Imagine this: You’re making your way to Indiana Jones Adventure, but you can’t just walk into the ride queue. There are trials you must survive first. You take a deep breath and step into a complicated maze, gargantuan stacks of stones rising up in front of you. But as soon as you’re on the path, you realize things aren’t what they seem. The way forward isn’t as clear as it was just a second ago.
” So all of the funds and real estate designated for Thunder Mesa vanished — or, you might say, were plundered by swashbuckling privateers. The entire land that Davis developed was shelved indefinitely, never to be built. But Baxter saw something in Davis’ renderings that he thought might be a fix for the languishing, outdated Mine Train through Nature’s Wonderland at Disneyland. “On the front of his attraction he had the appearance of a mine train ride,” Baxter said.