Dollywood.com now has a Thunderhead progress page

Foundation work has begun.

You can find it here.

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Can you feel the thunder?
Thunderhead comes to Dollywood in 2004!
*** This post was edited by CoastermanX 7/25/2003 4:11:02 AM ***

Nice feature. I only wish the thumbnails were able to be enlarged. A webcam would be even better!

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-Mike B.
Son of Hulk
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Hopefully you will be able to enlarge them once vertical construction starts.

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http://www.bgtguide.com

Thats Nice. I'm sure once the park Closes for the season that they'll start doing Weekly Updates.

Maybe they'll put some Layout Pics on as well.

I'm going to DW Next week, I'll try take some some pics on the Train, during the 5 second period it passes the site.

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"The Mountain Slidewinder. Voted The #1 Non-Rollercoaster Ride in America Amusement Business Magazine, 1991"

Focus One Research (who does the surveys for HFE) sent me an email today about Dollywood's new coaster.

See it here.

I thought they had already chose the name of the coaster as Thunderhead. Thats the one I chose on the survey since the others were stupid except for Thunderhead and Wildfire. I didn't choose Wildfire for obvious reasons...their smooching off of SDC.
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Can you feel the thunder?
Thunderhead comes to Dollywood in 2004!

I'll be watching the progress closely with excitement!
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Nashville needs a theme park!

CoastermanX said:
I thought they had already chose the name of the coaster as Thunderhead. Thats the one I chose on the survey since the others were stupid except for Thunderhead and Wildfire. I didn't choose Wildfire for obvious reasons...their smooching off of SDC.
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Gosh, I hope they leave it Thunderhead. That name is so unique to Coasters, and there are already so many Wildcats out there. And then of course the Wildcat at Celebration City.

And then, if they choose Wildfire, we would have to deal with the questions like "Is the Wildfire at Dollywood a clone of the one at SDC?" or "Is Wildfire a Wooden or a Steel coaster?"

Hopefully everyone will choose Thunderhead.

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I chose Thunderhead. It sounds more original than any of the other names. Plus, it fits in with the theme of Thunderhead Gap the best.

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Nashville needs a theme park!

CoasterMan, how do you get them to send you pages like that?

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ROYALS!!!

They have people walking around DW getting email addresses. I assume that they do the same thing at SDC, and CC since they have done similar surveys recently.
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Can you feel the thunder?
Thunderhead comes to Dollywood in 2004!

Well, I've taked one at CC with my family, and we have never gotten one.

I guess we're not as important as you ;)

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ROYALS!!!

Don't feel bad about it. I gave them my email address at DW's Grand Opening in April and have just got my first survey today.

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Can you feel the thunder?
Thunderhead comes to Dollywood in 2004!

CoasterBill said:
Well, I've taked one at CC with my family, and we have never gotten one.
I guess we're not as important as you ;)

lol, Well, SDC was only nice enough to give us two Coasters at a time over the past 25 years. :)

(By the way, a Happy 25th to Blazing Fury! Born in 1978)

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"The Mountain Slidewinder. Voted The #1 Non-Rollercoaster Ride in America Amusement Business Magazine, 1991"
*** This post was edited by Dukeis#1 7/25/2003 10:03:40 PM ***

You got the first steel looping and wooden coaster though. (If you dont count CC)

Happy 10th Birthday Thunderation at SDC- Born in 1993.

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ROYALS!!!

OMG!!!!!1 I cant wate for this ride to built. It loooks soooooooooooooo cool!!!!!!!21

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"You know its a good ride when you come into the final brake run wiping tears from your eyes."

I'm so glad that this park is finally getting wood. GCI will do a fine job with this ride I'm sure. The whole concept works really well, and the ride will blend into the park perrrrrrrrrfectly.

Wood - anything else is an imitation

On the survey for the name, The 3rd photo is used in the Survey for SDC when the wood showed up...

hmm
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ROYALS!!!

On the survey, they list the name as "The Thunderhead." Let's hope that they drop the "The." Hopefully it was just the common stupid mistake of throwing the word "the" in front of every coaster name.

I've noticed that. The Dueling Dragons, The mamba... I agree though, just plain Thunderhead is a great name.

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ROYALS!!!

Thunderhead is a unique name... just very very strange.
Seriously though, unique or not, I don't really like the name. I think just about any of those names would be better than Thunderhead.

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It IS as bad as you think, and they ARE out to get you.