The Flooded Mine has been in operation at Silver Dollar City since 1968. This was built in-house by Silver Dollar City. Much like they did with Fire in the Hole a couple of years later. The Flooded Mine is a shooting dark ride with charm coming out everywhere. While it may be showing its age it is hard to believe that groups of any size will not enjoy this great attraction.
The Flooded Mine Rider Experience
You walk through some pre-ride theming on your way to the station. Once you get to the station you can enter the boats that seat up to six per boat. But they don’t just send one boat at a time. All the boats sitting in the station will dispatch at the same time. So no matter your group size you will all be able to get those escaped prisoners together.
In each boat, you will find some wired pistols. As the boat goes through the ride the object is to shoot the targets. Whoever has the highest score at the end of the ride wins. The ride itself will go from room to room with very distinct looking maniquens and animatronics which summed up is goofy prisoners have fled to a mine and it is flooding.
The Flooded Mine: The Good
The Flooded Mine is just a charming ride. This was built as a labor of love back in the day and it shows. Silver Dollar City might have done some updates since then but nothing clashes with the old-time feeling of this dark ride. The fact that this is still operating and is still getting good size crowds is evidence of just how good they did with this ride.
The characters themselves give off good charm throughout the ride. The sets just look really amazing. The term they don’t make them like that anymore comes to mind. Also, this is a long ride! No matter the weather conditions at the Park that day you will be able to have a good time on The Flooded Mine.
The Bad
Dark Rides we believe are best when there isn’t a game function to it. Though it seems that is the way the industry is going. While it does help energize the kids on the ride it just gives a lot of options for stuff to go wrong. We have ridden this many times and it never seems to work all that great. Some guns work better than others. Some of the targets work and some do not. It doesn’t subtract a ton of my enjoyment of the ride since I am there to more or less enjoy it as a dark ride. However, if you make it a game and it is a roll of the dice how you will do, then that can get frustrating.
The pistols that you use are not exactly comfortable. By the time I am done with the ride my trigger finger is sore. I am not sure I want new fancy ones in the ride, because again this ride needs to feel like going into the past. It does make it that I never want to marathon this one.
Final Verdict
The Flooded Mine was a great addition to Silver Dollar City. They built it to last and it is still entertaining guests this many years later. Some technical issues do subtract a little from my enjoyment of this ride, but not a deal-breaker. This is a fun ride, and we make sure to hit it up every time we are in the park. Because of these reasons, The Flooded Mine on a scale of one to ten gets an eight.
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