Space Mountain - The Starway

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Specials

Cellular Phones in Space Mountain

In the park you can use your cell phone. The coverage is very good. I tested my Nokia 5130 (at 1800 MHz) and was logged in at the french called Bouygues (Display: "BOUYGTEL"). Some more technical figures: The base station with the best signal strength was on channel 799 in the park (-72dBm in front of the castle). In the area of Hotel New York you are usually on channel 830. Other stations have the IDs 795, 833, 797, 819 and 811. I thought that inside Space Moutain, a completely metal covered construction, there is no signal. But I was wrong! Phoning was possible, but the signal strength was of course a lot weaker, in fact two bars on the normal display, or about 15dB on the more precise net monitor.

explored on 6. Aug 2000 by FeLIX

Did you ever notice ...

a darker area on this blue warning sign in the queue just before the Electro de Velocitor? Many years ago someone put this sticker there -- and noone of the cast has ever noticed and removed it. BTW: "SV Wilting" is probably a small German sports club ...

ripped and scanned by Alexandre C.

La Voie Stellaire / Chicken Way some textual descriptions (statements from newsgroups and selected excerpts from the Reports-section)

Queuing inside

Meteorites

Great close-ups of some meteorites

photo by Nicolas

Elevator

The lift for handicaped people at the rear entrance of the chicken way

photo by Nicolas

Stairs in the queue

This photo was taken down the stairs in the Starway as the park was quite empty due to the bad weather in July ...

picture by Tom Morrow

SM welcoming sign at the entrance of the Voie Stellaire / Star Way / chicken way

Safety instructions

on a sign above you just before the Electro de Velocitor:

ATTENTION ! LES MONTAGNES RUSSES DE SPACE MOUNTAIN VOUS EMMÉNERONT À UNE ALLURE VERTIGINEUSE DANS UNE AVENTURE OÙ VOUS AFFECTEUREZ VRILLES ET LOOPINGS À 360°. Pour votre sécurité et votre confort vous devez être en bonne santé et n'être affecté d'aucun trouble cardiaque, vertébral ou autre, ni du mal des transport, susceptible de s'aggraver à l'occasion de cette aventure. Les futures mamans ne devraient pas monter à bord.

WARNING ! SPACE MOUNTAIN IS A HIGH-SPEED TURBULENT ROLLER COASTER-STYLE ADVENTURE THAT INCLUDES A CORKSCREW LOOP AND A 360° LOOP. For safety and comfort you should be in good health and free from heart conditions, motion sickness, back or neck problems or other conditions that could be aggravated by this adventure. Expectant mothers should not ride.

<= SORTIE [no food] [no smoking] [no flash photography] [no ear rings]

Picture of queuing people taken through the security door between queue and chicken way

found at Disneyland Mirror

The Blue Moon Mining Company

The text says: "Col. Impey Barbicane's Blue Moon Mining Company". (Barbicane is the president of the Baltimore Gun Club)

at The DLP-Guidebook

Another Mining-Company-shot

by Nicolas

What is a Blue Moon?

A Blue Moon is commonly the name given to the second full moon in a month. Since a full moon occurs every 29 1/2 days, if there is a full moon on the 1st or 2nd day of a month, there is a good chance there will be a second full or blue moon that month. For more information and picture of real moons visit this page

Found by Nicolas

You can see the he moon from certain points in the queue. This picture was video-captured and perspective-corrected

by FeLIX

Sounds

Space Mountain Loop

This seems to be the actual loop of ambient music of the Space Mountain area (outside and inside)

all tracks identified by Michael Balgavy

1. Columbus - The Discovery
2. Krull - Love Theme
3. Krull - Ride of the Firemares
4. Space Mountain Impressions
5. Shooting Stars
6. Columbus - The Sea
7. The Rocketeer - Flying Circus
8. Always
9. Krull - Epilog
10. The Rocketeer - End Title

Live Atmosphere

Original Space Mountain atmosphere of the dark part of the queue: smqueue1.mp3 [423kB 1m48s 32kBps]

Recorded by FeLIX

Meteorite Sounds

Sounds of space on the Voie Stellaire: spac2.wav [11kHz 8bit mono 211kB]

at www.disneylandparis.com

Effects

Coming soon: Explanation of the moon-effect

Explanation of the moiree-effect at the Electro de Velocitor

Concerning the moiree-effect: it is probably located behind the actual Eletro-De-Velocitor, in front of the "reactor". Last time I was there (June '99) the reactor wasn't lit up, therefore the effect couldn't be seen.

Reported by David G. Ravenswood, 18.7.1999