Lizard Mountain
Based on the Watasch Mountain range in Utah, loosely inspired by Journey to The Center of The Earth and The Lost World, and becoming the first Disney attraction to utilize Mack Rides’ Rocking Boats, Escape from Lizard Mountain will take guest from a S.E.A. encampment on a voyage into an underground river system through Lizard Mountain and into a Jurassic holdover that has flourished perfectly in isolation and has created unique biomes for the underworld, but even this world is not safe from the Jurassic’s deadliest beasts; the swift Tanycolagreus eyes our boat in the Diplodocus Graveyard, the stocky Ceratosaurus faces off with a large crocodile in the Salty swamps, the fierce Allosaurus stalks a herd of Camptosaurus; and takes notice of us in the Redwood forests, and the apex hunter Torvosaurus in the rocky desert; with one member (an elder with a sharp row of spikes running down his back and an old bite mark on his snout) making hot pursuit of us, and even getting into the water to attack us and just as we escape the Saurian natives, we enter an abandoned mining system about to collapse due to the impending gigageyser; referred to as Old Timer; and just as Old Timer goes off, the boats plunge down 5 stories into the open and down a flooded tunnel, out of the mines, away from Lizard Mountain and back towards base.
Flight of the Thunderbirds
Located near the entrance to Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, a majestic trio of thunderbirds; the largest of which is gold, bronze, and hot white in color to represent lightning, the middle is silver with dark hues of gray and blue for heavy rains, and the last has all blue plumage from sapphire and egyptian to coral and maya; soaring across the Southwestern landscape towards Big Thunder Mountain during a heavy lightning storm at night.