Judgment Day at Dollywood! My Experience, July 2022
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ก.ค. 2024
- I've had issues with Dollywood in the past, whether it be rude employees, slow ops, ride closures, you name it,but I gave it another go in July 2022 and this is what I found.
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Sophie has passed me in credits AGAIN. The epic rivalry rages on.
She's supercharging forward right now, its gonna be hard to catch her
@@I_Was_Groot_2000 nooo thanks for the heads up
CZsWorld? you watch airtime thrills, cool!
"Dollywood needs to not piss me off" - *starts with a four mile hike in humid southern heat just to get to the gate*
It wasnt an ideal start
Surprised you were able to get on LR. It’s been acting up again a lot, from what I hear. Next time I’m there, if it’s running I’m gonna marathon it until it breaks.
"Roller Coaster 1 does not look safe." Anyone who's played RCT laughed at that one.
The fact that Sophie went on Lightning Rod and made it the last ride to finish the day off in style must have made you one proud coaster enthusiast dad!
It was a real turning point for her. Since then shes been a coaster maniac
Love that you include Sophie in your passion. My dad loved coasters growing up, and my first actual non-kiddie coaster were with him. The Raven and The Legend back in the early 2000s. He hasn't been able to ride anything for some time now, but those memories and moments last forever.
Dollywood is legit one of my favorite parks, glad you finally enjoyed it outside of the weather. The single rider line is a godsend for LRod, I got 15 rides on it in March, and thanks to that I don't ever see a need to invest in a TimeSaver Pass🤣 Very thrilled to see Sophie get to ride LRod!
I just went to Dollywood for the first time early this July and really enjoyed it! I got a back row ride on Thunderhead and didn't think it was too bad. Lightning Rod is amazing, but the dispatches were so slow.
Thunderhead is ALOT smoother with a full train. I rode it two months ago on a PACKED day and it was great.
Silver Dollar City came first. Dollywood opened a year later but wasn’t called Silver Dollar City until 76. Finally in 85, it got its current name. The clock probably came along with the 76 rename. Thats my guess.
Man I REALLY need to go to Dollywood! It seems a lot like an Eastern Knott's Berry Farm to me. A good balance of high level theming and high level thrills. Also the themed areas themselves have similar themes to Knott's. Oh and the food looks amazing
Dollywood does have great theming, but it's also mixed in with the natural beauty of the mountains. That natural beauty is something that Knotts doesn't have. I'm not sure how Knotts is in regards to entertainment, but Dollywood & Silver Dollar City cannot be topped in that department. I feel those are the 2 most complete parks in the world.
Dollywood is wonderful. Knotts is my home park and I can say "YES" it's like that - except with mountains like OK Coaster Fan said. It was built in phases and has that charming unevenness like Knotts. In the same way Knotts has a serious commitment to live actors in ghost town, Dollywood does that with live music. You'll LOVE it.
Knotts does seem more like a Herschend park than Cedar Fair. I'd say Dollywood's theming is more consistently good than Knotts's, though Knotts does a good job. The theming is more varied than the theming at Silver Dollar City and some people find that clunky and others find it to be nice to have variety.
I absolutely love Dollywood. If you are a fan of Americana and sentimentality then it is the perfect park for you. It's also got a solid ride collection. A lot of enthusiasts (cough.... Chris.....cough) just come to the park for the coasters and then miss out on how amazing the overall park is. Do NOT miss the shows. During summer that means you have to see Dreamland Drive-In. During the Festival of Nations you need to see some of the international live acts. During Smoky Mountain Christmas you need to see a bunch of shows because they're all great. And don't miss the food. Aunt Granny's is the overall best food but next to that is Miss Lillian's. The food there is also very good and Miss Lillian will come out and charm the heck out of you. And we all know about the cinnamon bread. Missing out on the shows and atmosphere at Dollywood would be like going to Knotts and skipping Ghost Town.
@@zacg_ You nailed it. Definitely agree about Knotts feeling more Herschend and also that Dollywood has more consistently good theming. The ambience is unequalled. And the entertainment? Holy heck.... probably the best (and the most!) of any non-Disney theme park on the planet. And so yeah, what some people find clunky, I find charming. Go figure. 🙂
Was here today on my vacation in the States. Was really anxious for Lightning Rod as it's the the coaster I was most looking forward to this trip and I knew about it's reputation of being unreliable. I even bought a two day ticket in case it wouldn't be running today. Initially it was closed when the park opened but later in the morning it opened. Had a front row ride in the morning and another one and two back row rides later in the afternoon. It was my third RMC after Untamed and Zadra and I would probably rank it #2 favorite coaster behind Zadra. Those back row rides late in the day were insane! Gonna hit the waterpark on my second day and maybe get some more rides in on Lightning Rod.
Dollywood is amazing and always feels like I’m coming home when I visit. No surprise they got the #1 theme park in the U.S.
I can't believe you did a 4 mile walk BEFORE going to a theme park. Man. That's some commitment.
You went there almost a year after I went there for my first time. It times like this where I really do have to appreciate how well my visit was. I was only there for a day, but it was actually one of the best days I've had at a theme park. I'm sorry you haven't had the best time with Dollywood so far, but really hope you do get that one amazing visit like I did so you can really see what this park is like at its best!
Just wanted to say I love that you included a (very) short clip of The Kingdom Heirs show. They're my favorite Southern Gospel group (Jeff Chapman, the bass singer, is arguably the best in the business.). 2 reasons I want to come to Dollywood: to see The Kingdom Heirs and to ride Lightning Rod! Keep on making great content!
The Kingdom Heirs sounded great
Dollywood is a very underrated park…quite possibly the best regional park in the USA (although Silver Dollar City comes a very close second..)
I just recently moved down to Tennessee and I absolutely love Dollywood. I just wish I didn't live in central time (I'm literally just over the line) because it's sooo annoying to have to plan for a three hour drive and having to plan around horrible Knoxville traffic to go here
I swear your daughter is just like my daughter. She’ll ride everything - just hit 54” - and she loves airtime, but isn’t crazy about extreme airtime. She like Lightning Rod but didn’t love it - she’ll ride SV everytime but hates it on about half the rides bc the airtime is too strong (she doesn’t like being squished). Ironically though she loves Maverick I think bc the lap bar isn’t killing her thighs.
Seems like this week she got spoiled with the extreme rides and thinks the little ones are boring
@@AirtimeThrills My 8 year old is the same!!! If you were still in SoCal, we could Daddy-Daughter double date. ;-)
Went to dollywood earlier in this month for the first time, LR was closed all morning but got 3 rides in the afternoon! Made it into my top 10 with having ~160 credits, but disappointed me a little bit. I wish I could've got on it with the faster launch. My longest wait surprisingly was firechaser express, it was almost an hour! I had pretty low expectations for wild eagle and even still felt "meh" about it. And good call on the cinnamon bread! We loved it too:)
I work there. Thunderhead holds a special place as it was my first coaster credit. I do have to agree that the first half is brutal and I can't wait till they finish the whole retrack.
This park was amazing last spring. And oof, that uphill walk must have been something. I wish I got to that alpine coaster. But my niece's first credit was Blazing Fury then Fire chaser. But, it was also raining but in the morning.
So glad you got on lightning Rod. I went last year, and it was closed for the day. But I got on every other coaster there, my first coasters in 8 years, and I had a blast.
I love Dollywood, Lightning Rod is legendary. Great video!
Rode Thunderhead in late April this year. Same experience as you. Back row was jackhammering like crazy. Front row was super fun as long as I leaned forward and kept my butt off the seat like an inch. It's got such a great layout, if they could get it running smoothly I'd lap that thing like crazy. Knotts (home park) did it with Ghostrider -- with a GCI retrack. Surely GCI can do it for a GCI. :-)
I'm the guy who recognized you in line for LRod at the end of the night. Super cool meeting you! Great vlog
Awesome we got that last ride on LRod before close
Your vlogs are a perfect balance between the chaos of Eltororyans and the coaster nerdy stuff of coaster studios
Dollywood tip: The moment it stops raining dash over to Thunderhead. She runs so much harder when the track is wet and greasy.
And btw, we all tell our kids blazing fury only has one drop haha.
Dollywood is amazing! Had a wonderful two days there in 2018 and LRod was operating most of the time as well! I'll send good vibes your way regarding Pantheon. I was there towards the end of May and it was having issues most of the day so I only got one ride. Last row is the best because of that spike. Enjoy!
The Dollywood Water clock is based on SDC's, and is an intentional homage to the fact that they were both started by the same family.
Like how most Six Flags parks have the Six Flags logo over the entrance sign as an intentional homage to the fact that they are all part of the same chain.
Shame you couldn't get on Firechaser. But wow shout-out to Sophie for braving Lightning Rod!! I love all the jokes you edited in, great video!
I’m going there for the first time in 2 weeks and can’t wait to see where Lightning rod ranks. Great video
I thoroughly enjoyed this video. Glad to see Lightning Run still make the Top 10. Was customer service this better on this go-round? I know this is weird, to say, but I'd rather ride 5 Vekoma SLC's, 6 Arrow loopers and a revived Mean Streak with smiling service, than every RMC, but everyone employee being resting B-Facey and not caring. Better service than the last trip? It looks like yall had a hoot. Keep up the great work, your videos are always amzing
Yeah the staff was great this time around
The best part of Blazin' Fury is the woman that works dispatch and shouts "FIRE IN THE HOLE!" every time
Haha yeah i forgot for a second this wasnt called fire in the hole
Glad you wanted Sophie to ride Tenessee Tornado. That was my first ever looping coaster and I remember just barely being tall enough and riding it with my mom. I was screaming with my eyes closed and holding her hand 😂
I remember marathoning Blazing Fury with my friend Megan in elementary school because there was no line and loving it even thought it wasn't the best coaster.
Me and my dad would marathon Thunder Head and loved it even though I'd get off with a headache. I always found this park nostalgic and charming.
Walking 4 miles to start the day is the mark of a true thoosie. Glad you all salvaged a fun time out of a challenging day!
Thanks for this, I’m going next year and wanted a good tour/review
There is a shuttle to the park from town that's actually really frequent. But I was today Years Old when I learned Kings Island could had its own train station, but 2:1 disliked that
Man, I don't think I would ever walk 4 miles just to get to a park. I'll walk 4 miles once inside though, no problem
Mystery mine restraints crushed my thighs. Thunderhead had such comfortable seats and had fast pacing.
So glad you'll finally get to experience iron gwazi!
and pantheon
Yessss you are my favorite TH-camr, I always love it when you upload.
Always been a park I’ve wanted to hit! Love these type of vlogs to introduce me to new parks
Omg just was here for the first time! IMO Lightning Rod is top 5 coasters ever, Thunderhead is an upper tier GCI, Wild Eagle is an underrated B&M, and Tennessee Tornado is one of the best Arrow loopers ever.
Well, I’ve been here once and it was amazing. I don’t see how it’s possible to hate
Thunderhead put me in the hospital in 2020, no joke. I won't ride it again unless it gets a full Titan track. You're in my neck of the woods while I'm in yours. We just made our first visits to SWSA & Fiesta Texas and we're leaving San Antonio today, heading to Over Texas and Frontier City. So far it's been fantastic.
I love the "is this a pigeon" meme lol
There is no need to worry about fire chaser, definitely the rattliest non-wooden coaster in the park
I went in like 2018ish too and Lightning Rod was closed all day I was so sad. Tennessee Tornado was probably the smoothest Arrow I’ve been on tho, thoroughly enjoyed that one. I don’t remember Thunderhead being too horribly rough but it was quite a while ago so maybe I just don’t remember. Overall enjoyed the park, still sad I missed out on Lightning Rod tho. Glad you got on it!
The same thing where we were next in line and it started raining happened at Universal Studios on the Rip Ride Rockit one. Literally got on the train and had to get off because it started storming again. We waited an hour before giving up, after which of course it shortly stopped raining. Line filled up so fast, never got on it. Still mad about that one lol
The butterfly meme is too perfect!
😂 this is me not commenting on your 2020 “World Series champs” hat debacle. I know you don’t want to hear it anyway.
But at least I could bare to be seen with you now 😂
How ironic is it that I will always love you played when the Dollywood logo was in the sky.
It’s really wholesome that you brought Sophie on the trip
Mid train is the best ride for Thunderhead. Tennessee tornado does give me the blackout. The secret to Mystery Mine is holding tightly to the restraints and keeping your chest flat against them, if I try to keep my head back it’s a terrible ride.
The more I watch your Dollywood videos, the more fortunate I feel that I was able to ride all nine coasters on my first trip to Dollywood.
Side note: have you ever been to Anakeesta in Gatlinburg? A mountaintop theme park with perhaps the best mountain coaster in the area: Rail Runner.
I havent been there, considered it this trip but went to rocky top and goats on the roof instead
I've only done that one, Rocky Top, and Smoky Mountain Alpine Coaster. I thought Rail Runner was definitely the best, such a fun unique ride
Wild, Thunderhead was smooth af when I was there a few months ago. Smoothest woodie imo
Dollywood is about to become my home park good thing I already got my pass! Can’t wait to experience the fun all year round
Airtime Thrills 🤝 Rainy Days at Parks
It's just Tennessee during the summer. It seems like every single day there is at least one thunderstorm that pops out of nowhere
Welcome to the Mid-Atlantic
Funny about thunderhead. I went to Dollywood for the first time a few months ago. Thunderhead was the surprise hit of the day. Smoothest wooden coaster I’ve ever been on and it was flying. My friends and I enjoyed our night ride on Thunderhead more than night ride on Lighting Rod
Was waiting for that comment on Thunderhead, man that ride is ROUGH
I was very fortunate when I went last year to Dollywood that I got every credit except lightning rod because it was closed. My 100th coaster was wild eagle. Sophie will surpass me too but I am hoping to take a coaster trip next year, which will be my first ever coaster trip, and earn enough new credits to at least keep within striking distance of her.
Same thing happen to us on Fire Chaser we were next on line and the lighting. We sat for over an hour.
I’m going on a Dollywood redemption trip in the spring. I went over Labor Day weekend 2007 with my mom and her boyfriend at the time. I hated everything except Thunderhead, Blazing Fury, and the water rides. I rode the original iteration of Mystery Mine, which scared me to death (I was a chicken at 17).
I had a similar at Cedar Point this summer, where the lighting shut the park down at around 4:30, and we came back to the park at 7:00 for dinner, and since the park closed at 8:00, we had an hour to explore a completely empty Cedar Point, which was very cool!
I had a similar experience at BGW also the next day. Once that park reopens its empty
@@AirtimeThrills It’s definitely a cool experience
Thunderhead is smooth throughout in 2023. Loved it.
Ok everything aside, the fucking thumbnail made me corpse. The meme lol
🤣
Dollywood is a park I really want to visit at some point.the atmosphere seems like one of the best parts
I saw you there didn’t get the chance to say hi, still managed 5 rides on lighting rod with the fast pass
I road blazing fury on repeat when I went to Dollywood years ago. Loved that ride.
Fun stuff. Looks like you had a good time. 👍
Was just there on Tuesday for my first time. It was packed to the brim. LRod went down all day, had a less than awesome day
Great thumbnail!
as someone who grew up going to dollywood, that train whistle is pure nostalgia.
I went to Dollywood over 20 years ago before all the coasters were there, and it was pretty lame. I'm glad they made all the improvements 😎
Also when I went to Dollywood, I got a massive scare after seeing a big dark cloud approaching the park, luckily it dodged us and I didn't have to deal with any shutdowns
If only there were some kind of service where you could ask somebody to give you a ride in their car for a nominal fee...haha Totally agree about Dragon Flier, I actually really liked Thunderhead, and maybe you can blame Dollywood for the rain - it poured when I was there too (Blazing Fury suddenly became very popular)
I love Thunderhead. Sliding around in Those soft comfy seats.
10:19, heh, well ain't that ironic, Ring of Fire is playing as you're going through Firechaser Express!
I considered going to Dollywood once I was finished in Atlanta, but decided not to. I did go last year for the Harvest Festival.
But yeah, every time I look at the forecast in Pigeon Forge in the summer, it calls for storms every day. Maybe I'll go in December because I hear their Christmas festival is lit (both literally and figuratively). We'll see.
Amazing video
Just a really good vid thumbs. Up.
I find it hilarious that when I rode Thunderhead in the back, I didnt even think it was that rough, and I rode it in the Afternoon too, so I guess we have different opinions
Love being so early to a vid this is so cool
I wish my kids liked riding coasters. We have gold passes to Cedar Point, and they won't ride anything more intense than the Mine Ride. FYI, I love your shirt. SV is my number one coaster at the moment.
I was just here! Lightning rod is insane
sophie’s gonna pass my coaster credit by the end of the year 😂
Ayee, my cousin said he wanted to ride Blazing Fury again after we rode it! aha
I went and lightning rod was closed so I deemed the cinnamon bread the best ride in the park
3:00 that’s why I always be first rider in line for coasters with strict assigned seating and never use single rider lines on roller coasters unless you’re not picky where your seat assignment is.
Did they accept row requests when you went?
I went to Dollywood last week in June and I only had to wait 30 minutes for lightning rod right after the park opened
That thumbnail gives me life
Sophie has more credits then most enthusiasts!
It’s always funny hearing peoples varying opinions cuz we all like different things but a lot come to the consensus of what rides are “best” vs which ones are our personal favorite. Lightning Rod is my #2 out of 200
Finally someone else who doesn't praise Thunderhead. It's not only one of my least favorite gci's behind wildcat at hershey, it's maybe worst wooden coaster I've been on. Needs full titan tracked. I've never been a fan of the spaghetti bowl gci coasters.
I work in pigeon forge . It’s gonna be pretty busy this week
10:34 that happened to me on RoadRunner Express at SFFT
What day are you gonna make it down to ride iron gwasi? I'm going down next week to ride it.
Yeah so Thunderhead was smooth as butter in the back when I was there. Mystery Mine kicks ass. Wild Eagle is smooth and scenic. Lightning Rod also still kicks ass….. I’m not sure why you have such a bad time here. Sucks for you lol.
This has the best thumbnail.
Fun fact: Dollywood used to be Silver Dollar City back in the day, as it was during my first 2 trips.
Lightning Rod was actually working?! What a miracle! Lol!
Did Hell freeze over or something??