Temple of the Anaconda at Disney's Animal Kingdom
Explore an ancient temple dedicated to the world's largest snake but be warned not to go too deep as the ancient snake God does not enjoy nosy visitors. This intense innovative new coaster type attraction combines the thrills of roller coasters and the experience of EMVs as we go through an ancient temple and anger a sinister Snake God. Trouble starts as soon as we lock ourselves inside the sacrificial chamber and the walls reveal thousands of snakes slowly slithering towards you. Things don't get any better when we ride an old mine train and are pursued by an angry giant anaconda and are ultimately wrapped in its coils ready for feeding.
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-standby line-
as tourists, we are lured to an ancient dig site where archaeologist discover remains of an old gold mine somewhere deep in the heart of the amazon rain forest. Unfortunately, the mine seems to be littered with snakes which is why herpetologist Bruce Baxter is summoned to deal with this problem. As tourists (who help fund the expedition), we are treated to a tour of the artifacts uncovered from the old mine, which includes an actual working train and a history lesson by a beautiful young scientist named Cassie about the old mine and the ancient temple located right next door.
-fast pass line-
through an internet website, a scientist named Joe Stainton is inviting us to go on an insider's tour of the never before seen temple of the anaconda which is rumoured to be littered with gold and treasures. By infiltrating a routine tourist mining musem, Joe claims that he well help us find our way into the temple via a secret mine train that runs straight through the temple.
-pre-show-
Cassie invites the guests to watch a demonstration of the working mine train. Unfortunately, Joe takes it one step further and invites the guests to actually get in the train. Joe then gets on the train with the guests telling them that he is going to take them on a personal tour of the mine. Cassie protests, saying that they are not authorized to operate the train but Joe insists anyway.
-the mine-
Joe starts up the train and we go through the dark mine with only the lights on our "hardhats" letting us see. Joe then unveils his lan, telling us that there is a secret route that would take them to the belly of the temple and straight to all the gold. Joe tells to be quiet so that Dr. Baxter and his dig team, who we see digging up artifacts, won't notice our presence.
we reach a fork in the tracks, one track leading, supposedly, to a dead end. Joe makes us take that track and we stop when we see a huge boulder blocking our way.
Joe reveals that the boulder is actually a door that could be opened by saying an ancient mayan chant which he recites. And like magic, the boulder splits in half revealing even more tracks that lead to a room full of mayan statues of snakes, but that's it. it's another dead end.
Joe expresses his dissapointment and accidentaly recites the chant 3 times which suddenly activated the boulder to close behind us and all the statues begin to move!
-Sacrifical Chamber-
as it turns out, the statues are an ancient, complicated pulley system that opens up yet another door in front of us and in it lies a room brimming with gold and jewels, so much so that it's almost blinding.
Joe marvels at what is there and immediately jumps out of the train. But just before he could touch the cold, Cassie shows up telling us that we shouldn't be here and that we have to turn back before it's too late.
Joe doesn't listen to Cassie and swims straight into the piles of gold. just as he touched it, the room goes dark and we hear him scream. We then hear a chorus of hisses and as the lights go back on...
all the gold in the room has been replaced with snakes.
[to be continued] [completed in original thread]
