Back in Action+Expedition Everest
So things on Straw Dog have been a little…slow lately. The reason being: I was in Disney World. A good time was had by all. We tried a little web2.0/social media experiment while we were there linking Twitter with the new (to us) frontiers of Tumblr and Ustream. Anyhow, great trip, super inspiring; the trip will probably affect/inspire posts on here for a while.
And since I feel it would be a wasteful post to bore you the rambling above, hit the jump for some initial impressions of Disney’s Expedition Everest ride (and a video or two).
One reason Disney is especially great because of the way they create a story and immerse guests in the middle of it (more on that to come). One ride we ended up enjoying was Expedition Everest @ Disney’s Animal Kingdom. This video does a pretty good (albeit truncated) job of showing off the progression of the queue line. Essentially the story of Everest begins the moment you see it in the park. The entire journey across the park (more-so in the Asia section where the ride resides) is punctuated with different “story” elements: shrines that mirror the mountain, “supply shops” for backpackers. The queue line itself takes riders through a Tibetan temple/shrine, a yeti museum, etc., all leading up to their arrival at “base camp” where they board the ride vehicle. And that’s just the queue line. In most other parks this would simply be long rows of people fenced in by chain or rope.
And for what it’s worth: a video of the ride itself
