# ouat / ob crossover
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Suletta x Miorine - May All Blessings Find Their Way to You, I'm Wishing It
It’ll all end the same.
Big Thunder Mountain Railroad at Magic Kingdom in the Walt Disney World Resort
Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, based on the Red Rock Canyon in Nevada, is located in Frontierland in the Magic Kingdom at the Walt Disney World Resort. The attraction was designed by Imagineer Tony Baxter and ride design engineer Bill Watkins. The concept came from Baxter’s work on fellow Imagineer Marc Davis’s concept for the Western River Expedition, a western-themed pavilion at the Magic Kingdom, designed to look like an enormous plateau and contain many rides, including a runaway mine train roller coaster. However, because the pavilion as a whole, was deemed too expensive in light of the 1973 construction and opening of Pirates of the Caribbean, Baxter proposed severing the mine train and building it as a separate attraction. The Big Thunder Mountain Railroad project was put on hold again in 1974 as resources and personnel were being diverted to work on constructing Space Mountain in Tomorrowland, but this delay may have ultimately produced a smoother ride as the use of computers in attraction design was just beginning when the project was resumed. Big Thunder Mountain Railroad was one of the first Disney rides to utilize computer-aided design. The attraction first opened at Disneyland in 1979, with the Magic Kingdom’s larger version in Florida opening in 1980.
The story goes: During the Gold Rush in the late 1800’s, gold was discovered in Big Thunder Mountain and boomtowns sprung up nearby. A Mine Train system was established to transport the ore, but what the settlers didn’t count on was that Big Thunder was sacred ground for local Indian tribes. The spirit of Big Thunder was not pleased with the gold being removed from the mountain and the towns and mining company suffered accidents from flooding. The trains themselves began operating on their own, possessed by mischievous spirits. Though the towns promptly became abandoned, adventurous visitors still arrived to ride the haunted trains. Source: http://disney.wikia.com/
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