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Postby Movieguy » Thu Mar 30, 2006 7:40 pm

Dollywood has come a Looooooong way from the park I remember in the mid-90's.

I first saw the park mentioned on an old E! Special called "Theme Parks a Go-Go" (Which I still have on tape somewhere.), and I was fairly underwhelemed by what I saw. Their big addition for the year was some new 1950's themed section of the park...whoop-ee-ding!...and when she talked about the rides, she gave the only amusing line of the segment...

Dolly: "I often tell people, we don't have Space Mountain, but we have Twin Peaks..." *Pushes her boobs out a little.* :lolr:

But when I looked at Dollywood again for the first time in ages recently, my jaw dropped...this is NOT the Dollywood I remember, with those awesome coasters...and now that they're adding a vertical drop coaster, I can see that Dolly has finally wised up on how to really compete in the park business.

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Postby Guy T. Koepp » Thu Mar 30, 2006 7:55 pm

Dwood does things right! Expect this ride to be awesome!
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Postby DATman » Thu Mar 30, 2006 10:06 pm

Well, This will be a fun one to watch grow!
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Postby Guy T. Koepp » Thu Mar 30, 2006 10:21 pm

^If the rumors are true what I've heard. We won't see much growing on this ride as it will be mostly indoors and underground.

I so loved my trip to Dollywood this Christmas. If this ride holds up to the high standard that this park is known for, then it is gonna be a goodie!
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Postby jamesdillaman » Thu Mar 30, 2006 10:35 pm

This only cements in my mind that dollywood is awsome. Everyone around here still thinks that it's a stupid bluegrass-music filled shrine to dolly parton. Hopefully as they add more rides people won't pass on it while visiting pigeon forge and gatlinburg. They'll make it a point to go there. On an unrelated note, my first trip to dollywood was simply great. I rode Thunderhead 35 there!) After buying a thunderhead t-shirt, the entire thunderhead ride crew all signed it for me, and on my way out I just mentioned to somebody that it was the most fun I've ever had at any theme park, which I'd been to a few, btw. They took down my address, and I completely forgot about it. About a month later I opened my mailbox to find a hand-written letter from the park operations team thanking me for my visit and my kind comments, along with a free dollywood windbreaker. This park is incredible!
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Postby Xtreeme79 » Thu Mar 30, 2006 10:56 pm

Yeah I can't back up what James said enough! That is the most friendly park I have ever spent time and money at. Truly a 1st class park--and their people make all the difference. I've never experienced more friendly and motivated ride ops ANYWHERE! I go every year because of them.
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Postby Movieguy » Fri Mar 31, 2006 3:48 am

I remember seeing that footage in Dollywood after the Japanese parks in the Japan-a-Mania DVD. That one ride-op for Thunderhead seemed really into what he was doing.

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Postby jamesdillaman » Fri Mar 31, 2006 8:53 pm

This goes against the grain of my thinking, but in my experience, dollywood's park staff was much friendlier than holiday world's has been in the past couple years. I think holiday world may be getting bigger so it's less personable, but to further illustrate my point, when I went back to dollywood, 80% of the thunderhead ride crew from the year before were still there, and they remembered me! One guy (the crew knew him as "sharpie") even remembered my name!! When I worked as a ride op on the beast @ PKI, I tried to be really into the ride, but my supervisor didn't like it when there was a lot of talking over the intercom, so he didn't let me drive much. PKI wasn't concerned as much about the ride ops being into the ride, it is rather dissapointing.
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Postby Jonathan » Fri Mar 31, 2006 9:01 pm

^ I agree with you, and that is NOT meant to be a knock against Holiday World, but I really think Dollywood has the friendliest employees of any park I've seen.
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Postby niiicolaaah » Fri Mar 31, 2006 10:23 pm

I really need to go to Dollywood. Ok, I have my first 2007 trip in mind!! :br
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