Originally Posted By RoadTrip <<I just looked at your top 10 after you sounded like a real coaster fan, but noticed only EE on there - and at 10th place... >> Space Mountain is too rough. Rock & Roller is too short. Everest made my list because of the great show building (the mountain) and queue. Big Thunder probably should have made my list based on the setting and the helix. But I kind of stayed away from naming Disney coasters because there are so many really great coasters at parks throughout the U.S. I enjoy a couple of coasters here at home (Wildfire and Powder Keg) more than any of the Disney coasters.
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer >>>I wasn't impressed with WDW's SM, too. I'm sorry for saying that, but it is a very lame coaster and I don't understand why it is still so popular. Despite being rough, I prefer DLP's SM.<<<< I have no idea why it's so loved. It's just a coaster in the dark, to me. The ideas and the theme behind it are fantastic, of course... but now..? It's just a aging ruin.
Originally Posted By HokieSkipper Big Thunder is an infinitely better coaster in both design and theme over Everest IMO. And it's not even close.
Originally Posted By ChiMike ^ I agree. Everest is ho-hum, and a shell of a mountain, literally. Big Thunder is a fully realized environment. Everest's slow segments occur outside, while speeding through a non-descript mountain interior. BTMR's slow segments occur in detailed mountain scenes, while relegating its fast segments outside. Everest goes through the motions. BTMR is the real deal. ...And BTMR is just plain out 'fun'. Everest is too tame for what it should be, the designers botched the placement for the reveal of the Yeti, and they put too much emphasis on the forward/reverse gimmick. Obviously, this is all my opinion, but Everest's design to BTMR's design is akin to Chuck E Cheese's robot show to CBJ's robot show. Both attempt the same thing, one is an inferior attempt to the other.
Originally Posted By RoadTrip BTM is a better overall themed experience (although EE's queue is far superior to BTM's). But strictly as a coaster experience I significantly prefer EE. The top speed of 50mph compared to 30mph and the backward segment make Everest more enjoyable to me. I know many people would disagree with that, but that's my story and I'm sticking to it! LOL
Originally Posted By RoadTrip Also, although the inside of the mountain is pretty plain, you are going so fast you wouldn't notice an elaborate setting anyway. I have a hard enough time catching half the stuff on BTM, which is much slower. And in my opinion the EE mountain is pretty spectacular from the outside… especially when you first approach it from the Yak & Yeti area.
Originally Posted By dagobert >>BTM is a better overall themed experience (although EE's queue is far superior to BTM's). But strictly as a coaster experience I significantly prefer EE. The top speed of 50mph compared to 30mph and the backward segment make Everest more enjoyable to me. I know many people would disagree with that, but that's my story and I'm sticking to it! LOL<< Totally agree with you. Expedition Everest is better when it comes to the coaster experience. EE is one of our favorite Disney attractions. The overall theming of BTM, especially in Paris, is better.
Originally Posted By ChiMike Thanks for helping me prove my point RT! Your opinion was a far more succient way of getting my point across. >>Also, although the inside of the mountain is pretty plain, you are going so fast you wouldn't notice an elaborate setting anyway.<< Which was an intentional justification for why money did not need to be spent in those areas. To justify the short-cut. >>I have a hard enough time catching half the stuff on BTM, which is much slower.<< Which again was an intentional choice made by the designers on how to provide the best Disney version of a mine coaster possible. How to plus the show, encourage someone to re-ride and spend another ticket so as to catch what they missed the last go-around. >>And in my opinion the EE mountain is pretty spectacular from the outside… especially when you first approach it from the Yak & Yeti area.<< Unless you are looking at it from the parking lot. The red carpet of the movie premiere, the first thing the guest see. In this case, a giant box.
Originally Posted By HokieSkipper See I'll take the coaster experience of BTM over EE any day. EE's design is very boring save for the backward portion.
Originally Posted By RoadTrip <<See I'll take the coaster experience of BTM over EE any day. EE's design is very boring save for the backward portion.>> As far as I'm concerned the sense of anticipation that builds as you slowly ascend the mountain on EE is one on Disney's greatest coaster moments, equaled only by the launch sequence on Space Mountain.
Originally Posted By ChiMike ^ I agree with you on that. Everything up to the crest of the lift hill is close to picture perfect. Even the lengths they went to with the safety chain dog to magnetically raise it as long as the axles are spinning is quite impressive. I could use a lot of innuendo in saying that after the peak of the lift hill, everything is a big let down. Especially the misplacement and misuse of the Yeti at the finale.
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