once again - where will Mt Everest be at EpCot?

[newholiday]

FW or new land? And if new land btwn what?

 

[Laurie W]

Do you mean Expedition Everest? It's going to be at the Animal Kingdom in Asia-not at Epcot.

Laurie

 

[Dana49]

Here's your answer! This should help.

Expedition EVEREST

Thrilling New Adventure Scheduled for Disney's Animal Kingdom Brings the Legend of Yeti to Life

It will be three years in the making, but it takes time to build mountains... even with Disney magic. When complete, Expedition EVEREST will combine a new high-speed train adventure with coaster-like thrills and the excitement of a close encounter of the hairy kind to bring to life the legend of Yeti.
Legend holds that high in the Himalayan Mountains lives an enormous creature that fiercely guards the route to Mount Everest. Walt Disney World guests will discover for themselves that fearsome legend of the yeti when Expedition EVEREST opens in 2006 at Disney's Animal Kingdom theme park.

"Expedition EVEREST adds a new dimension to our storytelling in Disney's Animal Kingdom," said Joe Rohde, executive designer at Walt Disney Imagineering and lead designer of the park. "It's a thrilling adventure themed to the folklore of the mysterious yeti."

In Expedition EVEREST, guests board an old mountain railway destined for the foot of Mount Everest. The train rolls through thick bamboo forests, past thundering waterfalls, along shimmering glacier fields and climbs higher and higher through the snow-capped peaks.

But suddenly, the track ends in a gnarled mass of twisted metal and the thrills intensify as the train races both forward and backward through mountain caverns and icy canyons and guests head for an inevitable face-to-muzzle showdown with the mysterious yeti – known to some as the abominable snowman.

Expedition EVEREST will be located in the Asia section of the theme park. At nearly 200 feet high, it will be the tallest mountain in Florida. Expedition EVEREST will feature Disney's FASTPASS, an innovative system – offered at no charge to park guests – designed to reduce wait times at popular attractions in all four Walt Disney World theme parks.

Disney's Animal Kingdom is a 500-acre theme park where the exciting worlds of wild and whimsical creatures come to life on an authentic African safari, in an Asian rain forest, on a trip back in time to the age of the dinosaurs and in other attractions and shows brimming with stories about animals and encounters with favorite Disney characters.

 

[Dana49]

This may be the Epcot attraction that you were thinking about:

Disney has confirmed that the popular Soarin’ Over California attraction from Disney’s California Adventure will open at Epcot in 2005. Added on to The Land pavilion, this unique inverted style simulator will lift guests 40 feet into a giant projection screen dome and completely surrounded then with the beauty and wonder of the state of California. Your scenic tour will take you over the Golden Gate Bridge, the Redwood forests, Napa Valley, Yosemite and more. The free-flight experience intensifies as guests feel the sweeping winds and smell fragrant orange blossoms and pine trees around them.

 

[newholiday]

thank you - guess I need to do my research once again

DH was saying this morn that Mt Everest is opening at EpCot
- I remembered something was opening at EpCot - thought it was in FW

I do remember reading about Soarin' too

 

[Dznefreek]

Actually there have been rumors of a Matterhorn clone in Epcot at another Scandanavian pavillion.

 

[disneyag]

There have been rumors for a long time that Epcot was going to have a Switzerland pavillion (which would house a Matterhorn ride like the one at DL.) I believe that's just a rumor, though.