheel flanges, but not be noticeable to foot traffic.

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

« on: March 16, 2023, 09:01:06 PM »

Video from our trip yesterday with a look at all the work going on. https://youtu.be/_1ZjbmcXruM

Didn't you just post a video about days you won't go to parks?

It sounds like this should have been one of those days! 

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

« on: March 13, 2023, 11:56:15 PM »

Even when SDC was all about the theme... well, they weren't really, so much.

The blacksmith shop (even during Shad's time) made and sold a lot of cast aluminum trinkets, and did very little forging.

The knife maker was a stock removal "grinder", not a bladesmith.

The glassblowing shop made fancies, as they still do today. Nothing that was practical or suitable for a rural 1880 village (not to mention the gas ovens and kilns).

Yeah, I'm nostalgic for that 1970s SDC, but it was never about authenticity. It was a combination hillbilly and Wild West theme.