Abandoned Remnants - Mine Train Through Nature's Wonderland: Is there anything left?

[@sealy1]

I really wish this ride was still around, I love rides like this. Just nice, relaxing, and fun rides. I do love Thunder Mountain though. Wish I was alive to witness this.

[@erikschiller7210]

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[@Kaslidaughterofchaos]

Agreed

[@everettfryman1024]

Kris; Thank you for the outstanding retrospective of the Mine Train through Nature’s Wonderland. I was hoping that you were going to cover the pony locomotive at Big Thunder Ranch that was used in the 1978 Disney Motion Picture Classic; “Hot Lead and Cold Feet” featuring Jim Dale, Karen Valentine, Darren McGavin and Don Knotts. I absolutely love that locomotive and the film.

[@ChriswithaK]

That's really interesting, I never knew about that! I actually had to cut alot of the video down since I didn't want it to be 30 minutes long. Thanks for watching!

[@everettfryman1024]

Kris; I really hope that you consider eventually releasing a “full-length” version or cut of your attraction retrospective. Fans of defunct attractions, such as myself love original video footage of the remnants and naturally your insider perspectives make for top quality education, you can’t get anywhere else.

[@ChriswithaK]

​@@everettfryman1024 Thanks Everett! I have 3 other videos I'm currently working on at the movement, but after that, I will find some time to put it together. I wish I knew earlier that people liked longer videos, but o well haha

[@AlextheHistorian]

Very nicely done! I enjoyed that.

[@mikewren1530]

Thank you for this look back at what once was. You brought back a lot of wonderful memories.

[@RZ350NC]

The original ride was a great ride, and I'm sorry they tore it down to replace it with a roller coaster. When Big Thunder Mountain opened, they had a live band playing to us in the line. When they called out for requests, my wife and I were yelling the titles of train wreck songs. The said: "you know we can't play those." Everyone in line got a big laugh out of that!

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[@WhosCrap]

WHAT A GREAT VIDEO! KEEP EM COMIN! YEYEYEYEYEYEYE!

[@mike20sm]

Great video

[@princessmarlena1359]

I remember going on to Tom Sawyer Island and seeing part of the old Nature’s Wonderland ride with the woodchucks popping up and down and chittering/giggling in the back of the train cars, with that “rock slide” blocking the track. I was sad to see it gone. Last time I was there all that was left is the cliff tunnel at the pond (I remember seeing the platform and cart), and the boarded up tunnel (I remember hearing the animal noises). Have you done a video on the Mike Fink Keelboats yet? I heard they brought one back for decoration!

[@rickconn8444]

I remember all that and rode all that. Thank You

[@DavidVitrano]

Does this make you want to see Nature's Wonderland Train ride come back?

[@ChriswithaK]

I would love to see it come back. Idk how well the ride would do with the current way people view attractions, but personally i'd love for a version of this ride to be rebuilt somewhere

[@DavidVitrano]

@@ChriswithaK If you have Planet Coaster, please try making a modern version of this ride? P.S. Big thunder mountain needs to stay where it is.

[@ChriswithaK]

@@DavidVitrano Oh, I suck at planet coaster haha. I just like playing that game to rip peeps (guests) off

[@DavidVitrano]

@@ChriswithaK IF AT FIRST YOU DON'T SUCCEED. TRY AND TRY AGAIN.

[@gardnerhill9073]

I'm old enough to remember riding the Pack Mules! The Mine Train was one of my favorite Disneyland rides as a kid and I mourned its loss. Fortunately Big Thunder was a very worthy successor, and repurposed a lot of the animals in the scenes.

[@carolmichaels3239]

We were at disney just last week we got to see one fishing still in action, it did trick us lol.

[@ericbothur6718]

I read there were battery powered electric motors in the tender to run the train. When the batteries got low they could swap out the tenders with a fully charged one and recharge the other

[@Noodlemonkey7]

What happened to all the animatronics?? Weren’t there like over 60 of them including bears? Where’d they go? What happened to them?

[@ChriswithaK]

They were either reused on other attractions like Big Thunder Mountain, disassembled for parts or thrown away. There’s a rumor that they buried most of the animatronics underground where the living desert used to be, but we didn’t see anything excavated when they built Galaxy’s Edge

[@Noodlemonkey7]

Chris with a K hmmm 🤔! Makes me wonder... and wish I was a cast member so I knew all of the Disney secrets. Like why burry them? That would be so weird. But I guess we’ll never really know

[@zachcoastercrazy4032]

@@ChriswithaK If they did bury them, I could only imagine the operater of the excavators face digging a giant pile of dirt with 50 year old animatronic. That would be unsettling.

[@gardnerhill9073]

Lots of them are in Big Thunder - kind of like the way the America Sings animatronics were mostly repurposed in Splash Mountain.

[@WesternOhioInterurbanHistory]

A lot were reused in Big Thunder Mountain.

[@ziplocBagofRobloxia]

And the loco is apparently abandoned partly restored in a barn now, nothing new about it has been posted since 2019, nothing that i can find anyway.

[@mike3889]

Your comment at :50 still holds true today especially in January 😂

[@bowdimohawk]

Personally, I think the arch is in a holding chamber under the lost city of Tanis.

[@YorickKnowledge]

I don't think naturistic means what you think it means