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Expedition Everest - Legend of the Forbidden Mountain
Steel Sit-Down at Disney's Animal Kingdom, Lake Buena Vista, Florida. Opened 2006.
- Height
- 112 ft
- Drop
- 80 ft
- Top speed
- 50 mph
- Length
- 3,885 ft
- Inversions
- 0
- Ride time
- 2 min 50 s
- Designer
- Vekoma
Sources
- disneyworld.disney.go.com/attractions/animal-kingdom/expedit... (Official page: Expedition Everest - Legend of the Forbidden Mountain, Asia, Disney's Animal Kingdom; train climbs, runs through darkness and drops backward along a broken track; 44 in minimum height; operating hours listed for November 8, 2026)
- rcdb.com/2389.htm (RCDB: operating since 2006-04-07; Vekoma custom; length 3884.5 ft, height 112 ft, drop 80 ft, speed 50 mph, 0 inversions, duration 2:50; switch track and backward section; cost $100 million; designer Peter Clerx; mountain said to be nearly 200 ft)
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expedition_Everest (Soft opening January 26, 2006, grand opening April 7, 2006; Vekoma, Walt Disney Imagineering; lift height 118 ft; mountain 199.5 ft; length 4,112 ft; 80 ft drop; 50 mph; 2:50; Yeti animatronic in 'B-mode' for years)
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