A while back, I had designed a Frontierland that was all about tall tales and Western folklore. While it had a spiritual successor to Big Thunder Mountain Railroad with the Casey Jones Runaway Train as the land's big E-Ticket, one idea that didn't make the cut was a log flume successor to Splash Mountain. Well, here is that idea.
Bigfoot Falls
(Log flume)
The Diggem Excavation Company has arrived, with miners and loggers tearing up the land in pursuit of profit. However, there is one critter who’s not happy about them tearing up his home: Bigfoot!
Past some tree stumps, guests will find a large 19th-century timber mill. This is the Diggem Excavation Company, and guests entering the lobby will pass by a portrait of the company's founder (Isaac Diggem) and signs advertising wealthy opportunities for new employees. Turning down a hallway, guests head down through an employee space, filled with signs telling of proper rules for using the mining and logging equipment, along with a map of the surrounding territory marked with work sites. Curiously, there is also a notice claiming that Bigfoot was sighted out in the woods, but a few derisive remarks mock the notice. Further in, guests pass through the storage sheds, filled with equipment for mining and logging. There's also an additional sign offering bonuses for anyone who can help to "stop any work interruptions caused by surrounding wildlife", surrounded by notes from workers saying they quit and that there's no money worth the risk of fighting Bigfoot. Eventually, we reach the loading platform, finding a log ride vehicle ready for us to ride in.
Once we're safely seated, we take off down the river and leave the timber mill. Sailing past some pine trees, we can hear workers singing some foresty folksong as they work while we head uphill. The serene nature is broken at the top, however, as we start passing some tree stumps and treecutting machinery along the river. We begin to go up another small hill, passing by a broken treecutter as a lumberjack looks upward with alarm. A tall shadow is cast on a nearby rock wall, and the lumberjack calls out, "BIGFOOT!" while we go down the drop. Finding ourselves in a darkly forested area, lumberjacks armed with hunting tools and traps are on the hunt for the elusive beast, eager for a reward in capturing the elusive creature. However, Bigfoot is more clever than they are, leaving them caught in their own traps. One such foiled trap has even knocked over a supply shed into the river path, diverting it into the mines where we take another small plunge. Inside, a muscled miner rolls up his sleeves while a smaller miner says he'll prepare a real surprise for Bigfoot. We pass by moments of the battle between the muscled miner and Bigfoot, but Bigfoot's mighty cudgel knocks the brute out. We soon see the smaller schemer again as he preps some dynamite in a mine cart. We head up a long hill, as we hear the dynamite fuse sizzling with a menacing echo. We pass an alcove, though, where Bigfoot has caught the now-panicked miner and his dynamite minecart and is roaring in the miner's face. As we reach the top of the hill, we take a big plunge back outside as the sound of an explosion rattles behind us. After a big splash of water at the bottom, we drift along a more peaceful river. It is here that we see Bigfoot smiling in peace, his cudgel over his shoulder and cute woodland critters all around him. With that, we return to the timber mill and exit safely from our log ride vehicle.
