Thirteen years ago today, Adventure Express had its grand opening and inaugural ride. It was the first Arrow mine train installed in any park since 1980.

Ok these birthday posts are getting out of control.

Ok these birthday posts are getting out of control.

NO THERE NOT!

Yea, I think its nice to celebrate the life of a coaster. Ive ridden I think 4 mine train coasters and Adventure Express is by far the best. It used to be better like when they had all the themeing like the weird noises, im not sure if theyre still there, but they also had the fog and lights but they had to stop with that cause it was rusting the tracks and causing some of the wood to start to loose its stability. LOL weird fact: did you know that Ron Tumer of Arrow Dynamics got the Idea of the Mine Train coaster while watching a movie, (dont remember what) in which a gold mine was involved and, at one point a guy got into a mine train and started to ride it but it got out of control. He thought it might be fun so he invented the "Runnaway Mine Train Coaster." (same thing with the log flume, the guy was watching a documentary on logging and lumberjacks and how at the end of the night they would ride the logs down the hill in the big long water flumes they built and he thought it looked like fun)

AE is the best mine train coaster that I have ridden, but the WORST

coaster in the park. (I don't mean to affend anyone, but I REALLY

dislike this ride, just my opinion.)

To many "mods" on these boards. Amazing anything gets posted around here.

Solid Snake, do I notice a little sarcasim in this?

Let the mods do the moderating. Everyone else bow to the mods!

I like the mods...........many of them keep this board from becoming PKIguide..........waht ever happenede there.........or some of the " other" PKI sites

I think that it is the 2nd best mine ride only behind Big Thunder Mountian at WDW. But I like the ride its a nice step for beginer coaster riders and the theming is really nice. I love the tunnels on it.