SILVER DOLLAR CITY Branson, MO (Abbreviation: SDC) Herschend Family Entertainment Corp.
Park News - (5/7/08) Silver Dollar City will be holding their Bluegrass & BBQ Festival from May 10th to June 1st. You can read the concert line up here. (4/29/08) You can see a trip report from Silver Dollar City’s World Fest 2008 posted to MidWestInfoGuide. (3/12/08) SDCFans has posted an update showing off the latest on the various projects taking place at Silver Dollar City. This includes a look at the new Culinary Arts School, what’s been done to the new road project outside the park, new themeing at the Flooded Mine and more. (12/17/07) MidWestInfoGuide has posted new photos showing off the 2007 “An Old Time Christmas” event at Silver Dollar City in the daytime and at night video of a special effects tree. (12/6/07) You can see photos from the ACE Coaster Christmas event at Silver Dollar City posted to MidWestInfoGuide. They also have pictures showing off the start of construction for the new Culinary Arts School.
2008 - New Festival Additions - (2/14/08) Silver Dollar City will offer all new festival events this year with new original stage productions. New this spring will be an Irish Celebration with World-Fest’s all new Irish production show, Feet of Fire. Summer will ramp up with the park’s biggest Kids Fest ever that will feature The Magic of Peter Gossamer, a Kid Concoctions interactive world of play, a VeggieTales live stage show called The Invention of Silliness produced exclusively for Silver Dollar City and an Ice Circus. We’ve got the dates for all the 2008 Festival events: World Fest - April 3rd to May 4th Bluegrass & BBQ – May 10th to June 1st National Kids Fest – June 7th to August 10th Southern Gospel Picnic – August 28th to September 7th National Harvest Festival – September 11th to October 25th An Old Time Christmas – Novemebr 1st to December 30th (12/3/07) According to the ACE Coaster Christmas Con reports, Silver Dollar City will not be adding a new ride in 2008. Instead they will be adding some kind of Culinary Arts School near the Red Gold Festival Barn. (10/15/07) You can see a construction update to the parking lot renovation at Silver Dollar City posted to MidWestInfoGuide. (8/16/07) I’ve been told that the park is working on approval for a few off-season plans this winter. One will expand and restructure their parking lots but the bigger issue is a plan to relocate a nearby road to allow the locals to avoid the theme park traffic.
2009 - New Coaster - (12/3/07) Silver Dollar City revealed to the ACE Coaster Christmas Con attendees that something BIG will be coming to the park in 2009 that will be their largest capital investment to date. By coincidence they will also be hosting the ACE Coaster Con that year. Previous rumors have claimed the park was seriously looking at adding their own custom themed Gerstlauer Eurofighter to make a themed attraction similar to Dollywood’s new Mystery Mine. (5/11/07) We've heard that Silver Dollar City may be considering the addition of their own themed Gerstlauer Eurofighter coaster, inspired by the positive guest response to Dollywood's Mystery Mine.
???? - Tom Sawyer’s Landing Project - Rumor - (8/16/07) While nothing is really known right now, the Treehouse is still rumored for removal along with a possible project to revamp this entire area in the next few years. (6/4/07) The latest reports from park guests is that the Huck Finn Tree House in Tom Sawyer’s Landing is currently closed and the entrance and exit areas boarded up. You can see a few photos of the closed area taken last week at SuperSteveSupersite From what I’ve been told, it was closed down sometime last season and many were hoping the problems would be fixed this year. If the rumors are true, the structure may have been determined to be too costly to repair short of a complete rebuild and the park may have to focus their 2008 capital on this area next year. Anyone know more?
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