The Future Is Soon ™/Mountaineers

Mountaineers is an open world minigame-styled experience developed by The Future Is Soon ™. Taking place in snowy mountains, visitors can participate in minigames involving winter-themed activities, and earn items for themselves or their house.
The experience was developed for the Roblox Holiday 2017 event, giving visitors a mission to rescue their loved ones from Scrooge McBlox, along with assigning tasks that give items assisting the climb. However, due to its heavy amount of glitches (some rendering parts of the experience unusable), Mountaineers received mixed to negative reviews and was critically panned by the community.
Very few people are currently playing the game. A sequel is under development, possibly for a future holiday event. It was believed that the sequel was likely scrapped due to the experience's last update being in 2019, but the experience was recently updated in February 2022.
== Mechanics ==
The experience takes place in the snowy high mountains next to a freezing ocean. Among the mountains lay a small village, icy ponds and rivers, sledding slopes, and Scrooge's large mansion. There are many things to do in this festive area.
Visitors are introduced to Scrooge McBlox, a rich miser who has kidnapped visitors' family and friends and then given a mission to climb up the mountains and rescue them. They must complete the minigames, so they can acquire items that will assist the long climb.
=== Whale Rodeo ===
 The first minigame encountered is located by the shore. Visitors must sit on a large, tamed whale and must master riding it, keeping balance and not falling off. This is challenging and can take a few tries.
Once visitors successfully keeps their balance on the whale for an amount of time, they will unlock a free-riding mode, which allows them to ride on the whale without having to keep balance, and a whale will spawn at a nearby lake. That whale will produce sprout, which will lift visitors to the area containing the next minigame.
=== Fishing ===
The second minigame encountered is located at a small pond atop a cliff above the same whale. It is mandatory for receiving ice picks that will access the third minigame.
To acquire the picks, visitors acquire a fishing pole from the fisherman and give him a fished rockfish in return. To fish, they walk up to the pond and click a spot in the water, which will throw the string and bait over there. Once a fish touches a bait, visitors reel it up and it is sent to their inventory.
Fishing was arguably the hardest minigame to complete, due to a bug that caused the fish to spawn either on land or under the bridge, or not spawn at all. If this happened, visitors were forced to join another server. This was fixed on December 22, 2017.
=== Ice Climbing ===
 The third minigame encountered is located at an cliff far left to the cliff facing the fishing pond. With the ice picks, visitors can climb the cliff, as well as evade the falling icicles. If hit with an icicle, visitors will fall a little and slow down. Climbing the cliff is mandatory for accessing the next minigames.
=== Diving ===
 The fourth minigame encountered is located at a pond right of above the ice cliff. Visitors will talk with a diver, who wants a golden peach hidden in underwater treasure and gives them diving goggles.
In the water, visitors must press the shift key to dive and the space bar to ascend. Swimming underwater is risky, as air is limited, and visitors will drown once the oxygen meter runs out. Fortunately, there are air bubbles scattered, which will fill their oxygen meter if entered. If visitors find the treasure and successfully bring out the peach, they must return to the surface. When they do this, the diver will reward them with an air tank, which allows visitors to stay underwater forever.
This minigame is optional. It must only be done if visitors either want to win all badges or need an air tank.
=== Mining ===
 The fifth minigame encountered is located through openings near the diving pond. An elevator, which will lift visitors to the area containing the next minigame, is found there, but broken. To activate it, visitors must acquire a pickaxe from the mine owner, mine 5 silver, and return them to him.
To mine a gemstone, visitors must find it buried in rock, repeatedly hitting it with the pickaxe, until the gemstone is put into their inventory. Many gemstones, from coal to citrine, are located in the mine and can be used to earn more money.
Once visitors deliver 5 silver to the owner, he will activate the elevator and reward them with mountain boots, which allow double jumping and are useful for climbing up steep areas. To go to the next minigame, visitors travels to a tall room, hops onto the elevator, and then boards the top platform. This requires fast reactions, since the elevator will quickly leave a spot. An alternative route can be traveled on, by hopping onto wooden boards suspending near the pond and jumping into the sledding area.
The mining minigame is criticized for the fact that visitors must redo it every time they rejoin the experience, unlike the others, which don't have to be repeated (Except the climbing minigame.)
=== Bug Catching ===
 The sixth minigame encountered is located far from the top exit of the elevator and near the sledding area. There, visitors talk to a bug hunter, obtain a net, and must return 5 big beetles.
To catch a beetle, visitors must quickly walk up to it and swish their net.
Once a visitor delivers 5 big beetles to the hunter, the hunter will reward them with a glider, which will allow them to glide across long gaps. Although the glider is supposed to get visitors to travel to the manision quickly, they, alternatively with mountain boots, can climb to the manision. However, the glider will make the boss battle (see below) easier.
Another bug which renders the experience dysfunctional is the bug hunter not spawning, forcing users to join another server.
=== Boss Battle ===
 To access the battle, visitors have to make their way to Scrooge's manision and enters the large room after a robot-tinkering room. There, a large robot, known as Mech Scrooge, appears. Visitors must then defeat it.
Mech Scrooge will attack by either throwing large bag of money, rotate its weaponized arms, or try to slice above its head. To attack it, visitors must jump on the glass part of its head. An easy way of doing this is by equipping the glider, soaring to the head, and then falling onto it. Or, without the glider, visitors can quickly run over and jump onto the head.
Once Mech Scrooge's health runs out, it will fall over and disappear, followed with Scrooge McBlox falling into the room. This would complete visitors' Roblox Holiday 2017 mission.
== Reception ==
The experience received mostly negative reviews and is considered one of the worst experiences for a Roblox event. Most people criticize its mechanics' barely being usable, while some dislike it for its nature.
== Trivia ==
* Scrooge McBlox from the Mountaineers experience is a parody of Scrooge McDuck from the show Ducktales and Ebzeener Scrooge from the novella A Christmas Carol.
** Roblox also sponsored the show DuckTales the same year this event was released.
* After the event was over, you could still get the Ice Crown in Mountaineers when the original servers hadn't shut down.
* In mid-May 2021, due to the 15% like/dislike ratio of the Gucci Garden event's experience, this experience lost its place for being the most-disliked event experience. But, later that month, Gucci Garden's LTDR raised to 33%, due to the fact that it returned new Limited items. Because of this, Mountaineers has regained its title of being the most-disliked event experience.