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  • Just Here for Godzilla: The most popular events are Day Out With Thomas and Ghost Train. The latter in particular was even mentioned on The Today Show as a must-see Halloween attraction back in 2012. Both are so popular that only advance tickets are sold and you even have to reserve your train ride time.
  • More Popular Spin Off: Dollywood is technically this, as it began as an American Civil War-themed spinoff of Tweetsie Railroad called Rebel Railroad, founded by Grover Robbins and largely following the same format as Tweetsie. But then the Robbins family sold the park to the Cleveland Browns ball team, who renamed it Goldrush Junction prior to selling the park to Herschend Enterprises, who rebranded the park as a spinoff of Silver Dollar City (a theme park in Branson, Missouri) in 1976. But in 1986, Dolly Parton bought the park and rebranded it as Dollywood, expanding it greatly,

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