[KentB3]

About a month and a half ago, I posted my then-rudimentary plans for Space Mountain in my Magic Kingdom park. Since I have never been to WDW or any other Disney theme park (but currently in the process of planning my first-ever WDW trip!), I only have a rough understanding of the rides' designs and track layouts, but I have done a little more research since I originally posted my Space Mountain proposal, which will help give everyone more of an idea on what to expect! So far, Space Mountain in my MK-like park will be sort of a combination of Disneyland's (and Tokyo Disneyland's, which has the same exact design) and Disneyland Paris' Space Mountain rides. The music and sound effects of Disneyland Paris' SM ride, and possibly a similar storyline will be used on mine; or with very similar music and SFX! The track layout, however, will be basically the same as Disneyland's (and Tokyo Disneyland's) ride (a longer single-track ride with side-by-side seating as opposed to WDW's 2 tracks and in-line seats), with a few of the less-intense features of Disneyland Paris' Space Mountain track layout; for example, the ride through asteroids! This ride's intensity will remain the same as Disneyland's, however, since Space Mountain at Disneyland Paris seems a bit intense to fit into a Magic Kingdom-like park to me, particularly in a U.S. theme park.

As for the exterior design, I decided on using Disneyland Paris' design (which includes a metallic gold roof with turquoise trim and neon lights), but not including the external launch tunnel that goes up the roof, since it didn't fit my Space Mountain's track layout at all! I chose DLP's exterior design, since EVERY other Space Mountain has the same white roof with plain, white beams (Disneyland's was repainted white earlier this year after being turquoise, gold, and bronze for 6 years; and Hong Kong Disneyland's SM will be white as well, modeled directly after Disneyland and Tokyo Disneyland's ride). Also, the Disneyland Paris exterior would fit in MUCH better with the EPCOT Future World-like attractions I have in Discoveryland, where Space Mountain is located. Among these are The Image Works (excluding Journey Into Imagination and possibly Honey I Shrunk the Audience as well, since I may move HISTA to Disney Studios, the 2nd theme park in my Disney theme park resort), Innoventions, The Living Seas, and an original attraction called The Earth; which is similar to EPCOT's The Land, but focuses on The Earth itself and its relationship with people, animals, and plants that live on it; as opposed to The Land, which focuses mainly on food, as far as I know!

Originally, I had planned the "mountain", or ride building, to be 123 feet tall and 200 feet in circumference; which I thought would give it the same dimensions as WDW's (183 feet X 300 feet), but smaller, due to the track layout. However, upon further research, I learned that the figures for WDW's and Disneyland's were not directly compatible! Disneyland's was listed as being 75 feet in height, but that was only of the ride building itself, minus the spires. The total height of Disneyland's Space Mountain is 117 feet, including the spires. The 183 foot height of WDW's Space Mountain includes the spires, as I was unable to find the height of the ride building itself. Likewise, Disneyland Paris' Space Mountain is 141 feet tall, including the spires, as no statistic of the "mountain", or ride building's height could be found either!

I had also planned to have all track above ground like WDW's Space Mountain ride (Disneyland's has 17 feet of track underground). With that in mind, this would bring the total height of my Space Mountain to 134 feet. Since I had chosen the Disneyland Paris exterior, and their building is 141 feet-- only 7 feet higher, I decided to make the height of my Space Mountain 141 feet, the same as theirs; since this would make it a lot easier for the actual design, and would greatly help avoid distortion of the ride building by cutting out a few extra feet!

I modeled my Space Mountain's actual ride on the coaster's track after Disneyland's (with a dash of the Disneyland Paris SM), since nearly everything I have read says that Disneyland's Space Mountain is better than the one in WDW's Magic Kingdom, as well as the fact that WDW's Space Mountain is much more closely related to the Matterhorn Bobsleds (in Disneyland's Fantasyland, which I also included in my park's Fantasyland as well!) than Disneyland's Space Mountain.

If anyone has questions, comments, and/or suggestions, please feel free to post!

[KentB3]

I don't seem to be getting any feedback here, so try to LMK what you think! If anyone has comments or questions, please post!

[KentB3]

Here are some pics of Space Mountain at Disneyland Paris, in case anyone here has never seem it before and/or had no idea of what I was talking about for the DLP's SM exterior design:

http://sm.dlpfan.org/attraction/building.html


Enjoy!

[KentB3]

I'm still not getting any feedback here, so please try to LMK what you think, if you have questions, comments and/or suggestions. I look forward to hearing from you!

[KentB3]

I have here my map of Discoveryland, where Space Mountain is located, to help give an idea of where Space Mountain is located in relation to the other rides and attractions there. The Space Mountain in this map is actually a bit oversized for the ride and layout I chose, and should be about 2/3 the size on this map. Anyway, here is a key to the rides and attractions:

1.) Astro-Orbiter
2.) Autopia
3.) Buzz Lightyear's Space Ranger Spin
4.) Cosmic Waves
5.) railroad station
6.) Discoveryland PeopleMover
7.) Discoveryland Theatre
8.) The Earth
9.) The Image Works
10.) Innoventions
11.) The Living Seas
12.) Space Mountain
13.) Stitch's Great Escape
14.) The Timekeeper

[KentB3]

I'm still not getting any feedback here, so please try to LMK what you think, if you have questions, comments and/or suggestions. I look forward to hearing from you!

[KentB3]

Still getting no feedback yet about my Space Mountain design proposal. Is anyone out there?!

[KentB3]

Still getting no feedback yet about my Space Mountain design proposal. Is anyone out there?!

[KentB3]

STILL nothing yet!!!!!

[KentB3]

STILL nothing yet!!!!!

[KentB3]

STILL nothing!

[Disneywife]

Please don't be upset if no one responds...you've spent a lot of time thinking about this and the rest of us haven't, and sometimes, speechlessness prevails if you haven't done as much thinking about this as you have. Remember most of us are here to plan vacations, not plan theme parks....

You're doing great work. Keep it all in a portfolio and someday, it'll pay off.