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- Name
- Big Thunder Mountain
- Status
- Operating
- Closing
- No
- Park
- Disneyland Park (Paris)
- Category
- Roller Coaster
- Description
- A steel mine-train roller coaster built by Vekoma and designed by Walt Disney Imagineering, set on an island in the Rivers of the Far West. The largest of the Big Thunder Mountain installations, it is the only one to have been an opening-day attraction at its park. Trains carry 30 riders through the runaway mine setting; source figures are ~104 ft / 35 mph, entered here in metric.
- Designer
- Walt Disney Imagineering
- Coaster type
- Steel
- Opening date
- 1992-04-12
- Opening year
- 1992
- Rows per car
- 3
- Seating type
- Sit Down
- Trains count
- 5
- Height
- 32 m (104.99 ft)
- Max speed
- 56 km/h (34.8 mph)
- Ride sub type
- Mine train
- Seats per row
- 2
- Cars per train
- 5
- Restraint type
- Lap Bar
- Attraction type
- Ride
- Intensity level
- Thrill
- Manufacturer
- Vekoma
- Inversions count
- 0
- Closing from park
- No
- Propulsion method
- Chain Lift
- Source unit system
- Metric
- Height requirement
- 102 cm (40.16 in)
- Ride duration
- 180 s
- Closing date precision
- Exact Date
- Opening date precision
- Exact Date