-Danny
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Coaster Insomniacs
The only reason that I don't fully understand this underrated theory is because of the fact that all of her park additions ately have been educations of her. Yes, park goers have come to love Dolly, but when you start making show after show parading yourself it just get so redudant.
I mean, why not just build a wild mouse and just stop th car at each brake run to tell about her life. Dollywood was a good day trip, but the park could use less fluff and more thrill.
Which brings us to where we are...thank you for the new woodie Dolly :)
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Kind of odd, I only know of Dolly Presence in Adventures in Imagination, the Heartsong Theater, and at her Replica Home.
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"The Mountain Slidewinder. Voted The #1 Non-Rollercoaster Ride in America Amusement Business Magazine, 1991"
Plus,if you want to see a rendering of how ThunderHead will probably look-check out Silver Dollar City's on-line survey and look at the wooden coaster rendering.
*** This post was edited by CoastermanX 6/27/2003 11:23:53 PM ***
Still hope that when SDC gets a wooden coaster it will be a dueling/racing one. Maybe themed to the great locomotive chase incident during the Civil War or maybe themed around two competing locomotive engineers having a race over the logging line.
Looking at the survey that CoastermanX linked I wonder what most of the public surveyed chose? I enjoyed DW's eagle sanctuarty so would not mind SDC getting one of the those.
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Jim Wolgamuth
There is still nothing else on the coaster other than the Amusement Business article and the Business Wire article.
Hopefully, when the park has the press conference new renderings or new info will become available.
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CoasterKrazy said:
Could someone please explain exactly what this "fly-through station" is?------------------
Intelligence is a God given gift: Know how to use it.
It is simply what it says: about mid-ride the track returns to the station but does not stop it goes through the station about 8 feet above the station track and both tracks-the station track and thr 'ride' track is under the same roof.
*** This post was edited by CoastermanX 6/28/2003 9:59:40 PM ***
I think it will get annoying after you've been standing in line for a while.
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"The Mountain Slidewinder. Voted The #1 Non-Rollercoaster Ride in America Amusement Business Magazine, 1991"
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"You know its a good ride when you come into the final brake run wiping tears from your eyes."
I took a trip on the DW Express which goes right past the construction site and saw that they have probably been at work on excavating the site for some time now since it was pretty much completely dug out and they had a WHOLE lot of dump trucks-after passing some of them on the road when I was leaving DW-it seems the trucks come from all over East Tennessee and I noticed one from North Carolina.
They have posted 3 attraction posters in the park:
1) on the right wall of the Tennessee Tornado's queue house.
2) A big version of the one floating around the net now. It's located on the roof of a stall in the Xtreme Sports Area (bus parking lot).
3) There's one on the wall as your entering the DW Emporium which has the poster and says below it: 273 Days til the Thunder.
In other Dollywood news-
After a short run-Dollywood has suspended the train 'robbery' it probably has to do with the construction.
Also,for the first time ever-Ive saw anyway-TT ran both trains yesterday afternoon.One time the trains I was in was stopped by the block brakes on the brake run. It was a really forceful jolt but for the first time ive ever saw it-the trains I was in slowly entered the station-giving the station brakes well, a brake.
*** This post was edited by CoastermanX 7/1/2003 8:10:17 PM ***
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CoastermanX said:
My report on the construction at Dollywood. I took a trip on the DW Express which goes right past the construction site and saw that they have probably been at work on excavating the site for some time now since it was pretty much completely dug out and they had a WHOLE lot of dump trucks-after passing some of them on the road when I was leaving DW-it seems the trucks come from all over East Tennessee and I noticed one from North Carolina.They have posted 3 attraction posters in the park:
1) on the right wall of the Tennessee Tornado's queue house.
2) A big version of the one floating around the net now. It's located on the roof of a stall in the Xtreme Sports Area (bus parking lot).
3) There's one on the wall as your entering the DW Emporium which has the poster and says below it: 273 Days til the Thunder.
In other Dollywood news-
After a short run-Dollywood has suspended the train 'robbery' it probably has to do with the construction. Also,for the first time ever-Ive saw anyway-TT ran both trains yesterday afternoon.One time the trains I was in was stopped by the block brakes on the brake run. It was a really forceful jolt but for the first time ive ever saw it-the trains I was in slowly entered the station-giving the station brakes well, a brake.
*** This post was edited by CoastermanX 7/1/2003 8:10:17 PM ***
Really? What Day were you there? I stopped by on the 2nd for a little while. It rained all day. The Shopkeeper I talked to said that they had set a record the day before for the lowest attendance ever at that time of the year.
I reflect your thoughts on the T. Tornado. I've also only seen two train operation once, on the opening day of the 2001 season. Yet, Blazing Fury seems to run all Three of its trains regularly.
BTW, I talked to an engineer at the Dollywood Express and he told me the train would not operate the last two weeks of December dew to Construction. There having to re-lay the entire section of track at the Construction site, so it's 10ft. to the left of it's current location.
*** This post was edited by Dukeis#1 7/4/2003 2:29:07 AM ***
plus,they won't let them do 2-train ops unless it really starting to pick up.I think the limit is a line all the way back to the stairs (not the ramp) also something else happened on TT that day ive never saw before-they had the entire last 3 cars blocked off (that was morning it was open later).
Like everything else, it all bowls down to money. Blazing Fury can run all 3 trains because it is indoors plus half the time the fury needs all trains-the line usually picks up even if the park is pretty much deserted.
BTW-did the engineer say what happened to the robberies?
About the Robbery, A few years ago they did it every time the train ran. Now they've lazied up a-bit to the point that they only do it every-other run or something of that sort. It doesn't bother me that much because the current act is cheezy. (If they brought back the great one from the 94/95 seasons, I might think different!) But, Your right about them quiting it all together. I imagine that the noise from the Trucks and Bulldozers is pretty loud right there.
*** This post was edited by Dukeis#1 7/5/2003 2:48:39 AM ***
I can see me going to Dollywood next season! :)
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Signature will be closed today. Sorry for the inconveinance.
The future is looking bright for DW.
BTW-what happened to the B&M Inverted?
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