Pinball league night, so you're getting Dollywood photos, after of course you go find out What's Going On In Prince Valiant? Who stole Queen Aleta's ravens? December 2024 - February 2025 and, of course, what dumb mistake did I make about the plot of the last three months' worth of Prince Valiant? Hoping you enjoyed that, now, please enjoy this:
Back for another ride on Tornado. This time we stopped to read some of the Tornado Facts, which were this sort of tall tale about the wind blowing the spots off a Dalmatian.
Whoosh! There's your Tornado taking off.
And here it returns, a fair bit slower. You can see the other train on the lift hill in the background.
Here's the exit and you can see the Tornado train in one of its loops there.
Tornado Photography the sign says and look at that, it is!
The metal eagle sculpture outside Wild Eagle seen in the setting-sun sky.
And here's the Wild Eagle trains. It's a wing coaster, like GateKeeper, and you really see how close the gryphon on that train imitates the eagle here. (Wild Eagle was built before GateKeeper was.)
Bald Eagles never look like they're having fun except when they're cheery toons.
I like how the car design makes the eagle wings look like they're draping over people, though.
One of the geographic delights of Dollywood is that so much stuff is below other stuff; we're so used to nearly flat parks. This is a picture from Wild Eagle's exit of ... I believe that's the direction of the Mystery Mine.
And here we're still exiting Wild Eagle; the white building in the center background is the station for FireChaser Express.
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bunnyhugger pauses in the gift shop to try on wings. They're fun but not useful.
Trivia: At the public rollout of the 247 airplane in 1933, Boeing employees were offered exclusive models, at cost --- $9.15. For an extra $1.35 they could have the model with retractable landing gear. Source: The Boeing 247: The First Modern Airliner, F Robert van der Linden.
Currently Reading: Why War?, Richard Overy.
