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I know this sounds weird, but with my motion sickness I would not be able to ride a spinning coaster. Right now I can do all the rides at Silver Dollar City except for the tea cups, swings, electro spin, (a lot of the kiddie rides in Grand Expo) etc. anything that spins like they do. If this new attraction is a spinning coaster I'm afraid I won't be able to do it. I go from being excited about the new attraction to not. Hopefully it will be something I can ride.

I'm right there with you on things that spin but like Swoosh said hopefully this one won't be that extreme and we can ride it.  I had to give up Wildfire as well because of the continuous loops and cobra rolls.  it's fun getting old 

I don't remember saying it won't be extreme.  It'll actually be the exact opposite.  This thing is rumored to be a record breaker.

I'm beginning to think you're hinting very strongly at a Mack 4D Hyper. Am I anywhere close to the right track?

If they are closing/moving something for the new coaster, wouldn't that need to close early in the season?

Yup, Geyser Gulch closed in early August 2014 and that was for a comparatively small-scale addition. Leads me to believe either the 2017 isn't going in that spot, it's being delayed to 2018, we will hear official news sooner rather than later (the most likely option IMO), or some combination of the three.

I think some people are finally putting it together

Heh kinda ironic, last time I logged in (a few years ago... I named myself after GG long before it was nostalgic to do so lol) there was speculation about TNT being removed sometime in the future, and 2017 seemed to be a consensus if I remember right. I've also noticed especially last year that it's gotten a lot rougher, possibly due to a difference in weather and possibly due to (self-speculated) lesser maintenance. Flooded Mine is also seeming to be neglected, though I'm not sure why you would need to close that as well (or even move the kiddie rides from GE) unless this is a hyper/giga or some other design that takes up that large an amount of space.

Also going to say, if the survey is actually for 2020, and if the rumors about 2017 being a B&M are correct, then either the first option (the Mack spinner) is what they're really judging for or they are fully on the B&M bandwagon, since making an Invert/Wing and then a Dive would make nearly half of their roller coasters (and over half of the ones that actually have something to them) be made by the same company. On the "survey is for 2020" side of things, though, I've heard on another forum that Cedar Fair makes manufacturers sign a 10-year non-compete agreement in a 200-mile radius. If this is the case, this would be the first year SDC could get a B&M Invert, since Patriot at WoF opened in 2006. However, I don't see why FM or the kiddie rides would have to go unless either it's that big of an invert or they want to put the gift shop where FM will have been, or both.

Moving Echo Hollow over to the entrance makes a ton of sense (as does rebuilding the entrance). I feel like that's one of those things that's probably been floating around on the back burner for ages now, but who knows when they'll actually get the gumption to pull the trigger. It's a lot of investment in what is essentially just infrastructure - they'd only do it if they were serious about making a true push towards turning SDC into a resort park like they're turning DW into.

I'm still willing to bet on a wing rider for 2017, but there's plenty of argument to be made that they're going for something else. I'm completely in the dark on that one. The fact that they seem to be looking at another B&M for 2020 or so makes me wonder...

The B&M 2020 deal makes me wonder as well, Shave. I was pretty sure this year's addition would be a German manufacturer so that would make sense.

Mack is a German manufacturer, and something unmistakably from them (the spinning car on a full-sized coaster, which was tested sometime last year at Europa Park) was on the survey. Something to think about.

A Vekoma Boomerang. Or $16 cheeseburgers.

there doesn't appear to a be significant amount of real estate to work with here, so that worry's me quite a bit.

Me too, and not because there's no space at all. It's because there's a roller coaster in the way.

Anyone who says RB was unnecessary has never waited in line for LR on a hot day pre-2010. The line for LR used to be as much as 2 hours long before RB came around... now it's usually more like 30 minutes in similar weather.

Take a look at this.

http://web.archive.org/web/20120725061424/http://www.primeplay.com/splash_track.html

The website is now behind a login wall; and judging from the lack of other times available, making it public was probably a mistake.

Here's the link:

http://www.primeplay.com/splash_track.html

They have other pics of their coaster in actual parks, so why would they paste a pic of their coaster on an image of GG?

I gotta say, I'm definitely intrigued. The fact that Herschend has worked with the company before and the fact that Splash Harbor was taken out and now has room over there for a new ride..... And this coaster is a water coaster....

I dunno guys; it might be an interesting clue.

And the page now requires login whereas none of their other attractions do. Nice work guys!

I just had an epiphany... first off, WOW that place was HUGE if it used to extend all the way to JJ Fiddlesticks! Second, and more to the point, have ya ever noticed that JJ Fiddlesticks (which was one of the boundaries of TSL apparently) is very close in location to a certain other treehouse-themed area? I mean, even the lore is the same (that some kids built the place to play in). Would it be a stretch of the imagination to say that this certain other area (look at my username if you haven't figured it out) was originally planned to be some sort of extension to Tom Sawyer's Landing (or at least another area connected to the toy store), but that the idea was scrapped very shortly before building? Just a thought.

I am guessing the slide at the treehouse was there the first couple of years.  It wasn't that long of a slide, probably 20 to 25 feet.  It might not have been totally concrete, but to the best of my memory it was.  The slide started at what was later the infinity room to the best of my knowledge.

20 to 25 feet? Wasn't that long?!?! Hello! It makes what kids typically play on nowadays look tiny!

Not sure If'n I spurred that thought in you, but if not Junior...were on the same page here!

Enjoy ya'all...this might be the last view of the interior that you'll ever have!

When were those from? I don't remember that bridge (or the treehouse) being there, even in the late '90s (the only things similar to that I remember were entered by a wide climbing rope that was pretty hard to get up to and said "DO NOT ENTER" or "WRONG WAY" or something like that on a sign if you tried to go down that way; and also a little structure very close to the ground that had a small sailor's wheel and you would exit via four very wide metal cylindrical slides that were no more than 3 feet off the ground).

The ball pit was in TS Landing, as you stated.  They were in the area that is now across from the River Blast, where the current waxworks (handdipping sculpture) is.

The Nickelodeon shows changed from year to year, during Kidsfest, and were not exactly in the theme of SDC (which is why we diehards disliked them so much, much as we do not like the cartoon visits that graced the festival in 2010).

I'm sure you can find more information (and even pictures) about the old version of TS Landing and Kidsfests in other threads on the forum.

A few more memories... brown was the pervading color scheme of the ball pit, with some beige on the climbing thing. The colors were subdued, the blue balls were an "unsaturated" blue. In the Nick show I possibly remember there being some sort of vertical set of lights a bit like that in this arcade game. The Lego exhibit had an area where kids could build with LEGO Freeplay bricks (don't remember the exact name, but it's what they used to call the normal bricks when they were not in a special kit... the 1990's predecessor to "Creator" sets).

As for the "diehards", a toddler usually does not consider the philosophical implications of whether an attraction fits the overall theme of a park before enjoying it.

...nor does he remember much 13 years later.

[We did go over to RB and the kids started shooting at this one family in a boat. The mother I presume did not want her hair to get wet and started hollering "stop, don't, quit". I really don't know what she expected riding RB and not expecting to get wet. I really think she might have gotten physical if she could have gotten a hold on them.]

Went to SDC today!  The weather was perfect and starting out we could not even guess how many people would show up today.  We arrived about 8:30 and there was already more people there than I had ever seen at that time on a Sunday morning.  We started the morning by purchasing a few pin trading pins in the Hospitality House.  I asked the clerk how many people were they expecting and she said "well we had 15,000 yesterday and expected at least that many and probably a few more today".  Well we hit FITH and PK right off the bat because I knew it wouldn't take long for the lines to start to form.  We stayed away from the water rides because nobody really wanted to get wet.  We did go over to RB and the kids started shooting at this one family in a boat.  The mother I presume did not want her hair to get wet and started hollering "stop, don't, quit".  I really don't know what she expected riding RB and not expecting to get wet.  I really think she might have gotten physical if she could have gotten a hold on them.  Oh, well!  life goes on!  We then went over to the old WB site, but it still looks the same as it has all summer long, nothing going on as far as a new attraction.  I even asked a few citizens if they knew anything about any new attractions for next year.  They all said they had not heard anything about it.  So it looks like they are keeping it pretty hush, hush.  We caught the Sons Of The Silver Dollar and Canaan's Crossing (which were a pretty good bluegrass-gospel group).  We ended up getting tired of fighting the crowd and leaving about 3:30, saving our energy for another day.

SO YOU WERE THE ONES who unleashed the super-effective Hydro Cannon on my mom!!!!! Tell them good going, and I hope it happens again this summer... though I doubt it will be you guys if and when it does happen.

Can anyone help me here? I remember around 1997 or 1998 there being some sort of ball pit in the park, maybe near the center (that memory would be reasonable given SDC's original "three-ring" arrangement). The balls were blue and brown, and there was some kind of soft climbing and sliding apparatus within it. It was NOT the area at Geyser Gulch with the foam balls; these were the more traditional larger inflatable kind. If I remember right it was surrounded by some kind of mesh like that used at Geyser Gulch and formerly at Tom Sawyer's Landing. Also, I remember there being a Nickelodeon show during that same time period... all I really remember about it was that the audience was told to "SCREEEEAM!!!" every couple of minutes or so. I can't find much on either. That same year there was also a LEGO exhibit. From what I see on Google, the ball pit was likely in the aforementioned Tom Sawyer's Landing (no pictures though), and I find NOTHING on the Nickelodeon show (just some stuff about Double Dare 2000... not the year I saw it in) or LEGO exhibit.

All this was during the Kids Fest of one of those two years (1997 or 1998).