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101. Big Thunder Mountain History - Part 16 - Tokyo Disneyland's Big Thunder Mountain (Part 2) & Hong Kong Disneyland's Grizzly Gulch
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What piece of Disney history is hanging in Tokyo's Big Thunder Mountain?
On this episode of Distory, we wrap up our visit to Westernland in Tokyo Disneyland as we hop aboard a runaway train and compare the layout of this version of Big Thunder Mountain with the ones found in Disneyland and Magic Kingdom parks. Along the way, we talk homesteading, sludgy pancakes, cowboy coffee, and bats (both with and without strings). We then travel over to Hong Kong’s Grizzly Gulch where we discover some nods to Disneyland’s history hidden in this miniature version of Frontierland. After a tour of the town and its backstory, we meet a very Lucky dog, a giant nugget, grab some (not so) traditional mining food, and meet a man named Tiny who did a little too much skylarking. We end this episode by going off the rails on a nautical etymology tangent, with Kirk getting irritated at Kate for mixing metaphors when it comes to dad jokes.
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