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Dollywood | Unknown | Mack Rocking Boat | 2026

Well… that 5-Story, 44,000 Square Foot building has become hard to hide hasn’t it!

Track for what seems to be a MACK Rides Rocking Boat has arrived on-site at Dollywood, ahead of installation later this year!
EDIT: Rumour has it that this is 2 attractions, with each of the 2 teasers being a hint at this. What could the 2nd attraction be?

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Seems like it'd be pretty difficult to assemble a coaster like a Mack powered invert within a building that's almost entirely enclosed now. Colored me impressed if I'm wrong though!
 
Catching up on this and trying to work out if it should live in Coaster Construction or Other Rides. Is the Rocking Boat the only addition here, or are we expecting a coaster in the building too?
 
Hixee said:
Catching up on this and trying to work out if it should live in Coaster Construction or Other Rides. Is the Rocking Boat the only addition here, or are we expecting a coaster in the building too?
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I've heard pretty reliable rumblings that the area will contain 2 rides. There's been a surprisingly high number of rumours of a Mack suspended powered coaster, now whether this is just people hearing Mack and assuming or if there's some truth to a 2nd ride being specifically one who knows.

For now I'd keep it just in case. But of course its up to you guys.
 
For now I'll leave the thread here - if/when the coaster materialises I'll move it to Coaster Construction. If it's confirmed as not happening, I'll move this thread to Other Rides Construction.
 
This is just temptiing the itch of goons to discuss if 0, 1 or 2 credits are being built. Would it help to rename the sub forum to "May or may not be a credit Roller Coaster Construction"?
 
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Matt N said:
A Suspended Powered Coaster and a Rocking Boat together seems expensive!

Is a budget known for this development?
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$50 million total for this Wildwood Grove expansion. Allegedly, both Arthur at Europa and Mission Bermudes at Futuroscope were €25M each, so seeing that these would probably share a building/landscaping/utilities/facilities plot cost and also possibly discounted for a ride bundle from Mack . . . VERY INTERESTING.
 
Hixee said:
For now I'll leave the thread here - if/when the coaster materialises I'll move it to Coaster Construction. If it's confirmed as not happening, I'll move this thread to Other Rides Construction.
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Wouldn't it count as a coaster if it's a rocking boat, though? I thought Mission Bermuda had a drop down rails, that's definitely a credit.
 
Jarrett said:
Wouldn't it count as a coaster if it's a rocking boat, though? I thought Mission Bermuda had a drop down rails, that's definitely a credit.
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Rocking Boats definitely aren't creds, but I suppose what I meant was:
For now I'll leave the thread here - if/when the [rumoured suspended] coaster materialises I'll move it to Coaster Construction. If it's confirmed as not happening [and the installation is just the Rocking Boat], I'll move this thread to Other Rides Construction.
 
Hixee said:
Oh I don't know anymore...! :D :D :D
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Around the 3:50 mark it goes down a coaster-like drop on rails. No different from Journey to Atlantis and there’s a pretty solid consensus in the community that that’s a credit. Counts at least as much as Blazing Fury imo. Not gonna backseat mod, keep the thread where you feel it belongs, but that’s what I was trying to say. Even if it’s just the rocking boat, it’ll most likely count as a credit and I’m looking forward to riding this attraction as a new for 2026 coaster.

My guess is between the rocking boat system and the aviation theme is that it’ll be themed to a seaplane or a clipper or something. Flying high over the Smokies before splashing down into a mountain river, the like.
 
It’s one of those grey areas, I think. Technically speaking, things like Dudley Do-Right also go down drops with coaster track, and no one seems to count that as a coaster. Fuga de Atlantide does the same, and very few seem to count that.

The RCDB rule of thumb seems to be that a ride needs to coast in an area that isn’t a drop sequence or have some sort of more inherently coaster-y DNA to it (e.g. banked turns) than simply coaster track. All Mission Bermudes does is go down a straight drop that happens to have coaster track.

With this in mind, I personally wouldn’t count the Rocking Boat as a coaster, but I can see why someone might.
 
So it turns out I completely misunderstood the Rocking Boat design. I thought it disconnected from the rails and had a clever gizmo that hooked it up to a wire like their other tethered boat rides. Watching a POV of Mission Bermuda, I think I would count this as a coaster.

So yeah, mind changed.

And moved to Construction.
 
If we're on this debate (of which I literally have zero care in; just have this observation), do people qualify Shanghai Disney's Battle of the Sunken Treasure a coaster too? Very many similarities: coasts on rails the entire layout, LSM driven, gravity-propelled out-of-water drop.
 
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