Temple Of Camazotz is an outdoor/indoor mine cart ride located in WDW's Adventureland taking guests through a lost Mayan temple complex in a costal rainforest on the Yucatán Peninsula near a volcano. (This is my interpretation of the Fire Mountain and Lost Expedition concepts for WDW's Adventureland and DL's Adventureland, respectively)
The ride is set in 1937, the year after Raiders. A team of archaeologists lead by famous explorer and SEA member Jonathan Montague is called to the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico to explore some Mayan Ruins near the volcano Q'aq'awitz, which means Fire Mountain in the Highland Mayan language.
Guests enter the queue under an arch made with wooden poles with a sign made from a crate panel hanging down from two ropes that says the name of the ride. The queue starts by taking guests down a winding path through the jungle lit by lanterns, passing by ancient artifacts in crates. Soon, guests come upon the load area, a simple covered building at ground level lit by kerosene lamps and filled with more artifacts in crates. Guests watch a pre-show safety video featuring a Jacinto, Jonathan's local guide. Guests then load their mine carts, similar in style to those found on 7 Dwarves Mine Train but with a more 1930s appearance.
The mine carts start with a slow voyage through the Yucatán rainforest passing Jonathan's plane and getting a good view of the volcano, which has smoke arising from the top, before a Jaguar suddenly pops out and begins tracking the vehicles when a plant suddenly catches fire and scares the Jaguar away.
The mine carts come upon an ancient Mayan stone wall with rows of stylized carvings depicting human skulls. It blocks the path. Suddenly, the volcano explodes, the ground gives way, and mine carts fall down an ancient shaft into a shrine filled with bats, shrieking and flapping. They close in on the mine carts as they approach a statue depicting Camazotz, the Bat God Of Death. The statue's eyes begin to glow and it rumbles as if there were an earthquake happening. Suddenly, a glimmer of light appears and the mine carts ascend out of the chamber in the light's direction.
They come upon a gold fanged stone statue of the feathered serpent god Quetzalcoatl with no eyes and a Chichen Itza style pyramid in the background. The mine carts then enter a small garden with an Olmec-style head. This leads mine carts into a plaza inspired by Tulum.
Mine carts ascend the Tulum influenced pyramid in the center, only to have darts shot at guests from the carved skulls that line the walls. After that, mine carts enter a shrine to the Life-Death God with a stone statue depicting a skull headed man of flesh in a Mayan headdress and clothing typical of the Mayan noble class. Suddenly, the volcano erupts and the statue falls, cloning itself as it does, before finally revealing a mask of Quetzalcoatl.
The mine carts exit the temple, leave the plaza, and come upon a stone gate with a Quetzalcoatl mask. The gate opens, revealing a ruined Mayan palace on the coast.
The mine carts rush past the palace and into the Volcano's magma caves as it explodes. As the volcano explodes, the mine carts quickly drop down to the coast, where they splash into the sea before returning to the loading station.
Guests exit down a jungle path lined with artifacts in crates and lanterns.
The ride is set in 1937, the year after Raiders. A team of archaeologists lead by famous explorer and SEA member Jonathan Montague is called to the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico to explore some Mayan Ruins near the volcano Q'aq'awitz, which means Fire Mountain in the Highland Mayan language.
Guests enter the queue under an arch made with wooden poles with a sign made from a crate panel hanging down from two ropes that says the name of the ride. The queue starts by taking guests down a winding path through the jungle lit by lanterns, passing by ancient artifacts in crates. Soon, guests come upon the load area, a simple covered building at ground level lit by kerosene lamps and filled with more artifacts in crates. Guests watch a pre-show safety video featuring a Jacinto, Jonathan's local guide. Guests then load their mine carts, similar in style to those found on 7 Dwarves Mine Train but with a more 1930s appearance.
The mine carts start with a slow voyage through the Yucatán rainforest passing Jonathan's plane and getting a good view of the volcano, which has smoke arising from the top, before a Jaguar suddenly pops out and begins tracking the vehicles when a plant suddenly catches fire and scares the Jaguar away.
The mine carts come upon an ancient Mayan stone wall with rows of stylized carvings depicting human skulls. It blocks the path. Suddenly, the volcano explodes, the ground gives way, and mine carts fall down an ancient shaft into a shrine filled with bats, shrieking and flapping. They close in on the mine carts as they approach a statue depicting Camazotz, the Bat God Of Death. The statue's eyes begin to glow and it rumbles as if there were an earthquake happening. Suddenly, a glimmer of light appears and the mine carts ascend out of the chamber in the light's direction.
They come upon a gold fanged stone statue of the feathered serpent god Quetzalcoatl with no eyes and a Chichen Itza style pyramid in the background. The mine carts then enter a small garden with an Olmec-style head. This leads mine carts into a plaza inspired by Tulum.
Mine carts ascend the Tulum influenced pyramid in the center, only to have darts shot at guests from the carved skulls that line the walls. After that, mine carts enter a shrine to the Life-Death God with a stone statue depicting a skull headed man of flesh in a Mayan headdress and clothing typical of the Mayan noble class. Suddenly, the volcano erupts and the statue falls, cloning itself as it does, before finally revealing a mask of Quetzalcoatl.
The mine carts exit the temple, leave the plaza, and come upon a stone gate with a Quetzalcoatl mask. The gate opens, revealing a ruined Mayan palace on the coast.
The mine carts rush past the palace and into the Volcano's magma caves as it explodes. As the volcano explodes, the mine carts quickly drop down to the coast, where they splash into the sea before returning to the loading station.
Guests exit down a jungle path lined with artifacts in crates and lanterns.
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