Dollywood Discussion Thread

[kcurry11]

^I love that someone is doing math on this. Keep it up. It is interesting that they will be taking a hill at that speed. I can't wait for the ejector air from that.

[bkwjjm]

I was there on Sunday and saw the construction site. This thing is huge. And it is really going to help balance the park out with its location. The park is very lopsided right now with all of it's coasters on one side of the property. This will start to even things out and help to control the flow of guests.

[Dollywoodlover20]

How much of the construction site can you get around to see? I know that last year we circled around the employee parking lot during winter time because we wanted to see if any views were different. So I don't know if you could go up in there now without getting stopped where you have to cross under Lightning Rod.

[OldJJman]

Guy "Almost spelled coming wrong." Koepp

 

Damn spellcheck.

[DoinItForTheFame]

Guy "Almost spelled coming wrong." Koepp

 

Damn spellcheck.

 

[lhgolfr]

Just got back from Dollywood and Lightning Rod looks amazing.

[chickenbowl]

Holy crap, that is GORGEOUS! This will be all we can see from inside the park until the quadruple down and "non-inverting half loop" get built. I'm seriously SO pumped for this coaster. I cannot wait until next year!

[KBrylczyk]

Looks like there's gonna be some themeing at the top of the hill, there! You can see the crest of the launch but there's wooden structure going much higher. Didn't see anything of the sort in the video, so I guess Dollywood has yet more surprises in store for us!

[GCI Wooden]

That will be one heck of a head--chopper when you are flying over that hill!

[CoasterMateo]

Can't wait for this coaster! The lift hill looks amazing. Just imagine how the fins are going to look on that lift

[DoinItForTheFame]

This photo is simply amazing!!! That launch hill is MUCH larger than I was expecting. I can not wait to see this coaster complete!!

 

[coasterfreak101]

^Not just larger, but steeper than I expected too! Next year's Holiday World/Dollywood/Kentucky Kingdom road trip is shaping up to be seriously awesome.

[lhgolfr]

For even more scale of the launch hill picture that I took and posted yesterday, if you look closely just above the water tank at the shadow line, you can see a construction worker standing on the ground beside of the track.

[lhgolfr]

Two more pictures from yesterday.

[DJeXeL]

Looking good! Love that none of the ride can be seen from inside the park. This has the same mystery that The Beast has where you don't know what lies beyond the top of the lift.

Hopefully that makes sense to someone.....

[SFOGdude25]

^I got it!

But remember we've got the quadruple down coming down the hill into the huge "non-inverting half loop" in plain sight too, which is basically a 180 degree spiral turn into a steep drop into the brakes, a bit of a FullThrottle-esque ending if you ask me. This thing is gonna charge hard right into the brakes. It's gonna be sick!

[chickenbowl]

^I got it!

But remember we've got the quadruple down coming down the hill into the huge "non-inverting half loop" in plain sight too, which is basically a 180 degree spiral turn into a steep drop into the brakes, a bit of a FullThrottle-esque ending if you ask me. This thing is gonna charge hard right into the brakes. It's gonna be sick!

 

You're right, but the drop will be complete instead of braking during it. That drop is also coming after 3500' of track before it, so it will feel like a complete layout that never loses steam. Kinda like if Storm Runner were longer!

[parkjunkie]

Just got back from Dollywood and Lightning Rod looks amazing.

I knew this thing was big, but this lift hill really gives you an idea of its size... weird part is, after seeing the size of this lift hill, launched at that, you'd expect it to be a much longer ride than 3800 ft. Oh well, not complaining at all... can't wait to ride this masterpiece.

[parkjunkie]

sorry double post

[WildEagle2014]

The track has finally been topped off!

Footers are all in place in the valley where the old park sign shop used to sit.

It's hard to tell...but track has been laid to the bottom of the first predrop!

[DILinator]

I'm definitely glad that we dropped a trip to KI on our family vacation next year in favor of a second day at Dollywood! I simply cannot wait for my first trip out to this park, and specifically a ride on this glorious coaster!

[thedlr]

That launch looks so bad ass. Umm... were those photos taken with a disposable camera? Haha just messing with you. I'll take whatever I can get!

[DoinItForTheFame]

 

Omg... It's so big.

 

Can't wait to ride this coaster. It is looking better and better with each new photo!

 

(p.s. - Thanks for the photos!)

 

(p.p.s. - I really want to know whats going on at the top of the launch hill with those weird supports!)

[shadox17]

Some more photos here:

This is looking insane!

[_koppen]

I just can't get over how crazy brilliant this ride looks