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Personally, I don't think we're looking at 30 years to get the trees back. As long as they don't have to go back in and do more work, it should be about 4 to 5 years to grow back in. There were a lot of trees removed during the original construction and they grew back quickly. I clipped this...

Here’s a video from a year or so ago. IMHO, the coaster only looks slower due to not having any perspective with the trees. EDIT: there is about a 4-second difference between videos. Could be the fact that it's a lot colder in March than it was in June.

KK was not trolling with the height wavers. Actually the height wavers that KK posted with were actually showing on the FAA website. The project name was listed as "Raptor." KK then trolled the waivers by Photoshopping over Raptor with T4. Somewhere along the way, those FCC height wavers were...

Most people would agree that the biggest part affected by the slower launch is the first two drops. The rest of the ride is not really affected. Pete Owens actually said that it is running faster through the quad down. So whatever speed is lost by the toned down launch is gained back due to the...

Will be there opening weekend. Will give a report.

Scott shot footage of Lightning Rod’s truck assembly in the very beginning. Would be interesting to see the entire footage. https://www.instagram.com/p/BGZYUw9E9YI/?igshid=qif383utk18j

I also noticed that it seems to carry more speed at the top of the final turn.

We have now returned to stage 20 of Hixee’s guide to construction threads. 🤣 Honestly I think it looks close to where it was opening day. But here is a 2016 comparison.

Two things from the article that allude to Hart will still be involved. 1.The new owner will also retain one of the partners in the current ownership group on a consulting contract for three years, Carlin said, without specifying the partner. 2. Glasscock and Al J. Schneider Co. CEO Scott...

One theory Screamscape posted was that Ed Hart and Hershend would enter some kind of partnership with the parkand that Hershend and EPR would trade Wild Adventures and the Oklahoma Properties.

I thought I read somewhere in the forums that DW was footing the entire bill.

MIne would have to be the first drop on Skyrush in the back row. I wasn't expecting that much ejector air off the first drop. The only time I yelled expletives on a coaster.

I consider Dollywood as my home park. There is a lot of wooded land behind the Loyalty Parking lot for a terrain based coaster with the station in the wildwood grove expansion. 2 options here: 1) A terrain based B&M Giga or 2) A terrrain Intamin Blitz.

From what read, Kentucky Kingdom teased a Raptor Clone but they withdrew the FAA height permits. So my guess is that this coaster was supposed to go to Kentucky Kingdom.

If you want some entertainment regarding this subject. Drop in on the TPR Dollywood forum. There's about six pages of people discussing this nonsense. I think the general consensus on the Coasterforce boards is that as long as it runs the way its supposed to. Who really cares! I was lucky...

To me the only difference you will feel would be similar to riding a wood coaster that has been partially retracted. The new section will be a lot smoother. As long as the transitions are done correct you won’t feel it. Those that have ridden the GCI at Fun Spot say this. I found this picture...

I did say it looks like the track was being removed from the wave turn by the looks of a picture that was being circulated. Anyone who follows Dollywood forums knows that Pete is THE GUY for information concerning Dollywood. If he says something, you better believe it. So if he says the wave...

From what I saw, it looks more like a brown. Like Matt said, looks like a close color match to the cure wood.

Here at the park now. Can confirm this as we were watching guys with welding helmets do their thing. It appears the crane is currently being used to remove topper. But they’ve cleared a bunch of trees.

Actually the opposite. It appears that those are, for lack of a better term, welding blankets. Those are used to protect equipment or prevent fires when someone is welding or doing something to crate a spark. In this case, it looks like the blankets are there to protect the fins from work being...