Fire Mountain

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ohioguy

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I just came across an old article on an online database concerning a planned attraction called "Fire Mountain". Supposedly, it may have been located in Fantasyland (??) and was a roller-coaster type ride where riders hovered over a volcano. I suppose they would have placed it where 20K Leagues was.

I suppose cost restrictions in the early part of the decade ruled this attraction out, but does anyone have any other information on it?
 
AEfx

AEfx

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I'd like to know too. :)

You see, every time this gets mentioned people get upset (i.e. a rumor that won't die), but I've never quite understood what even the rumor/blue sky idea/etc. was because it predates my time in the Disney-online-sphere and I've never seen a discussion get very far before people just got upset, LOL.

So, truth or not, what was Fire Mountain (and, specifically, what is the difference between this and the Villian mountain, if there was one?).

AEfx
 
Mansion Butler

Mansion Butler

Active Member
I know you don't mean to, but you've just started what's probably about to be the topic from hell.

At least you were cool and asked a question instead of saying, "THERE GONNA BUILD A NEW ATTRACTION CALLED DA FIRE MOUNTAIN I NO CUZ A CM TOLD ME!!!!111"

Anywho, there have actually been 11 billion threads on it, mostly of the absurd variety. All I know is it's not happening. At least in the forseeable future, I'd wager ever (though I do expect an E-Ticket at least behind-or on top of-pooh's plaful spot one of these days).

Hopefully someone will come in here and give you more information, and homefully you won't get flamed too much.

Good luck, and my God have mercy on your soul.
 
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ohioguy

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well, it made the Orlando paper, so it must have been a good rumor.


Why DON'T they find an attraction for the old 20K site?
 
RiversideBunny

RiversideBunny

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There seems to be a ride with similar aspects at a non-Disney theme park (whatever those are).
This is from google-

Volcano, The Blast Coaster, nicknamed Volcano, is the launched inverted roller coaster at Kings Dominion. It is one of the most popular rides there since its opening on August 3, 1998. It is a custom designed ride designed by Paramount Parks and famous roller coaster designer Werner Stengel. The ride was built by Intamin AG of Switzerland. At opening, the ride became the world's first LIM (Linear Induction Motor)-Launched Inverted coaster and to this day, remains to be the world's only full-circuit launched inverted coaster.
The mountain this ride is built in and around has existed since 1979. A number of attractions were set inside the mountain before Volcano existed.
 
dopey

dopey

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I'm really looking forward to Disney building both Fire Mountain AND Villains Mountain! :sohappy: :hammer:
 
ToTBellHop

ToTBellHop

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I believe Fire Mountain was actually planned for Adventureland. If you search for older threads here, you'll find the ones before people started getting angry about it. Some ideas involved some sort of hybrid coaster. There was also a project for Fantasyland called Bald Mountain that I believe was to be a water ride involving the villains. It would have been in a new Villainland behind Fantasyland, with a splash-down facing south into Fantasyland. Fire Mountain would've been very cool, but the timing for it to be built was not right. The attitude against building large E-Tickets (and investing in the Magic Kingdom), however, may be shifting, so we could see an E-Ticket begin construction within 5 years. I know there are lots of ideas for the 20K plot, and I'm sure some involve a mountain.
 
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ohioguy

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Original Poster
well, it seems like a good location to add to the mountain chain of the Magic Kingdom. I don't see the Matterhorn coming; does anyone?


Where in the world would they locate a new attraction in the landlocked Adventureland?
 
Laura

Laura

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Mmmmm Fire Mountain. :slurp:

I eat there every week!

FireMountain1.jpg
 
ToTBellHop

ToTBellHop

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ohioguy said:
well, it seems like a good location to add to the mountain chain of the Magic Kingdom. I don't see the Matterhorn coming; does anyone?


Where in the world would they locate a new attraction in the landlocked Adventureland?
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there is room. Several E-Tickets have been discussed for Adventureland, the most recent being a roller coaster like Raging Spirits (which I'm against...it's not a good coaster. It's a well-themed crappy one). My problem moreso lies with having 3 mountains rather close to each other. Fantasyland is a better location. I prefer the way Disneyland spaces its mountains.
 
unkadug

unkadug

Follower of "Saget"The Cult
It shouldn't matter where they put a Fire Mountain, as they guests will just take it where they want to be:

2K5_FireMtn_Side_1300.jpg
 
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ohioguy

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Original Poster
AEfx said:
*waits patiently for Martin to pull the slideshow out of moth balls to show us where every last ounce of usable space is*

(I always enjoy those, especially when he uses pretty colors in the outlines of the proposed sites, LOL.)

AEfx
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I would love to see it......
 
lunarsquid

lunarsquid

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Unfortunately, no one has answered the OP, which is what were the details of Fire Mountain... I myself have been reading references to it and Beastly Kingdom for ages, but I've never actually heard what they were supposed to be.

I imagine that some of the ideas for Fire Mountain got incorporated into Journey to the Center of the Earth at Tokyo DisneySeas.

Which I'm still upset about, 10+ years ago I designed a JTTCOTE coaster, and even had it set in and around a volcano, with cars that looked like they had drills on the front... :brick:

maybe I should sue.
 
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Champion

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I might be remember the wrong one, but wasn't 'Fire Mountain' the one that was supposed to be based on the eruption sequence from Atlantis? And the coaster would take you over the volcano as it was erupting and such.

Pretty sure that was it. Atlantis bombed, which doomed it. Hmm, a bomb of a movie dooming an attraction. Beastly Kingdom knows all about that.
 
trendicoff

trendicoff

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So here are the details about Fire Mountain:

After some research and consultations with experts I can tell you this, Fire mountain was something "designed" by imagineering, but never really to be actually put in the parks. Its proposed location was to be between Swiss family treehouse and seven seas lagoon (I know its a big area). Aside from that there is no official info about it. If you search the internet you can find some artist rendition drawings of the proposed fire mountain. Now you might ask, "some of these drawings look totally different, how can they be the same attraction?" The answer to this is that many different imagineers have worked on this project and therefore have each designed it in a different way. (also some of the drawings are fakes :p )

hope that gives you all the details you need.
 
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Champion

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trendicoff said:
So here are the details about Fire Mountain:

After some research and consultations with experts I can tell you this, Fire mountain was something "designed" by imagineering, but never really to be actually put in the parks. Its proposed location was to be between Swiss family treehouse and seven seas lagoon (I know its a big area). Aside from that there is no official info about it. If you search the internet you can find some artist rendition drawings of the proposed fire mountain. Now you might ask, "some of these drawings look totally different, how can they be the same attraction?" The answer to this is that many different imagineers have worked on this project and therefore have each designed it in a different way. (also some of the drawings are fakes :p )

hope that gives you all the details you need.
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Where are the details?

Also, that land you are referring to is the following:
- Jungle Cruise
- Backstage access road
- Train tracks
- Monorail track and station
- Walkway toward Grand Floridian (- the least important)

Yeah, it wouldn't be going there.
 

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