Expedition Everest
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Expedition Everest
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| Disney's Animal Kingdom | |
| Park section | Asia |
| Coordinates | 28°21′29″N 81°35′11″W / 28.358165°N 81.586298°W |
| Status | Operating |
| Soft opening date | January 26, 2006 |
| Opening date | April 7, 2006 |
| Cost | US$100,000,000 |
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| Type | Steel |
| Manufacturer | Vekoma |
| Designer | Walt Disney Imagineering |
| Model | Custom |
| Track layout | Custom |
| Lift/launch system | Chain lift hill |
| Height | 199.5 ft (60.8 m) |
| Drop | 80 ft (24 m) |
| Length | 4,424 ft (1,348 m) |
| Speed | 50 mph (80 km/h) |
| Inversions | 0 |
| Duration | 2:50 |
| Capacity | 2050 riders per hour |
| Height restriction | 44 in (112 cm) |
| Trains | 6 (max. 5 in operation) trains with 6 cars. Riders are arranged 2 across in 3 rows for a total of 36 riders per train. |
| Restraints | Lap-bar |
| Audio-animatronics | Yes |
 Fastpass+ available |
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 Single rider line available |
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 Wheelchair accessible |
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Expedition Everest at RCDB Pictures of Expedition Everest at RCDB |
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Expedition Everest — Legend of the Forbidden Mountain is a steel roller coaster built by Vekoma at Disney's Animal Kingdom theme park at the Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. The ride is themed around the Yeti hiding in Mount Everest. It is listed in the 2011 book of Guinness World Records as the most expensive roller coaster in the world. Including sets and extras, its total cost was reported to be US$100 million, following 6 years of planning and construction. It is the tallest artificial mountain in all of the Walt Disney Parks, though contrary to popular belief, Expedition Everest is not Florida's tallest mountain. It is Disney's 18th mountain-themed attraction.
The attraction first was announced publicly on April 22, 2003, during an event to celebrate the fifth anniversary of Disney's Animal Kingdom. It took three years and more than 38 miles of , 5,000 tons of structural steel, and 10,000 tons of concrete to build the mountain. Expedition Everest first opened for previews on January 26, 2006, and had its grand opening on April 7, 2006, in ceremonies led by Disney CEO Bob Iger and theme parks chairman Jay Rasulo.
The attraction features a stand-by, Fastpass+, and a single rider line. The queue starts at the office of the fictional "Himalayan Escapes" travel agency, progressing to a replica temple with little holy figures. Visitors next enter a tea garden, followed by a room with equipment from a successful expedition, and then the "Yeti Museum", which contains information on the Yeti and a moulding of a Yeti footprint. There are also about 8,000 artifacts brought from the Nepal trip in the museum. The single rider line skips all of the exhibits.
The riders board the roller coaster in the model village of Serka Zong, to begin a speedy route through the Himalayas to the base of Mount Everest.
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