![]() The theming, again, is wacky but such is Silver Dollar City. The ride was fantastic, especially in the back where you get some serious ejector air time during the first drop.easily the best first drop on any B&M for me and yes that includes the hyper coasters.Diamondback can't hold a candle to it. Following the Immelman comes the vertical loop, a fast past highbanked turned that hugs the mountainside, an unusually large Cobra Roll, flat spin, and a ground hugging helix that leads to a nice pop of airtime as you hit the brakes. ![]() The lift stands about 120 feet and turns to point riders towards the mountain side below before dropping 155 feet over the side of the mountain and straight into the Immelman. This has to be one of my favorite views from any lift hill, even over that of Cedar Point. The way the the park has positioned the ride is absolutely perfect. Wildfire - This is perhaps the most beautiful coaster I've ever seen in my life. Theming is just wacky, but cool :-) Continued to wind our way down the hill and passed the Parks 3 water rides (water toboggan, rapids and flume) until we found ourselves at a crossroads.Wildfire to the left and Powderkeg to the right. Giant Swing is just a standard S&S Screamin' Swing, but has some fun theming by way of being housed within a giant barn. We continued on down and made our way to Wilson's Farm, home of The Giant Swing. Even though a lot of it was dated, I was still surprised by how indepth some of the ride was and how it was themed. I was surprised to find this one with guns installed to shoot targets through out the ride. GREAT ride and definitley a surprise for me! Rode 3 times.įlooded Mine - Great little dark ride, I remember when Dollywood still had their version. I thought the ride ended here, so I was quite surprised to find one more drop over the mountain before the train finally reached the station. At this point, you are around 90 feet below where you started in the station, so there is a fairly large lift hill to get you back to the top. It rises a bit but then suddenly dives once again into a swooping turn and up into the brakes. At this point the train is moving along at a darn quick pace when it exits the tunnel. About midway down the ride enters a pretty big double helix, with the last part of the helix diving steeply within itself through a tunnel. You make two U-turns, of sorts, with each one dropping further over the mountain. I'm not really sure what prompted the park to do this, but I have to say it makes the ride hella fun! Our first ride was in the next to last car, which meant we rode the first time backwards! The ride starts out very similiar to Adventure Express as it winds its way over the hill side. Thunderation is unique in that every other car is turned around backwards. We ended up skipping due to the fact that they were running one train! Whats up with one train operations? Especially here because, like Mamba, it is a fairly lengthy ride! We eventually made our way back over later in the day. Definitely a close cousin to Adventure Express as it heavily utilizes the terrain it sits on. Thunderation - I may possibly have a new favorite mine ride now. We decided to make our way down the hill, first coming to Thunderation As I mentioned earlier, the big difference between the two parks is that SDC is situated high on top of a mountain and Dollywood is situated in the valleys of the Smokey's. The food was outstanding, no surprise there, and the midways are lined with various crafts and such. Having visited Dollywood numerous times when I lived in Cincinnati, there was a familiar feeling while strolling through the midways of SDC. We made our way to the entrance to pick up our ticket and soon began to explore the Park. The view from SDC's location is just beautiful, I was really amazed by it actually. The lots were some distance away from the gate, but the Park had tons of shuttles running guests to the entrance. The first thing that caught our attention while pulling in was FREE PARKING. I've wanted to visit Silver Dollar City for many years, but just have never been able to make the trek out to Branson. Likewise, this becomes the major difference between Dollywood and Silver Dollar City. While in Pigeon Forge you are situated down in the valleys, Branson is nestled among the mountain tops. ![]() I've heard many comparisons between Branson and Pigeon Forge, so thats what I was sort of expecting on our drive in. The drive from Kansas City to Branson wasn't bad at all, we made it in just under 3 hours. After such a bad experience at WoF, we were quick to get out of bed Tuesday morning and get the heck outta there.
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