#this bit in this video about the batteries in the Mine Train Thru Nature's Wonderland trains was really interesting

[ahnsael]

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.