Legend of the Forbidden Mountain
Expedition Everest, at Walt Disney World's Animal Kingdom park, is a perilous journey aboard a runaway train through the Himalayan mountains. Adventurous riders push deep into the lair of the feared yeti, guardian of the forbidden mountain. En route, they encounter torn tracks, spiral backwards through the fog into an ice cavern and dart into and out of the mountain on this high-speed roller coaster adventure.
Fun Facts
On Expedition Everest you'll take on the treacherous terrain of the Forbidden Mountain in a high-altitude, high-speed train adventure. Nail-biting hairpin turns hurl you forward toward the peak and then, just when you think it couldn't get more thrilling - you plunge backward! The mountain's full of surprises: Beware the snarling beast who watches over his domain... the Yeti!- Mountain peak: At just under 200 feet, the tallest of 18 mountains created by Disney Imagineers at Disney parks worldwide.
- Chilling thrills: A careening adventure including an 80-foot drop, plus frightening encounters with the mystical yeti.
- Length: Nearly a mile of track as riders encounter harrowing twists, tight turns and drops.
- Ride vehicle: Modeled after an aging, steam-engine tea train; 34 passengers per train.
- Yeti, Guardian of the Mountain: The mammoth-sized Audio-Animatronics yeti has a potential thrust, in all of its hydraulic cylinders combined, of slightly over 259,000 pounds force -- potentially more instantaneous power than a 747-400 airliner.
- Height restriction for ride: 44 inches.
- Seating: 17 rows of two-abreast seating .
- Restraint: Lap bar.
- Disney's FASTPASS: Expedition Everest features Disney's FASTPASS, the innovative system which allows guests, at no additional charge, to avoid lengthy waiting in line.
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More About Expedition Everest
These great sites offer even more information for the truly addicted!- Expedition Everest on AllEars.net
- AllEars.net is, without question, the best online resource for Disney World info.
- Expedition Everest on Wikipedia
- Lots of detail here.
- Disney's Own Expedition Everest Site
- This is a pretty cool site and a great place to spend some time.
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The Making of Expedition Everest
Forced perspective: To create the sense of an enormous mountain range, Imagineers painted a "mural" of shadows across the face of the mountains. The range with its glaciers and valleys is a canvas of rockwork, carvings and painting creating a forced perspective where closer-in objects have a massive look while appliqués trick the eye into perceiving far off objects.- Bringing the Himalayan environment to Florida: More than 900 bamboo plants, 10 species of trees and 110 species of shrubs were planted to re-create the lowlands surrounding Mount Everest.
- Steelwork: 1,800 tons of steel were used in the mountain structure. That is about six times the amount of steel used in a traditional office building of this size.
- Mountain make-up: The mountain is crafted with more than 3,000 pre-fabricated "chips" created from 25,000 individual computer-molded pieces of steel.
- Color palette: 2,000 gallons of stain and paint were used on the rockwork and throughout the village. The color scheme has ritual meaning to the Himalayan culture.
- In the Himalayan regions, villagers commonly preserve yak dung and dry it out on village walls. They later use the hardened material as fuel in their homes. Disney Imagineers recreated the look of these walls in the Serka Zong village area.
Artisans at work: Artists from Imagineering used hammers, chainsaws and blowtorches to "age" wood and buildings in the village, giving them the appearance of being longstanding parts of the landscape.- Hillary step: The famous final ascent of Sir Edmund Hillary in 1953 is represented in Disney's man-made mountain. The coloring of Mount Everest differs from the rest of the mountain range because at more than 29,000 feet elevation, hurricane-force winds often blow the snow off its peak, revealing a raw sheet of rock.
- Authentic detail: Some 2,000 handcrafted items from Asia are evident in the props, cabinetry and architectural ornamentation.
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- SusanVillasLewis SusanVillasLewis Jun 28, 2009 @ 7:30 pm
- Nice job on this one! And congrats on being the top vote getter in the roller coasters category this week at The Carnival of Squid! - http://carnivalofsquid.blogspot.com
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- Jun 8, 2008 @ 7:34 pm
- Hi, Barrie! Excellent lens - left you 5 stars. :) Drop by my lens, 2paws Designs, when you get a chance. I've shared scrapbook pages from my latest WDW trip including one on Expedition Everest.
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- RinchenChodron RinchenChodron Jan 19, 2008 @ 1:00 pm
- What a new approach. Great lens. Thanks
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- Barrie, another excellent lens! Please join us at Mouseopolis!
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