Expedition Everest Update
Posted: May Mon 02, 2005 5:14 pm
"Joe Rohde, Executive Designer and Vice President, Creative, Walt Disney Imagineering, collaborates with a monk in Nepal to learn the art of mining the raw earth to create colors. This unique method will be used to apply color and create authenticity to the buildings being created in the mythical village at Expedition Everest, the thrill adventure opening in Disney's Animal Kingdom in 2006. Walt Disney Imagineers went to great lengths to research the legends, architecture and lore of the areas they explored near Mount Everest to create a rich environment that reflects the spirit of the Himalayas."
An overall view of the current state of the mountain
Themeing is underway on the emergency staircase running around the edge of the helix.
The helix area will ultimately be covered in dense bamboo, giving the impression of the ride vehicle plummeting into thick bamboo, and then re-emerging on the other site out of the bamboo. To ensure ride safety in a heavily themed landscape, the large poles being installed around the track will carry suspended steel cables to prevent any falling bamboo blocking the track. The poles will be cleverly themed as abandoned telegraph poles.
An overall view of the current state of the mountain
Themeing is underway on the emergency staircase running around the edge of the helix.
The helix area will ultimately be covered in dense bamboo, giving the impression of the ride vehicle plummeting into thick bamboo, and then re-emerging on the other site out of the bamboo. To ensure ride safety in a heavily themed landscape, the large poles being installed around the track will carry suspended steel cables to prevent any falling bamboo blocking the track. The poles will be cleverly themed as abandoned telegraph poles.
Are they working for anyone else? They work for me. If not, I'll try to fix it.