Crowds Descend Upon Magic Kingdom For The Reopening of Big Thunder Mountain Railroad

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If you are visiting the Magic Kingdom today, I wish you luck.  You are going to need it because today is the day Disney is reopening Big Thunder Mountain Railroad after more than 15 months.

The crowds are insane.

Here are images from social media

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Doctor Disney gives a look at the queue going clear back into Liberty Square!!

I love when people notice and wave at the camera. So cute!

Disney Food Blog put up this quick ride-through video,

Here are some looks that Disney has posted:

They also posted this fun “newspaper” front page,

If you want to know who Barnabas T. Bullion is, Disney explains, 

“…Barnabas T. Bullion, the eldest son of a wealthy and powerful mining family. Years ago, Bullion received a land grant from the United States government, giving him ironclad land rights to the Western River Valley (including Thunder Mesa and Big Thunder Mountain) in the Great American Southwest.

Upon receiving the land, Bullion was determined to extract every ounce of gold hidden deep within the mountain, motivated to relentlessly mine the mountain until he had yielded all its treasure. Alas, the Big Thunder Mining Company was officially founded in 1850, sparking Bullion’s never-ending quest for gold and launching an ambitious operation driven by his unrelenting belief that future fortunes lay buried beneath the red rock.

At first, the gold flowed freely. But as nature began to push back and frustrations began to mount, the easy pickings started to dwindle day after day. Miners were forced to dig deeper and deeper into the mountainside.

Yet strange, unexplainable things quickly started happening. Despite Bullion’s efforts to continue to push forward at full speed, machines and equipment began to fail. Cave-ins shut miners out of rich strikes, and rumbles of thunder came from deep inside the angry mountain.

As Bullion’s grand operation crumbles beneath the weight of the protective forces of the mountain, a substantial vein of gold hasn’t been found in months inside the mines, and very few miners (outside a few, brave seekers) remain based in the area. But keep your eyes out on your next train ride: there’s plenty of gold to be found around the mountain!”

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