Space Mountain

Space Mountain in the Magic Kingdom

**Space Mountain** is an attraction in the Disney Parks found in Tomorrowland and Discoveryland.

## Backstory

### Disneyland

Space Mountain is a starport in Tomorrowland known as *Space Station 77*. It is a massive structure which harbours spaceships and teleports them into off planet to one of 4, "Mountain" harbours in space.

### Magic Kingdom

This Space Mountain is known as *Starport Seven-Five*, A.K.A *Tomorrowland Station MK-1*, the, "Gateway to the Galaxies". It is one of five active space ports on Earth alongside *TL Space Station 77*, *Discovery Landing Station - Paris*, *Ashita Station - Tokyo*, and *HK Spaceport E-TKT*. It is a large structure used to routinely teleport guests in spaceships to a shuttle in space for interstellar flights, often for tourism purposes.

### Disneyland Paris

This Space Mountain was created by the *Baltimore Gun Club* at some point in the 19th century, following the American Civil War. In Discoveryland they created the giant *Columbiad Cannon* and Space Mountain to support it as a means of shooting experimental steampunk rockets into orbit. The club's president Colonel Impey Barbicane would use this spacial travel to begin asteroid mining via *Colonel Impey Barbicane's Bluemoon Mining Machine*.

## Summary

### Disneyland

Space Mountain is first entered from a room decorated with artwork of space and space-ships. In the room is also a large futuristic satellite making odd audio. This leads to the twisting sterile halls of Space Station 77 where audio of the crew behind the space-ship operations of the mountain can be heard. Eventually guests enter the loading dock where a cargo ship is hanging overhead and where they are loaded into force-field sealed rocket-ships.

The rockets pass through a teleportation chamber and arrive in outer-space before launching out at high speeds. The ships fly through space for a while before being brought back to Space Mountain via teleportation where they are unloaded. Guests then exit through Space Station 77 back to Tomorrowland.

### Disneyland Paris

Disneyland Paris' Space Mountain was set in the 19th or perhaps early 20th century. Guests enter the, "Mountain" from the headquarters of the Baltimore Gun Club. Inside an observation platform is located, alowing anyone to see the rockets fly trough space.

After passing through the Lounge of the club they find the launch-deck, where patriotic red, white and blue flags are hanging from the ceiling. Guests board rockets which are loaded into the giant Columbiad cannon that fires them like bullets into orbit. The ships pass by gigantic asteroids, one of the many *Bluemoon Mining Machines,* an anthropomorphic moon, and Jules Verne himself in a steampunk space-suit, observing the galaxies and stars with a telescope. Eventually the rockets re-entered Earth's orbit via a magnetic *Electro-de-Velocitor* machine.

### Magic Kingdom

In Walt Disney World, the guests enter Space Mountain and pass by several screens detailing the operations of Star-Port 75. Following this is a hallway which is decorated with screens showing outer-space and several spaceship and robot operations. Following this guests come to the load area and board a force-field sealed rocket-ship. The rockets then depart and are teleported into outer-space.

The rockets pass underneath of an X-1 space-shuttle in zero-gravity, being repaired by two astronauts. After this the rockets depart at high speeds with sights of comets, stars and meteors. This is brought to an end when the rockets are teleported back to Star-Port 75 and unloaded. On their way out of the star-port, guests pass by a robot running terminal operations at the star-port and a luggage track. After this guests pass through several dioramas advertising different interstellar travel destination.

## Connections

### Discoveryland

Discoveryland is referenced in the queue for the Magic Kingdom's Space Mountain.

### EPCOT

#### Horizons

In the defunct attraction Horizons there was a robotic butler. In the Space Mountain at the Magic Kingdom, a more sleek robot butler appears within the cosmic tourism destination *Constellation*: *The City of Stars*. One piece of luggage in the terminal of the star-port also lists, "Mesa Verde" which is a location from Horizons. Jules Verne also appeared in the attraction Horizons where he rode inside of one of the bullet spaceships from *De la Terre à la Lune*.

#### Mission: SPACE

The attraction Mission: SPACE uses the, "X-2 Deep Space Shuttle" to take guests from EPCOT to the planet Mars. The X-2 is implied to be related to the X-1 spaceship in Walt Disney World's Space Mountain.

### ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter

Removed "SMTV" videos played in the queue for Magic Kingdom's Space Mountain mentioned X-S Tech as the sponsors for the PNN.

### Jules Verne

The Disneyland Paris incarnation of Space Mountain is based on the story *De la Terre à la Lune, trajet direct en 97 heures 20 minutes* by Jules Verne.

#### 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Space Mountain in Disneyland Paris is situated adjacent to and overlooking the *Discoveryland Lagoon* which holds the Nautilus.

### Rocket to the Moon

On the *Tomorrowland Transit Authority PeopleMover*, an operative of the Space Mountain space-port 75 is heard saying, "Paging Mr. Morrow, Mr. Tom Morrow. Please contact Mr. Johnson in the control-tower to confirm your flight to the moon". Mr. Johnson is a character from Mission to Mars who was that attraction's stand-in for the original Tom Morrow.

### Space Station X-1

Travel stickers for the Space Station X-1 appear in the baggage claim. The FX-1 Teleport Gate further references the defunct attraction.

### Star Tours

Space helmets with the logos for Space Mountain and DASA (*Disneyland Aeronautical and Space Administration*) pass by the Goose Droid G2-9T in Star Tours: The Adventures Continue.

## Trivia

* Another incarnation of the Robot Butler appears in *Tales from Adventureland* under the name Boltenhouse.
* The Magic Kingdom's Space Mountain contains several tributes to different Disney attractions via, "Space routes".

## References

1. ↑ http://disneyshawn.blogspot.com/2011/01/more-mountain.html
2. ↑ https://www.designingdisney.com/parks/disneyland-paris/disneyland-park/discoveryland/remembering-space-mountain-earth-moon/
3. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vumB2c4H-8Y
4. ↑ http://twodisneynerds.blogspot.com/2013/09/its-in-details-14.html
5. ↑ https://wdwmousing.com/chapter-28---magic-kingdom---tomorrowland-part-4.html
6. ↑ http://www.mainstgazette.com/2009/04/now-beaming-to-distant-worlds.html
7. ↑ https://www.disneyscoop.com/happy-32nd-anniversary-star-tours-all-the-history-you-need/
8. ↑ https://insidethemagic.net/2014/10/d-tales-3-space-mountain-is-filled-with-hidden-disney-history-from-walt-disney-world-and-beyond/