Fire Mountain

[Pumbas Nakasak]

Is Elvis still dead?

 

[Chux]

We had something very similar in the enchanted voyage at Kings Island. It was Hanna Barbera before they switched it to smurfs. It's no longer a water ride and the buidling now houses a scooby doo ride similar to Space Ranger Spin (with a much lower production value).

BTW, we still have the Blue Soft Serve at our park. It IS fantastic.

I am so jealous right now. Smurfberry Ice Cream FTW!

The Smurf Mountain was in Kings Dominion, Doswell VA. This was before it became Paramount's Kings Dominion and got rid of most of the family rides for Thrill Rides.

I remember going there with my parents and running through the Yogi Bear and going on Smurf Mountain. I was crushed the first time I was able to make the 2 hour drive myself and find Volcano, and a non-themed pirate-esque cave with no sign of Yogi

 

[Mansion Butler]

or a nighttime show in order to keep it open later...

Doubtful. Disney has made it very clear they're dedicated to not subjecting the animals to unpleasent conditions. That includes loud shows during their hours of regular sleep.

They've done a LOT to impress animal protection societies, and they don't want to screw it up.

 

[Ausdaddy]

I am so jealous right now. Smurfberry Ice Cream FTW!

The Smurf Mountain was in Kings Dominion, Doswell VA. This was before it became Paramount's Kings Dominion and got rid of most of the family rides for Thrill Rides.

I remember going there with my parents and running through the Yogi Bear and going on Smurf Mountain. I was crushed the first time I was able to make the 2 hour drive myself and find Volcano, and a non-themed pirate-esque cave with no sign of Yogi

This is my last off topic post. Chux, here's a pic from the KI ride. Very similar.

 

[cb3k]

hmmm...sorry I posted in wrong thread

 

[Chux]

This is my last off topic post. Chux, here's a pic from the KI ride. Very similar.

Awesome!


So, how about that Fire and/or Villain Mountain!

 

[cb3k]

Doubtful. Disney has made it very clear they're dedicated to not subjecting the animals to unpleasent conditions. That includes loud shows during their hours of regular sleep.

They've done a LOT to impress animal protection societies, and they don't want to screw it up.

Hmm...I can understand no fireworks, but I really don't see a problem with a 30 min laser/lights/water show just after park close...Assuming that with EE and maybe one more large planned E-Ticket they could extend park close to 7 or 8ish regularly...Afterall, a lot of those animals sleep alll day, or a good part of it at least. And if the animals complained of too loud of noise then they could just give each one an Annual Pass and 12 guest passes per year to keep them from revolting, and refusing to show themselves on Kilimanjaro Safari.

 

[JimboJones123]

We had something very similar in the enchanted voyage at Kings Island. It was Hanna Barbera before they switched it to smurfs. It's no longer a water ride and the buidling now houses a scooby doo ride similar to Space Ranger Spin (with a much lower production value).

BTW, we still have the Blue Soft Serve at our park. It IS fantastic.

So it is still there after the Nickification of the park? GREAT! I was worried. No Huckleberry Hound, No Blueberry Soft Serve. Is it Blue's Clues now? We've had the debate to what it might be changed to in our house going for months now. Maybe Sporticus Soft Serve.

 

[slappy magoo]

So it is still there after the Nickification of the park? GREAT! I was worried. No Huckleberry Hound, No Blueberry Soft Serve. Is it Blue's Clues now? We've had the debate to what it might be changed to in our house going for months now. Maybe Sporticus Soft Serve.

I am Sporticus!

No, *I'M* Sporticus!

 

[Eyorefan]

I am really impressed by how far off track this thread has gotten. I love the smurf pics by the way. I would have loved to have gone there as a kid!

 

[Ausdaddy]

So it is still there after the Nickification of the park? GREAT! I was worried. No Huckleberry Hound, No Blueberry Soft Serve. Is it Blue's Clues now? We've had the debate to what it might be changed to in our house going for months now. Maybe Sporticus Soft Serve.

:lol:

I believe it's just Blueberry Soft Serve. They serve it in multiple places in the park now, but you can still get it at the original shack. I think the name of the shack is now the uninspiring "ice cream".

 

[PKD]

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.

I was working at Paramounts Kings Dominion as a Theatre Tech when this ride was built and TRIED to open for two years. It finally had a full summer in 1999, but was a headache over all to get off the ground. No pun intended. ITS A GREAT RIDE though Coming out of the top of the mountain upside down and then with a twist is a really great effect.

 

[JimboJones123]

:lol:

I believe it's just Blueberry Soft Serve. They serve it in multiple places in the park now, but you can still get it at the original shack. I think the name of the shack is now the uninspiring "ice cream".

Awesome, so it was re-imagineered into something unimaginative. Now just give me a sack of those mini-doughnuts, a cherry icee and a table next to the night show at the fountian and it's a perfect summer night.

 

[Ausdaddy]

Awesome, so it was re-imagineered into something unimaginative. Now just give me a sack of those mini-doughnuts, a cherry icee and a table next to the night show at the fountian and it's a perfect summer night.

Almost. I miss the old music. I hear it on the "Beef, it's what's for dinner" commercials around Christmas time and it makes me sad.

 

[lilclerk]

I was working at Paramounts Kings Dominion as a Theatre Tech when this ride was built and TRIED to open for two years. It finally had a full summer in 1999, but was a headache over all to get off the ground. No pun intended. ITS A GREAT RIDE though Coming out of the top of the mountain upside down and then with a twist is a really great effect.

That ride was my introduction to roller coasters in 2001 (I was sheltered as a child =) Unbelievable.

 

[Chux]

That ride was my introduction to roller coasters in 2001 (I was sheltered as a child =) Unbelievable.

That's an awesome introduction, if I may say so myself.

 

[PhilharMagician]

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.

Um wrong!

Jungle cruise would not be affected
The access road can easily be moved (they move canals all the time a road would be easy)
The ride would be outside the tracks
Not even near the monorail
or the walkway

This is only on ride not a whole land. I will try to find and post Martin's detailed picture of the proposed ride for this area later if he does not beat me to it.

 

[Foolish1]

Doubtful. Disney has made it very clear they're dedicated to not subjecting the animals to unpleasent conditions. That includes loud shows during their hours of regular sleep.

They've done a LOT to impress animal protection societies, and they don't want to screw it up.

I agree with what you are saying here, but a night parade would be so
far from most (not all) animals, and would have so many trees and buildings separating it, there really is no issue here. Unless of course the parade route went through one of the nature trails or the safari route itself, of course. But then, the animals go back to their respective paddocks after the safari closes anyway, so may not be a bad route after all?

 

[ToTBellHop]

What confuses me is that Eisner asked for a new E-Ticket for the MK all these years back, it was put on the back-burner due to money (understandable), and here we are MANY years later with still no E-Ticket? What the hell happened?

 

[dave2822]

What confuses me is that Eisner asked for a new E-Ticket for the MK all these years back, it was put on the back-burner due to money (understandable), and here we are MANY years later with still no E-Ticket? What the hell happened?

I still think it's because there is no need to drop $100 M in MK when the other parks could use it more.