The Everest Expedition - The Legend of Forbidden Mountain is a steel roller coaster built by Vekoma at the Disney Animal Kingdom theme park at Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. A theme ride around Yeti that protects the Forbidden Mountain next to Mount Everest. It is listed in the Guinness World Records 2011 as the most expensive roller coaster in the world. Including sets and extras, the total cost is reported to be US $ 100 million for six years of planning and construction. It is the highest artificial mountain in all Walt Disney Parks and Disney's 18th-themed mountain attraction.
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This attraction was publicly announced on April 22, 2003, during an event to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Disney Animal Kingdom. Its construction takes three years and more than 38 miles of rebar, 5,000 tons of structural steel, and 10,000 tons of concrete. The Everest Expedition opened for preview on January 26, 2006, and its opening on April 7, 2006, in a ceremony led by Disney CEO Bob Iger and chairman of the entertainment park Jay Rasulo.
Maps Expedition Everest
Drive experience
Queue
The appeal features stand-by, Fastpass, and single-rider lines. The queue starts at the fictional "Himalayan Escapes" travel agency office, progressing to a replica shrine with small sacred figures. Visitors then entered the tea gardens, followed by rooms with equipment from successful expeditions, and then the "Yeti Museum", which contained information about Yeti and Yeti imprints. There are also about 8,000 artifacts brought from Nepal's travels in museums. The single-rider line skips all exhibits.
Ride
Riders ride a roller coaster in the village of Serka Zong model, to start a quick route through the Himalayas to the base of Mount Everest.
The train leaves from the station to the right and climbs the small elevator to a short drop, then turns to an 118-foot (36 m) hill lift, takes the rider to 199 1 / 2 - high-foot (60.8 m) mountain. This is the highest attraction in Walt Disney World, beating The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror by 6 inches. Disney keeps it under 200 feet because the law requires buildings as high as 200 feet or higher to have flashing red lights as a beacon for low-flying aircraft, which Disney says will keep parkers out of the experience. On his way past a temple ravaged by a mural of the yeti, warns the rider that the mountain is his territory. At the top of the mountain, a curved train around the main peak and through the cave. When it appears, it stops in front of a track that has been torn apart, probably by a yeti. The train itself is held in place by a series of rubber tires while the switch automatically rotates the track pieces right behind the train. The train then rolls back along the new route that spins down through the mountain, stopping in the big cave, where the rider sees the yeti shadows on the wall as he cries more. This effect diverts the rider's attention from paying attention to the rotated auto-track switches in front of it. As the shadow moves away, the train slides forward from the mountain and descends as high as 80 feet (24 m). It enters the 250 Â ° turn and speeds back through another cave on the mountain, where the roar of the yeti is heard once again. The train escapes from the back of the mountain and enters a large helix before being lifted back into the mountain for the last time. The train goes down the cave, where the yeti reaches towards it. Upon reaching the bottom of this drop, the rider returns to the loading dock and leaves for the souvenir shop. One trip takes about 2 minutes and 50 seconds. Train
The Everest expedition has six steam-like trains, each with six cars that together provide 17 rows of two parallel seats, with a total of 36 riders per train. These trains are entitled "Anandapur Train Service" and are made to look old and rusty. Riders should be 44 inches (110 cm) tall and secured with a lap top. Up to five trains usually operate at once, but fewer can be used if guest demand is low. To create the illusion of "steam-powered" trains, the engineers put the vents under the station. When the train enters the station, the steam comes through the vents and enters the loading platform.
Track
The steel track is 4,424 feet (1,348 m) long and the lift is about 118 feet (36 m) tall. The Everest expedition was the first vehicle to use Vekoma's newest track system, which puts the rails outside the bundle rather than inside. This is the first large-scale installation of such a system.
Facts and details
Despite its height and moderate length according to contemporary standards, Expedition Everest is the first trip for Disney to have a train journey both forward and backward. This is achieved through two sets of track switches, one before the back segment and another afterwards. This is the second Disney roller coaster to run backwards, the first being Indiana Jones and le Temple du PÃÆ' Â © ril: Backwards! at Disneyland Resort Paris (2000-2004). The Everest expedition, however, was the first Disney roller coaster to switch between the front and back during a single journey.
Façade mountain, audio-animatronik Yeti, and roller coaster are three independent structures. Each structure reaches the ground and does not touch the other two structures. This is achieved through a 4-D scheduling software that tells builders how to build it.
Mountain
The Everest expedition is often compared to the 1959 Matterhorn Bobsleds roller coaster at Disneyland, which also features the setting of snowy mountains and the figure of "vile snowmen" throughout the journey. The Mount Everest expedition is made of 1,800 tons of steel and painted with 2,000 gallons of paint. It is the highest artificial mountain in the world, but it is not, sometimes called, the highest point in Florida. This is the 18th mountain themed attraction of Disney. In 2012, there are 20 mountain themed attractions.
Artificial mountains are models, not Mount Everest, but from the "forbidden mountains" fictions guarded by yeti in the stories made by Walt Disney Imagineering for attraction. Everest is represented by a barren background on the far right, which is made far-fetched (examples from a forced perspective).
Yeti
Yeti is the largest and most complex audio-animatronic figure ever built by Walt Disney Imagineering. Its height is 25 feet (7.6 m). Its "skin" size is 1,000 square feet (93 m2/2), and is held in place by 1,000 locked and 250 zips. Its movement is controlled by 19 actuators when working in "A-mode", full operation mode. In "A-mode," it can move 5Ã, ft (1.5 m) horizontally and 18Ã, in (46 cm cm) vertically. The yeti roar is provided by the voice actor Fred Tatasciore.
A few months after the journey opened in 2006, framing the yeti frame splits, threatening disastrous catastrophes if operated further in "A-mode". Since then it has been operated only in the "B-mode" alternative, where the strobe-light effect is used to give the appearance of movement, thus earning the nickname "Disco Yeti" from several fans. It is thought that this problem is caused by the breakdown of the basic structure of the yeti concrete, which can not be fixed until major improvements in the future, since the design limits access to the yeti without major disassembly over the superstructure. Problems with concrete are rumored to have occurred due to errors in the 4-D scheduling software that prevented sufficient preservation from a portion of the Yeti Foundation before the creation of mountain elements and roller coaster tracks.
Joe Rohde, the Imagineer in charge of building the attraction and the Animal Kingdom, was asked about the yeti at the 2013 D23 Exhibition. Rohde replied, "You have to understand, this is a gigantic intricate machine sitting on top, like a 46-foot tall tower in the middle of a building so it's very difficult to fix, but we're working on it and we keep working on it.We've tried a few 'things', none of them enough to get to the lock, spin from a 40-foot tower inside a finished building, but we're working on it... I'll fix Yeti someday, I swear. "
Promotions
Discovery Network
In 2005, Disney, Discovery Networks, and Conservation International made an expedition to Nepal as part of a promotion for Everest Expedition. The goal is to conduct scientific and cultural research in remote areas of the Himalayas, the location of the legend yeti. Participants included Joe Rohde of Walt Disney Imagineering and scientists from Conservation International and Disney's Animal Kingdom.
The expedition and the making of the attraction were recorded in three documentaries broadcast on cable television channel Discovery in April 2006. The first is the Everest Expedition: Journey to Sacred Lands , aired on the Travel Channel on April 9th ​​to coincide with grand opening of the attractions. Secondly, Build A Thrill Ride: Expedition Everest , aired on April 10th and detailed travel planning and construction, along with some possible ideas. (During construction, for example, instead of traditional scaffolding, Imagineers use interior poles that penetrate the outer mountains and are connected by a wooden platform.) The documentary also features survival tips from Les Stroud. The third, Corwin Search: Realm of the Yeti , is broadcast on Animal Planet on April 15 and features American natural and animal conservationist Jeff Corwin.
Everest in Town
On February 15, 2006, Disney staged an elaborate publicity event called "Everest in the City" in Times Square, New York City. They put up large billboards on the sides of several buildings, depicting Everest with a coaster car down the mountainside and yeti looking over the other peaks, his eyes glowing red and flashing when a "Disney" text message is sent to "4Yet" as provided by Disney.
Incident
On December 18, 2007, a 44-year-old guest was found unconscious after the train returned to the station. He was taken to the hospital, where he was declared dead. An initial autopsy by the Orange County medical examiner's office concluded that the victim had died of dilated cardiomyopathy.
Awards and recordings
The Everest Expedition is listed in Guinness World Records 2011 as the most expensive roller coaster in the world. Including sets and extras, total travel costs are reported to be US $ 100 million over six years of planning and construction.
Expedition Everest won the 2006 Entertainment Insider Awards for "The World's Best New Attraction Attraction". It has also been ranked in the Golden Ticket Awards and Best Roller Coaster Polls. It ranks 2nd for "Best New Ride For 2006" at the Golden Ticket Awards.
See also
- Matterhorn Bobsled
- Big Grizzly Mountain Runaway Mine Cars
Note
References
External links
- Walt Disney World Resort - Everest Expedition
- Everest Expedition in DataBase's Roller Coaster
- New highlight for Disney - St. The St. Petersburg Times on the Everest Expedition (December 11, 2005)
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