Expedition Everest Animal Kingdom DVD

This DVD includes a complete ride through as well as footage of the Cue Line (great "theme"ing here!) Additionally, it includes a featurette that gives you behind the scene access to the planning and building of the attraction.

Ancient legend holds that high in the Himalayan Mountains lives an enormous creature, the Yeti or Abominable Snowman, that fiercely guards the route to Mount Everest. Now that legend roars dramatically to life at Disney's Animal Kingdom in a new runaway train adventure that combines coaster-like thrills with the excitement of a close encounter of the hairy kind.

Expedition Everest often is compared to the 1959 Matterhorn Bobsleds roller coaster at Disneyland, which features a snowy mountain setting (though much smaller) and a far more primitive "abominable snowman" figure throughout the ride.

Although moderate by contemporary roller coaster standards, Expedition Everest is unique for having its trains travel forward and backward as a result of the yeti's interference with the journey. This is accomplished through two sets of rotating track segments on pivot before and after the backwards segment. In its publicity material, Disney pointedly has described the attraction as a family thrill ride.

Expedition Everest is the tallest of the artificial mountains at Walt Disney World Resort, joining Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, Mount Gushmore, Space Mountain and Splash Mountain on the list of Disney-built peaks. According to Imagineering, it is Disney's 18th mountain-themed attraction. If the Expedition Everest mountain were real, it would be ranked fourth on the list of the highest summits in Florida at 320 feet above sea level.

The artificial mountain is not a reproduction of Mount Everest; it is the fictional "forbidden mountain" guarded by the yeti in the attraction story created by Walt Disney Imagineering. Everest is represented by the barren background peak on the far right, which is meant to suggest it is far in the distance (an example of forced perspective). The attraction's conceit is that the roller coaster is a passenger train offering a speedy route through the Himalayas to the base of Mount Everest.

According to Disney, the attraction occupies 6.2 acres in the park's Asia section and the mountain itself is just shy of one acre. Expedition Everest celebrated its grand opening on April 7, 2006.

Total length of DVD: Approximately 1 Hour.

My DVD's are not professional productions; they are fan produced using home VHS video recorders, 8mm and 16 mm cameras/footage, etc.

This is home video footage so the quality varies. The lengths of my DVDs vary. However, I try to keep them close to one hour. This ensures the highest quality images. Disk(s) are in plain CD/DVD enveloped and shipped in a bubble mailer.

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