#mine train thru nature's wonderland

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Disneyland Opening Day - LIFE Magazine (2)

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Talk Like a Grizzled Prospector Day

Talk Like a Grizzled Prospector Day commemorates the start of the  California Gold Rush, which began on January 24, 1848, when James  Marshall discovered gold while building a saw mill for John Sutter, near  what is now Coloma, California. The day has its roots in International Talk Like a Pirate Day, and was inspired by Prospectors Day, which was once held at Knott's Berry Farm each year on January 24. It also was inspired by an episode of the Simpsons with the following exchange:

Bart: That ain't been popular since aught-six, dagnabbit. Homer: Bart, what did I tell you? Bart: No talking like a grizzled 1890's prospector, consarn it.

Common examples of characters talking like grizzled prospectors in popular culture include Dallas McKennon narrating Disneyland's Mine Train Thru Nature's Wonderland and Big Thunder Mountain, Gabby Hayes—both drunk and sober—in many Western films, Gabby Johnson in Blazing Saddles, Will Ferrell as Gus Chiggins on Saturday Night Live, and Walter Huston in The Treasure of Sierra Madre.

Prospectors first came to the Sacramento Valley after Marshall found  flakes of gold in the American River near Sutter's Mill, at the base of  the Sierra Nevada Mountains. At the time there were less than 1,000  non-native inhabitants in California. Newspapers began reporting the  discovery of gold, and by August, 4,000 miners had descended on the  area. The first people that came from outside of the territory came by  boat, and arrived from Oregon, the Sandwich Islands—soon to be called  the Hawaiian Islands, Mexico, Peru, China, and Chili.

In December 1848, President James K. Polk announced a report by  Colonel Richard Mason which spoke of the abundance of gold in  California; this prompted more prospectors to travel to the territory.  Throughout 1849, thousands arrived, either traveling by sea or over  land, and became known as '49ers. Mining towns popped up in the area,  and with them came shops, saloons, and brothels. Many mining towns  became lawless, and San Francisco became an important city in the  territory. By the end of 1849, the non-native population had swelled to  100,000. The Gold Rush helped California gain statehood in 1850, and  gold discovery peaked in the state in 1852. In all, more than 750,000  pounds of gold were extracted during the Gold Rush.

The implication of a grizzled prospector is of one who has stayed so  long searching for gold that their hair has turned gray. Some  prospectors refused to quit the profession and continued to live in the  Western territories. So, when Bart Simpson mentioned a grizzled  prospector from the 1890s, he was referring to a prospector that had  stayed more than forty years after the Gold Rush happened, still trying  to find gold, or other commodities such as silver, oil, radium, and  uranium. Besides a gray beard, the stereotypical grizzled prospector had  faded clothes, missing teeth, a pickaxe, and a mule. They had bouts of  gold fever, and were suspicious of whoever came close to their claim.

How to Observe Talk Like a Grizzled Prospector Day

Celebrate the day talking like a grizzled prospector. Here are a few words prospectors commonly used, that you could use today:

Dadburn: to curse; e.g.: "Dadburned boll weevil done 'et my crop!"

Hornswoggle: to embarrass, disconcert, or confuse; e.g.: "I'll be hornswaggled!"

Consarn: the entirety of something, also a curse word.

Dumbfungled: all used up; e.g.: "This claim is dumbfungled! There's no gold left!"

Bonanza: a mine with lots of gold.

Borrasca: a mine with no gold.

Baby buggy: wheel barrow.

Muck: to dig with a shovel.

Powder monkey: a miner who used dynamite to make holes.

Johnny Newcome: a miner new to camp.

Blackjack and saw bosom: coffee and bacon.

Paydirt: land rich in gold.

Panned out: if they had found gold while sifting through dirt with a mining pan, then things had "panned out."

Flash in the pan: something shiny in pan that turned out to be nothing, or just a small piece of gold.

Stake a claim: claim a piece of land as your own as a place to  search for gold, must stake the land with wooden stakes when you arrive.

The day could also be spent watching films such as The Treasure of Sierra Madre, or old Western films starring Gabby Hayes. A visit to the Sutter's Mill replica and the Gold Discovery and Visitor Center in Marshall Gold Discovery State Park could also be planned. The days' Facebook page could also be explored.

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May 28 1960 Mine Train Thru Nature’s Wonderland Opens

Disneyland’s Mine Train Thru Nature’s Wonderland opens in Frontierland. The attraction requires an “E” ticket, and is an improved version of the Rainbow Caverns Mine train. The attraction covers most of Frontierland and is home to over 200 animatronic animals. 

The opening of this attraction found Walt Disney christening the new scenery with the help of his grandchildren Tammy, Joanna, and Chris Miller. 

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The bracket will be:

East Coast:

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Magic Kingdom) vs ExtraTerrorEstrial Encounter (Magic Kingdom)

The Age of Information (EPCOT) vs KiteTails (Disney Animal Kingdom)

Body Wars (EPCOT) vs Primeval Whirl (Disney Animal Kingdom)

Cinemagique (Walt Disney Studios Paris) vs Cranium Command (EPCOT)

Discovery Riverboats (Disney Animal Kingdom) vs El Rio Del Tiempo (EPCOT)

The Great Movie Ride (Disney Hollywood Studios) vs Journey Into Imagination (EPCOT)

Horizons (EPCOT) vs The Living Seas (EPCOT)

IllumiNations: Reflections of Earth (EPCOT) vs Wishes (Magic Kingdom)

West Coast:

Adventure Thru Inner Space (Disneyland Park) vs Honey, I Shrunk the Audience (Disneyland Park)

America Sings (Disneyland Park) vs Captain EO (Disneyland Park)

Big Thunder Ranch (Disneyland Park) vs Mine Train Through Nature’s Wonderland (Disneyland Park)

BraviSeaMo (Tokyo DisneySea) vs Cinderella Castle Mystery (Tokyo Disneyland)

California Screamin’ (Disney California Adventure) vs Twilight Zone Tower of Terror (Disney California Adventure)

Enchanted Tiki Room: Get the Fever (Tokyo Disneyland) vs Meet the World (Tokyo Disneyland)

Heimlich’s Chew Chew Train (Disney California Adventure) vs PeopleMover (Disneyland Park)

Jungle River Cruise: Curse of the Emerald Trinity (Hong Kong Disneyland) vs Superstar Limo (Disney California Adventure)

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Mine Train Thru Nature’s Wonderland at Disneyland

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The Rainbow Carverns (From Mine Train Through Nature’s Wonderland)

This is easily in my top five music cues written for the Disney theme parks.

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rainbow caverns concept art, by claude coats

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Great Moments with Mister Lincoln/ The Disneyland Story had some really cool photos on display of past attractions. I only could snap a couple, I am planning on taking more photos of them next time I go! Photos 1&2- Mine Train through Nature’s Wonderland Photo 3- Adventure Thru Inner Space Photo 4-20,000 Leagues Under The Sea Walkthrough Photo 5- Phantom Boats (including attraction sign, which I thought was really cool!) Photo 6- Viewliner (I’m fairly certain that’s what this one is, although I could be wrong) Photo 7- Monsanto’s Home of the Future Photo 8- Rocket to the Moon I really like the displays for the Disneyland Story, and I hope that I can snap more pics on my next visit, and that I can actually watch Mister Lincoln, because that animatronic is so impressive

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Rainbox Caverns Omnibus sign, 1950s

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Disneyland guests riding the “Mine Train Thru Nature's Wonderland” attraction in Frontierland, summer 1962.  It was eventually replaced by Thunder Mountain Railroad in the late 1970s.

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Talk Like a Grizzled Prospector Day

Talk Like a Grizzled Prospector Day commemorates the start of the  California Gold Rush, which began on January 24, 1848, when James  Marshall discovered gold while building a saw mill for John Sutter, near  what is now Coloma, California. The day has its roots in International Talk Like a Pirate Day, and was inspired by Prospectors Day, which was once held at Knott's Berry Farm each year on January 24. It also was inspired by an episode of the Simpsons with the following exchange:

Bart: That ain't been popular since aught-six, dagnabbit. Homer: Bart, what did I tell you? Bart: No talking like a grizzled 1890's prospector, consarn it.

Common examples of characters talking like grizzled prospectors in popular culture include Dallas McKennon narrating Disneyland's Mine Train Thru Nature's Wonderland and Big Thunder Mountain, Gabby Hayes—both drunk and sober—in many Western films, Gabby Johnson in Blazing Saddles, Will Ferrell as Gus Chiggins on Saturday Night Live, and Walter Huston in The Treasure of Sierra Madre.

Prospectors first came to the Sacramento Valley after Marshall found  flakes of gold in the American River near Sutter's Mill, at the base of  the Sierra Nevada Mountains. At the time there were less than 1,000  non-native inhabitants in California. Newspapers began reporting the  discovery of gold, and by August, 4,000 miners had descended on the  area. The first people that came from outside of the territory came by  boat, and arrived from Oregon, the Sandwich Islands—soon to be called  the Hawaiian Islands, Mexico, Peru, China, and Chili.

In December 1848, President James K. Polk announced a report by  Colonel Richard Mason which spoke of the abundance of gold in  California; this prompted more prospectors to travel to the territory.  Throughout 1849, thousands arrived, either traveling by sea or over  land, and became known as '49ers. Mining towns popped up in the area,  and with them came shops, saloons, and brothels. Many mining towns  became lawless, and San Francisco became an important city in the  territory. By the end of 1849, the non-native population had swelled to  100,000. The Gold Rush helped California gain statehood in 1850, and  gold discovery peaked in the state in 1852. In all, more than 750,000  pounds of gold were extracted during the Gold Rush.

The implication of a grizzled prospector is of one who has stayed so  long searching for gold that their hair has turned gray. Some  prospectors refused to quit the profession and continued to live in the  Western territories. So, when Bart Simpson mentioned a grizzled  prospector from the 1890s, he was referring to a prospector that had  stayed more than forty years after the Gold Rush happened, still trying  to find gold, or other commodities such as silver, oil, radium, and  uranium. Besides a gray beard, the stereotypical grizzled prospector had  faded clothes, missing teeth, a pickaxe, and a mule. They had bouts of  gold fever, and were suspicious of whoever came close to their claim.

How to Observe Talk Like a Grizzled Prospector Day

Celebrate the day talking like a grizzled prospector. Here are a few words prospectors commonly used, that you could use today:

Dadburn: to curse; e.g.: "Dadburned boll weevil done 'et my crop!"

Hornswoggle: to embarrass, disconcert, or confuse; e.g.: "I'll be hornswaggled!"

Consarn: the entirety of something, also a curse word.

Dumbfungled: all used up; e.g.: "This claim is dumbfungled! There's no gold left!"

Bonanza: a mine with lots of gold.

Borrasca: a mine with no gold.

Baby buggy: wheel barrow.

Muck: to dig with a shovel.

Powder monkey: a miner who used dynamite to make holes.

Johnny Newcome: a miner new to camp.

Blackjack and saw bosom: coffee and bacon.

Paydirt: land rich in gold.

Panned out: if they had found gold while sifting through dirt with a mining pan, then things had "panned out."

Flash in the pan: something shiny in pan that turned out to be nothing, or just a small piece of gold.

Stake a claim: claim a piece of land as your own as a place to  search for gold, must stake the land with wooden stakes when you arrive.

The day could also be spent watching films such as The Treasure of Sierra Madre, or old Western films starring Gabby Hayes. A visit to the Sutter's Mill replica and the Gold Discovery and Visitor Center in Marshall Gold Discovery State Park could also be planned. The days' Facebook page could also be explored.

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7th November 2020

Billy

Billy is the infamous goat who appears on Big Thunder Mountain chewing on a stick of dynamite. Billy can be seen on all four versions of Big Thunder Mountain at Disneyland, Walt Disney World, Disneyland Paris and Tokyo Disneyland. In 2013, he was named and given a name for a campaign called ‘Free The Disney Goat’, launched by Disney, which showed a puppet version of Billy on different Disney World rides to promote Disney World tickets for Florida residents. He then appeared in the 2015 Disney web series WDW Best Day Ever, where he would interview other animatronic figures from around Disney World. Billy’s segments were called ‘Walt Disney World Goat Friends’.

Billy also appears in the Mickey Mouse episode Nature’s Wonderland, based on Big Thunder Mountain and its predecessor Mine Train Thru Nature’s Wonderland, still chewing on the stick of dynamite. He made an appearance in the Big Thunder Mountain Disney Kingdoms comic again, chewing on a stick of dynamite. Billy appeared in the 2011 game Kinekt Disneyland Adventures and its 2017 remaster in the Big Thunder Mountain mini game and he is chewing on a stick of dynamite. He also appears in Disney California Adventure’s Pixar Pier in Jessie’s Critter Carousel, chewing on a stick of dynamite.

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People don’t talk enough about the friendship between Walt Disney and Walter Knott.

Probably because not many know much about it. Including me, other than knowing that it’s true.

One of these days, I should look more into that.

Also, any “History of Big Thunder Mountain” isn’t complete without The Ballad of Thunder Mountain -- a song that does not play at Disneyland (nor, to my knowledge, has it ever played there, though I’m open to being corrected).

It’s just a great and catchy tune telling the story of a man going to Big Thunder Mountain and a ticket-seller trying to talk him out of it.

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inside the rainbow caverns, date unknown. the ultraviolet dye in the water is mostly invisible.