News Big Thunder Mountain to receive full retrack

[danlb_2000]

The big question is, will the refurbed ride still cure kidney stones?

 

[splah]

I am hoping when they do finally get to the retrack and full refurbishment of Space Mountain that instead of going the Tokyo route, they instead replace the track in the same configuration perhads with a little smoother profiling, add on-board audio, new special effects, and completely overhaul the post-ride experience... Use the Horizons animatronics and recreate the Home Of Future Living complete with Speedramp exit and bring back Space Mountain's original theme song sans sponsor name ( they recorded it both with and wothout sponsor reference)... Make it the Mid-Mod Futurist journey into outer space that it was always meant to be... Jetson's futurist...whimsical and fun...with actual show scenes and visuals specifically for the Peoplemover instead of inky-blackness for 4 minutes....

i hope so too. It is the perfect layout for families. A little more thrilling than BTM but not unobtainable for kids.

 

[JackCH]

I am hoping when they do finally get to the retrack and full refurbishment of Space Mountain that instead of going the Tokyo route, they instead replace the track in the same configuration perhads with a little smoother profiling, add on-board audio, new special effects, and completely overhaul the post-ride experience... Use the Horizons animatronics and recreate the Home Of Future Living complete with Speedramp exit and bring back Space Mountain's original theme song sans sponsor name ( they recorded it both with and wothout sponsor reference)... Make it the Mid-Mod Futurist journey into outer space that it was always meant to be... Jetson's futurist...whimsical and fun...with actual show scenes and visuals specifically for the Peoplemover instead of inky-blackness for 4 minutes....

Yeah I would be fine with that too! In my mind I just think having one true thrill coaster at MK would be good, all the others are fairly tame. So having one just to scratch that itch would be good, and I can't think of a premise outside of Space where going all out would be possible. Except maybe villains but I think that will be another fairly tame story-coaster.

 

[plutofan15]

I believe that Big Thunder leans towards the family friendly end of coasters, but at the upper end of them. Many years ago, we were part of a commercial shoot along with two other families who are friends of ours. There were seven kids ranging from a year old up to 10 years old. The two rides which were picked to film on were Jungle Cruise and Big Thunder. Every kid rode Big Thunder (with the exception of the one year old) four consecutive times without getting off in order to get the shots needed. And no complaints from any of the kids.
PS: Kudos to the camera crew for riding all those rides facing backwards.

 

[GhostHost1000]

The big question is, will the refurbed ride still cure kidney stones?

probably not, but by the time it's back up and running... the cost to get in the park to ride it may cause ulcers

 

[Disstevefan1]

probably not, but by the time it's back up and running... the cost to get in the park to ride it may cause ulcers