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[spunkyskier01]

i hears the other day that disny once planned a ski area called mineral king. what were they planning to do exactly?

[mbernstein]

http://www.skilifts....p?showtopic=451

Okay, here is the topic from 6 months ago.



Bottom line is that during the era when Disneyland (California) was being constructed, Disney wanted to create a ski resort in the Sierra Range. The resort would have had 27 lifts when finished- and that's a good 30+ years ago! Yeah, so pretty much if Disney got the green light for the resort, it would have been to what its theme parks done to the industry:
Revolutionized it.

Oh yeah, you can still see a little part of the Mineral King ski resort at Disney World in Orlando (i'm not sure about California disneyland)... there is an attraction called the Country Bear Jamboree... which was suposed to be at the ski resort. It features some robotic bears singing, and the Disney movie is based on the ride (Disney's country bears)

Hope that helps

This post has been edited by mbernstein: 28 September 2004 - 12:40 PM

[floridaskier]

I don't know if anyone has ridden the Country Bear Jamboree at Disney World, but I did, before the movie, which I couldn't make myself see. Anyway, it wasn't even exciting for little kids. You sit in a cart and watch mechanical bears sing and dance like robots. If anything, they should have put the Thunder Mountain roller coaster, it's kind of a mining/mountain theme

[Powdr]

In case anyone wants to know what this excellent back country area looks like:

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[floridaskier]

That could have been pretty good. Too bad they never did it

[spunkyskier01]

in all honesty, im glad it never happend, i invision a micky mouse shaped gondola and things like that.

[SkiBachelor]

Mineral King would have never even looked like one of Disney's theme parks. Disney invisioned a state of the art ski area and that's what he wanted to build. The only place where you might find a Disney cartoon character would probably be in the nursery or in the kids ski school area. But if Disney did build the ski resort, I doubt Disney Corp would still own it. However, there were plans for a monorail which would be pretty cool I think. If trains over in Europe take people up to the ski area, why can't a monorail? :)

[floridaskier]

I bet they would have modeled it after the monorail at Disney World now.
We might have also seen Mickey and Minnie on the signs for each lift explaining how to get on and off, and on the towers. Maybe the trail signs would have been on mouse ears too. They didn't miss an opportunity at Disney World in Orlando to put mouse ears on everything including street signs on the state toll road leafing up to it and around the traffic lights, it seems like they couldn't pass up an opportunity like that to remind everyone where they were