This ride looks awesome. Would love to to back to Disney World this year, but sadly it may not be until 2021 due to Covid. Miss you Disney, and can't wait to return!
Same track type and manufacturer. Disney tends to do a lot of business with Vekoma when it comes to coasters. (Although Intamin built California Screamin'/Incredicoaster and the Indiana Jones rides and Arrow Dynamics built Space Mountain and all four Big Thunder Mountains)
@@kellyharkins9174 I was lucky enough to visit during a trip a few years back. I remember getting on thinking it was another thunder mountain rendition and ended up with a totally different experience. The pacing is great and so is the speed 🤓
Jesse S I strongly doubt it. The whole reason all the attractions there are different from their western counterparts is because the culture there would reject clones of western attractions; they don’t want “our” culture to mix with “theirs”, so they need to remain unique. I would assume that the same would go if they cloned one if the HK attractions out west. This would be viewed as an attempt to combine the two cultures (to make them indistinct) and would upset Disney fans from that region.
@@jaanfo3874 lolwut? Most of HKDL's opening attractions were clones, and Mystic Manor only exists because the Haunted Mansion would be offensive to Chinese ancestor worship.
@@jaanfo3874 That's an interesting take on this. If that were the case, I feel like a clone of their unique attraction would be more acceptable than the other way around.
I would argue this was a certain step-up from "Big Thunder Mountain." Similar theming, but with more of a Gold Rush twist than a Western style, plus there were plenty of awesome ride elements that weren't in "Big Thunder Mountain" such as the false lift-hill and the launch track. Disney felt that "Big Thunder Mountain" just wouldn't be as well liked in Hong Kong, so they went with something a little more playful and something guests would recognize and you bet it was a big hit.
