The long-frozen Yeti at Disney World's Animal Kingdom can be fixed, but it won't be

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“I’ve had time to see in the simulated snow a rusty speaker, and some garbage, including hair ties, that previous riders discarded”

Still far tidier than the actual Everest.

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My favorite little details on that ride are

  • The fake locomotive that “pushes” the coaster outputs steam when it’s in the station. A simple effect provided by a pipe under the train in the station area, but still neat. I wish the Big Thunder Mountain locomotives had that too.

  • There’s an electromagnet that keeps the “anti-rollback” mechanism under the train cars lifted as long as the train is moving forward. So you don’t get the classic rollercoaster “clack-clack-clack” noises when it goes up the lift and it helps you maintain the suspension of disbelief that you’re actually on a train.

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