Trivia / Space Mountain

• Development Hell: It took well over a decade of planning before the ride finally came to be in 1975.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: The on-ride version of "Mount Bop" that plays at Walt Disney World has yet to be released by Disney, leaving only fan recreations and audio of the unload station, which plays a simpler version with less sound effects.
• Meaningful Release Date: The Disneyland version originally opened on May 27, 1977, two days after the original Star Wars premiered. Also doubling as a bit of Hilarious in Hindsight, as the movie franchise and the ride would be united with Hyperspace Mountain.
• Word of God: Hyperspace Mountain is canonical to the Star Wars Expanded Universe according to statements by Lucasfilm and Disney Imagineering.
• Working Title: "Space Port" was one of the first suggested titles for the ride.
• What Could Have Been:
  • The ride was originally going to be the Florida version of the Matterhorn Bobsleds, but there wasn't enough space for it in the park. This in part explains why the Florida version is a two track coaster.
  • Florida's version was originally planned to be placed where the Carousel of Progress is currently located.
  • A movie on the ride was in development at one point and would've had its screenplay written by Max Landis, but it was ultimately shelved. His concept was a retro-futuristic horror story where hyperspace travel experiments result in people losing their souls and turning into monsters.
  • The original plans for the coaster at Paris were much more elaborate. It would've been one of the many things inside a massive Jules Verne-themed pavilion that would've been known as "Discovery Mountain"; accompanying the coaster in the structure would have been a freefall ride themed around Journey to the Center of the Earth, a Nautilus restaurant, a duplicate of Horizons, and the Discoveryland station for the Disneyland Paris Railroad. Due to the massive budget issues that plagued the park, things were scaled back to just the Space Mountain ride and a Nautilus walkthrough attraction. Discovery Mountain came so close to fruition, though, that Discovery Mountain signage was actually installed, some of which is still there today.
  • A proposal for the 2005 redo of the ride at Disneyland included incorporating Stitch into the attraction.