Expedition Everest Discussion

Lostboyfan · 10-15-2007, 05:48 PM

I would have to agree with Stormrider that the front and back cars of the train are the best. I have also rode that ride have 5 times in a row. Expedition Everest is one of the best Disney rides I have ever been on too.

Robby Wittert

gurugriff100 · 04-25-2008, 07:00 PM

that ride was awesome and exciting, it's a newer high tech version of the matterhorn

daaancewithmeee · 06-16-2008, 11:23 AM

Can someone describe to me what the ride is like... I don't understand how it goes backwards... Like does it merge onto a different track..?

Someone just wanna give be a play-by-play of the ride?

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Originally Posted by Stormrider

I was there with my cousin and he has just turned 8... I took him to MGM Studios to go on Tower and he bugged out of that one cryin...

Haha thats funny... cause my 15 year-old brother does the same thing! In all seriousness, he does.

Legacy · 06-16-2008, 04:34 PM

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Originally Posted by daaancewithmeee

Can someone describe to me what the ride is like... I don't understand how it goes backwards... Like does it merge onto a different track..?

Someone just wanna give be a play-by-play of the ride?

Haha thats funny... cause my 15 year-old brother does the same thing! In all seriousness, he does.

It's a different sort of system. It utilizes a rotating track system for the two transfers. The first, you are looking at destroyed track in front of you, the track that just put you there spins 180 degrees so that the second piece of track underneath it allows you to go straight backwards.

After the backwards section, you watch the (projected) yeti destroy the track ahead of you. Here, the transfer piece rotates allowing a shift to the left so you can hit the man drop.

daaancewithmeee · 06-16-2008, 05:41 PM

Interesting... Thank you so much!

wdwcmdlguest · 08-20-2008, 12:27 AM

My ex took a vid of this ride and put it on facebook....it was soo cool! I love the fact that you go backwards on it. Some say you go upside down but you dont...you just fall backwards and a bit up the mountain again. I love the fact that people compare the two mountains. The moster at disneyland is an Abominable snowman (harold) and the one at everest is a Yeti(Betty!) so they are closely related but still different. The mountains are different and yet they have the same original thought. The ride in disneyland have the Matterhorn mountain and the one in animal kingdom is Everest. These are two different mountains but they have a similair eerie legend.

D26 · 03-13-2009, 04:53 AM

this ride is the best!! the backwards part is crazy its like curving staight up. i rode this like 10 times during my stay and thanks to extra magic hours i got to ride this at night which was awesome :)

mickeymexica · 03-16-2009, 05:33 PM

My favorite Imagineering masterpiece of all time... well, maybe it's a tie with WDW's Tower of Terror. I love EVERYTHING about it -
1. climbing that hill at the beginning (soo long and soo steep!);
2. finding the broken track up ahead (my first time, I was in first row and didn't expect it at all!!);
3. realizing (on your first time) that there's only one way from the broken track: BACKWARDS!
4. going backwards in pitch darkness!
5. Finding the Yeti- absolutely fantastic animatronic piece
6. the smoothness and at the same time, the fear of it all- hands down, this ride (esp. at night) is THE SCARIEST disney experience out there.
Did I mention I LOVE Everest?? and I've only ridden it once! I was frankly disappointed with AK (at least that first time I went there), but Everest at the very end of the day made the admission absolutely worth it!

PeoplemoverMatt · 03-16-2009, 09:07 PM

It's a good thing that Yeti ripped up the track in that spot. Without the broken track barrier, that would be an open cliffside!

Stormrider · 06-25-2009, 02:41 PM

Sorry to bring up an older topic but I have a quick question/request. About a year ago a channel on youtube had a 5-part series of how Imagineering created Everest. It has been gone since the user's account was suspended. Does anyone know where I may be able to view these episodes....can't find any on youtube except for one by Discovery thats in german. Any help would be appreciated.
(and if someone posted a similar post I am sorry I did look before I asked lol)

10-15-2007, 05:48 PM	#166 (permalink)
Lostboyfan People who found this post helpful: Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 100 Images: 15	I would have to agree with Stormrider that the front and back cars of the train are the best. I have also rode that ride have 5 times in a row. Expedition Everest is one of the best Disney rides I have ever been on too. Robby Wittert Last edited by Lostboyfan; 10-15-2007 at 05:49 PM.
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gurugriff100 Disneyland's #1 Fan People who found this post helpful: Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Woodland,CA Posts: 1,065 Images: 9	expedition everest that ride was awesome and exciting, it's a newer high tech version of the matterhorn
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08-20-2008, 12:27 AM	#171 (permalink)
wdwcmdlguest People who found this post helpful: Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Florida Posts: 180	My ex took a vid of this ride and put it on facebook....it was soo cool! I love the fact that you go backwards on it. Some say you go upside down but you dont...you just fall backwards and a bit up the mountain again. I love the fact that people compare the two mountains. The moster at disneyland is an Abominable snowman (harold) and the one at everest is a Yeti(Betty!) so they are closely related but still different. The mountains are different and yet they have the same original thought. The ride in disneyland have the Matterhorn mountain and the one in animal kingdom is Everest. These are two different mountains but they have a similair eerie legend.
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03-13-2009, 04:53 AM	#172 (permalink)
D26 People who found this post helpful: Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 13	this ride is the best!! the backwards part is crazy its like curving staight up. i rode this like 10 times during my stay and thanks to extra magic hours i got to ride this at night which was awesome :)
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03-16-2009, 05:33 PM	#173 (permalink)
mickeymexica People who found this post helpful: Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Vancouver Metropolitan area, Canada Posts: 128 Images: 7	My favorite Imagineering masterpiece of all time... well, maybe it's a tie with WDW's Tower of Terror. I love EVERYTHING about it - 1. climbing that hill at the beginning (soo long and soo steep!); 2. finding the broken track up ahead (my first time, I was in first row and didn't expect it at all!!); 3. realizing (on your first time) that there's only one way from the broken track: BACKWARDS! 4. going backwards in pitch darkness! 5. Finding the Yeti- absolutely fantastic animatronic piece 6. the smoothness and at the same time, the fear of it all- hands down, this ride (esp. at night) is THE SCARIEST disney experience out there. Did I mention I LOVE Everest?? and I've only ridden it once! I was frankly disappointed with AK (at least that first time I went there), but Everest at the very end of the day made the admission absolutely worth it!
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03-16-2009, 09:07 PM	#174 (permalink)
PeoplemoverMatt An Objective Perspective People who found this post helpful: Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Valencia, CA Posts: 4,842 Images: 18	It's a good thing that Yeti ripped up the track in that spot. Without the broken track barrier, that would be an open cliffside! __________________ "I don't believe in taking foolish chances, but nothing can be accomplished without taking any chance at all." -- Charles Augustus Lindberg "Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children." -- Walter Elias Disney "So are we to continue in sin that grace might increase? May it never be! How shall we who died to sin still live in it? Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death? Therefore we have been buried with Him...so we too might walk in the newness of life." -- Romans 6:1-4
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06-25-2009, 02:41 PM	#175 (permalink)
Stormrider Future Imagineer People who found this post helpful: Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Buena Park, California Posts: 29 Images: 3	Sorry to bring up an older topic but I have a quick question/request. About a year ago a channel on youtube had a 5-part series of how Imagineering created Everest. It has been gone since the user's account was suspended. Does anyone know where I may be able to view these episodes....can't find any on youtube except for one by Discovery thats in german. Any help would be appreciated. (and if someone posted a similar post I am sorry I did look before I asked lol) __________________ Don't think inside or outside the box...throw the box away!!! Because it all begins with ONE LITTLE SPARK! -The Imagineering Philosophy Jungle Cruise Skip & DLRR Conductor STORMRIDER
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