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[legoerosion]

Man, I can't wait for those mugs to be eventually phased out somehow. All it does is bring out the nasty in people. (From personal experience working, not saying you were).

Is the $1.50 that detrimental?

[biscuitcreek]

Man, I can't wait for those mugs to be eventually phased out somehow. All it does is bring out the nasty in people. (From personal experience working, not saying you were).

Is the $1.50 that detrimental?

No, I can afford the extra 1.50, and no, not nasty to him about it. I told him I understood about him being new on the job -- first day on the job and just his second day being in the state of MO. I was just wondering what type of training is given at SDC. If he had just arrived in MO the day before, when was he trained?

[MidwestInfoGuide]

Summer Celebration
https://www.midwestinfoguide.com/2026/06/silver-dollar-city-summer-celebration.html

[NothingisSacred]

We handed him our Wildfire mug, and he told us it would be $4 for a refill. We told him it was less than that because of the date of the mug. He then told us this was his second day in MO, and his first day on the job. We asked him to look it up in the book. He flipped through a few pages and then told us that mugs before 2012 were no longer eligible for lower refill prices. By this time the line behind us was really getting long, so we asked for the mug back and we left. We got it refilled for 2.50 at the lemonade stand near Time Traveler. To be fair our mug no longer has a visible price on it. This experience made us wonder about new employee training.

Currently up here today. Same thing happened with my 2005 PowderKeg mug with a young girl at Cokes and Floats. Wanted $4 for a refill. Politely told the person it's a grandfathered mug and it has an adjusted price based on the date and pricing printed on the cup. (Mine was visible asking $2.50) Said person says they never seen it before and they were apparently told nothing about Grandfathered mugs, they did fix it tho. Checked several other stalls and they were equally clueless about it. So they are omitting it from new hire training it appears.

[shavethewhales]

Was at the park for the past three days, and the heat was absolutely brutal. On one hand, there were no lines anywhere, but on the other it was an endurance test just to walk around the park. By 5pm the parking lot was mostly empty. Branson itself was quieter than I have ever seen. It is back to school season on top of the unbearable heat, so not surprising.

I made it down to Hollister saturday evening to check out the brewery and the old english inn. It's a very neat area, but I can't believe they roll up the town at 9pm!

[palallin]

Man, I can't wait for those mugs to be eventually phased out somehow. All it does is bring out the nasty in people. (From personal experience working, not saying you were).

Is the $1.50 that detrimental?

For a large family, it might be.  We have been to the City on very limited budgets, and the discount made a difference.

In any case, it's a matter of a contract.  SDC made a contract with the purchaser, and they need to honor it.

[palallin]

We hit the City this past Saturday for the first time since before Covid.  Nothing to do with Covid:  serious health issues and loss of job have meant that we had neither time nor resources to do so.

Got there a little early and waited with very pleasant folks for the gates to open.  Was glad to see that the security theater had been streamlined, but it is perfectly useless.  It needs to go.

Went right through the turnstiles with our preprinted tickets:  nicely done, SDC!

Breakfast at Molly's continues to be a wonderful way to start the day.

Caught the opening, and then checked out the craft booths before sitting for the Pickers first show.  A great pleasure to hear them.  We do miss Danny's larger-than-life personality, but the music is still the best at the City.

We made some purchases, including my son buying a few pieces at the glass blowers.  We were surprised that this shp no longer does package pick-up, but we understand.  Keeping the package there is a good substitute.

Caught a train ride before the lines got too long.  The train is one must-do for us.  It's been so long that we knew none of the folks working it.  Although it remains important to me, the ride is becoming insipid.  The scenery is getting totally spoiled by the continual construction of new coasters.  Whole swaths of the area are denuded and downright ugly.  As bad, the script suffers.  I miss the train wreck.  That they took it out because it might upset people after the derailment reflects the same problem that causes the security up front:  an inability to separate fantasy from reality shared by far too many people.

We grabbed the very tail-end of the line at the saloon, being last the last ones allowed to enter.  The show has held up well, and we saw a familiar face or two in the cast.

After a big Molly's breakfast, it was hard for our group to settle on a single venue for lunch, so we never did really have one, settling for an early dinner after leaving.

After riding FM--another must for us--we began backtracking, making final purchases--candy, taffy--and picking up packages from the glass blowers, we headed out the HH, but my older son decided at the last minute he wanted to do a cave tour.  My wife was too tired to join, so he and I did it without her, while she camped out at Eva & Delilah's--surely as pleasant an atmosphere as there is!  The tour went very well.  We found out that Johnny--the guide--is a fellow ACW reenactor and knew many people we do.  There was some concern that incoming weather would shut down the tour in mid-course or even right at the end, but it held off, allowing us to ride to the surface.

After that, we picked up the rest of our packages, my son made another purchase, and we headed out about 4 to go rescue our dog from the cabin at our resort 

We ran across one delay at a shop caused by intermittent problems with the check-out system.  The citizens there said that they had been having this problem, sometimes city-wide, lately.  I wonder if it related to the power surge alluded to above.  Anyway, as is the case with most citizens, they handled it with excellent customer service skills.  And the waitress at Molly's had no problem dealing with our pre-'12 mugs.

All in all, it was a good visit, and we hope that our next one won't take as long as this one did.  But the shine--which, for me, began in 1966--is wearing.  Its not that there's not enough new stuff.  Just the opposite:  there's not enough old stuff.

[biscuitcreek]

Thanks, pallalin, for sharing your trip with us. Since it has been so long since your last visit, I am sure you noticed a lot of changes. I do agree that the ongoing construction takes away from the train ride. At least it is less noticeable during the night rides of the Christmas season.

[How-doFolks]

My brother & I & a friend of his from Springfield, went to the park last Thursday & Friday. Got our dicounted tickets through Oreilly Auto Parts because i work for them here in KC. Also rented a ECV kart because i still have a bad hip. Those things are life savers.
We actually used free parking this time, that was kinda nice. First day we started the with CITY breakfast. Got to enjoy Terry Sanders as the Scarecrow after the park opened. Went straight to TNT for our final ride. It was fun as always, but it was really rough. It was the only time we rode it, in the 2 days we went. Then straight to OR. That was a blast like always. Went to FITH but it was closed. Rode AP, it seemed shorter than usual, but it was still fun. Went back to FITH & got on. But the song was not playing & some of the scenes were not saying the things they should be. My brother & his friend rode WF while i watched. Got hungry, so we tried one of the pretzel dogs. My brothers friend had a free food pass thing, so we used it all day. Went back to the motel to chill for a while. Went back around 6p & stayed until 9'ish. We just walked around looking at stuff. But they did ride OR in the dark. His friend did freak out riding it in the dark, it was hilarious.
Day 2, by the time we got my kart, we heard & saw that 60 bus loads of teens were showing up. Once the park opened, it really wasnt bad at all. Rode the FM, train, OR again. but did a lot of walking around & just enjoying the atmosphere. I got a pearl necklace from the Pearl Shack, for my wife. Got $26.00 worth of taffy from the taffy store, & got a name of our recently deceased cat, made out of copper wire from some folks on the square. Went back to the motel again because my brothers friend didnt sleep well the night before. Went back about the same time, but didnt stay very long. they were both very wore out. I am glad we went for 2 days, even though it seems like we didnt do very much.
We did meet Brandi, from the PR department i think,. & met the gal from the SDC Podcast, it was cool to meet them.
It was just fun being there, NO MATTER WHAT!! We do this trip every September. We invited a lot of people this year, but no one was up to going. My brother & i just enjoy being there. We dont get bothered by new up to date things, or things that done seem right. As i tell a lot of people these days about anything, "we're not in the 80s or 90s anymore, it's 2026, things change." I'm 61 & he is 63. We have been going to this park since we were about 10 years old. I remember punching tickets just to get to ride what you wanted. Just sitting & listening to the sounds of the rides & people screaming & laughing, makes us laugh. The hardest part was sitting in the smoking section by the old FITH.... THAT brought back a lot of memories, i was sad to see it go, but i understand, no matter the reason. I did get a little stuff in my neck just looking at the old building, but i guess we will just see what progress brings us.
We had a blast, like always!! We love SDC & will never let it go!! Have a good day Ya'll!!