Silver Dollar City (SDC) Discussion Thread

[mwg]

2 hours ago, John Peck said:

Thank you for the help so far... just a  couple more questions to get the most out of my trip and stay ahead of the crowds:

- the park has a posted 9:30 opening time. do the rides start at 9:30 as well? Do people get in earlier than the 9:30 time and is there a rope drop or can we make our way into the park and line up for something. And... do you feel people tend to get there early.

- Do you get wet on the flooded mine?

- are there any other hidden treasures besides grandpas house and the cave that I need to make note of? I'm not sure when I will be able to come back here, so I want to see the most I can this trip. It's  lonnnnnngggg way from Ohio.

 

Thanks!

 

- The turnstiles open at 8:30 along with the square area of the park. As mentioned above, there is a breakfast buffet in Molly's Mill Restaurant right off the square that also opens at 8:30. There are other shops open then too. No rides are accessible until rope drop at 9:30. People do tend to get there early, but not it's not usually a huge crowd at opening.

- No, you do not get wet on flooded mine.

- If you have time, just take a walk around the park and through the MidTown area just looking at stuff. If you see a hole and it says not to look, you should for sure look in it.  There are so many little things around the City that can easily be missed when rushing from one ride to another.

[John Peck]

Thank you again everyone

[Chiselphane]

Watched the POV of new Fire in the Hole on the main page here.  I think they did a great job of keeping the original spirit of the ride but with some modern elements.  I think some might complain they didn't change enough and I can kind of see that, but keeping it simple is probably better for them in the long run.    It seems a shorter ride now?  Might just be perception though.

On a more personal level I'm super happy to see they kept the painting at the end of the ride  of the guy with his foot sticking out, my kids always love trying to reach up and grab his foot as they pass under

[teacherkim]

So, we got on the new FITH yesterday and I thought it was great. Kept all of the original storyline but with updated audio/visual and of course all new set pieces. The differences are slight but only enhance the experience. For those worried about screens instead of physical sets. Don't, 99% are physical sets with just a few discreet, well placed screens. Curious to see if RMC branches out with more of this sort of thing since it was obviously out of their normal wheelhouse. 

Unfortunately, I really was counting on some more rides to be able to see everything but that didn't happen. After first ride of the day we were supposed to get an hour of ert on it at park close but it went down late in the day and had to be evac'd so never got the extra rides. The park very graciously subbed Outlaw Run for an hour of ert and everyone was pretty happy about that. Anyone who complains about this redo in any way is clearly just and angry old man on the inside, yelling at clouds.

As for the rest of the park. Wildfire had apparently been struck by lightening on Friday and the computer kept seeing a third ghost train and doing e-stops. They did get it up and running in the late afternoon but had to go down to one train ops to make that happen. Thunderation was down all day, no idea why. Powder keg and TT both had a little down time but got up and going fairly quickly. 

Good news, every coaster that was operational was using 2 trains, with the exception of course of Wildfire.

[teacherkim]

Oh yeah and we were given some samples from the new pretzel place. We got hot dogs wrapped in pretzel (like pigs in a blanket) and some little dollar brisket sandwiches, both were quite yummy. 

[DoinItForTheFame]

On 4/28/2024 at 1:08 PM, teacherkim said:

.... After first ride of the day we were supposed to get an hour of ert on it at park close but it went down late in the day and had to be evac'd so never got the extra rides....

Gosh, I'd be so curious to know what caused the downtime, and the evac. It seems like such a simple concept, you wouldn't think there would be a lot that could "go wrong" to cause downtime extreme enough to warrant an evac. - Then again... It's an RMC... soooooo... 

On 4/28/2024 at 1:11 PM, teacherkim said:

Oh yeah and we were given some samples from the new pretzel place. We got hot dogs wrapped in pretzel (like pigs in a blanket) and some little dollar brisket sandwiches, both were quite yummy. 

Okay, now the pretzel wrapped hotdogs sound AMAZING!!! I'll for sure be getting some when we are there next!

[teacherkim]

3 hours ago, DoinItForTheFame said:

Gosh, I'd be so curious to know what caused the downtime, and the evac. It seems like such a simple concept, you wouldn't think there would be a lot that could "go wrong" to cause downtime extreme enough to warrant an evac. - Then again... It's an RMC... soooooo... 

Dunno, but I talked to one of the FITH ride ops who was hanging around during ert, waiting for her boyfriend who was an OR ride op annnd she didn't know the exact nature of the issue (or she wasn't saying) but did say, and this is a verbatim quote "it's big time dead"  So, let the speculation begin, lol!! 

[DoinItForTheFame]

4 hours ago, teacherkim said:

…. "it's big time dead" … 

So it’s like my hopes and dreams… got it.

[Nrthwnd]

"it's big time dead" - great catch phrase.