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1 Rating Posted by: Danny on 5/23/2003 5:26:00 PM

It may not be thrilling, but the theming and scenery for Big Thunder Mountain Railroad are really tremendous. By far, the wildest seat is the very back, and the front offers some nice views. I love the sinking mine town near the end of the ride, and having more than one lift hill is also a plus. Gets an extra point for having wonderful scenery!

i agree the lift hills have some of the best themeign and story lines in the park.

A perfect review for this ride. Its quite speed to isnt it? How many lifts were there on it?

it had like 3 lift hills i think, but i still dont like this ride, i have already shard my dislike of it, and so wont get into that again, i just think that an 8 is a little too much for it

Yes it has 3 lifts. I think an 8 is fare. I personaly gave it a 10. why its the best Mine Trains out there.

i still dont believe that its the best out there.....i havent been on too many other ones, but if its the best, mine trains arent anything great.

Well like stated befer. Mine trains ar family coasters not thrill coaster. its not suposed to through you out of your seat of make you feal 4 times your waight. its sorosed to feel a little out of controle and if made wright have a great theme. that is what this have more then anythign else a fantastic theme.

that i can agree with, the theming in great, but the ride (and yes, i know it isnt supposed to be a thrill ride) just doesnt do it for me. its good, but not great

well mine trains arnt thrill coasters and ou dont fand many out their that prove deferant. the one at SFGadv is slightly more thrillign and intence and that is only at the end. the rest is more then slow.

well, but why arent mine trains made more thrilling? i mean, they certainly could be made into a really thrilling ride if they were just designed differently

Whta makes a ride thrilling. speed, Gs, air time, a sligh yl more scary ride. all things that rase the hieght requirment and ar going to detract from many younger family members. they may one day find a healthy mediume but for right now they are more family related.

nono, i mean, make a mine train not geared towards little kids, make one that is made for teenagers and adults, etc. dont make it as a family ride, but rather a thrill ride

Ever heard of Thunderation?

That defits the main perpas of a mine train.

no, i mean, a certain type of tracks purpose is however it is designed. all steels could still be single loopers, but they decided to expand and increase the level of thrill. a mine train is only considered a family ride because that is the way they have been designed. if someone comes along and makes a thrill mine train, it wont defeat the purpose of a mine train, it will add a new type of mine train

there is allot of truth to that. but when peopel go hey they are getign amine train they expect somthign they all can go on. they have plaenty of coasters that can sfip adn make you through up. let the mien train and its themeing be for the family. Indy and the Temple of peral is sorta what you are talking about.

yeah, well, i guess that people probably would expect a mine train to be more geared towards all people, but at one point in time, someone in the steel coaster industry had to have said, "hey, lets add a loop". it would go against what the steels used to be like, and what people expected from steels, but in the end, it revolutionized the roller coaster industry

this is the best mine train coaster out there period!!

i know, im not arguing whether its good or not, all im saying is that they could alter the genre and create a new breed of mine train coaster that is more thrilling, and geared more towards adults

Thing is that when you add a look they become modern. they dont look as classic. also the cars dont fit in to a mine theme well adn the mine trains out in the market cant handle OTSRs well. but normaly when you soo somthign with inversion they go for a more Futeristic theme. of somthign more agrevive then a mine theme.

nono, i am not saying that an inversion needs to be added, im just saying that they need to have bigger drops, higher speeds, and more dips, twists, and turns. just make a regular mine train on a larger scale. just increse the height, and speed and all that, to make it more thrilling

id prefer to ride BTNR over any other mine train anyday.

Well Excalobur at Fronter city(in storage) has an 80ft drop and gets to 46mph. their are a few that are around a41ft drop and get ro nearly 40mph. is this abotu the speed and hight you were talking or biger.

if you are going to consider Expidetion Everest as a mine train, they say that will get up to 50mph.

well, see, now thats more like it, just higher speeds, super-banked turns, and more air time, bumps, hills, stuff like that. just increase the dynamics of a normal mine train

Which isnt a bad isdea. but in most parks a mine train is the parks family ride. fpr example if SFNE got a mine train i wouldnt objec tto it beign a littel larger. but the bige rmine trains dont look as good.

i understand that for alot of parks, they build a mine train to be considered a family ride, and i have no problem with that. but at a park where they already have a family coaster, instead of building the newest B&M, why not build a great mine train?

you can still consider a sorta big mine train as a family coaster, just because its a littl faster doesnt make it a big thrill coaster.

no, i know. thats why i said that i wanted not only a bigger and faster one, but with new elements added to it. make it like go through tunnels, have overbanked turns, have giant hills, and steep drops. just make it like a hyper version of a mine train

having that type, i think, wouldnt be as fun as the BTMR kind. THere would be no use for a mine train like that, parks wouldnt go for that. If they wanted something like that, I dont think theyd get a mine train.

Whell if they have wo mine trains teh second shoudl be more intense. Magic springs has a small mine train and then a big one.

yeah, if they have built a mine train, and it was succesful, theyll probably go back to what works. But if they build a second one, why not go bigger and better?

bigger may not be better though

not always......but theres only one way to find out

their is allot more that woudl ned to go into a biger version. perhaps make it bigr and not have maltipal lifts. keep the actaoin and wild ride going.

yeah, there you go, i think letting the ride die down until you need another lift hill is pretty weak. you have to design it to last the entire ride all from one big drop.

well on thunder Mounatin and a few I have seen its not to bad. their is alot to se in that area. mut of this open ones with litel theme its not a good thing.

well, yeah, the lift hills can take you around to see more of the theming, but Im just saying that if you build a "hyper mine" there should be enough speed and engineering involved so that more than one lift hill wouldnt be necessary

tue but a Hyper mine train is a bid over doign it.

well, yeah, i know, but i cant think of any other way of describing it right now

an extreme mine train!

there you go, or a mega mine.

Or-icle mine train( a mythical mine tran)

well, whatever they want to call it, all that matters is if its built.

They would pick some lame name for it.

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