Sunday, October 24, 2010
Neverland - Fire Mountain
6:15 PM
Welcome to the new feature here on D Plus, known as Neverland. Neverland will break down what could've been attractions, hotels, shows, etc at Disney Parks, but were never built.
The first ever attraction we will be looking at today is Fire Mountain, which was supposed to be built in the Magic Kingdom in Florida.
Originally designed in the mid 1990's, Fire Mountain was a roller coaster type concept designed to be placed in Adventureland at the Magic Kingdom. The attraction was planned for a possibility of a location in Adventureland, it being between Pirates of the Caribbean and Splash Mountain. The location would've required a new path walking up to the attraction, thus requiring a sophisticated rerouting in the Jungle Cruise attraction, which overlapped to the are path, which would've made the attraction shorter.
The updated, and possibly more realistically rumored location is in place of the spot of the classic 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea attraction.
The Orlando Business Journal posted a short blurb of info on the attraction:
The rumors about Walt Disney World's next roller coaster are heating up.
Right now, it looks like Fire Mountain is a go, perhaps in Adventureland, behind Pirates of the Caribbean.
Disney, which is tightlipped about the project, reportedly has floated balloons at the site to see what park guests would see as they roam the park. (The Polynesian would have a great view of the ride.)
Early word has it that the coaster would start out with riders standing up. As it climbed a hill, riders would be gently leaned back until they were essentially laying down. The coaster would then do a 180-degree turn and lucky riders would be flown over a pit of Disneyesque lava in the center of a volcano.
Look for Disney to have it open by 2001, just in time for the 30th anniversary party.
But those wild and crazy imagineers just won't stop: One of the park's brain trust dreams of building a world speed-record coaster at Walt Disney World, one that would eclipse the Cedar Point, Ohio coaster's 310-foot drop at 100 mph.
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