Space Mountain Ride

Opened on may 27 1977 it was the second roller coaster built at disneyland and was the second of the five versions of space mountain built by the walt disney company.

Space mountain ride. The space mountain ride was first introduced in 1977 at walt disney world in orlando florida. Opened in 1977 it s the second iteration of the ride that resides in five of disney s parks. The ride first landed at disney s florida theme park walt disney.

Walt disney originally conceived the idea of a space themed roller coaster for disneyland following the success of the. Space mountain is an indoor space themed roller coaster in tomorrowland at disneyland in anaheim california. Its exterior façade is one of disneyland s four mountain structures that serve as park landmarks.

The older i got i realized that the visual effects are what made it more thrilling than it actually was. Thanks for watching coasterviews like us on facebook. This version is a little smaller than the original one in the magic kingdom which features dual tracks.

Space mountain was my all time favorite ride at disneyland as it was the most thrilling or so i thought as a youngster. The upcoming space mountain project appears to fall into these new content efforts especially given the previous success ride to movie franchises such as the pirates of the caribbean have seen. Walt disney had the idea for years and it was originally supposed to happen in the 1960s.

Space mountain walt disney world resort. Since 1975 disney world s space mountain has tried to capture the mind bending dichotomy of both being in space and being on a mountain an inherent contradiction we hope is present in the. The fervor for the ride allowed disney to open another space mountain in california s disneyland a few years later.