Expedition Everest

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Height Requirement: 44" (113 cm)
Fastpass: Yes

Expedition Everest Overview

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The original plans for Disney's Animal Kingdom included a Beastly Kingdom - creatures of mythical proportions. Disney took a step in this direction with the building of Expedition Everest, which explores the legendary Yeti. During Animal Kingdom's 5th anniversary Disney took a step in this direction by laying out plans for a "high-speed train adventure" through the Himalayan Mountains. As with all Disney attractions there is a backstory. Guests will be placed in the role of heroes climbing one of the world's highest peaks and defeating the legendary Yeti.

Expedition Everest News

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Disney World's Expedition Everest Receives Award Honors  1/10/2007 3:47 PM EST
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Expedition Everest Trivia

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• At exactly 199 feet, it is the tallest "mountain" in Florida and one of 18 mountains created by Disney Imagineers.
• Everest climbs 120 feet high, include an 80-foot drop, and reach speeds of 50 mph
• The ride vehicles are known as ""Steam Donkeys", are modeled after steam-engine tea trains, and carry up to 34 passengers per train.
• The mammoth-sized Audio-Animatronics Yeti has a potential thrust, in all of its hydraulic cylinders combined, of slightly over 259,000 pounds force -- potentially more instantaneous power than a 747-400 airliner.
• 1,800 tons of steel were used in the mountain structure. That is about six times the amount of steel used in a traditional office building of this size.
• To create the sense of an enormous mountain range, Imagineers painted a "mural" of shadows across the face of the mountains. The range, glaciers and valleys is a canvas of rockwork, carvings and painting creating a forced perspective where closer-in objects have a massive look while appliqués trick the eye into perceiving far off objects.
• Artists from Imagineering used hammers, chainsaws and blowtorches to "age" wood and buildings in the village, giving them the appearance of being longstanding parts of the landscape. Creating the Himalayan Environment in Florida: More than 900 bamboo plants, 10 species of trees and 110 species of shrubs are being nurtured and planted to re-create the lowlands surrounding Mount Everest.

Expedition Everest Images

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Everest From Bridge

Everest Snow Peaks

Everest Snow Covered Track

Everest Broken Track

Yeti Silhouette

Expedition Everest Reviews

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5/22/2008

Reviewer: Brandon, MI, USA
Some people complain about there aren't enough attractions at Animal Kingdom. However, by adding high quality attractions like this one, Animal Kingdom has become my favorite park in WDW.

2/2/2007

Reviewer: Zii, IL, USA
I loved this ride! This was my favorite ride out off all of the ones I went on as I was in Disney Land. It was so much fun, you go backwards, forwards and in the dark! Did I mention you're going 60 miles an hour!!?!? It was amazing. The Yeti was so cool how they actually did it, there is a huge build up before you actually see the Yeti. I did this ride once, because the lines where so long, but I would do it over and over agian!

8/23/2006

Reviewer: Lou Myers, Seattle, WA, USA
I was so excited to go on this ride. Going to Disney every year gave us a chance to see this ride start from the beginning, watching it be built over the course of three or four years. And maybe because I had three or four years to imagine what would go on in the ride, maybe my expectations were to high. Coming off the ride, my first thought was, "Is that it?" The ride is extremely short, and the yeti, which had more publicity than anything else, just shows up once (the animatronic, at least.) You see it for about three seconds as you ride under it, and then that's it for the yeti. I do have to admit that the parts in the dark were very fun, and going backwards made it even better (maybe it was just me, but I thought the backwards part would be kept towards the end, not in the first minute.) Adding a narration or sound effects in the cars would greatly improve the attraction. I'll ride it again, because we had a Fastpass and didn't wait, and that's about the wait I would say it's worth. It's not a complete waste, it's kinda fun...but Disney has done so much better in the past (wink wink, Tower of Terror.)

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