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Checked into our hotel right between six flags and holiday world. Decent day at Six Flags, not crowded and the weather was great. Really confused about the 6 o'clock closing on a Friday though. During the week I could understand but it seems like they're closing way too early for the amount of people in the park. Plenty of school aged kids there too. But anyhow, it was a pretty decent few hours. Were kinda annoyed to see them shut down some rides like the train and food stands way before the already way too early closing. But, I guess that's how they do things. Scorecard: American Thunder 6x Batman 2x Mr. Freeze 1x Screaming Eagle 1x Justice League 2x (We used the single rider que) Boss 1x So tomorrow we finish the rest of the drive to Holiday World then stay there all day until they close at 10. Really looking forward to some night rides! Not as many pictures in this update since I already have most of the pictures I wanted from the park. Anybody know what this was from?

I'm not a local but was at the park today and noticed there's a concert that's sold out tomorrow night so I assume the place will be mobbed

No lines whatsoever

Finally back to the hotel after a long day. After the park closed we went to Bigfoot on the Strip. More on that place later. Anyways, we seemed to have figured out the layout of the park today but there's still so many different pathways and different ways to go to get to certain places. Today we decided to check out the cave. I'm sure you've all read about the cave. It's really beautiful. Very cool how influential it was in building up the surrounding area. More back story about it was told. Lots of interesting information given by the tour guide! A ton more rides on the awesome outlaw run and wildfire again today. And plenty of rides on the others too. We were there for 2 full days and I still feel like we didn't fully explore the park. There's so many different paths and things to look at. It's truly a remarkable park. Scorecard: Outlaw Run 11x Wildfire 5x Powder Keg 3x Fire in the Hole 1x Giant Barn Swing 1x S&S double shot 1x Thunderation 2x Flooded Mine 1x Grandfather's Mansion 1x So that's it from Silver Dollar City. Who knows, maybe we'll be back next year. That new ride is looking stunning. As mentioned earlier we also stopped by Bigfoot on the Strip for a couple hours. It's a fun little tourist trap type place that seems like a dime a dozen in the Branson and Pigeon Forge Area. This one had a really good drop tower, a slingshot ride that was recently filmed by TPR (you can probably find it on YouTube or the front page of this site I assume), a maze with a jump into a big air mattress thing, and a shooting dark ride just like Plants vs Zombies at Carowinds. Only I think this one was better. They also had mini golf which we didn't do. The drop tower and slingshot were both a ton of fun! Rode the Drop Tower 5 times and the slingshot 4 times. Fun place, worth stopping by if in the area. They also had really nice staff. So tomorrow we will be driving to Six Flags once again then after the park closes we'll be driving part of the way to Holiday World and staying overnight in Illinois. The pictures today are mostly of Marvel Cave. Pictures (especially from my cell phone that didn't really like taking pictures in the weird lighting) don't do it justice. It's really an amazing sight. Thanks again for reading! This is big foot. One side is the drop tower and the other is the sling shot.

I opted for a front row ride on Outlaw Run instead

Maybe you can answer another question lol. What's the parks rain policy? Do they shut things down at the first sign of rain or are they pretty lenient?

I'm getting the feeling that SDC is your home park haha. Thanks again for the info!

Full trip report from today at the park here is you want to check it out! http://www.themeparkreview.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=75113&start=20

Back from a very fun and exhausting day at Silver Dollar City. Got on a lot of rides. Ate some good food. And didn't really deal with any lines even though the park was pretty crowded. Just wish it didn't close at 7. First off the park is absolutely stunning. Feels a lot like Dollywood but it just seems bigger. There's so many good places and beautiful views. I absolutely love it here. So many quirky little things around the park to look at. The ride operators are all really nice and super fast! Even though they were only running one train on everything besides Fire In The Hole, lines remained manageable thanks to super fast operations. Much different than worlds of fun operators that's for sure. And a nice change too haha. One thing was that the park was pretty hard to navigate. Took us quite a while to figure things out. And it's kinda weird that most rides are off on dead ends. So anyways the rides, Outlaw Run is absolutely amazing. Such awesome speed and airtime. Yeah it's a little short but there's never a dull moment. Such a great ride. Wildfire is also outstanding. No there's nothing out of the ordinary but it's so smooth but yet forceful and has great airtime itself heading down that first drop. Thunderation is definitely one of the best mine train rides I've been on. And powder keg is also a ton of fun even though the ride ops insist on shoving the restraint so far I to you that you can hardly breathe but it's worth it. Fun ride. Good air. Forceful launch. On to the scorecard. Definitely the most rides today so far on the trip: Powder Keg 2x Wildfire 7x Outlaw Run 5x Fire In The Hole 1x Giant Barn Swing 1x Train 1x Flooded Mine 2x Thunderation 2x S&S double shot tower that I can't remember the name of 2x American Plunge 1x Swings 1x Tomorrow is supposed to be rainy so that will be the day to do the Cave and check out all the stores and whatnot. We also checked out The Branson Coaster. Definitely the better of the 2 Branson Alpine coasters and maybe the best I've ridden. You're not doing Branson right if you don't stop by and give this a ride or 2. It's very hard to get pictures of rides here so not as many pictures. I also limited myself to only rides since there's so many things to take pictures of. Didn't want to kill my phone battery. As always, thanks for reading! Can't wait to get back to the park tomorrow!

Ok thanks for the info. OR just kinda surprised me. Still so impressed with the park. Everything is wonderful

All roller coasters besides FITH (running 2) are at 1. Including powder keg. My guess for PK is like an hour. Outlaw is at like 25 minutes. Everything else is fairly short. I just wish outlaw run and pk would run 2

First time here... Beautiful park but really only only train on all the coasters? Park is plenty crowded enough to run 2.

Each park does its own thing I guess. It's a shame because I really love the park itself.

And they actually have decent ops so you'll actually enjoy your time there. Definitely better than worlds of fun.

Not much to report on today. More slow and crappy ops. Lots of breakdowns. The usual. Left the park at about 2 and made it to Branson a little while ago. We rode an Alpine coaster here. The one that recently reopened. Very rough for an Alpine coaster but still fun. Branson overall is a lot less busy than Pigeon Forge which is nice. We'll be at Silver Dollar City all day tomorrow and Thursday. I'm very excited! Definitely the park I was most looking forward to. Here's the scorecard from today at Worlds of (Not Much)Fun: Prowler 3x Mamba 2x Steelhawk 1x Boomerang 1x Timberwolf 1x And to close today's update here's a picture from right before mamba went to 2 trains. Must've been a 2 hour line. Thanks for reading!

Thank you! Yes it's extremely frustrating. I do love wooden coasters so thankfully Prowler fills a big void for me at the park but it's still not even as good as Mystic Timbers. I'm just a GCI nut. We just came from riding Batman and its kinda crazy how much more intense and fun that ride is compared to Patriot. Patriot is fun but it feels more like a starter B&M warming you up for rides like Batman. Mamba had a disturbing lack of airtime on the bunny hops back into the station. It's such a similar ride to Magnum at my home park but it just doesn't deliver the same airtime and speed.

So our full day today at Worlds of Fun... Ugh. I really, really want to like this park. The rides are fun. The park is absolutely freaking beautiful but the operations are just awful. For a monday that the park was only open until 7, it was packed. And Worlds of Fun decided that they didn't need to run two trains until lines for every coaster was well over an hour. So then a second train was put on and they had to test it and that just led to more annoyance. Once the 2nd trains were put on every coaster the lines did go down but the operations were still incredibly slow. At Patriot the girl who was in charge of opening the load gates decided to take a couple minutes and sit down on the empty train in the station. Then finally got up and let people board the train. Absolutely appalling and unprofessional. Another thing was that there was a lot of break downs. Prowler didn't open until last noon. Mamba got stuck on the lift a number of times and then broke down again right before park closing. I also believe patriot went down a couple of times. We spent some time in the water park and were not impressed. Fairly old waterpark with exception of the newer complex that's at most Cedar Fair parks. And of course, they were only running one of the drop capsule slides which broke down twice in the 2 hours we were in Oceans of Fun. So overall, yeah it's a beautiful park with decent rides but the horrid ops will keep me from coming back for years. Except we will be there tomorrow until about 2 before driving down to Branson. Prowler really grew on me today. Really a great ride dispute a little roughness. Patriot and Mamba were still a lot of fun, but nothing that really stands out. Timberwolf is underrated in my opinion. I thought it was no more rough than prowler. Had decent air too. Also of note was Finnish Fling. Cool to ride a classic like that. So anyways like I said we'll be at the park till about 2 tomorrow then we'll drive down to Branson. Scorecard: Prowler 4x (front seat on the last train of the evening) Finnish Fling 1x Boomerang 1x Mamba 1x Railroad 1x Flying Dutchman 1x Detonator 1x Timberwolf 1x Windseeker... Ahem... Steelhawk 1x Patriot 2x Spinning Dragons 1x Long path to the entrance provides nice views of patriot Love the new entrance Love the plaza too Gorgeous I didn't know this! Very cool to ride this since it used to be at our home park before it closed. Also a lot of fun like pandemonium Beautiful Damn I didn't notice the finger at the time Looks vaguely familiar to steel force I'm in love Lots of Grizzly attacks today... Noticed Detonator has the same logo that Mean Streak did. Sometimes it's easy to forget you're at an amusement park. Worlds of Fun really is beautiful. See you tomorrow Patriot! Thanks for reading

Prowler!

When in reality it's not worth a 15 minute wait. Believe me, there was no chance we were gonna wait. Edit* Posted a full trip report from today at the park. You can find it here: http://www.themeparkreview.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=75113&start=10

When Mamba's line is over an hour because they're only running one train...

Thank you! This is only the 3rd Six Flags Park I've been to, the others being Great America and Great Adventure and this is easily the best as far as appearance and operations go. Thank you too!

I think you guys are missing the point. He very easily can do Uber but wants somebody who is also a coaster fan and would want to hang out for a bit. There's nothing wrong with that at all! If I were a local I'd be more than happy to!

Spinning Dragons WoF

Posted a trip report about my visit to the park yesterday any today. If you're interested you can find it here: http://www.themeparkreview.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=75113&p=1812506#p1812506

Ok so we are checked into our hotel right across the street from worlds of fun. We were at Six Flags today from opening till about 1 o'clock. With the crappy the forecast the park was absolutely dead. It was great. We left the park and stopped at a nearby St. Louis (Panera) Bread then started our 3.5 hour drive to worlds of fun. We got to WoF at about 5:30 and stayed to 8 o'clock closing. Overall thoughts of both parks today: Six Flags Still just as impressed. Great staff. Fast ops. Great rides. Finished getting the credits by riding Boomerang which was rougher than most boomerangs I thought and the Boss which was a lot more rideable than I thought it would be. That's not to say I loved the ride but I liked it and will give it another try on Friday when we are back at the park. Worlds of Fun Let me first start by saying that the park itself is absolutely stunning. Absolutely beautiful landscaping and everything. The new front gate and entry plaza is amazing. Now the operations were a different story. Everything was running 2 trains which was a nice surprise since I had heard this park tends to run only 1 usually. But they might as well had been running 1. The operations were so dreadfully slow and all the ride ops looked like they'd rather be dead. Very disappointing. The rides were pretty good. Prowler is fantastic though a little rough. Patriot and mamba are just a ton of fun. We'll be back at the park tomorrow and part of Tuesday. Hopefully the 5 minute dispatch times get better. Scorecard from Six Flags today: American Thunder 2x Mr. Freeze 2x Justice league 1x (Holy poo poo fantastic) Pandemonium 2x Boss 1x Log flume 1x Screaming Eagle 1x Boomerang 1x Batman 1x Worlds of Fun Scorecard: Prowler 2x Mamba 1x Spinning Dragons 1x Patriot 1x Timber Wolf 1x (not as bad as anticipated) On to pictures. Only Six Flags Pictures this time. Worlds of Fun will come tomorrow or Tuesday. This ride is so stupidly fun. Because nobody has ever taken this picture. Ever. Didn't know it was running backward