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I've just gotten Jason Surrell's latest extensive Disney attraction book for Christmas, which is about the Disney mountains, from the Matterhorn to Everest. Now my question is, what should they tackle next? The only ones I can think of right now are: A) ALL of the Fantasyland dark rides in all the parks, and B) Small World. What do you think they should do next?

Well, his previous two books were attraction specific - Haunted Mansion and POTC. 'Mountains' was the first one to try and tackle a set of attractions.

Around the World with Disney had an interesting take on things. They divided their sections into things like 'Castles of Dreams', 'Round and Round We Go' (carousel type rides), 'Things that Go Bump in the Night', 'Water, Water Everywhere' etc. Each of those sections looked at rides that fell into the categories accordingly. For example, 'Water, Water Everywhere' covered the Splash Mountains; the Riverboats on the Rivers of America; Kali River Rapids/Grizzly River Run; Tokyo DisneySea and the two water parks in WDW. They only got about 12 pages each maximum, and it would be great to see expanded books on each of those sections: thrill rides; water features; castles and so on.

Also, there is absolutely nothing on Hong Kong Disneyland in any of the recent books.

So is the 'Mountains' book good? I guess there wasn't enough material to give each attraction its own book like they did with Haunted Mansion and Pirates. I loved those books and any more attraction books would be very much welcome. I think a book on retired attractions would be a good read as well.

The Disney Mountains is decent. I definitely learned something new about each of the attractions, but the limited page count per ride means that many areas are just lightly touched upon. There's a lot about the design of the outside of the mountains and how they fit into the parks, but there's very little about the queues, the ride experiences, and the tracks.

I loved his Haunted Mansion book, which really went into great depth about each part of the ride and how it differed from park to park.

Regarding future books, a dark ride book could be cool, but it might suffer from the same page count problem as the mountains book. "it's a small world" is a great ride, but it's been covered in some detail on the Disneyland show and other specials.