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Expedition Everest mountain range mist/cloud effect working!!
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RandySavage
Well-Known Member
That "bad show" back side is still visible from the parking lot. WDI didn't add on some "villagescape" 200 feet up in the air in an effort to hide it from people parking their cars.
I'm not quite with you on this. Are you saying there isn't a village scene on the back of the mountain? I can assure you there is.
There are two waterfalls. For an idea of where they are, see http://www.wdwmagic.com/thumbnails/everest/webeverest.jpg (they are both on the left hand side)
Pumbas Nakasak
Heading for the great escape.
To ensure continued working of the effect could Disney not just construct a small platform beneath the mountain top and make it a designated smokers area, perhaps that would give it too much of a storm cloud look.
PlutoInOrlando
Active Member
- In the Parks
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See - the mountain isn't really that tall. It's just your imagination! Or, well, really good WDI! And there is no "backside"....:ROFLOL:
sorcerormickey
Member
There is also a snow effect, when your train goes over the small dip right after B lift ,there is supposed to be snow blowing across the track in front of you, it was only working during test and adjust, same with the lightening effect.
utrythinkinof1
Member
I went on Live Local, and that is the final paint job. The image shows a train going up the hill so unless they painted it while the ride was open, this is it. Also, I see no village scene in the images.The back looks kinda like this...only I don't think this is the finished paint job. Still looking....
Link: http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v...&scene=17483246&phx=0&phy=0&phscl=1&encType=1
CTXRover
Well-Known Member
The backside was painted twice after it was opened I believe. Initially it was painted a rust red/brown to match the rockwork on the mountain from a pic I remember seeing. It was better than the plain beige wall, but still looked like a painted wall.
Later, it was repainted light brown again with a "forced" village painted on the wall. This was done AFTER the ride opened. The black boxes you see in Lee's pics are meant to represent windows. The horizontal black lines are the tops of the buildings. From a distance (specifically the AK parking lot), it does look like a village built into the side of the moutain. A complete mountain would have been nice, but for the cost and the limited views available of the backside from outside the park, what they have done works well imo.
The worst angle is from atop Blizzard Beach. I saw it from there shortly after it opened when it was just a plain beige wall, but I have not been back to BB since it opened to see if the new village-scape works well from that distance as well.
Glad to see the mist is back at the top! :sohappy:
Lee
Adventurer
They did paint it while it was open. Looks better in person.
Einselen
Member
Interesting quirk. If you go via that link and go North/North-West to Kali Rapids and then back you can see Everest with the beige wall. Then head east to the road and then back up and you see Everest mid-construction.
That isnt the finished view, and yep they did paint if after the previews began, so there would most likely be trains in motion during the painting of the scene.
DisneyEverest
Member
Awesome I'm leaving tomorrow.... I hope ill get to see it.
RandySavage
Well-Known Member
Sorry for the confusion. I was thinking by "village scene," you meant a constructed, themed add-on to the back of the mountain to make it look natural, for example something like this on the back side:
Yes, they have done some painting, but no-one is going to mistake that for anything but a backstage area and show building. It's not like Thunder or Space Mountains which are themed 360 degrees.
EPCOTCenterLover
Well-Known Member
Thanks for all these pics! EE is probably my favorite attraction in all of WDW.
Cannot wait to go back and ride it again... but not on Tuesday, unfortunately.
Cannot wait to go back and ride it again... but not on Tuesday, unfortunately.
Princessatheart
Member
They would fix it, a week after I rode it for the first time. :brick: