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And finally, I present to you some pictures from our trip! One of the many impressive views from the parking lot. Safari Bizarro Saw Mill Log Flume Our friend/neighbor who works at the park and who gave us the tickets. Nitro El Toro Night dance party with Looney Toons characters Funny sign in the parking lot. Night skyline

That would be my dream. Let's hope this is true.But that picture does remind me also of an overhead image of the area of the park near the beach. Maybe could 2014 bring a Rocky Mountaint treatment to MS in addition to beach improvements, including a new family ride?

No never been there but heard of it before. I think I saw it on an episode of Ghost Hunters/Ghost Adventures haha.

Yep pretty interesting. Here's another account of the tale: Fairport Harbor Lighthouse on Lake Erie, the oldest lighthouse on the lake, is home to probably the cutest ghost. The light was discontinued in 1925, and was turned into a museum. In 1989, the resident curator was in the kitchen when she saw out of the corner of her eye something small and dark flitting by. A few seconds later she saw it again. Looking around the corner of the door, she saw a small gray cat, almost like a puff of smoke, scampering around the floor. It had no feet, and moved about the floor almost on invisible wheels. It had iridescent gold marble like eyes and feathery gray fur. It seemed to chase something, then scooted around the corner and disappeared. The curator saw the puff many times over the winter, and even played with it by tossing an old sock down the hallway, which the cat would chase. The last family of keepers, the Babcocks, had a little boy who died when he was 5 years old. Shortly after, Mrs. Babcock took ill and was confined to bed for several months. During that time, she was kept company by one particular kitten of the many house cats, who delighted in chasing a ball down the hallway and bringing it back to her. The living room where the curator encountered the ghostly kitten used to be the bedroom where Mrs. Babcock stayed. An addendum to this tale: Workers doing some reconstruction of the lighthouse is the winter of 2000-2001 discovered the mummified remains of a cat in the crawlspace. It was determined that the poor creature had gotten trapped in there and was unable to get out of the cold, dank space. The remains of this kitty are on display at the museum. From http://hauntedlights.com/haunted2.html

1. Dollywood really seems like it has a great variety of fun rides, even more now with the new coaster. 2. The new resort looks beautiful and very well designed. 3. $300 million within 10 years? That's a pretty serious investment and I'm sure will only result in awesome things for the park. Combining all 3 of these things I now have a new park I'd like to visit within the next several years. Nice job, Dollywood. You just ensured youself a new money spending patron soon.

^Yep, Squire's Castle is a great place and is fun to hike all around. And are you referring to the Fairport Lighthouse with the cat? Here's the pic of the "orbs:"

Ahh can't believe I didn't catch that. But according to this article it still could be correct to say what I did: http://www.dailywritingtips.com/could-care-less-versus-couldnt-care-less/ I'll admit that technically I was incorrect, but as seen in the link, I wasn't entirely wrong haha.

Ok I'm clueless What did I do?

^^Did he like DT?

I love Invertigo. I think it's a fun, eye catching ride that, like others have said, provides a nice variety in the park. I truly miss Wildcat. DT on the other hand, I could care less about. Maybe it was better in its younger years, but the only thing I know it as was the smelly, hot-as-a-furnace, super short ride inside the ugly box with pretty much no theming. As long as CP gets a new family coaster within the next couple years, in no way would I ever regret the removal of DT.

Sure as heck I did when I was going into 8th grade. I was hooked since I rode my first real coaster (Big Dipper) when I was 5 or 6.

If you think this past Monday was packed then you should go on a HalloWeekends Saturday.

I visited many supposedly haunted places while in Scotland. Some of them truly felt creepy to be in but nothing happened to me. The only thing is that in one of our pictures of Ernest Shakleton's quarters on board the RMS Discovery docked in Dundee, there was an orb over the chair. I always think these so called "orbs" are just dust particles, but it was interesting since this was the only picture from the ship that had one. Think of it as you wish, but it's still interesting either way.

And here are the other stats "Americanized", assuming the article is correct: -length = over 2532.8 feet (a short ride, IMO) -height = 131 feet (roughly) -speed =62 mph (roughly) So this coaster is definitely not very big, but it looks like it will pack a punch and its compact layout looks exciting.

Can't wait! I'm not preparing for some massive new addition, but I think it will be more than just general park improvements and renovations. Why else would they want a family to do the announcement? Whatever it is, I'm sure it will be a great addition to the Point.

That airtime hill also looks to provide some strong airtime since it doesn't seem to be very tall. I imagine you'll get some decently strong upward forces since you'll be flying over the hill at close to the high speed.

I'm guessing within a week or two, but I don't think anyone knows.

So in addition to Dollywood's Firechase Express, resort, and general $300 million decade long improvement announcement, Heide Park officially announced their new wing coaster. I haven't found a name released, but I have seen a rendering of the layout. It looks to be a fairly short ride but it looks pretty fun. It includes an airtime hill following the wing over drop, a near miss element under the shop, an immelman, and what Lance on Screamscape calls an "Inclined Norwegian-Pretzel Loop." I'm glad to see a B&M getting a new type of inversions and it looks cool. http://www.radiohamburg.de/Nachrichten/Deutschland-und-die-Welt/Norddeutschland-kompakt/2013/August/Neue-Achterbahn-Hier-entsteht-ein-Wing-Coaster/achterbahn01a The site is in German so I'd recommend using Google Translate (unless you can speak German).

Something else on my bucket list is to do an overnight ghost investigation at a famous haunted location. I'm not sure if I believe in that stuff, but I'd like to see whether or not I experience something first hand before jumping to conclusions.

Very cool and I never knew that. I love learning all the "secrets" behind amuement parks, especially Disney.

Nope! But not that you'd want to see it...

I've seen employee only areas in Disney when my band had to go and get ready to perform in the Electric Lights Parade over spring break. I'm not allowed to say what I saw or tell anything else about it, but it was cool seeing what most guests never get to see. If I ever get to go in the tunnels, then I'd be able to say I've seen behind the scenes/backstage Disney as well as underground Disney! That would be pretty cool.

If you don't mind sharing, how did you get to go in them?

I never knew these existed until recently. It was before my spring break band trip to Disney/Universal and my grandparents told me about this. I find it very interesting how much could be going on under your feet.