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Big Thunder Mountain Railroad

Take heed this warning, ya betta hold on to them hats n' glasses..cause heres the wildest ride in the wilderness! <-- Rate this Ride!  Facts and Secrets  History -->
Howdy Yall!
   This here is a roller coaster thrill ride through the Bryce Mountains on a out of control mine train. In a century year old Mining town, A must ride for first timer Disneyland visitors. Guests will board a rusted open-air ore mine train through the sapposably haunted mountains. The ride begins as you ascend up a shaft, in minutes you'd be racing around the mountains dropping and turning, passing through a collapsing mine, speeding by goats with TNT, and splashing down in an ancient "dinosaur Lake."

 

Read the story of Big Thunder Here <---

 

 


Who to take on this ride:
Anyone who is ready to take an out of control* runaway train ride, with restrictions, you must be at least 40" tall and 3 years of age.

*This ride personally for me is not out of control, there are a lot of stops and slow downs in the ride and minor falls

 

CoKo Ratings:
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  A very cool ride, well detailed, if your very meticulous you can see that the attraction is decorated throughout the ride and waiting line with barrels, audio-animatronics, ropes, anything that reminds you of the wild wild west. 4 1/2 for thrills because there is a lot of slow downs in the ride.

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Information:

Date Opened:September 2, 1979

Designers: WED Enterprises Tony Baxter
Manufacturer: WED Enterprises
Build Type: Steel Tube Tri-Rail Design

The Train

Vehicle Type:Ore mine train
Vehicles: 6, Only 5 trains can be used on the ride at a time.
Cars per train: 5
Guests per train: 30

Train names:

U.B. Bold
U.R. Daring
U.R. Courageous
I.M. Brave
I.B. Hearty
I.M. Fearless

Ride duration: 3:14            Height requirement: 40 in (1.02 m)

Facts and Secrets

  • At Disneyland, this attraction replaced the ride "Nature's Wonderland." The town you pass through at the end of the ride was a part of that old attraction, and many of the animal animatronics throughout the attraction were originally from Nature's Wonderland.
  • The Disneyland Paris (DLP) version of Big Thunder Mountain Railroad is significantly larger than the American and Japanese versions. The ride is located on its own island in that park's Rivers of the Far West.
  • In 2006, artist Banksy placed an inflatable dummy dressed as a Guantanamo Bay detainment camp prisoner (orange jumpsuit, black hood and handcuffs) beside the tracks.
  • The sound effects of the actual ride train going on the tracks were used in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) for the mine cart sequence.
  • BTMRR is said to have been inspired by Thunder Mesa, a section of the Western River Expedition, a cancelled attraction that was to have been built at Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom in the mid-1970s. This attraction was suppose to replacement for POTC, read more Here..

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    Pictures n' Photos - BTMRR

    You will pass by a goat chewing on a lite dyanamite.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    ..History of Big Thunder..

    "The Minor Details of Big Thunder"

    Big Thunder Mountain Railroad dates back to the wild and woolly boom town days when every prospector west of the Rockies was looking for gold. The following is the tall tale heard tell by one of those prospectors who got it second hand from old Sam, the last of the Big Thunder Miners:

    Yes sir, it is 1840, and around these parts, things got prit' near quiet as the hangin' tree on Sunday after the Big Thunder Mine tapped out. One day there ain't none richer, the next, even a ghost wouldn't have much innerst in her.

    Things got mighty busted up and rusted down inside Big Thunder, so Sam told me while sluggin' from a dusty bottle of Old Imagineer. He was the last prospector inside that mine. Fact is, poor old Sam took a spill and done landed belly up in one of them ore cars. Next thing he knows, the car takes off like a skinny coyote after a plump hen!

    Off he went, a headin' fer the mine, Seems like that old ghost mine came to life for Sam. He swears the rusted winch engine was a pumpin' and a wheezin' and just when he was thinkin' he must have bats in his belfry, there was bats! Then he sat up to see what he could see in the dark, and there was pools of rainbow water and waterfalls, and plenty of them rocks the schoolmarm calls "stalactites and stalagmites."

    The walls of the canyon kept comin' in closer and closer at old Sam and he yelled until he couldn't yes no more. All of a sudden, the car thunders into a pitch dark tunnel, with Sam holdin' on for dear life. Comin' back out the other side, he spots a couple a danged skunks foolin' with blastin' powder, like to blow the top off a whole darned mountain! Little ways away, danged if'n there ain't Billy goat chawin' on a stick of the stuff! But Sam didn't have time to worry about that, 'cuz next thing he knows he's whippin' down Spiral Butte and headin' right back down into Big Thunder Mine. Sam figured he was goin' in and never comin' out this time, with all that rumblin' and shakin' and rocks comin' down all around him. he closed his eyes tight but the next thing ya know he was outside and high-ballin' down on the track again, right over the Bear River Trestle Bridge.

    That ore car finally squealed to a stop right smack dab in the middle of Big Thunder Town. Sam just sat up, brushed off the dust and said, "I ain't had this much of a whoop and a holler since the Grub Grang hit town. I just barely got out with my hide!"

    Sam's amazing ghost story was told and retold over the years, and because of it, no one was ever brave enough to even set foot near the mine-until the day a bold young Imagineer heard the tale and though it might be fun to take a ride on old Big Thunder himself. Sure enough, he did, and the train ride turned out to be so much fun he decided to officially reopen the mine. Folks soon heard the news about Big Thunder and began to arrive there to take their own wild ride on the legendary runaway train.

     

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