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Welcome to For Your Amusement, a theme park podcast that aims to exhaustively evaluate the world's most popular theme park attractions to determine if they are world class.

I'm Ryan Bergara, and I'm Byron Marin.

And for this episode's featured attraction, we lace up our snow shoes and give a preemptive call to our

chiropractor for the Matahorn bobsleds at Disneyland, California. As you can tell by that intro,

you wasted no time in getting to a spinal adjustment joke. The fact that this ride breaks

your spine in half like Bain did Batman. It's a lot. It's a lot.

We love it, but it is a lot. Let's not pretend that it's not. And with that, let's get into some

history, huh? As many of you viewers and listeners, probably know by now, Disneyland opens in

1955. There's no Matterhorn yet. However, there's a massive pile of dirt that went by the

nickname Holiday Hill. This dirt came from the construction of Sleeping Beauty's Castle. They basically

had to dig a bunch of dirt up and move it around and it basically formed this 20 foot mountain,

or I believe it was around 20 feet tall. I believe that's what I have here, 20 feet tall.

20 feet? Confirmed 20 feet tall mountain. Walt maybe had mixed feelings at best about this pile of

dirt, which may come into fun facts later. So I'm going to refrain and just say that while on a

film shoot in Switzerland, Walt Disney fell in love with the Matterhorn Mountain, the real Matterhorn.

He instructed his Imagineers to get going on a roller coaster ride. I'm once again withholding

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