27. Big Thunder Mountain Railroad
Once upon a time in the American Southwest, specifically a small mining town known as Tumbleweed, gold was discovered in and around the mountain just outside the town. Overnight, Tumbleweed became a prosperous Gold Rush area, with trains built around the mountain to transport ore.
Due to the desecration of the mountain(and a Native American curse), a flash flood destroyed most of the town's livelihood, leaving it to be abandoned for years. That is until folks wandering found that the trains traversing the mountains have been running constantly all this time without an engineer or crew to be found. Somehow people thought this would make a good tourist destination and the Big Thunder Mountain Railroad was born in little Tumbleweed, offering visitors a chance to ride a possessed train around an entirely unstable mining camp located inside a mountain. Cool ideas. Awesome.
Out of the three mountains in the Magic Kingdom, Big Thunder Mountain is probably the most exciting and yet the most overlooked. It's the fastest, going 30 mph, it's got the most atmosphere and story to it, but it tends to be pushed aside for flying in the dark and getting all wet. It's the most conventional roller coaster in Walt Disney World and that's most likely where it goes wrong, because it's an old fashioned roller coaster in an amusement park that rewrote the book on amusement parks.
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