What kind of fan are you?

[KBCraig]

Hmmm, the poll option isn't enabled, at least at my membership level. 

So, we'll make this a poll by reply: What kind of fan are you?

Are you a "Nostalgia Fan", who comes for the memories?

Or, are you an "Adventure Fan", who comes for new rides and new sights?

[KBCraig]

I'm 100% nostalgia fan. If SDC was unchanged from 1975, I'd still want go and take my kids (and if they didn't want to go, I'd go by myself.)

The modern rides and exhibits are nice, but I still want to go for the blacksmith shop, swinging bridge, glassblowing, Marvel Cave, and the train ride. And the admittedly low-tech Fire In the Hoel. 

[haytater]

I am also 100% Nostalgia. Aren't most SDC fans? It's all about the family memories for me and remembering all the fun I had as a kid. Silver Dollar City is my Disney World.

[History Buff]

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Ditto.

[betamike]

I'm 100% nostalgia fan. If SDC was unchanged from 1975, I'd still want go and take my kids (and if they didn't want to go, I'd go by myself.)

The modern rides and exhibits are nice, but I still want to go for the blacksmith shop, swinging bridge, glassblowing, Marvel Cave, and the train ride. And the admittedly low-tech Fire In the Hoel. 

I couldn't have said it any better.  Except that I would extend the time period through 1986 (give or take)

[betamike]

Silver Dollar City is my Disney World.

Hey!  I resemble that remark!   

[Swoosh]

I'm a public relations fan - one who reports all the happenings on the park without taking a stance on how much it rocked or sucked. 

[sdcforever]

I'm definitely a nostalgia fan.  I grew up at SDC--the sights, sounds, and smells of the park hold a lot of memories for me.

[StaceySue]

I am...both!  I love it all.  I love the things that have been around for years, but I love the next new thing, too.  I just love the park.  My husband and I just came back from celebrating our anniversary last weekend.  We were married in the Wilderness Church in Oct. of 2005.  We celebrated with two other couples (and no kids!).  In three weeks we'll be there for Christmas with our daughter.  I love how I can have a great time there with just adults or my whole family.  Heck, I've made two solo trips. . .I did look a little funny riding American Plunge all by myself, though.

[Coaster]

I'm both. I enjoy all the memories I've made and the ones that are still being made each trip to the park. But, I like seeing new stuff also. The park will never grow or improve if they don't try new things. Some things fail, and some prosper but until they try, no one will ever know.

[Joy]

Definitely Nostalgia, with Adventure as the icing on the cake.

Joy

[SteamFreak]

150% Nostalgia...I almost cried when they built splash harbor and gyser gulch...hmph. Just glad they keep the classics up and running, and even have been restoring them in recent months.

[LoveSDC]

I am an all of the above fan. Of course I go for the memories of when I was a kid and my dad would take me. I have been to lots of other parks but SDC is where I take my kids a couple of times every year. And, I have to say, I love the rides as well. Even though I am MUCH older, I still love to go on those rides!

[Hatfield McCoy]

What kind of fan am I?

Why I am a big fan!

I'm 6-7, 310 pounds!

Why I'm so big I get to go down th' bogg'un by myself.

Just kidding. 

[themeparkguy]

Both- in today's market you need old fans and new fans to compete- having attended the city over the last 35 years I appreciate holding on to most things but acknowledge in this new market they need to keep adding. I wish when they expanded they added and did not take things out.