Glacier Mountain at AK

[james4023464]

On my next project I am working on a ride called Glacier Mountain, it will go in Antarctica at AK, I think an Antarctica at Animal Kingdom will be very cool, of course it will be made after Beastly Kingdom . I am trying to think of a ride concept for Glacier Mountain, I am thinking Wooden Roller Coaster painted white and light blue, but I don't know if I should do the wooden concept. The ride will race through a big frozen mountain. I am thinking a polar bear chase. You will race past different antarctic animals inside the mt. The mt. will be very cold so the animals can live in it. Like how Sea World lets there antarctic animals live there. If you guys could please help me on this I would be very happy. Thanks.

 

[DCA Fan]

Ummm, I don't think that animals would like a roller coaster going through their habitat :lol:
The idea is too similar to the Matterhorn and needs more development, but the base is good.

 

[TURKEY]

Originally posted by DCA Fan
Ummm, I don't think that animals would like a roller coaster going through their habitat :lol:
The idea is too similar to the Matterhorn and needs more development, but the base is good.

Yea, having something that loud coming thru their habitat wouldn't be too good. The only thing at SeaWorld like this is Wild Arctic, which is a motion simulator like Star Tours. After the simulator, then it is a walkthru exhibit. Maybe the unload area of area could lead to a walkthru exhibit of some arctic and anarctic life.

I don't see Disney building a wooden coaster in Florida, where it's much more humid with lots of rain which over time won't be good for a wooden coaster IMO.

 

[james4023464]

I am thinking now a Water Coaster, all of the fast coaster parts can be outside, so the animals don't get disturbed, there will still be drops inside the mt.

I have a new ride idea. You are on a tour, touring Antarctica. There will be a special seat in the front for a tour guide, yes a tour guide.The beginning of the ride is just a gentle boat ride looking at different animals(real life). And then all of the sudden the tour guide tells you there is a avalanche warning, and behind you there is a roaring sound, and it becomes very windy snow is blowing everywhere. The room becomes foggy and you drop down the mountain into the frigid splash pool outside in front of the mt. Your tour guide asks if everybody is o.k and he tells you ''you are lost''
You now go through a massive Glacier and hit a booster and go through a large helix upward out of the glacier. Your tour guide then tells you a storm is heading over you and this is when you do all of the crazy coaster stuff. The sea is very foggy so you don't know where you're going. It's crazy. Then after you pass the storm your tour guide tells you the dock is right ahead, and then a animatronic polar bear pops up right in front of you he roars and swipes his paw. The tour guide rises up and shoots the bear, like in jaws when the tour guide shoots jaws with the air gun. The bear falls and you arive in the dock. The tour guide tells you goodbye and appologyses for the trip. You exit in to a gift shop and an animal exibit.
How do guys like it, I am still working on it so there might be some changes. If you have any ideas or suggestions please let me know. Thanks.

 

[pheneix]

Dude, since we are talking about AK here, maybe the tour guide should "scare" the bear away, instead of outright killing him.

Other than that the ride sounds awesome.

>>>Yea, having something that loud coming thru their habitat wouldn't be too good.<<<

Kraken at Sea World uses a special kind of wheel to make the ride run much quieter. I think that would take care of the sound problem.

 

[TURKEY]

Originally posted by pheneix
Dude, since we are talking about AK here, maybe the tour guide should "scare" the bear away, instead of outright killing him.

Other than that the ride sounds awesome.

>>>Yea, having something that loud coming thru their habitat wouldn't be too good.<<<

Kraken at Sea World uses a special kind of wheel to make the ride run much quieter. I think that would take care of the sound problem.

Kraken doesn't go thru animal habitats. Its all outdoors away from animals.

Even if you do get a special wheel, how many arctic or anarctic animals are going to be accustomed to large mechanical noises? What about the humans screaming?

 

[pheneix]

>>>Kraken doesn't go thru animal habitats. Its all outdoors away from animals.<<<

But it help shut up the neighbors across the street.

>>>how many arctic or anarctic animals are going to be accustomed to large mechanical noises? What about the humans screaming?<<<

Considering that any arctic habitat would have to be indoors, it is really just a matter of seperating the ride from the exhibits. You can even soundproof the exihibit. As for the actual ride itself, you could use animatronics.

 

[WDWFREAK53]

Wow...this sounds amazingly like an idea I posted in another forum not too long ago...

Oh well, obviously I like the idea
GO WITH IT MAN!

I do agree that you can't be "shooting" a polar bear...maybe have him on a slab of ice that breaks away from your boat...

 

[DCA Fan]

I am now thinking what Walt was told about the Jungle cruise:
Animals would be inactive and probably hiding most of the day, presenting a very tiring ride. I still am against having a coaster near animals, they would take a long to to get accustomed to the sound and could attack when they are not accustomed.

 

[james4023464]

I'm sorry about shooting the bear I think the tour guide should scare him instead of shooting him. Is that better

 

[dizpins14]

um....do you really think someone could sit on that ride all day long and not get sick and then have permanante brain damage.

 

[james4023464]

Originally posted by dizpins14
um....do you really think someone could sit on that ride all day long and not get sick and then have permanante brain damage.

The shift would rotate about every 30 min

 

[WDWFREAK53]

Originally posted by james4023464

The shift would rotate about every 30 min

That's A LOT of downtime!!! and you can JUST IMAGINE the arguing about shift rotations and the amount of people they'd need to run the attraction.

 

[dizneeboy]

How about, instead of a tour guide, a speaker system that repeats a spiel after being triggered by a photoeye (much like the norwegian voice over in the Maelstrom)? Or, and I hate to say this since I do not care for the Superstar Limo attraction at DCA, an interactive screen in front of each seat with a character that is monitoring you from an imaginary control center?? Yes, the spiel would not be spontaneous, but there would not be the tour guide overhead...just a thought.

 

[WDWFREAK53]

Originally posted by dizneeboy
How about, instead of a tour guide, a speaker system that repeats a spiel after being triggered by a photoeye (much like the norwegian voice over in the Maelstrom)? Or, and I hate to say this since I do not care for the Superstar Limo attraction at DCA, an interactive screen in front of each seat with a character that is monitoring you from an imaginary control center?? Yes, the spiel would not be spontaneous, but there would not be the tour guide overhead...just a thought.

Nice touch!

 

[Jusjuice]

Why not have the ride part of the land seperate from the animals, like a mountian in the back of the land. The ride could be about an animatronic Yeti chasing you?

 

[ghosthost14]

And even If you did have 30 minute rotations then the tour guide would be wet! and it would give away some of the rides excitement.

 

[Sketch105]

Its hard not to give away the ending on any ride. Especially when it includes water.

If you take the skyway at Busch Gardens, or read the brochure you'll know the ending of Rhino Rally.

If you get wet, the seats will be wet when they arrive at unload.

How bout an air conditioning sysem that dries the boats before unload?

Watch any special on Discovery Channel and they talk about how it ends. Park descriptions give the endings to rides away entirely.

Its impossible to hide the ending of a ride for beginners. Plus parks like to exploit the ending of a ride to attract people into it.

 

[james4023464]

Originally posted by Sketch105
Its hard not to give away the ending on any ride. Especially when it includes water.

If you take the skyway at Busch Gardens, or read the brochure you'll know the ending of Rhino Rally.

If you get wet, the seats will be wet when they arrive at unload.

How bout an air conditioning sysem that dries the boats before unload?

Watch any special on Discovery Channel and they talk about how it ends. Park descriptions give the endings to rides away entirely.

Its impossible to hide the ending of a ride for beginners. Plus parks like to exploit the ending of a ride to attract people into it.

I agree, it is a water coaster you know you are going to get wet duh:hammer:

 

[Chad]

Well, why don't we try something completely different? Just because it has the phrase 'mountain' in it doesn't mean that it is automatically a roller coaster, I mean I'm sure we could use another ride system, or even create our own..What a drop system? Here, Disney has this nice, patented motor that they created for ToT, and they haven't utilized it since Tot was built! I'm Seeing A Spiderman type ride here...Going through animal Habitats..Not a huge amount, Polar Bears, penguins, and seals, just three exhibits..You'd be travelling in a modified 'Snow Mobile' That would take you on a tour of this area...After the exhibits, and avalnche would occur, and your car would careen through falling rocks and such, and 'splash' into fake water (provided through 3-D screens) until the car pulls into an elevator system exactly like ToT..Your Snow Mobile seems to have entered a cave plagued with some thermal vents..Now, your Vehicle is throwin into the air, and dropped, multiple times due to the gas eruptions, The vehicle starts beeping and going crazy because of systems failures (The great part is that the vehicles ability to pitch and rock while on the elevator mechanism will not be compromised, so it will feel like you are being thrown into the air because your vehicle will nto be staticlly erect, it will wobble and move) But of course, you land into water (again, not real water, projected) Complete with a jet of real water spraying into the cabin....

Because this is somewhat of scary ride, the animals will also be able to be viewed from a new 'path' that will snake through the mountain, or perhaps, a more gentle 'Glacier tour' could be thought up, perhaps a boat ride? Complete with singing and dancing penguins? I dunno, I think it sounds fun.

Also, This land is going to be hard to make. It cannot be visible from any other area in the park, because the white, snowy peaks will ruin the steamy, hot jungle theme of the rest of the park..Chose it's location wisely, and consider 'sinking' this area down into the ground somewhat.

Also, have you considered what else you'd have in this land? Antartica is, pretty much, roped off from civilization, it has a few research stations on it, but no major cities or anything. Perhaps if we palced it in Alaska, and recreated Nome? Then we could tie in some Eskimo and Inuits heritage into the buildings....Sorry this was quite a bit of rambling.... Bleh..