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Amusement Park: Walt Disney World - Animal Kingdom
Type: Steel - Sit Down
Status: Under Construction opening 2006
Make / Model: Vekoma / Custom Other
Cost: $100,000,000 USD

Height: 112'
Drop: 80'
Inversions: 0
Speed: 50 mph

Trains: Riders must be 42" or taller to ride.

History: This will become the largest ride in Walt Disney World at a cost of $100 million (USD).

The ride will travel both forwards and backwards.

The height of the attraction is said to be nearly 200 feet. This is probably referring to the height of the mountain and not the height of the track contained within.

The Expedition Everest will be the first ride to use Vekoma's newest track system. Rather than the rails be on the inside of the ties, they will be on the outside. To date Vekoma has only used this system on their smaller roller coasters. This will be the first large scale installation of such a system.







http://www.rcdb.com/ig2389.htm <-More Pictures

CANNOT WAIT!! 8)

I believe the forwards/backwards motion rumor was killed some time ago - unless it has resurfaced once again...

G2-4T wrote:I believe the forwards/backwards motion rumor was killed some time ago - unless it has resurfaced once again...

Gosh! I never heard this changed - there were some photos up earlier last year (I think on OrlandoRocks.com) when they installed what looked like a transfer track enabling this manuever - but who knows!? Sure hope it will be as orginally designed with both forward and backward motion.

It keeps looking better and better, I can't wait to see and more importantly RIDE the finished product. It looks so cool!!!

It does look really cool. I can't wait, I'm so excited! This will be a great improvement for AK, also. But I'm really upset because my next trip is this November, so I won't be making it to go on EE. But, hopefully, we might be going five months after, in April 2006, so it might be open by then.

It does look like alot of fun, it's huge!

Yeah, it is huge. Since all of these pictures are not so recent, I hope they release some new ones soon so we can see how the construction is coming along. I can't wait to see how the mountain and outside turns out.

Siriuslydead wrote:But I'm really upset because my next trip is this November, so I won't be making it to go on EE. But, hopefully, we might be going five months after, in April 2006, so it might be open by then.

I'm planning on going next August, so I'm counting down the months not only till EE opens, but till my next trip. Very excited, haven't been there since December of '99 right before the millennium celebration. So much has changed. We're going to need at least a week i think to see everything.

jrcohen wrote:I'm planning on going next August, so I'm counting down the months not only till EE opens, but till my next trip. Very excited, haven't been there since December of '99 right before the millennium celebration. So much has changed. We're going to need at least a week i think to see everything.

I'm counting down the days till my trip too, heh. 199!!! Anyway, wow! Since '99, huh? You're going to have so much to do! I went in '99, and then my next trip after that was '02, and practically everything was different. And that was three years ago, so there's even newer stuff. I don't even know if a week will do it.

locking this thread as there is already an Expedition Everest thread started. If you have anything you'd like to add, please post here:

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Thank you.