Space Mountain (Magic Kingdom)

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Space Mountain
Space Mountain
Data
Location Magic Kingdom
( Lake Buena Vista , Florida , USA )
Type Steel - seated
category Dark roller coaster
Manufacturer WED Enterprises
opening 15th January 1975
length ever. 974 m
height 27 m
Max. speed 44 km / h
Travel time 2:35 min
dare 2 cars, 3 rows of seats / car, 1 seat / row of seats
Inversions 0
Subject area Tomorrowland
Theming Space travel

Space Mountain is a dark roller coaster in the Magic Kingdom amusement park , located in Walt Disney World Resort , Florida . It was developed by WED Enterprises (now Walt Disney Imagineering ) and opened on January 15, 1975. The basic principle was the model for four other Space Mountain attractions in other Disneyland parks worldwide.

description

The building has the shape of a truncated cone and measures over 54 m to the tip of the antenna with a diameter of about 91 m. Inside the Space Mountain there are two independent routes, the layout of which is exactly mirror image. The two routes Alpha and Omega each have a length of 971 m and reach a height of 27 m. The maximum speed is 44 km / h. The trains each have two cars with space for three people each (one row).

Originally, Space Mountain was sponsored by RCA and later by FedEx . The attraction has been operated without a sponsor since 2005.

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Space Mountain. D23 - The Official Disney Fan Club. Retrieved June 9, 2019 (American English).

Coordinates: 28 ° 25 ′ 9 ″  N , 81 ° 34 ′ 38 ″  W.