Each seat has its own lap bar, which lowers like the one on Big Thunder Mountain Railroad. Seats may be a bit tight for some, and leg room may be limited for taller guests, though overall, our readers report that the ride is comfortable. Click here for more Seat Restrictions Reports. A sample car is available: exit the gift shop and turn right.
For the ride seating photo gallery click HERE. There is a single rider line. You will be pulled from the single rider line to fill in empty seats created by odd-numbered groups.
Accessibility: Persons traveling in a wheelchair must transfer out to the ride vehicle. While accessible, the queue may be difficult in an ECV.
The tallest mountain peak is just under feet, making it one of the tallest attractions in Disney World. Yeti, Guardian of the Mountain: When it was functioning properly, the mammoth-sized Audio-Animatronics yeti had a potential thrust, in all of its hydraulic cylinders combined, of slightly over , pounds force — potentially more instantaneous power than a airliner. More than bamboo plants, 10 species of trees and species of shrubs are being nurtured and planted to re-create the lowlands surrounding Mount Everest.
That is about six times the amount of steel used in a traditional office building of this size. 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. The coloring of Mount Everest differs from the rest of the mountain range because at more than 29, feet elevation, hurricane-force winds often blow the snow off its peak, revealing a raw sheet of rock.
A boiler is located just outside the load area. Expedition Everest is the first Disney ride to go both forwards and backwards. The Indiana Jones coaster at Disneyland Paris was the first Disney ride to go backwards when it was updated in as a reversed version of the ride.
By that ride was set back to a forward moving coaster, but Everest was the first to incorporate both directions into one attraction. To accomplish this there are two track switches on the ride, each weighing , pounds a piece. Yeti protecting his Forbidden Mountain Photo: Disney. It is believed that running the yeti as it was originally intended could further destroy the structure on which it sits.
To prevent complete catastrophe the yeti animatronic is currently run in B-Mode, which uses a strobe light effect to simulate movement, rather than allowing it to actually move on its own. This strobing effect has earned it the title of disco yeti. A land called Beastly Kingdom featuring mythical creatures, like dragons and unicorns, was originally meant to open with the park but was postponed and eventually canceled. That is, unless the legends are true. These travel planning experts can help you plan your dream vacation with the best deals on theme park tickets and on-site hotels.
The best part is, their service is completely FREE when you book through them! Stay tuned for more theme park facts and hidden things articles coming soon. Be sure to subscribe to the news feed to never miss an update, or enter your email below to be notified each time a new article is posted. Photos by Alicia Stella unless otherwise specified. Email Address. According to Disney , the attraction occupies 6. The attraction first was announced publicly on April 22 , , during an event to celebrate the fifth anniversary of Disney's Animal Kingdom.
Walt Disney Imagineering spend six years researching, designing and building Expedition Everest, including many trips to the Himalayas to collect reference material and observations. The resulting attraction is a fictionalized telling of the legend of the Yeti, using an imaginary setting created with meticulous re-creations of Himalayan Nepali architecture, art and cultural traditions.
Riders approach the attraction through the remote village of Serka Zong in the fictional kingdom of Anandapur, which is located in the foothills of the Himalayas, in northern India. Several village buildings that had been used by the Royal Anandapur Tea Company have been repurposed by businesses that send trekkers on various expeditions throughout the Himalayas. The entrepreneurs behind Himalayan Escapes, Norbu and Bob, have refurbished a steam train Darjeeling Ko Rail that previously had been used to bring harvested tea leaves down from the mountains.
It's these trains the Expedition Everest trekkers board on their way to the base camp of Mount Everest, using a shortcut that passes through the "forbidden mountain" thought to be guarded by the Yeti. Among local cultures, the yeti is believed to be a fierce protector of the region's most pristine mountains, valleys and forests, and violently opposes man's encroachment in these areas.
As riders wind their way through the attraction's richly detailed standby queue, half of which is climate controlled, the legend of the yeti is communicated vividly through a gumba, a kind of Himalayan shrine to the Yeti, and a makeshift museum that documents yeti sightings, its significance in Himalayan cultures and a so-called "lost" expedition that ran afoul of the creature in while attempting to reach Everest through the Forbidden Mountain pass.
Near the end of the Yeti museum, two notices hang on the wall — one written by the museum's curator, warning against the railroad expeditions, and another by the owner of the expedition company, stating that the curator's notice "does not represent the opinions or views" of the company.
The queues merge in the enclosed train station behind the loading area. Once the steam trains arrive, the guests board and the expedition begins. The train starts by making a short turn right before ascending a short hill where riders can see Mount Everest. The train then makes a wide left turn and then goes straight, down, up, then makes another left turn before going up another hill much higher than the previous one.
During this brief stop, the track switches inside the cave. The train then rolls backwards into the cave and down a new route, through a dark tunnel that spirals downward. The train comes to a halt again in a large cave inside the mountain where riders see the shadow of the yeti on the wall as he tears up more track. During this time, another track switch activates. As the shadow moves away, the train rolls forward, out of the mountain and down the main 80 ft.
The train makes a banked turn and speeds back up through another cave in the mountain, in which the roars of the yeti are heard again.
The train then makes two loops outside, before it is lifted back into the mountain a final time. The train drops through a cave where a large animatronic yeti reaches down to try and derail the train. When the yeti is not working for various reasons, a strobe light is fixed on it, and wind blows across it to simulate movement. Upon reaching the bottom of this drop, riders return back to the unloading dock and depart into a gift shop.
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