Powder Keg: A Blast Into The Wilderness is a steel roller coaster at Silver Dollar City in Branson, Missouri. It was built in 2004 and opened in 2005. It is also the longest ride in Silver Dollar City. The ride was installed by Ride Entertainment Group.To save on construction costs, elements of the former Buzz Saw Falls water coaster attraction, which was manufactured by Premier Rides and was replaced by Powder Keg, were used for the new ride; namely the lift hill structure. Other tributes to the former ride can be found in the thematic elements surrounding the queue line, such as an old Buzzsaw Falls car stuck in the roof of the first queue building, and a piece of old Buzzsaw track sticking out of the queue building's roof.Audio track and launch sequenceBefore the train launches, a short audio track plays. A man with a deep voice says three lines, as of the 2017 season. Hey, that area is restricted! You're too close to that nitro! Do you smell smoke? The train moves forward out of the nitro shed and a siren goes off and the stop lights go red-yellow-yellow-green and flames would shoot out of the nitro shed. Soon after, the train launches using compressed air, and the ride starts.In 2007 one more modification to the pre-launch sequence was made where stoplights were added on the launch section to go from red-yellow-yellow-green while making a siren sound and then launching like usual. Before the 2007 season the nitro shed would just shoot flames and the train would launch soon after.
