Space mountain fun facts

[91JLovesDisney]

This is late, but the highest point of the showbuilding is only a couple feet shorter than Cinderella castle. Who’d have guessed?!

 

[mergatroid]

A lady behind me vomited on the ride many years ago. I thought I could first hear and then smell something odd, but it wasn't til getting off that I had it confirmed. Her last meal was smeared over her face and chest, the CM's were very good to her though

 

[celluloid]

1. It used to be in a lot better shape.
2. Going through it on The Peoplemover seemed to have ourpose

 

[Figments Friend]

The stripes on the sides of the rocket ride vehicles used to 'glow in the dark' so you could see them better zipping around the dark interior while riding on the WEDWay PeopleMover.

Man i miss that....
Being able to see far more inside 'Space Mountain' from the WEDWay.
Black walls greatly diminish the PeopleMover experience, but apparently a necessity to cut down on the light bounceback inside the building.
But it was cool to ride through slowly and watch the 'glow in the dark' rockets zip around the track.

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[91JLovesDisney]

I just found this and I'm happy

210 Space Mountain Music Loop ( 1980s) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Space Mountain Music Loop ( 1980s)

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[ShoalFox]

The ride tracks were built by Arrow Development aka Arrow Dynamics.

 

[mergatroid]

Man i miss that....
Being able to see far more inside 'Space Mountain' from the WEDWay.
Black walls greatly diminish the PeopleMover experience, but apparently a necessity to cut down on the light bounceback inside the building.
But it was cool to ride through slowly and watch the 'glow in the dark' rockets zip around the track.

I thought they removed them because people used to spit on them?

 

[Club Cooloholic]

Here's a Fun Fact.
They made a TV special in 1975 called Welcome To the World for the Grand Opening of Space Mountain..The first 40 mins is pure 70's cheese and last 10 mins is the whole reason the special was made..

That dude dancing all around in the bell bottoms and then falling into the sewer is straight up priceless.

 

[91JLovesDisney]

That dude dancing all around in the bell bottoms and then falling into the sewer is straight up priceless.

The first time I saw it I wasn't sure if I was awake... nightmare juice

 

[GinaD613]

Here's a Fun Fact.
They made a TV special in 1975 called Welcome To the World for the Grand Opening of Space Mountain..The first 40 mins is pure 70's cheese and last 10 mins is the whole reason the special was made..

Thank you! That was lovely. Now can it please be 1975 again?

 

[Matt_Black]

On June 22, 1985, "The Nature Boy" Ric Flair referred to himself as "Space Mountain" for the first time on television. WOOOOOO!!!

 

[Club Cooloholic]

Thank you! That was lovely. Now can it please be 1975 again?

 

[graphite1326]

It's not really well known but the ride doesn't actually go into space, it's all in a show building residing above the stations.

Then how come you end up somewhere else?

 

[graphite1326]

I saw an Imagineer once saying that it's more like the asteroids they designed kinda looked like chocolate chip cookies.

I recently asked a CM where the chocolate cookies went since I didn't see any/ He looked at me confused. He didn't know what I was talking about.

 

[Pepper's Ghost]

Here's a Fun Fact.
They made a TV special in 1975 called Welcome To the World for the Grand Opening of Space Mountain..The first 40 mins is pure 70's cheese and last 10 mins is the whole reason the special was made..

I've never seen this. I can't believe the fanfare rides were introduced with back then. A sincerely ignorant question... do they do something similar for new rides today? Like Flight of Passage (which I've still not rode), was that introduced with such panache? I'm sure there wasn't a TV special, but curious if it opened like this, or just one day it was open and "oh, hey everyone walking by... we got this new ride."

 

[TKTC]

Multiple. Yellow is still the most vivid.

I've finally rec'd a video from this year (shot on an iphone). Mostly, bolts on the support structure have yellow painted over them. There is also some pink and blue on the supports. Very little visible on the actual track sections.

Most of the yellow on the track appears to be where they stop the trains for unloads (caution marking).

 

[Cmdr_Crimson]

I've never seen this. I can't believe the fanfare rides were introduced with back then. A sincerely ignorant question... do they do something similar for new rides today? Like Flight of Passage (which I've still not rode), was that introduced with such panache? I'm sure there wasn't a TV special, but curious if it opened like this, or just one day it was open and "oh, hey everyone walking by... we got this new ride."

They had nothing like this after the later years......You'd be lucky to see anything for a grand opening during the Easter or Christmas parades like the Splash Mountain one for example...


But, the oddest one of the bunch is the cross-promotion for Extra-TERRORestrial Alien Encounter...It just was a History Channel Ancient Aliens documentary in itself....And the last 3 Minutes of the special talks about the new attraction.....

 

[Movielover]

Then how come you end up somewhere else?

I don't know what to tell you man, maybe you can find the answers you are looking for on...



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