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.

I'm Byron Marin.

And for this episode's featured attraction, we embark on a thrilling, high-speed, turbulent, roller coaster-type podcast in the dark to discuss Space Mountain in Disneyland, California,

not the version in Walt Disney World or Paris, both of which we might discuss in later reps.

And, of course, there's also Space Mountains in Tokyo and Hong Kong, which are near clones

of the Disneyland version, but we're going to be focusing on the Disneyland version in California today. And today's guest to Talk the Mountain is none

other than Kevin Perjurer from Defunkland. Thanks so much for having me. I'm excited to be here.

I won't lie, there are a fair amount of fans of you in the office. So folks are excited that you're here. Honor to have you on the pond. Well, that's so nice. For all you viewers that are viewing this video podcast, apologies that Kevin could not dress up today. We weren't able to find clothing for him. So you're just going to have to see him raw like that. And I apologize up front. Hopefully we don't get demon.

I'm also sorry.

He is also sorry.

Thank you.

Without further ado, let's just go ahead and hop right into this.

Byron, could you lead us off with some history of Space Mountain?

Yes, since we are covering the Disneyland iteration, as in California, that is the second iteration of this ride. The first iteration

of Space Mountain opened in January 15th of 1975. That was in the Magic Kingdom. It was obviously

a game changer. This is a dual track roller coaster that took place in complete darkness and

offered a brand new ride experience to park guests.

It inspires executives and creatives alike at Disney to begin work on a version of the

attraction for Disneyland, California.

Tomorrowland and Disneyland, as opposed to the Magic Kingdom, doesn't have quite the amount

of square footage, which means they have to take it down from two tracks to one, which also leaves

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