I used to go to Silver Dollar City with my mom and sister growing up, multiple times a year, bc my granddad was a volunteer woodcarver there for 27 years so we would always get season passes and go visit him while we were visiting them and he was working. The best days of my life, honestly. The flooded mine, fire in the hole, and grandfathers mansion were always our favorite rides/attractions there. We would wait in line for hours in the snow to watch A Christmas Carol and the Christmas tree lighting every winter. Wish I could go back to him being being alive and spending my favorite days with my favorite people😭 if you’re ever there, go to the swinging bridge. After 25 years of work there they allow you to name something after yourself. My granddad chose the swinging bridge, however when they repainted they didn’t give him the bridge again, but he still has a box right next to the bridge that says “Bill’s keg powder” or something to that affect (it’s been about 10 years since we have gone last haha) but that’s my granddad😍😍😍😍 ask about Bill Carroll and Raymond in the woodcarving shop and I’m sure they’ll know who you’re talking about! He was 80 and still carving there with shakey hands! Always wanted him to teach me how but he got too shakey and weak by the time I was old enough. Still have all of his hand carved wooden ornaments and boxes he made for me though❤️🥰
I still can't believe it's still going! I rode this the first year it opened in 1968 when I was nine. I was completely facinated with the new animation. This ride really shows kids these days how technology has changed in the last 55 years.
I went to SDC in 1968 I was 6 my pops didn’t pay for us to visit which was accepted practice you just couldn’t ride the rides. I was really wanting to ride that thing. Then my wife & went in about 1989 or so & they had the guns which I thought was cool but my wife absolutely loved it. Later we came back with my little boy I made sure he rode up with her cause she was so much fun on it. They both had more points than me. She is deceased now & im taking him back at 20 yrs old. We’re going at the end of July 2019.
We must have went there first when it was GoldRush Junction in the mid 70's? as I have a shingle that I branded with the Goldrush title and it had the axe and log symbol. anyway, I think the first time we went there it was called Flooded MIne and it freaked me out, but I couldn't ride it anyway as I was too small, but the second time in the 80's it was SDC and then called Fire In The Hole but I recall it being very dark inside when I rode it the last time. The train coming at ya on the bridge really freaked me out and the drop was scary to me. I really loved that place the first time we went as it stressed more interactivity between the park performers and guests and they had little skits going on all over. Also all the arts and crafts people doing different things through out the park was another of my fave things as I was always fascinated by all those things when I was old enough to start understanding about how things were made and done.
What is fun about that ride and a little "secret" is that the person that is in that booth above you catches you shooting someone with the gun before the ride starts is that they will shoot you with water and make a joke about how that is not nice. I found out the hard way but had a good laugh about it.
It's a ride. Gotta love the mine ride. Used to go every year as a kid. Every year I would try to shoot the guy who starts the ride and every year they would shoot back with a water bottle. Good times.
Welcome to the mine days Welcome to the toil Welcome to the trouble beneath the earth and soil You'll sweat a little water You'll sweat a little blood And you might get out if the mine don't flood
Thanks for posting Dolly didn't keep ours and I forgot everything about it until your video and it all came was 100% like ours 👍👍🤟🤟🤜🤛 thanks for the stroll down memory lane it was great! Please never take down
Just rode this a few months back and it needs some serious work. Most of the guns didn't work and even if they did the targets didn't do anything when you shoot them. I know it wasn't a gun ride when it first opened 50 something years ago but I grew up with the target shooting and without it just wasn't the same. Still fun for nostalgia though.
I don’t really remember them changing the ride much but they do put up decor for holidays it could have been something for Halloween. Every few years they do swap the heads around to touch up the paint
It was already light gun when I rode. For a good while coke was a sponsor and there is a coke can that spins. Probably still in there. Don't remember seeing it recently.
I think the BB gun thing was like a booth somewhere. The flooded mine was always just a ride through a ride through and look around thing until the 80s when they added the shooting gallery with the light guns I totally know what your talking about with the spinning coke can. There’s a bunch of things in there where you shoot it and it spins. I’m sure at some point it could have been coke cans
I always thought that the guy on top of the other guy’s shoulders looked just like Moe from Three Stooges. So every time I pass by him I say “Hey Moe!!” And people laugh all the time!!
Hmmmm never seen this ride at SDC. And I have been to SDC many times, the ride that reminds me of this is fire in the hole. Now fire in the hole is pretty fun!
I was that annoying kid in the 90s whose grandpa worked at SDC so I practically lived there and got bored so I would find lost people and literally guide them where they wanted to go. Lol My grandpa was so mischievous that he tried to get Dolly Parton (who was visiting Branson that day to promote her Dixie Stampede or something) to stand in a certain spot near the Lost River ride where she most certainly would get soaked but she didn't fall for it. Lol
Originally, before the guns were added, the figures had motion picture faces projected onto their blank heads. Most of them were singing the words to a song.
A question for those who were fortunate enough to go on both before the one at Dollywood was removed: When the guy triggers the "explosion " with the tnt, I seem to remember the Dollywood version having a much bigger water splash, possibly behind a plexiglass shield. Was that really the case, or was my (at the time) 7 year old mind just playing tricks on me?
@@mccallosone4903 The one in Branson was like that, a guy triggered the explosion, there was no plexi glass in the 80's and no stupid guns. The whole ride was so much better back then.
Eric Draven Yeah they did the same thing to Fire In The Hole. Over the years they took the noose off the gallows, removed the gallows, removed most of the guns... pretty soon they’ll remove all the baldknobbers lol
chloechapmqn they took it down because the water was slowly destroying the ride so they say I am too young to remember this but there are also some rumors about snakes idk
this is how i remember it from being little kid. i went yesterday. half the stuff is gone. no saw blade comming at you. now dynamit blowing up scene. no prisoners in mine (guess they all found their way out and escaped or were caught). no skunk. no cannon ball water shooting up. I mean no sign breaking apart. I mean literally half was gone. and half what was left didnt work no more. no more train on fire in the hole either. if i go back im skipping those 2 rides so i can remember how they used to be. lots changed in 30 years. even new stuff from 15 years ago is gone.
I agree 100% bria6094.. in the late 70's to the mid 80's flooded mine and fire in the hole were sweet rides, had all those things you mentioned and more... I loved these rides back then.. todays kids have no idea how cool (and non PC) they were back then. I happy that they are still there but sad for how they changed so much.
@@StratusGhost NO... the rides have changed a whole lot since the 70's and 80's and not for the better... has nothing to do with off season or a bad day. You didn't read his comment correctly.
It's is pretty much the same thing cuz Silver Dollar City opened a second Silver Dollar City in Tennessee in the 70s and like 10 years later Dolly Parton and some investors bought it and called it Dollywood.
They had to close the flooded mine ride in Dollywood cuz they started getting a snake problem lol. I can just imagine some guys like, "Wow, this is such a fun ride! They've got animatronic miners, guards, and oh look, even happy little animatronic snakes... OH GOD ITS BITING MY FACE OFF!!!"
Erick Nordlund I was 2 and a half years old when they demolished the ride so I never got a chance to experience it or at least have some kind of memory of it. I have been on the Dare Devil Falls quite a few times though which I the ride that took it's place and is in the same exact area that the Flooded Mine was in. It's weird that they put in yet another water ride where there was already a problem about snakes that would lurk in the waters of that ride. It's not really solving a problem though but I don't think I have heard of anyone getting bit by snakes from this new ride though (technically the ride opened in 1998 so I would hardly call it new though). I saw an on ride video of Fire in the Hole from this park which is just like The Blazing Fury at Dollywood. It's not identical I will say since there are a few scenes that are not in the Blazing fury that I saw in Fire in the Hole and the Fire in the Hole saying at the end sounds different from the one on the Blazing Fury, but both rides do have the same dips. I asked this Flooded Mine was the same a the one that was at Dollywood because this ride is slightly different from the one in Tennessee. Sorry for talking my head off.
The snakes are an urban legend. The ride was the least popular so they removed it for daredevil falls. I was on it many times and there were never snakes. Also there's a snopes page to confirm.
I think you should of turned off the light? well like some people I think would like it if you turned off the light on you're phone if that is what is causing it cuz it is more fun. Just pointing out
Father AxeKeeper No. It's a rather unfortunate (imo) trend to make dark rides "interactive" nowadays. I went on both this one and the one at Dollywood back in the 80s when the scenery was the attraction.
Yeah it’s still open. I remember a few years ago they sent me a few ideas they had about 3 new rides they were considering, and one of them looked like it could be replacing the flooded mine. So I sent them a big letter about what the flooded mine means to me and the fans and all of silver dollar city and how sad it would be to get rid of it
I used to go to Silver Dollar City with my mom and sister growing up, multiple times a year, bc my granddad was a volunteer woodcarver there for 27 years so we would always get season passes and go visit him while we were visiting them and he was working. The best days of my life, honestly. The flooded mine, fire in the hole, and grandfathers mansion were always our favorite rides/attractions there. We would wait in line for hours in the snow to watch A Christmas Carol and the Christmas tree lighting every winter. Wish I could go back to him being being alive and spending my favorite days with my favorite people😭 if you’re ever there, go to the swinging bridge. After 25 years of work there they allow you to name something after yourself. My granddad chose the swinging bridge, however when they repainted they didn’t give him the bridge again, but he still has a box right next to the bridge that says “Bill’s keg powder” or something to that affect (it’s been about 10 years since we have gone last haha) but that’s my granddad😍😍😍😍 ask about Bill Carroll and Raymond in the woodcarving shop and I’m sure they’ll know who you’re talking about! He was 80 and still carving there with shakey hands! Always wanted him to teach me how but he got too shakey and weak by the time I was old enough. Still have all of his hand carved wooden ornaments and boxes he made for me though❤️🥰
Up here visiting now, looking out for bill box!
I still can't believe it's still going! I rode this the first year it opened in 1968 when I was nine. I was completely facinated with the new animation. This ride really shows kids these days how technology has changed in the last 55 years.
I can remember that ride before it was a shooting gallery,,, and it was still fun!
mister b remember the end of the ride when the rocks fell from above and a voice shouted “look out below”!!
This ride used to not have the guns ?
@@jaystonsmith2154 I’ve heard this from my mom too she also said the ride didn’t have guns when she went on it as a kid
Kept expecting to hear pirate music and "Dead men tell no tales" :)
I went to SDC in 1968 I was 6 my pops didn’t pay for us to visit which was accepted practice you just couldn’t ride the rides. I was really wanting to ride that thing. Then my wife & went in about 1989 or so & they had the guns which I thought was cool but my wife absolutely loved it. Later we came back with my little boy I made sure he rode up with her cause she was so much fun on it. They both had more points than me. She is deceased now & im taking him back at 20 yrs old. We’re going at the end of July 2019.
We must have went there first when it was GoldRush Junction in the mid 70's? as I have a shingle that I branded with the Goldrush title and it had the axe and log symbol. anyway, I think the first time we went there it was called Flooded MIne and it freaked me out, but I couldn't ride it anyway as I was too small, but the second time in the 80's it was SDC and then called Fire In The Hole but I recall it being very dark inside when I rode it the last time.
The train coming at ya on the bridge really freaked me out and the drop was scary to me.
I really loved that place the first time we went as it stressed more interactivity between the park performers and guests and they had little skits going on all over. Also all the arts and crafts people doing different things through out the park was another of my fave things as I was always fascinated by all those things when I was old enough to start understanding about how things were made and done.
Was just telling my six yr old about this ride, but Dollywood has replaced it. Was so nice to show her what my fav ride was like. Thank you!
What is fun about that ride and a little "secret" is that the person that is in that booth above you catches you shooting someone with the gun before the ride starts is that they will shoot you with water and make a joke about how that is not nice. I found out the hard way but had a good laugh about it.
The guns actually make this look kind of awesome. Who hasn't ridden on "It's a small world" and wished that they had had some guns? lol
I love that ride my baby sister was so scared 😅
This is my favorite ride at Silver Dollar city
TheWonderfulWorldOfDisney
Me too, it might be a bit boring, but I have a lot of memories there.
When I went on that with my cousins and my aunt and uncle and my mom and dad I was screaming my head off even tho I've been on this so many times 😂😂😂
That looks like a treat! Thank you for sharing this.
I went on that ride with my Big Sis,Mom,Uncle,Aunt and my two cousins i was crying after the ride it was so scary
Edit: I was about 7 or 8 years old
Jennifer Cummings same
i was always scared of fire in the whole
@@meg4075 (my new account) I haven't been on that one, but I have family that has been on it
this ride scared the shit out of me. i was 13 with a fear of animatronics in water
This is a fun ride, well maybe not ride, but attraction idk.
It's a ride. Gotta love the mine ride. Used to go every year as a kid. Every year I would try to shoot the guy who starts the ride and every year they would shoot back with a water bottle. Good times.
Its a ride
Omg....this looks fun. We are planning a trip to Branson and I definitely plan to do silver dollar city
This ride was scary that I was crying before I got on
This brings back good memories
Welcome to the mine days
Welcome to the toil
Welcome to the trouble beneath the earth and soil
You'll sweat a little water
You'll sweat a little blood
And you might get out if the mine don't flood
Thanks for posting Dolly didn't keep ours and I forgot everything about it until your video and it all came was 100% like ours 👍👍🤟🤟🤜🤛 thanks for the stroll down memory lane it was great! Please never take down
My favorite ride in the world ❤️
jen wenger u are cray cray😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮
jen wenger zzz
I kept thinking there would be a little drop somewhere. That would've been neat.
RainOnATinRoof you are thinking of fire in the whole
Hope Armstrong
Fire in the Hole
Hope Armstrong. YEA THATS THE BEST RIDE!!!
I can imagine the smell of that ride
This creeped the heck out of me as a kid
Same
Dollywood really lost something when they took this out. Everyone could ride it, and everyone enjoyed it.
This was always my favorite ride. But I rode it three times when I was there last summer and none of the guns worked.
Don Mcc
I know right? I was there last August and they didn't work either!
I wish they would remove those stupid guns
Man, I miss the version of this at Dollywood.
i miss this version at SDC in branson
Dr. Ben Tharduntha wtf are you talking about I’m in dolly wood right now
@@crazyfish9523 .... That was over a year ago 😂
Dr. Ben Tharduntha I was just saying Dollywood is not closed. And you know that too 👨🏽🎤
@@crazyfish9523 ... It's not now but the ride you were talking about flooded back then...all's cool now!!
Too bad one at Dollywood had snakes. And my props to Silver Dollar for keeping they log flume ride. Dollywood took theirs out too.
I love that ride
Just rode this a few months back and it needs some serious work. Most of the guns didn't work and even if they did the targets didn't do anything when you shoot them. I know it wasn't a gun ride when it first opened 50 something years ago but I grew up with the target shooting and without it just wasn't the same. Still fun for nostalgia though.
4:43 I remember when this section was more spooky. Had ghosts all over.
I don’t really remember them changing the ride much but they do put up decor for holidays it could have been something for Halloween. Every few years they do swap the heads around to touch up the paint
@@camop11 the ghosts were year round back when I was a kid.
Oh neat! I love hearing old stuff about SDC. My dad said his favorite part was a shooting gallery where you’d actually fire a real BB gun
It was already light gun when I rode. For a good while coke was a sponsor and there is a coke can that spins. Probably still in there. Don't remember seeing it recently.
I think the BB gun thing was like a booth somewhere. The flooded mine was always just a ride through a ride through and look around thing until the 80s when they added the shooting gallery with the light guns
I totally know what your talking about with the spinning coke can. There’s a bunch of things in there where you shoot it and it spins. I’m sure at some point it could have been coke cans
Have you ever been on thunderation? It's pretty cool ride you should check it out. Also powder keg, but powder keg is more intense.
I always thought that the guy on top of the other guy’s shoulders looked just like Moe from Three Stooges. So every time I pass by him I say “Hey Moe!!” And people laugh all the time!!
Hmmmm never seen this ride at SDC. And I have been to SDC many times, the ride that reminds me of this is fire in the hole. Now fire in the hole is pretty fun!
Alexander Hamilton this ride (attraction) is right next to the train if you've ever been on it
That ride was so fun
I liked it better before it was a shoot out..
" I'll get outta here, no matter what!"
Great video! You have an awesome light on your camera! What kind of camera did you use?
we love silver dollar city
I was that annoying kid in the 90s whose grandpa worked at SDC so I practically lived there and got bored so I would find lost people and literally guide them where they wanted to go. Lol My grandpa was so mischievous that he tried to get Dolly Parton (who was visiting Branson that day to promote her Dixie Stampede or something) to stand in a certain spot near the Lost River ride where she most certainly would get soaked but she didn't fall for it. Lol
Originally, before the guns were added, the figures had motion picture faces projected onto their blank heads. Most of them were singing the words to a song.
A question for those who were fortunate enough to go on both before the one at Dollywood was removed: When the guy triggers the "explosion " with the tnt, I seem to remember the Dollywood version having a much bigger water splash, possibly behind a plexiglass shield. Was that really the case, or was my (at the time) 7 year old mind just playing tricks on me?
it was much bigger in pigeon forge. also no plexiglass, at least when i was a kid going there
@@mccallosone4903 The one in Branson was like that, a guy triggered the explosion, there was no plexi glass in the 80's and no stupid guns. The whole ride was so much better back then.
got on the one at dollywood was a little girl luved it
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Love those old dark rides--hate they closed it.
Les Morrow they didn't close it did they? I thought they only closed the one at Dollywood
Megan Lamb the one at dolly wood is the only one
I rode it two days ago.. its no closing anytime soon
6 years later and it’s still here
The ride was way better back in the 80's long before they added the stupid guns and toned the ride down to be more PC.
Eric Draven Yeah they did the same thing to Fire In The Hole. Over the years they took the noose off the gallows, removed the gallows, removed most of the guns... pretty soon they’ll remove all the baldknobbers lol
I thought there was more torturing prisoners in this ...I guess it's changed a lot . I also remember more strobe lights.
Needs to be gutted, re-themed and updated.
I've been there 14 times and I have never heard of this ride??
chloechapmqn they took it down because the water was slowly destroying the ride so they say I am too young to remember this but there are also some rumors about snakes idk
MLinkous74
Did they just take it out recently? Because I rode it twice last August.
MLinkous74 that’s esc in Tennessee
this is how i remember it from being little kid. i went yesterday. half the stuff is gone. no saw blade comming at you. now dynamit blowing up scene. no prisoners in mine (guess they all found their way out and escaped or were caught). no skunk. no cannon ball water shooting up. I mean no sign breaking apart. I mean literally half was gone. and half what was left didnt work no more. no more train on fire in the hole either. if i go back im skipping those 2 rides so i can remember how they used to be. lots changed in 30 years. even new stuff from 15 years ago is gone.
Sounds like maybe you went in the off season or maybe just a bad day for the park, I went like last month and everything was fine for me
Yes july 1st 2018 must be the fucking off season.
@@bria6094 ...dickless?
I agree 100% bria6094.. in the late 70's to the mid 80's flooded mine and fire in the hole were sweet rides, had all those things you mentioned and more... I loved these rides back then.. todays kids have no idea how cool (and non PC) they were back then. I happy that they are still there but sad for how they changed so much.
@@StratusGhost NO... the rides have changed a whole lot since the 70's and 80's and not for the better... has nothing to do with off season or a bad day. You didn't read his comment correctly.
At least the guns worked in this video
So is this pretty much the same thing as Dollywood's now defunct Flooded Mine ride? That is minus the gun shooters and targets.
It's is pretty much the same thing cuz Silver Dollar City opened a second Silver Dollar City in Tennessee in the 70s and like 10 years later Dolly Parton and some investors bought it and called it Dollywood.
They had to close the flooded mine ride in Dollywood cuz they started getting a snake problem lol. I can just imagine some guys like, "Wow, this is such a fun ride! They've got animatronic miners, guards, and oh look, even happy little animatronic snakes... OH GOD ITS BITING MY FACE OFF!!!"
Erick Nordlund I was 2 and a half years old when they demolished the ride so I never got a chance to experience it or at least have some kind of memory of it. I have been on the Dare Devil Falls quite a few times though which I the ride that took it's place and is in the same exact area that the Flooded Mine was in. It's weird that they put in yet another water ride where there was already a problem about snakes that would lurk in the waters of that ride. It's not really solving a problem though but I don't think I have heard of anyone getting bit by snakes from this new ride though (technically the ride opened in 1998 so I would hardly call it new though). I saw an on ride video of Fire in the Hole from this park which is just like The Blazing Fury at Dollywood. It's not identical I will say since there are a few scenes that are not in the Blazing fury that I saw in Fire in the Hole and the Fire in the Hole saying at the end sounds different from the one on the Blazing Fury, but both rides do have the same dips. I asked this Flooded Mine was the same a the one that was at Dollywood because this ride is slightly different from the one in Tennessee. Sorry for talking my head off.
+Erick Nordlund I know I'm a bit late to the conversation but I did get a good chuckle out of that XD
The snakes are an urban legend. The ride was the least popular so they removed it for daredevil falls. I was on it many times and there were never snakes. Also there's a snopes page to confirm.
i have bine on this ride before
I think you should of turned off the light? well like some people I think would like it if you turned off the light on you're phone if that is what is causing it cuz it is more fun. Just pointing out
i don't remember the targets being there when I was a kid. have they always had that?
Father AxeKeeper No. It's a rather unfortunate (imo) trend to make dark rides "interactive" nowadays. I went on both this one and the one at Dollywood back in the 80s when the scenery was the attraction.
it had the targets when i was there as a kid about 30 years ago.
Father AxeKeeper no in the 70s it was no shooters and targets and at the end there was strobe lights
They added those stuipd lame lasers in the 90's... the ride was so much better prior to that... and they changed the theme quite a bit.
I went there
Where's the signature music?
"Shed a little water, shed a little blood....and we might get out if the mine don't flood..."
Lol at someone who said this was better than Outlaw Run
+savedfaves this is classic, this ride has been there for over 15 years, and probably a lot longer. i've never heard of outlaw run.
+Bo Huggabee I'm early 20's and it was around when my parents were kids, if that gives you any idea
OutlawRun is a fantastic coaster, for sure, but there's nothing wrong with anyone thinking this ride is better.
I like thunderation better
That’s sad...
Am I the only person who didn’t know this ride ever existed is it still open?
Yeah it’s still open. I remember a few years ago they sent me a few ideas they had about 3 new rides they were considering, and one of them looked like it could be replacing the flooded mine. So I sent them a big letter about what the flooded mine means to me and the fans and all of silver dollar city and how sad it would be to get rid of it
Erick Nordlund oh ok do you know where it is located at the park?
It’s on the west side of the park across from echo hollow amphitheater right next door to the train station
Erick Nordlund oh ok thanks sm
Of course!
I liked the ride better as a kid before they put the guns in.
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Where do u guys live
That’s literally creepy as hell
We took my cousins from Ohio to SDC -it was like 103 degrees with 100% humidity that day-that ride was a godsend, but rather boring.
I've been there 14 times and I have never heard of this ride??
It's in the beginning of the park bro lmao
Make a special point of finding it then on your fifteenth trip. Ask a park worker.
ive been riding it since the mid 70's... it was better before the stupid guns were added and all the changes to the ride and theme