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[DollarCityBoy]

Last night I had a dream that I was at SDC with several people from this Forum, and we were walking around with some of the people who run Silver Dollar City. We were asked if we could bring back 1 attraction from SDC's past, what would it be, and we all agreed it should be the Ball Pit.

Throughout my dream, the sand station was being revamped into the original Ball Pit with slides and all. I remember thinking wow, this is really amazing that the PTB listened to us and are putting this attraction back in.

Then when I woke up I thought to myself, man...why didn't we pick the Treehouse or the Diving Bell!?!?!

crazy nostalgic dream I guess. 

[Junior]

Ha! Watch what you eat/drink/smoke before going to bed! 

[tiffanylynnt]

I saw the Nickelodeon show! The only thing I remember was they had everyone in the stands stomp and make it sound like an avalanche. It was in Red Gold, right? I don't know if it was the same year, but I also got to meet Spongebob and Patrick during Kids Fest, but what do I know? I was only 4 or 5.

[Ozarks Gal]

Oh the ball pits! I remember them. I think I played in them only a few times--I was a germaphobe even at a young age.    I was also afraid I would fall through the rope nets, so I stayed away from those too. I remember shooting air guns at red long-underware hanging in the trees. Would this be from the top of the Treehouse, or top of Tom Sawyer's Landing?

[betamike]

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).

I can tell you with confidence that the Nickelodeon shows were in 1995 and 1996.   As we are ALL called upon to do multiple duties at the City, I was honored (mainly due to my art background) to help install the LEGO exhibit that year.   Great memories!

[oldsdcer]

I remember going to the Nickelodeon Show and not being able to reconize the Dick Van Dyke Show theme and at the end they had a kid sit in the multiple pie throwing chair.

[mhguy77]

Those ball pits were where the wax hand dipping is now.
This was Tom Sawywers landing.  Right across the walkway from the riverbattle, to the left after you pass under the tracks.

[Twinsmom98]

When my son was small there were two ball pits one was where the wax hand dipping is today and the other one was closer to the Tom Sawyer if my memory is right it is where the ballon ride was.  I do have pictures at home.

[DollarCityBoy]

Oh the ball pits! I remember them. I think I played in them only a few times--I was a germaphobe even at a young age.    I was also afraid I would fall through the rope nets, so I stayed away from those too. I remember shooting air guns at red long-underware hanging in the trees. Would this be from the top of the Treehouse, or top of Tom Sawyer's Landing?

It was Huck Finn's Hideout (The Treehouse) where you could shoot air guns at the red long-underware hanging in the trees.