Originally Posted By FerretAfros >>Of course I was smashing into him the entire ride.<< The way the ride is laid out, most of the turns push you to the left side of the seat. If you put the bigger person on the left side, it's less of an issue. If course, I enjoy sitting on the right side and intentionally slamming into the people I'm with! : )
Originally Posted By monorailblue After 14 years, I've long since given up on dolmotions, dallmashuns, etc.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 I'm just happy to hear they did at least address the interior scenes. For a long time there was no confirmation if that would be done or not; just the track replacement, the restoration of Rainbow Ridge and possible queue improvements were what was confirmed.
Originally Posted By CuriousConstance "The way the ride is laid out, most of the turns push you to the left side of the seat." We realized this the hard way, lol. He was a little 40 pound pancake after the ride was over.
Originally Posted By DBitz2 Disney Parks Blog has announced a March 17th reopening date. <a target="blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2014/03/big-thunder-mountain-railroad-to-reopen-march-17-at-disneyland-park/">http://disneyparks.disney.go.c...nd-park/</a>
Originally Posted By DBitz2 The Blog post confirms what I've thought all along, that the mountain was only partially repainted. I've been around here long enough to have seen the mountain after it's been painted and I didn't think it looked like the entire mountain had been painted. Hopefully, that'll come later, as it is a bit faded.
Originally Posted By tonyanton I'm surprised...even the usually cheaper team in Orlando repainted their entire Big Thunder a couple years back.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros >>The Blog post confirms what I've thought all along, that the mountain was only partially repainted.<< They never put scaffholding up around the 'towers' so that's what I expected. It's a shame, since they were pretty faded before the recent repainting, and only look worse right next to the fresh colors. The lower parts of the mountain were also repainted after the accident (~2002?), but the towers weren't touched then either. I wonder how long it will be until it's next really big refurbishment when they have a chance to do it right; at the rate they're going it will likely be at least another decade
Originally Posted By monorailblue Especially given the TLC Matterhorn received (as well as the very long length of this refurb), it's pretty sad the repainting wasn't a full job.
Originally Posted By DBitz2 I suspect that it was in the plans originally and the budget ended being taken for something else. It seemed to me that the painting ended rather abruptly when they had started the painting work.
Originally Posted By darcy-becker WooHoo. Disney Parks Blog has announced Big Thunder is reopening on March 17th. I know someone else probably already said that in one of the 16 messages above that I haven't read yet.
Originally Posted By Yookeroo "I suspect that it was in the plans originally and the budget ended being taken for something else." I blame MyMagic+
Originally Posted By monorailblue It seems unfathomable that they would stop painting to save money. Given what was spent on everything else and the truly unique chance to paint the whole thing properly, the money should have been found.
Originally Posted By phruby They had to stop painting and use that money to "pretend" to refurbish the subs. MiceAge found out about their true plans to shut down the ride forever and build a Ewok treehouse on top. Now Disney can't let some web site expose their ultra secret plans to remove the subs forever and expose the Disney lie.
