Originally Posted By Manfried Disneyland is a much drier climate than that of Walt Disney World. I happen to know one of the reasons they had to tear down Horizons was because of the added vapor from the air-conditioning cooling towers right behind that building.
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA <You guys do know you aren't on Everest on the ride...right?> You're trying to tell me that when I'm on the Matterhorn, I'm not 14,000 up? I can see it for myself dude -- I get altitude sick when I'm up that high. And the times my bobsled has almost been attacked by some snow monster -- let me tell you, I went to City Hall and really gave them my opinion. I was not happy.
Originally Posted By HokieSkipper ^^^Haha, that's not what I meant at all. I mean on the ride you are never on Everest. You're on the Forbidden Mountain, which is where the Yeti lives.
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA And at the highest peak on the Matterhorn, when you look out over Disneyland -- when the Santa Anas are blowing and the timing is just right -- you can see all the way to Fontana. It's just breathtaking.
Originally Posted By HokieSkipper You're on your way to Everest base camp, but the refurbished railroad you're on passes through the Forbidden Mountain, and the Yeti isn't happy about that and let's you know it. It's the same reason the railroad closed in the first place. Check out the queue if you ever go to DAK again(doubtful )
Originally Posted By leobloom >> You're on your way to Everest base camp, but the refurbished railroad you're on passes through the Forbidden Mountain, and the Yeti isn't happy about that and let's you know it. It's the same reason the railroad closed in the first place. << Can't imagine many guests figure that out. "It's Expedition Everest, we're on a mountain, but it's not Everest." Sounds like another instance of WDI overwriting a story.
Originally Posted By HokieSkipper ^^^I completely agree. It's a freaking awesome story when you read all the stuff in the queue, but if you don't know where to look, you lose out on ALL of it.
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer >>>Check out the queue if you ever go to DAK again(doubtful )<<<< Dec. Did FJ, M:S, T:T, TOT and E:E are the next steps.
Originally Posted By CaptainMichael Hokie is completely right on this one, n00bs! The mountain we ride through is Forbidden Mountain. An Everest peak is part of the mountain range in the back right-hand corner of the facade IIRC.
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 <<You're on your way to Everest base camp, but the refurbished railroad you're on passes through the Forbidden Mountain, and the Yeti isn't happy about that and let's you know it.>> The attraction was informally known as Forbidden Mountain for much of its development. I believe, but have never gotten confirmation, that the name change had a lot to do with the treks Joe Rohde and his team took to Nepal for research on the attraction. But since you couldn't call the mountain Everest, what do you do? Forbidden Mountain would have been simple and followed Disney's mountain nomenclature. Instead, much like Toy Story MIDWAY Mania, you have an attraction about Forbidden Mountain that is officially called 'Expedition Everest: Legend of the Forbidden Mountain' that everyone simply refers to as Everest or its nickname 'Evan' for short. I again think it's a pefect example of overthink on Disney's part. <<It's the same reason the railroad closed in the first place.>> Yes. They had an Amtrak like safety record. <<Check out the queue if you ever go to DAK again(doubtful )>> DAK ='s one of the few reasons left to go to WDW. ~Bigger Jaws~
Originally Posted By Manfried I got lost trying to follow all of that. It's a frakking roller coaster that stops, goes backwards, stops again, then goes forward again right? Oh, and there's a brief appearance of a furry monster that we barely see right? Maybe I can get Universal and Disney to combine so that we have Harry Potter's flight around Everest with Hagrid guest-starring as the Yeti?
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer >>>Harry Potter's flight around Everest with Hagrid guest-starring as the Yeti?<<<< You win the Post of the Day award. LOL! Ironically, you do see a huuuge dragon in FJ, for about 20 seconds... ...and on our ride, he wasn't working. He's the Yeti of Uni.
Originally Posted By dshyates The dragon is working now. It has gone down twice since they opened the ride. Both times it was fixed in less than 2 days. Uni's version of the Yeti is the Mummy AA. It is a very complex AA. And is down about every other time I ride The Mummy.
Originally Posted By dshyates Here is an interesting video about the creation of the dragon. It just shows the head and not the portion of the body it is attached to. <a href="http://www.entechcreative.com/emails/Dragon_Video/" target="_blank">http://www.entechcreative.com/...n_Video/</a>
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer Good to hear that he's been fixed. Hokie described him as being quite the effect.
Originally Posted By HokieSkipper <<...and on our ride, he wasn't working. He's the Yeti of Uni.>> No. He's actually fixable. <<Uni's version of the Yeti is the Mummy AA. It is a very complex AA.>> I'll never understand how he can be so complex and so, so terrible looking.
Originally Posted By barboy2 ///That(1.5 second encounter) was entirely planned - the creative team's sole desire with the Yeti AA was to make his appearance brief/// Of course it was planned. And of course the creative team must have a shared IQ of 75 or 80 since they thought that 15 seconds of 'downtime' looking at bird-on-a-stick and footprints in the snow is appropriate while giving the guest a mere 1.5 second encounter with what was supposed to be Disney's greatest AA. Nice job gang!
