Patch Notes // latest change 2010.08
Tomorrowland · Magic Kingdom · Walt Disney World
Ride · opened 1975 · Magic Kingdom · 6 changes on record
A new track-side musical score, marketed as 'Starry-O-Phonic Sound,' was added through roughly 60 speakers lining the track and synced to riders' movement through the ride.
Closed for its most extensive refurbishment in a decade, an estimated $12.3 million overhaul covering track work, the queue, control systems, and the load area.
As part of the New Tomorrowland overhaul, sponsorship shifted to FedEx with an intergalactic-shipping storyline.
New ride vehicles replaced the original trains, reconfigured to three single-file rows of one rider each with lap-bar restraints.
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Space Mountain opened in Tomorrowland as the first Space Mountain at any Disney park and an early computer-controlled roller coaster, sponsored by RCA.
That's every change on the record on Space Mountain since 1975.
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Per the documented record, Space Mountain at Magic Kingdom opened on Jan 15, 1975.
The most recent closure/refurbishment documented for Space Mountain is dated Apr 19, 2009: Closed for its most extensive refurbishment in a decade, an estimated $12.3 million overhaul covering track work, the queue, control systems, and the load area.
The latest documented change (documented Aug 2010): A new track-side musical score, marketed as 'Starry-O-Phonic Sound,' was added through roughly 60 speakers lining the track and synced to riders' movement through the ride.
6 documented changes, dating back to 1975 — the fan-kept ride changelog nobody else keeps.
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