February promises to be especially sweet for visitors at the World’s Largest Titanic Museum Attraction Titanic Museum Attraction. Sweetheart Month, which kicks off February 1, will invite guests to celebrate their own love stories as they relive the on-screen romance between “Rose” and “Jack” the star-crossed lovers in Titanic, James Cameron’s Oscar winning movie.

“Romance and adventure were definitely in the air when Titanic set sail on April 14, 1912,” says Mary Kellogg-Joslyn, co-owner of the museum attraction. “Fourteen couples traveling on Titanic were on their honeymoon, nine in first class. There were also young, brides-to-be sailing to America to start a new life there. As you might recall, Rose was among this group.”

“Because so many of our guests have seen the movie they feel they know Rose and Jack and wonder if they will have the opportunity to meet them while visiting us,” explains Kellogg-Joslyn. “We already have a number of character players at the museum attraction who interact with visitors, so we decided to recast the film’s two most famous characters: Rose De Witt Buker and Jack Dawson.”

“For the first time anywhere, our young players will appear in costumes drawn from original designs created by Deborah Scott for the movie. Rose, will be dressed in the elaborate traveling suit and extravagant, wide-brimmed hat she wore on arrival at the ship; ‘Jack’ in the modest clothes that identify him as a third-class passenger.” Says Kellogg-Joslyn. “We feel blending the reality of the Titanic experience with the fictional aspects of the movie will help create a whole, new appreciation of this incredible story.”

The World’s Largest TITANIC Museum Attraction is Branson’s new landmark tourist destination. The 17,000 square-foot, ship-shaped structure – built half scale to Titanic’s original size – towers more than 100 feet above its anchored position on Highway 76. A 90-minute self-guided tour covers 20 galleries on two decks where over 400 priceless artifacts that once belonged to Titanic’s passengers or crew are on display. None of the artifacts were retrieved from the ocean’s floor. A creative mix of music from the period is accompanied by dramatic lighting, ambient sound, photographs, video and hands-on devices give visitors the sensation of being an original passenger on Titanic’s 1912 maiden voyage.

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New in 2007, White Water presents its biggest ride ever – a 7-story, 6-slide, multi-experience thrill ride. Higher than White Water’s previous largest slide by over two stories, the new ride will be 75 feet high, with two 300-foot drop slides for top-speed body sliding and four additional 312-foot lane slides for four-lane speed racing.

The new $1.5 million ride adds more ways to glide and slide at Branson’s Beach Within Reach — with nearly 7,000 feet of slides and 12 rides and attractions for the ultimate summer splashdown experience.

With two million gallons of cool, water-drenched indulgence, White Water is an aquatic oasis where guests can swim, surf, splash and slide in water-cooled comfort. Ride lovers will find plenty of fast-paced rides from the new slides to the white-water rapids of the Caribbean Plunge and Tropical Twister. Surf enthusiasts can ride on tubes or bodysurf the breaking waves of the 500,000-gallon wave pool, and leisure floaters can drift with the current of the Lazy River. Families play together in the super-soaked RainTree Island, while kids rule at Splash Island and Little Squirts’ Waterworks.

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7-Story Swing Has Roller-Coaster Speed and Barn-Bursting, High-Flying, Super Soaring Thrills!

New for 2007, Silver Dollar City takes the hands-on, old-fashioned fun of a barn swing and gives it giant-sized, high-tech thrill power – presenting the Giant Swing! This $6 million ride will launch riders more than seven stories in the air — and nearly upside down — at roller-coaster speeds for barn-bursting, high-flying, super-soaring, big-air thrills. The Giant Swing will open in Spring, 2007.

Set within a massive hay barn in the new Great Barn area of the park, the Giant Swing’s two colossal arms hold back-to-back seat rows, so riders soar backward as well as forward. Compressed air power launches the swings, sending riders 75 feet high in opposite directions and through the barn roof before powering them back toward the ground and past each other at speeds up to 45 miles per hour. The swings then soar 75 feet skyward, high above the trees on the other side, arcing a full 230 degrees so riders are nearly upside down. The tremendous acceleration produces back-to-back G-force kicks and sensations of weightlessness for a full throttle, high-flying thrill ride.

Alongside the Giant Swing are two silo-themed, interactive climbing towers where riders use rope-pulls to propel themselves over 30 feet in the air. Using a unique pulley system, pairs of riders can race each other to the top of the tower as it rotates for towering views of the City, before they free-fall gently back down. Kids and parents can ride the silo tower rides together for family-team races to the top.

The Giant Swing seats 16 riders on each swing arm, with a ride capacity of 640 per hour. The height requirement is 48 inches, roughly the height of a six or seven-year-old. The silo tower rides have a capacity of 300 per hour. The Giant Swing is created by S&S Power of Logan, Utah, and the silo towers are by Heege, with construction and theming of the rides by Silver Dollar City. They will be located behind the Lost River waterway in a previously undeveloped area.

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