🦋 The Dolly Parton Experience - Construction Update Video, Renderings and New Info! 🦋

Hi Everyone,

Dollywood has released some information and an awesome rendering of the New for 2024 - Dolly Parton Experience.  It's set to expand into multiple buildings.  Let's check it out!

These are on Dollywood.com.

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Just looking at the rendering, and knowing what it looked like before as Chasing Rainbows, this looks like a fitting, if not over-the-top area that represents Dolly well.  Glitter, sequins, rhinestones, diamonds - everything that sparkles!  That's one way to describe Dolly and this looks like it belongs in Dolly's world - Dollywood.   I do like how the big expanse of concrete is broken up with new landscaping beds and adds a lot of interest.  Of course, the giant butterflies are one of the things associated heavily with Dolly and Dollywood too, they both honor the butterfly.  Then, off in the distance, the two twin peaks of Lightning Rod - talk about sightlines.  

Off to the right, in the theater it looks like some new programming.  "Precious Memories" is what's on the marquee.  On the left, the former Dolly's Closet looks to be transformed into Behind The Seams, which I imagine could be similar to Dolly's Closet - or perhaps they'll change it up?  We'll find out more, I'm sure, the closer we get to the 2024 season, which, by the way will begin on March 8, 2024.  That's one week before the more recent opening date of Mid-March.  Dollywood is inching closer and closer to year-round operations.

Im excited to see how this looks in the end.  If I recall, Dollywood mentioned they were incorporating some of the technology used in the recent Van Gogh Exhibit and Beyond Monet - that should be a real leveling up from Chasing Rainbows more traditional exhibits.

Dollywood posted this on facebook -

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Here's the three bullet points that are cut off:

Exhibits in multiple buildings spanning Dolly’s iconic career, inspiration behind her dreams, the importance of family and her signature style through the years

Feel like you're alongside Dolly as she journeyed from Locust Ridge to stages around the world

Three times the size of the former Chasing Rainbows Museum

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If you're feeling nostalgic, or never got experience Chasing Rainbows - Take a look at my video filmed a few months before it closed in 2021.

Doggy Parton Merchandise Now Available At Dollywood's Emporium, and other fine retailers.

Hi Everyone,

So, I went to Dollywood on Wednesday August 31, 2022, hoping to catch a glimpse of Dolly while she's filming for her NBC Christmas Movie - I didn't see her, but on my way out of the Park, inside the Emporium I could not help but notice a full display of Dolly's just released line of dog merchandise, Doggy Parton.  I made a video of the display - take a look below. 

Here is WATE's report about Dolly's newest endeavor...

 

TENNESSEE (WATE) — Dolly Parton has launched her canine collections with pink accessories, blonde wigs, cowboy hats, Dolly’s costumes complete with a guitar and a high-heel chew toy on Amazon.

Parton wanted to open a fashion line for dogs. After announcing her new line called “Doggy Parton” in July, she launched the brand on Amazon.

Dolly Parton says in a post on Amazon’s sale page that her love for pets is stronger than ever. The launch includes accessories, clothes, toys, collars and leashes.

The store has t-shirts with Parton on the front. Others are in plaid design or jean material. There is also a shirt that quotes, “In a World Full of Jolenes Be a Dolly.” The different designs give a southern charm that feels like a true “Dolly” collection.

Part of every Doggy Parton purchase will help fund and support Willa B Farms, a rescue where animals in need find “never-ending love and care,” according to the website. The farm in Old Hickory, Tennessee is a grassroots nonprofit that helps horses, pigs, chickens, tortoises and “everything in between.”

Parton has been known for her business skill as much as her singing voice. She’s associated with the theme park in Pigeon Forge called Dollywood, creating a baking collection called Dolly Parton Baking Collection and helping children throughout the world get access to books through Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library.

To visit the Doggy Parton store on Amazon, visit the website here.

 

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Doggy Parton has an Amazon store where you can take a closer look and even purchase if its in stock.  They look to be out of a lot of options.

Let's check out these screen grabs from the Doggy Parton Amazon Store.

Do you have a favorite item?  What do you think about Dolly's latest product line?  Let me know in the comments.

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If you want to take a look at my video of the Emporium from earlier this year, take a look at that here.  Moreso than any time in my memory, there was so much more Dolly Parton merchandise than I have ever seen.  Tons of t-shirts, coffee mugs, hats - lots to see and you can see much of it in the video.

Until next time!