WildEagle2014

Here's the post on Dollywood.com

Dahlonega Mine Train at Six Flags Over Georgia was my first. Thankfully, very few follow, limited to The Bat (KI), Tennessee Tornado (DW), Carolina Cyclone (CW), Carolina Goldrusher (CW), and Vortex (KI), probably the most painful rollercoaster I have ever ridden.

1. Chickie and Pete's is really great as someone else mentioned. We prefer to take a break during the busiest hour or two of the day and travel down the road to the Cracker Barrel which is located off the Carowind's exit near the interstate. The food there has always been amazing! 2. We haven't made it to the park yet this year...but judging from the crowds at Dollywood this season...it is going to be EXTREMELY packed, especially due to it being Memorial Day weekend. I definitely would purchase a fast pass and get there before the park opens to ride Fury 325 and Nighthawk. 3. As you might already know...always mark Nighthawk off your list as early in the morning as possible...even though it's nothing special, the loading/unloading process is extremely time consuming and lines can be 1-2 hours even during a weekday. The same is true for Carolina Cobra...one train = long lines.

Sent you a few emails about this.

Just watched the Rougarou POV video alongside the Mantis POV...it seems so much faster! Also, I'm just a little bit disappointed with the theme work done to the ride..I figured that it would feature a wolf howl at the top like Banshee, and also hoped for a fog and light show over the whole ride in the evenings. Still looks great though!

Several parks here on my list, so here goes! Dollywood: Wow I could go on all day about Dollywood! I'd say start off by each year renovating one of the older rides, especially the water rides. Daredevil Falls could really use a refurbishment like Knott's Berry Farm did with Timber Mountain Log Ride. Smoky Mountain River Rampage and Slidewinder also could use a facelift. After that, I'd put the primary focus on Timber Canyon, first off renaming it to Timber Gorge to be geographically accurate (there are no canyons in the Smoky Mountains, reference the nearby Little River Gorge). That portion of the park has always felt like it's missing something to me. I have two possible ideas for the former Timber Tower site. First would be to install a top notch launched freefall. If it's launched you could theme it to a dynamite blast, while if it is a standard drop the theme could be a tree falling. The return of Timber Tower, just as a freefall! The other and more interesting idea for me would be to turn the pool into a beaver habitat, with the current picnic area serving as an observation site. The current area occupied by Lil' Loggers Landing could be another observation area with educational information for the guests. Also I think they should put a larger restaurant on that end of the park...possibly replace the pizza place, and finally I think it would be a cool idea to have a lumberjack style show there year round...I know they are debuting one for Festival of Nations this spring. Finally it would be nice if the park would expand into the train loop area. They could fit a couple of new coasters up that way. If Dollywood just got an invert, fast launched coaster, and some form of giga/mega coaster, their coaster lineup would be perfect! Carowinds: Carowinds needs to replace a couple of coasters...remove Nighthawk (who wants to go through those 2 hour waits anyway to get your head banged around?) and get a nice launched B&M wing or flying coaster in there. Also Carolina Cyclone has just got to go. Last thing on my list would be to convert the Hurler to an RMC hybrid. Those little hills would make some great barrel roll elements!