Sj's mini-trip report

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Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

innerSpaceman swears that WDW's Space Mountain isn't exactly like the Matterhorn but methinks he lies. **

**I like to say that because he gets all fired up about that one.

Well, clearly they aren't EXACTLY alike. (I wish our Space Mountain had ice caves and an abominable snowman.) But, I assume this refers to the idea that the Florida Space Mountain has the exact same track layout as The Matterhorn. To which I say, nope.

My chief reason for saying so? The two Space Mountain tracks are exact mirror images of one another. They each take up their own discreet half of the show buiding and neither track ever enters the other half of the building.

On the other hand, on The Matterhorn, you sometimes find yourself sort of "racing" direclty alongside the bobsleds from the other track. Both tracks circle the mountain along its perimeter, often side by side. This just plain doesn't happen on FL Space Mountain.

Q.E.D. - Matterhorn and FL Space Mountain don't share the same track layouts.