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A while ago, I was walking through Disneyland when I saw the stagecoach that was placed near the soon-to-be entrance of Galaxy’s Edge. I decided to poke around it since I love Disney details, and noticed that on the trunk on top of the stagecoach, there was a big tag! On it read: Ship To: Jason Chandler.

(credit to DisneyDaze for the image)

I was curious about this Chandler dude. After all, Disney wouldn’t just pick this name for no reason, right? In my search of him, here’s what I learned about him.

Jason Chandler is a character that was created in the 1970′s as a bridge between the largely abandoned Disneyland concept Discovery Bay and early versions of the Big Thunder Mountain Railroad attraction.

In the spring 1992 issue of Disney News, his backstory as a character was developed thusly--

“The highly imaginative tale includes the legend of a young inventor, named Jason Chandler, who lived in a town called International Village during the peak gold rush years in the Big Thunder region - circa 1849. According to the chronicles, "...the young inventor devised a drilling machine with the capability of boring into the very heart of Big Thunder Mountain. There, the veins of gold ran so deep, it was rumored they could produce a mother lode that would bring a man enough wealth to last a hundred lifetimes and more."

But a cave-in occurred on Big Thunder, burying 26 miners alive. They would have drawn their last breath then and there, had it not been for the inventor and his laughable drilling machine. He burrowed down into the Earth’s core, rescuing the miners from certain death. It should have been a moment of joy and celebration, but as the men scrambled to the arms of safety, a massive earthquake shook the ground and a cavernous maw opened up, swallowing the inventor and his machine whole."

The miners, as well as the citizens of the village, struggled day and night against the mountain, trying to dig the young man from his living tomb. But they never saw him, or another nugget of gold, again. Big Thunder had taken its vengeance not only on the miners, but on their wealth as well. The mountain had gone bust, and it became just a matter of time before only ghosts resided there.” (source)

However! Chandler miraculously survived the incident!

After realizing how hollow the pursuit of wealth was he decided to use his creation to better mankind, creating an outpost in Disneyland called Discovery Bay, for “funding research into strange and unusual technologies” and salvaging and repairing the remains of the Nautilus and continuing Nemo's scientific work (alluding to the possibility of Discovery Bay being the relocation of the 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea: Submarine Voyage which closed in 1994.)

The land would also be accompanied by a television miniseries, The Discovery Bay Chronicles, which would tell the story of the area, starring Peter Renaday (the voice of Henry and Max from Country Bear Jamboree) as Chandler. Only a pilot was produced. Unfortunately, everything was cancelled after the film The Island at the Top of the World, which would have been made into the headliner attraction to Discovery Bay, flopped in the theaters. With the failure of Discovery Bay, Jason Chandler and his miraculous drilling machine would also be written out of the Big Thunder Mountain attraction.

In recent years, he has been incorporated into the Society of Explorers and Adventurers story, a fictional organization used as part of the storytelling in various attractions at the Disney theme parks, like Mystic Manor in Hong Kong and the Tower of Terror in Tokyo Disneysea. He has even appeared as a main character in Disney Kingdoms: Big Thunder Mountain Railroad (the third miniseries installment of the Disney Kingdoms comic book series by Marvel).

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