Expedition Everest drop, in excess of 100ft!

Thrawn

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Ok. So, by no means is this completely accurate, and we don't know what is going on inside the mountain, but best I can tell, the lift hill is around 120 ft.

Original picture was originally on WDWmagic, so all rights belong to whoever sent it to steve. The height markers are mine, but since the picture isn't, edits too are property of the photographer. (This blurb is so that no one reposts it on the other wdw sites)

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Lines are 10% apart, which on a 200 ft mountain is 20 ft. Puts the drop where it exits the mountain right around 80 feet, and the hill where it enters the mountain right around 120.
 
Master Yoda

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If I had to guess from the picture with the scale on it the bottom of the helix drops below grade (0') which could account for some of the additional 32' of elevation change.
 
Thrawn

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Master Yoda said:
If I had to guess from the picture with the scale on it the bottom of the helix drops below grade (0') which could account for some of the additional 32' of elevation change.
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I thought of that, but in the few pictures that are on wdwmagic's everest section, it doesn't go much below grade. Plus, I couldn't be sure if that was included in the original 80foot number or not.
 
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Thrawn said:
Actually, after looking at construction pics, it almost has to do something else other than be a straight drop. The lift hill (if we have an accurate number of it being 120 feet, is right above the drop. If the drop was 112ft, then it would run into the lift hill. If the lift is higher than 120, then this really doesn't matter. But if the lift is indeed 120ft, then the 112ft total for the drop has to do something else besides drop straight down.

WDWmagic pass members can see it here:
http://www.wdwmagic.com/members2/everest/3110/EE%201.jpg
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We dont know if the lift hill is 120ft. All we know is the highest point of the track is at 120ft, and that doesnt have to be the lift hill.
 
Lee

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I'm gonna have to be a bit skeptical of those numbers.
I've been getting info on this ride for a long time, and from people who should know such things.

The ONLY number I have ever seen or been told is an 80' drop.

Could be that they are adding some additional height by counting to the very bottom of the turn, instead of to the top of the turn...

...or perhaps they are counting from the top of the second dead-end which leads into the drop...

Curious...:confused:
 
Thrawn

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wdwmagic said:
We dont know if the lift hill is 120ft. All we know is the highest point of the track is at 120ft, and that doesnt have to be the lift hill.
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If the drop is 112 ft, then the max height is going to have to be higher than 120. Otherwise the ride isn't going to have enough speed to get over the top of the 112. Since we do know that it doesn't go lift hill then big drop immediately, there has to be some up and down in there, and since the ride is gravity driven, the max height has to be higher than 120. At least, thats what I would think.

I guess what I'm saying is: Since we had wrong information on the 80ft drop, can it be we had wrong information on the 120ft max height?
 
wdwishes2005

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lol, i was just going to grump at the person who posted this, thinking that it was the same guy who posted the hologram 500 ft thing. boy was i wrong.... lol. thanks for the info WDWMagic.
 
Thrawn

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Lee said:
I'm gonna have to be a bit skeptical of those numbers.
I've been getting info on this ride for a long time, and from people who should know such things.

The ONLY number I have ever seen or been told is an 80' drop.

Could be that they are adding some additional height by counting to the very bottom of the turn, instead of to the top of the turn...

...or perhaps they are counting from the top of the second dead-end which leads into the drop...

Curious...:confused:
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Lee is there a helix or turn heading into the drop? Or does it just turn around and go down straight? Or can you not say ...
 
Madison

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wdwmagic said:
We dont know if the lift hill is 120ft. All we know is the highest point of the track is at 120ft, and that doesnt have to be the lift hill.
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Since it's a gravity-powered roller coaster, the top of its tallest lift hill must be the highest point the train travels.
 
Master Yoda

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Thrawn said:
I thought of that, but in the few pictures that are on wdwmagic's everest section, it doesn't go much below grade. Plus, I couldn't be sure if that was included in the original 80foot number or not.
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If I had to guess from visiting the site numerous times the bottom of the lowest point of the curve is about 10-15' below the 0' mark on the picture, but unless we could look at a section view we will never know for sure. For all we know the 0' elevation used to determine the overall height is 20' above what we perceive as the base of the mountain
 
Thrawn

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Madison said:
Since it's a gravity-powered roller coaster, the top of its tallest lift hill must be the highest point the train travels.
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I thought that, but I wasn't sure. I'll believe it from the coaster buff though. :wave:

If you think about it, it makes sense. There isn't a reliable way for it to build up enough energy for the ride to go any higher than however high it started. It is possible, yes, but what if everyone on the ride is light? Or too heavy, slowing it down?

Still, if the 120ft max height isn't correct, then the drop could easily be 112ft. If the lift goes to 140, it would all work out.
 
Thrawn

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Master Yoda said:
If I had to guess from visiting the site numerous times the bottom of the lowest point of the curve is about 10-15' below the 0' mark on the picture, but unless we could look at a section view we will never know for sure. For all we know the 0' elevation used to determine the overall height is 20' above what we perceive as the base of the mountain
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Ok, so if its an extra 15feet, that could make the drop 95ft or so once it exits the mountain, and since we can't see inside, it would be possible that it has another 20 feet of drop inside.
 

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