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CC does have low attendance sometimes, but it doesn't seem like it's losing money. It does much better business than Mutton Hollow or Branson USA ever did.

I think it's funny how there's a whole FITH theme song, but you can only hear certain parts and NEVER the whole thing. Right at the turn of one dark corner you hear some words I can never quite decide on and then, "Fire on the mountain, fire in the hole!" Will someone who works there please get a recording of it? What's the recording on now, a really old tape or what?

 Some years ago a special set of SDC commemorative pins was put out, and I noticed one of a ride I had never heard of and knew it couldn't just be hidden somewhere in the park. I asked one of the friendly folks selling the pins what had happened to the ride and he told me it was real neat and everything but they just had to get rid of it, didn't know why. What he told me about the ride gave me the impression that it actually went under water and now I've been trying to figure out what it really was. Thanks to this site, I find it was Rube Dugan's Diving Bell. I badly want to ride it.

Maybe I'm just nostalgic, but older, overlooked technology and entertainment excites me much more than the latest. I really wish I'd gotten to go to SDC back when it was really the Wild West Disney Land. I wish things would go back to the way they were even just a few years ago when characters roamed the park messing with people. There's that one skinny guy who used to be on the Branson Channel that was always around pulling gags. I haven't seen him in so long, I can't remember his name. And what about Doc that hung out around Wildfire? How can SDC be SDC without all that great old stuff? What happened?

I haven't seen any work on a new coaster, so I don't think that there's enough time to build one before next season. Everyone remembers how long it took them to build Buzzsaw or Wildfire. We had to watch all summer long as the areas were cleared and parts began to show up. Damn the anticipation! I'd really love to see a new wooden coaster though. I happened to look at a park map and it said a new ride was coming in 2010. I hope it's a coaster, but the spot it pointed to was pretty cramped.