![]() On Saturday, August 1, 1998, a 12-year-old boy fell off the log chute. Park officials stated the fault never posed a safety risk. ![]() Maintenance workers noticed that the gear that ran the conveyor belt had started to strip. On August 20, 1992, the ride was shut down for five hours due to a faulty gear. The "Red Chair" marking Harmon Killebrew's home run record is visible in the background (and a plaque in the foreground). Panoramic photo of the splashdown and loading areas. The saw operator quickly notices the riders and turns off the saw and hopes to see guests again before guests go down the second drop, which is home to the attraction's on-ride photo camera. Paul warns the riders of the saw mill ahead as we go up a lift hill. After this is the attraction's first drop, which leads guests into a cave to see Paul Bunyan and Babe pulling down trees. Going outside, the flume passes another of Paul's axes and various critters such as beavers and skunks before going inside again to pass a bear cub in a tree and more lumberjacks. As guests enter the kitchen, riders see workers preparing Paul's breakfast of giant pancakes, with an enormous bottle of Knott's Berry Farm brand Boysenberry Syrup on the table left over from the park's Camp Snoopy days. Background Īfter going through a queue winding through a mine within the attraction's mountain, guests board their logs and make their way through Paul's logging camp, with one of his axes being set near a bend in the river while singing can be heard throughout. The ride is also the site of Harmon Killebrew's 520-foot home run record at the former Metropolitan Stadium and is marked by one of the stadium's original chairs located on the wall above the ride. A 2022 April Fools Day prank had the attraction become the " Kenny Loggins Chute" with Paul being dressed as the musician. ![]() For Halloween, Paul has been dressed as a pirate, Jim Hopper from Stranger Things, and Hulk Hogan promoting the short-lived Pastamania restaurant once housed in the mall. Holiday overlays for Halloween and Christmas have been put into place since 2017 with the "Fog Chute" and "Yule Log Chute", with the animatronic characters being dressed in festive costumes. The attraction was designed to keep riders dry enough so that they could comfortably continue shopping. The ride is based on the tall tale of Paul Bunyan and is set in a mountain lumber mill featuring two lift hills and two drops as passengers experience singing animatronics, including a 19-foot tall Paul Bunyan (modeled after the Brawny mascot) and Babe the Blue Ox. It opened on August 11, 1992, and is one of the mall's oldest surviving acquisitions from Knott's Camp Snoopy. Log Chute, formerly known as Paul Bunyan's Log Chute sometimes Fog Chute for Halloween or Yule Log Chute for Christmas, is a log flume attraction sponsored by Xcel Energy (formerly sponsored by Brawny) at Mall of America's Nickelodeon Universe in Bloomington, Minnesota. Final splashdown chute at the end of the rideģ6 in (91 cm) with adult, 47 in (120 cm) alone
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