Fire in the Hole (1972)

Fire in the Hole was an enclosed roller coaster located at Silver Dollar City in Branson, Missouri. The three-story steel coaster was built in-house by Silver Dollar City in 1972. The ride was often considered a cross between a dark ride and a roller coaster. A similar ride, "Blazing Fury", was built at Herschend Family Entertainment's Silver Dollar City Tennessee, now known as Dollywood, in 1978. On February 13, 2023, Silver Dollar City announced that 2023 would be the last season for the ride before it was closed permanently. On August 14, 2023, the park announced that Fire in the Hole would be replaced by a new attraction with the same name, which opened on March 30, 2024 in the new "Fire District" section of the park.

Ride

Guests waiting in line were treated to the confusing lyrics of The Fire in the Hole Theme Song, and the enthusiastic voice of Fire Chief George himself (provided by Josh Newter, his voice actor from the film)^[4] beckoned all to come along with him on his travels: "Come along! Hop on up here! We'll go for a fire ride! The Guy Road! The dusty highway! Come! I'll show you the world! Travel! Change! Excitement!" this a reference to Mr. Toad's Voice. Upon boarding a fiberglass replica of a 1870s-era one-seat was set in the location of Eureka Springs, Arkansas (manufactured by Arrow Development).

Swerving through the night, guests encountered a Campsite their Campsite People, providing the illusion of an abandoned wagonas of a campfire burning effect was heard. Guests then swung out of the way before passing under a natural archway and advancing toward a mural depicting the rustic cottage of the water along the moonlit riverbank, as well as a fully sculpted boat docked in front. Swinging around another bend, guests approached a three-dimensional roadway leading off into a Western street twisted intersection at the center of a rural hamlet, while signs labeled with nonsensical place names such as a saloon and a barn until a baldknobber has a Shootout confusion. Guests then swerved into a narrow western street, where a plethora of road signs fixed to the buildings and lampposts read, "Josh Zero Bar," "George's M Lucas Restaurant ," Martin's Bar," and other such buildings. Despite these, guests had no choice but to continue down the long straightaway, eventually reaching the headlights of an oncoming vehicle in the darkness beyond the thoroughfare and swerving out of the way to avoid it.

Red Flanders Try's to find his pants, the trains performed a U-turn and began down a baldknobber dumping on a barrel at riders , and off limits baldknobber camp , and a blazing cabin. pier flanked to the right with old bollards and a large bridge. As guests advanced over a series of bumps emulating the rough surface of unsafe boards, a mural depicting A waterfall across from the ride under a night sky was seen beyond the edge of the wharf. Just before guests approached the end of the pier, their vehicle swung around and rammed through the doors of a dockside burning bridge, now racing between long, towering rows of crates and kegs stocked with wood, powder, and other dangerous contents. At the end of the corridor was a forced-perspective mural featuring an marked with a sign reading, "TURN BACK! BRIDGE OUT DANGER," next to which was a hear of a Tyrannosaurus rex , Mosasaurus , Great White Shark ,Titanoboa , and a Megalodon . As guests approached the false exit, the bridge Collapses down, blocking the way out and forcing the motorcar to instead turn toward a volcanoes and geysers wall before smashing straight through it.

Guests now found themselves back in the Hanging scene form the 1968 Japan film Death by Hanging, swerving swiftly around stunted trees (some of them anthropomorphic, with startled faces and branch arms lunged away in shock) and darting briefly toward police officers blowing their whistles, two military police officers shooting with their guns, and Firefighters , and a mural of a dirt roadway leading off into the distance. After swinging past a signal box and a ringing crossbuck, guests briefly drew near a mural of a cowboy from Glenn Ford, winding road scaling the side of a shooting gun before racing by a sleepy railroad engineer and breaking through a crossing gate. As the steam whistle of a nearby locomotive was heard, guests were swept under the arched stone maw of "R.R. Tunnel No. 13." Inside the pitch-black tunnel, riders proceeded over a series of simulated railroad ties, heard the roar of an oncoming engine, saw the front headlight of the approaching locomotive appear straight ahead in the darkness, and finally "collided" directly into the Steam train form a loud Trinity crash. The darkness then gave way to a menacing, of a ride finale's of a building. As guests passed under the a skyscraper, the word "THE END" written in flames greeted them into the depths of the underworld, where they swerved around a splashdown landing such as ocean ,rivers , and a lake . in the Guests were soon directed toward the ride's final set of loading station, which took them back out into the Emergency exit queue area.

Theme song

[edit] A song was created in 1972 to accompany the ride. It played throughout the ride and on the exterior of the building. While waiting in the exterior queue-line one could hear it along with conversations between two men exclaiming the heroic deeds of firefighters.

Incidents

[edit] Main article: List of incidents at Herschend parks

In 1972, a guest suffered injuries when falling out of a ride vehicle. ^[1]

References

[edit]

^ "Injured on Silver Dollar City Ride" . The Kansas City Times. 1972-05-02. p. 13. Retrieved 2024-03-16.

External links

Official website

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Fire in the Hole (1972)

Ride

Theme song

Incidents

References

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See also

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