Yesterworld: The History & Tragic Fate of Maelstrom - The Original Version of Frozen Ever After
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- Опубліковано 26 січ 2019
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Explore the origins & history of Epcot's Extinct Maelstrom, along with its transformation into Frozen Ever After in the Norway Pavilion at the World Showcase.
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Continuing the "Mealstrom" curse of my past (see the 5 WDW Remnants video), it seems I accidentally said "Anna" instead of Elsa when talking about a particular effect...forgive the blunder. If it makes you feel any better I have it correct in the script, and am more than aware which sister is which :)
Let it go
transtremm 🖕🏻
You are one of the few channels I watch from beginning to end
Mealstrom
Liaminator lol
My disappointment is multi-level:
First, I really don't like the current trend of all Disney attractions requiring a movie tie-in. If you look at rides like the Haunted Mansion, its story was fabricated by the Imagineers. It didn't rely on a movie for setting or characters.
Second, I've always felt that EPCOT, especially the World Showcase, was about celebrating the countries and cultures around the world. Anything movie related or Disney character related were reserved for Magic Kingdom or MGM.
Finally someone said it! I absolutely love the world showcase, and i was so miserable when they got rid of maelstrom 😞
That was the feeling I got when I went like eight or ten years ago. Probably now just all about Disney’s movies.
Hows it feel now that theyre completely redoing epcot and adding movie tie ins to everything?
Maelstrom is very symbolic of the current Disney Company. Culture is replaced with a watered-down corporate-created product made for mass consumption.
Maybe that's what EPCOT was in the past, but in current year it's all cultural appropriation.
Did you know the original idea for Maelstrom was supposed to be a dark ride about The Lottery starring Bette Midler
The only other video I've watched from this channel is the Backlot Tour one, and I admit I was waiting for him to mention this movie. XD
Anson Williams is this true?
Heck, I'm still waiting for the Lottery Land expansion to open over at Hollywood Studios. Finally, Eisner's dream will be realized.
lance turley I’m waiting for The Lotteryworld, starring Bette Midler.
This is one of the best comments I've ever read.
I liked EPCOT being about learning and culture. That's why this makes me sad
Yup
*burns Library of Alexandria
As kids, me and my sister didn't like EPCOT for that very reason. We wanted to go to Magic Kingdom or Hollywood Studio. We didn't want to learn. As we got older we enjoyed EPCOT much more and it's a shame how that park seems to be more neglected compared to the other parks and so much stuff from it's early days has been removed or changed.
@@Peppers19781978 Well you clearly had a lack of appreciation as a kid, because I much preferred these rides as a kid than the movie tie ins
@@Peppers19781978 that's probably why EPCOT isn't very popular. Kids wanna go to the magic Kingdom and leave EPCOT to rot, despite the potential.
"But you will certainly be the last" killed me emotionally
Just another casualty of how EPCOT has changed from being about OUR future and about bringing cultures together, to just another Disney ride where they have to have movie tie-ins for everything.
Epcot of old wasn't what Epcot was intended to be.
Epcot has a few neat rides, pubs and restaurants.
Aside from that Epcot is boring,
bunch of educational nonsense.
If changing Epcot to be about fun instead educational is what they're going for then about damn time.
@@MarkyMatey It's sad how true this comment is. Do I really need to know how eggplants grow when I'm at my fun Disney vacation destination?
Couldn't it be both fun and educational?
@@SuperMovieLvr933 ummmm all of disney is education? All of the themed rides tell a story from beginning to end minus a few like its a small world (even though that ride teaches you that the world is small and that although we are different we are all the same).
I really hope they replace the awful "projector faced" animatronics with the really amazing technology they're using in Beauty and the Beast in Tokyo Disneyland. The projection faces are just so... off
They're not using projected faces on the beauty and the beast ride in Tokyo. Also, they looked much better than I thought in person. In videos, they have some strange glare or something, but it in person they look pretty good IMO.
Yishai Thau they use the projection faces on the Frozen ride. Brian is saying he wishes they used the technology from the Tokyo beauty and the beast ride for the Frozen ride instead of projections for the faces
@@SuperMovieLvr933 Yes they use actual animatronic tech in the tokyo beauty and the beast! And i disagree they have an odd glow and the faces are a different color than the rest of the animatronic
@@vivalapinkchic Yeah, sorry I misread the comment. IMO I think they look good, but yeah practical affects are always preferred.
@@SuperMovieLvr933 The reasons projections almost always look off in recordings is that usually the cameras recording don't have the proper frame rate, lens length, and/or other various settings set correctly. The frame rates are often purposefully made off on the projections by the creators to make it nearly impossible to copy them on unauthorized recordings clearly (basically built in copyright protections). The other issues are usually just caused by lack of knowledge or ability. Basically, the projections are specifically designed to be seen clearly by the naked eye in the specific lighting situation they are currently in. I honestly prefer true animatronics as well but I do see why they do not use them as often on rides anymore, the maintenance on the smaller parts that make up facial features is far more intense and difficult to get to than the larger parts that make up the rest of the body.
Worked at disney for about a year, and went on this ride NUMEROUS times, at least 30-40 times, and I NEVER knew that one troll was just chilling there are you go backwards from the 3 headed troll
L G when
Hey everyone it’s Leif Erikson Day! Hinga dinga durgen! Ah yes, Maelstrom. What a great attraction that was. Shame Bob got rid of it.
Is it a shame you got rid of the people mover?
Yeah it’s also a shame you decided to open California Adventure, the Rocket Rods, Ailien Encounter, Supetstar Limo... shall I continue?
@@tylershepard4879 Please do. I was trying to think of more off the top of my head. Oh yeah and Journey into your imagination with figment, Disneyland Paris (mostly for its financial loss), Disney Studios Park, and Disney MGM Studios.
Taylor Shep The ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter was fine, it was just ahead of its time.
tankart150 idek why it gets flak. I loved it
“You may not be the first to pass this way, but you’ll certainly be the last.”
Ouch.....
This makes me miss Maelstrom so much.
I wasn't surprised by Disney making a frozen ride but I am surprised that they would replace a ride.
1) The original ride seemed really cool and obviously had a lot of fans. It was also rooted deeply in the culture of Norway
2) Frozen was such a hit, I find it quite shocking that Disney would decide that it was not worthy of a whole new, original concept. And to replace a ride that actually looked quite popular and thrilling.
As a Dane, I'm mad they got rid of it, as well as the Denmark Pavilion, but still like the Mexico Pavilion (at least the restaurant). Since Norway was the one representing Scandinavia, they should've kept the history surrounding the region. I don't care what Arendelle is modeled after, Scandinavia is *_real_* . Frozen should've been put into DHS or Magic Kingdom, not somewhere that is meant to represent the places around the globe
As a fellow Dane, I completely agree. World Showcase rings rather hollow when you think you can just swap a real country for a not even just fictionalised one, but Disneyfied one because nah, totally the same, innit?
That said, I'm so glad they didn't do the Denmark one because I fear it'd have been like "Den Flyvende Kuffert" in Tivoli, or is that just me?
@@Inlelendri I'd like to thank that they could do way better than that, but there's a good possibility that tweet would've done that if they made it today
Raud-Jacoba Bearsch I agree with you completely. Maelstrom was one of my favorite rides, Norway was my favorite pavilion. When I heard that it would be replaced by an (in my opinion) overhyped IP, my heart broke.
While I'd rather see real history unfortunately this is the way epcot is going. And on the Denmark thing they didnt pony up the money and Norway did why would they have kept it Denmark.
My mother was a Dane and we grew up thinking anything that came from Denmark was great. I enjoyed the Maelstrom ride as well and really love the original intent of the world showcase. In reality though, most travelers to WDW are not huge fans and don't always have a lot of nostalgia for the old rides and original content. You think it is easier to convince a family to spend thousands of dollars to travel to WDW to see Maelstrom or a ride based on the movie their daughter has watched 50 times?
It is the festivals at Epcot and the updates like this that keep the park open. I wish it weren't so but it is seems the way it works.
Now if we could only get an update to the Imagination pavilion that returns that ride to its former glory.
Last time I was this early,stitches great Escape was still open.
Last time I was this early, It was open year round, not just seasonally.
I miss Stitches Great Escape...
Last time I was this early, it was still Alien Encounter.
@@Legion_Driver I remember it but i was TERRIFIED
@@urarakaochako6230 touché.
Every time you make a video about something from Epcot, I feel a little sad. The park is rather neglected and it's mission statement seemed to die with the 20th century. Give it a couple years and it probably won't be named Epcot anymore.
@@gettabun I feel like a lot of good attractions and rides are being turned into character spots. Its so sad...
Yamcha Kippur it will be named: Elsa’s magic globe
Agreed, Epcot is severely neglected. I'm also upset that Illuminations is getting cancelled in place for another show.
@@hollyleaf143productions8 How can you be sad it's neglected and sad that they are putting money and new things into it?
@@shonefob The new things have very little to do with what Epcot was founded on. Even then, the new things are more like a coat of paint on a rusty pipe rather than a new pipe.
I really appreciate the attitude you have of this ride. I miss Maelstrom like crazy, and I agree that the whole "turn World Showcase into IP Land" thing is awful, but I think it's a fine ride for what it is. It's nice to hear someone not just berate it because it's Frozen :)
Glad to hear someone else shares the same view :) Like I said, I just can't get behind the whole "I Hate Frozen Ride" mindset. Yeah, I really do miss Maelstrom, and I also have a HUGE problem with turning the World Showcase into a bunch of IPs, but I find Frozen Ever After just too dang enchanting to get too upset. And they keep enough nods to the original that it's obvious they wanted to be respectful of it's past.
Frozen deserves to be berated because it's a horrible and overrated Disney movie! It really didn't deserve to take over the Norway Pavilion and replace Maelstrom!
1992disney It’s a very popular movie that made millions for Disney that is based in Norway. It doesnt deserve it because you don’t like it?
I find myself wondering more and more if the "Three Caballeros" makeover for Mexico was them testing to see just how much outrage there'd be if they started inserting IP into the countries in a big way. :-/
@@DJG333 Millions of other people hate it as well! Not just me! It really is that bad and undeserving!
Ahh... the grand tradition of “The Running of the Tourists who don’t want to sit through the Norway film...”
So true, I miss that run. Did use the threat of a 'sit through' a couple of times as a threat to our son if he didn't behave.
Mood omfg
OMG totally forgot about that lol
It was good to stay in the nice air conditioned building, instead of rushing out to the heat, lol
If you listen very carefully at 15:42 you can actually hear the exact moment my heart ripped in half. Disney's theming is beyond detailed.
My best friend is Norwegian American and growing up, she used to tell me all about this ride, how much she loved it, how much it meant to her and how one day, she was going to take me to Epcot and we were going to ride it together (she grew up with annual Disney passes and I had never been to Epcot). By the time we finally got to go together, it was summer 2016 and we couldn’t bring ourselves to get on the Frozen version. I’ll always be heartbroken that I never got to experience this one.
Really weird to see Joe Rohde without is signature not-up-to-Disney-standards-of-grooming ear thingie.
Anywho, I've said this before to many friends - Maelstrom will always be a more popular ride in death than it was in life, mainly because of what it was replaced by. People mad about a Disney IP taking it's place really should have been paying attention prior to it. That ship sailed when Aladdin and Jasmine started showing up in Morocco, or Snow White in Germany, or Belle in France, etc. Or maybe the Living Seas with Nemo and Friends? Corporation and government sponsorships moved out of Epcot - Disney filled the void.
That said, I'll always miss Giant Cruise Ship Director Mural Lady. RIP in peace.
Matthew Chenault whoah I did not realize that was the same dude,
Heck, even before they ended up going with Nemo and Friends, there were plans to bring in the Little Mermaid to the Living Seas. EPCOT simply wasn't as popular (and thus profitable) as Disney had thought it would be when they built it, and bringing in Disney characters (you know, the stuff people actually go to Disney World for) was the obvious solution.
Layne yup which will get worse as he ages
Prince Ire yup
Ratatouille is going to be located in France
I rode this ride for the first and only time back in 2013 thanks to Some Jerk With A Camera praising it so much in his videos. He did it to basically give it some love before it was replaced by a Frozen ride (and keep in mind he said that LONG before the film even came out), and I’m glad he did, it had a lot of charm to it.
Turns out, according to this video, I rode Maelstrom on it's last day of operation without even knowing it.
Sad to see Maelstrom go, it always held a special place in my heart as the first ride I rode at Disney World. Our plane landed in the evening and Magic Kindom was closing soon and it would've been a waste but Epcot was open late so we went there. They didn't have Test Track yet, so we went to what seemed to be the only thrill ride in Epcot. Maelstrom was hardly a thriller but at least that meant my grandparents could ride with us. They tended to sit out a lot of rides obviously but Maelstrom and the boat ride at the Mexico pavilion (the second ride we got on) we had the whole family riding. I always loved when the troll sent you "back over the falls" even if it wasn't really that scary.
Here's my question, who from Norway thought an oil rig was a great thing to add into a ride about their country? Seriously, who would want to spend money to go to a country to see an oil rig of all things?
Pride in commerce is a very pre-90's thing.
@@DKGifford19608 Still should be.
@@williamhenderson1161 hell no lmfao
Ah... my favorite country: Africa!
I have a sudden urge to watch "Whose Line is it Anyway"...
"It's also a big continent if you're a geographer."
In fact it's 2 countries : Africa and South Africa. Like America !
my worst experience in world showcase was being in the china pavillion and hearing a 12 year old say "look! we're in tokyo!"
It said Equatorial Africa
I had a love/hate feeling about this ride. I thought it was really short and mediocre overall but always had to ride it. I definitely miss it now that it's gone though. The oil rig scene was fantastic. It really felt like you were on the ocean on a cold Norwegian night. I'm not a fan of Frozen.
I remember riding this as a kid (probably '89 or so), and those trolls friggin' TERRIFIED me.
Ditto.. What they HAD was far more representative of what EPCOT ought to be.
“Anna would cast a spell.”
Now it’s been awhile since I watched Frozen, but the last time I checked that was Elsa.
Pinned comment dude.
You’re right it is Elsa he just got the names mixed up
She’s right there, yet the media and populace seem to focus on that witch
I am Swedish and have fond childhood memories of riding Maelstrom as a boy, being sprayed with water and hearing the troll yell “OVER THE FALLS!!” My own kids want to visit Disney and love Frozen, but they will never get to experience the original ride; it makes me depressed. Thank you for telling this story.
"You wanna hear the rest of the story, don't you?"
Me: "...No..."
When my family first rode Maelstrom in 2009, we were blown away by the artwork on the walls in the queue, bc there was a portrait of a welder who was the SPITTING IMAGE of my father!! It was amazing and hilarious considering he’s a welder, too 😂 A few years later we got to go back to see him again, but the whole ride was transformed into Frozen by that point. We were very very disappointed. 😞
I remember riding this ride when I was 6. My mother told me I was of Norwegian roots and I was like "really, I'm a viking?". Such memories.
Thiiiis is what I needed today
Xycron !!!!!!
I rode Maelstrom SO many times when I was in the WDW College Program at EPCOT. I was in the Tapestry of Nations parade, and our base was behind Norway and Mexico. So I spent a lot of time in that area of the park!
Michael Scrip awesome
*future spot of Israel* Well.........that's.........awkward........
their feature show will just be an apartheid dark ride
Fun fact: Näcken is actually said to be a naked man playing the violin to trick children into drowning.
a...
*WHAT*
In Arkansas?
This is the second time Olaf screwed up another Disney property.
wstine79 absolutely agree
@@vegetafan9922 the 20 minute short film placed in front of COCO in the theaters.
Wouldn't FEA have been the first time as it opened the year before Coco was released?
Sadly
I want to beat the shit out of olaf
I've never seen Joe Rohde without his mass of ear metal (no offense joe)... honestly his normal ear looks a little out of place
Venomfall I was thinking the same thing
That mustache
It's a common misconception that Joe Rohde is wearing an earring. Its actually a second brain housed in an external casing, for multi tasking.
That mass of ear metal is actually Disney World's fifth gate.
Venomfall I didn’t even recognize him without it.
When i went on the Backstage Magic tour in February of 2017, the standing polar bear was placed in central shops along the tour route, and one guest on the tour was picked to press a button to make it roar and move its front legs. It was really cool- I’m glad that some of the old animatronics still survive!!
When I was a kid, I referred to this ride as "The Tricky Trolls." Whenever we went to epcot, I bolted towards Norway to ride this multiple times. And I loved the film they showed at the end. Afterwards I'd drag my parents to look at the super expensive ski jackets in the gift shop, and jump around on the longboat outside until someone yelled at me for climbing the serpent neck.
BOO Intellectual Properties! That isn't what Walt or Roy wanted for EPCOT!
The Troll scared me as a kid, but in the kind of way where you can't stop looking at it
It's really cool how Disney still leaves little easter eggs to remember forgotten rides
This was the best and weirdest ride at Disney World. I’m so sad.
Also, I used to do the accent and crack up my entire family. The spirit uf Narrvaeee
I remember Maelstrom being one of my favorite Epcot rides as a kid, although for the longest time I just called it "that Viking ride with the trolls in it," honestly though, when I heard about the Frozen thing, it didn't really surprise or upset me too much. Frozen was a gigantic hit (and, over-saturated or no, it is a damn good movie), so the higher ups probobly demanded they do something with it, and of all the things to do that with, Maelstrom was the most logical fit.
It sucks that Epcot has gone the way of just being another Disney park, as opposed to being a showcase of futurism, technology, and the worlds shared culture (y'know an Experimental Prototype Cmmunity Of Tommorow...), but that's modern Disney for ya, it is what it is.
To be honest, never rode this attraction so I have no opinions, but I can understand why people would be upset. It would be like removing a iconic attraction at Disneyland for something new which had been considered a few times by Disney imagineers. The haunted mansion was considered to be removed to change New Orleans Square into a Pirate's theme area which fans fought tooth and nail to keep the mansion in its proper place. So I understand completely why fans would be upset. Yet, Disney has said that the park is not meant to be a museum. It's meant to grow and change...for the better or worse.
No Disney is NOT meant to grow and change. Disney actually IS a museum and needs to be treated as a national monument on par with the Statue of Liberty and Mount Rushmore. "Change" needs to be a four letter word at Disney.
stanfordite he’s right though. Disney himself said Disneyland would never be finished. It would always be changing.
@@mindyschocolate No he's not right and Walt's dead so who cares if it doesn't change? They could've stopped building in the mid 80s and I'd still go. Do you even realize that Disney can survive on its name alone? When I seize Disney in a hostile takeover, I'm going to be the Donald Trump that Disney needs to make it great again by not changing unless it involves bringing back old attractions. I'll also inform you that Disneyland WAS finished and should've been declared finished when Indiana Jones opened in 1995.
@@stanfordite Agreed. Even the old 'Parade of Progress' SHOULD have remained the same.. to show what *modern* used to be. It was the perfect time capsule.
@@faithrada Do you mean the Carousel of Progress? Because that's pretty much still the same. It was packed up and moved out to WDW in 1975 where it still runs today.
I understand that the Frozen ride is not a bad ride, but it feels like it was a rushed project. There were a lot of parts that just had little animated snowflakes on the wall, and it wasn’t very cohesive... I got there early in the morning and only waited 10 minutes, but I would have been disappointed if I waited that 3 hour line for it TvT
Amber Rousseau I had to wait 3h in line and I’m still disappointed about it, I was super excited to finally see it, I do love frozen (except for Olaf) so I wanted to see it but it’s really nothing special...
Exactly!!!
I thought it was awesome! I prefer this version.
I did.. (3 hours) . I was .. (disappointed).
its also always broken. It was broken almost the entire day we were there and I even had a fast pass for it. They say it stays broken
This was my favorite ride to go on with my father when I was little. We were so sad when we went back to Disney World recently and found that frozen replaced it.
Thank you for this video, I haven't been back to Disney World to see the Frozen version, and probably never will, but Maelstrom will forever be the one reason I would have visited Norway, it was that good!
I’m so glad I got to go on Maelstrom back in 2011 before it became a Frozen ride. I have some mixed emotions on it, though I wonder if people criticizing it for being a movie tie-in also criticize the ride in the Mexico pavilion for being a movie tie-in as well. Or perhaps that pavilion doesn’t matter as much. Either way, I do love Frozen but I miss Maelstrom and would have loved to get to go on it one more time.
For any metalheads, at 0:27 the card is the cover of burzum’s new album thulean mysteries
1:19 Got to love the country of "Africa"
This made me miss Maelstrom big time 😨 Frozen is ok but Maelstrom was definitely better. I agree with you that the movie characters shouldn’t be in world showcase (unless it the three caballeros lol) I never knew about the crazy storm ending!! That would have been so cool but I can see why they decided not to do that haha
Every time my family went to Epcot, it was an unspoken rule that we HAD to ride Maelstrom. We saw it as an excuse to escape the Florida heat and we found the ride to be disappointing at best, but over the years, we've grown quite fond of it. The line was always short and it wasn't as thrilling, but the story it told was such an amazing telling of Norwegian culture that it grew on my family. We were so sad and disappointed that it was replaced with a simple rehash of the Frozen movie and our short wait time grew to an hour. The ride was no longer a tradition. Maelstrom was so special to me and my family and it will always be remembered in our hearts. The new animatronics are cool, though.
SeaVenture became SeeyaNever. Maelstrom became Bailstrom. And Frozen Ever After became the ride who stole Maelstrom.
I guess disney wanted to *Let mealstrom go* (I'll let myself out now)
Please do
maelstrom not mealstrom
I was so sad when I heard they were getting rid of Maelstrom. At least that ride kinda taught you a bit about Norway. Frozen doesn't, I'm sorry.
Sick af been sitting at home binge watching your videos i was pissed when i went to disney 2 years ago and realised they replaced maelstrom it was one of my favorite rides at the park when i was a kid.
I love how even when I think I know a decent amount about a ride or attraction, I'm totally proven wrong and shown these mind-blowing effects and aspects that would get shut down early in the attractions' life cycles.
I have so many memories attached to so many of these attractions that are now gone. Especially now that my mom passed away and my father is estranged, I miss all those vacations and wish I could share with them my sadness over things being closed. The last time I was able to go to Disney was in 2006, so I'm especially sad I didn't get to ride Maelstrom one last time!
Oh wow a Valhalla ride? I would have loved that
I literally cry every time one of my favorite childhood rides go... I just remember me and my siblings and friends after the maelstrom ride go a dress up in those Viking costumes, Anyone else remember those?
I've never even been to Disney at all but when the narrator says "You may not be the first, but you certainly will be the last" and the whole crowd just all sound so sad I WANTED TO CRY
I remember this ride so well! Thank you for covering it!!! The oneeeee nit-picky thing is at 16:26, you said “Ana” casts a spell, when it should have been Elsa. Otherwise, very well done as always and immensely appreciated!!!
Whoooooo new video! Hi Mark!
I love LOVE the Frozen ride. But I want Mealstrom back! I never got to ride it but it looked really fun.
Man I vividly remember the original ride visiting as a kid with my parents. These images bring back a lot of memories.
Oh man I loved maelstrom as a kid, was heartbroken when I found out it was being replaced but finding out this background stuff is great.
This was one of the hardest rides to see close since it was very special to my family who rode it each time we went to EPCOT. Considering the spectacular work imagineers can do I feel like a Frozen attraction could have still held the spirit of EPCOT in representing different cultures yet they just chose a complete cash in on the Frozen IP. The ride itself is a very good dark flume ride but it lacks the charm and also the original spirit of EPCOTs vision, yet that is an increasing trend in recent years at that park...
I loved that ride so much I haven’t been to Disney World since I was 7 but that was my favorite ride in Epcot I’m not prepared for the next time I go and it’s not there anymore. It’s not that Frozen looks bad cause it looks like a good ride but Maelstrom from what I remembered was wayy better. Great video again!
I miss that ride! When I first visited Disney world in 2006ish, I loved Epcot most of all.
I remember getting off the maelstrom ride and seeing that giant troll in the gift shop.
My grandma had those trolls. Legend has it one of my uncles brought back a set from his honeymoon sometime in the 70s and my grandma was ***offended***. She thought they were an ugly insult. They were hidden away and I always loved to find them.
I, however, loved them for whatever reason. I loved to look at them as a child, because they were so odd. I hadnt seen or thought about them for years. Seeing them again made me weep 🤣 her hate of them made me smile with affection for them.
I agree with everyone though. I wish they didn't need tie ins for everything. Especially the world showcase. The food and culture was always more than enough
I haven't been to Disney World for 20 years, and Maelstorm was one of my favorite rides. However, I don't think I'll care if the scenery was changed. The main thing I liked was the Viking boats and going downhill backwards.
It's okay, I miss Snow White's Scary Adventures WDW the way you miss Maelstrom at Epcot. Can't beat the rides we all grew up with. And yes the snow White minecart ride is great but there was a nostalgic magic to the old ride that told the story beautifully.
Elle Calladine I miss Mr.Toad in WDW as much as maelstrom.
What is sad is I don’t even remember the original Snow White ride... because I was so young.. and they got rid of it because little kids were scared of it..... I was never scared of it...
@@averygaitens. Oh it gave me nightmares when I was little, but the idea that it got replaced by a boutique for kids? Just makes me feel like the park is emptier in result.
Maelstrom was interesting because when we went to EPCOT it was the only thing we had to cross of the list (we are from the west coast so this one of the only times we would hit Disney World rather than Disneyland) My mom was so fascinated by the ride/pavilion because she dated a guy from Norway prior to meeting my dad. She knew so much about Norwegian culture so she wanted to make sure us kids learned about it while we were there. I don't remember a lot about that trip, especially EPCOT, but I remember the trolls in Maelstrom being so cool and my mom teaching us so much about it before. I'm glad to see it covered here! Keep up the great work!
Changing Maelstrom to Frozen may have been bad, but it definitely wasn't as controversial a change as turning Disneyland California's Tower of Terror into the Guardians of the Galaxy ride. With maelstrom's change, they took a ride that Disney isn't completely known for and changed it, so it isn't as bad.
I wish they just, used the empty space to build a new ride
But money is money I guess
I was so sad when I heard it was closing/changing to a frozen ride ://
Anjolina Velasquez ditto
I’m so glad I road Maelstrom when I could. It was so unique and captivating.
I want to thank you for these vids. I have never been, and probably never will get to go, to any of these parks. I really love the chance to see some of the iconic attractions and their newer incarnations as well as getting some great background and history! Thanks so much and please keep them coming!
Ahhhhh~ The good ol' days of Maelstrom
I would love to see Nigeria, Spain, India, and Thailand pavilions.
This was very well done! Thanks for sharing!
I was there with my whole family in 97. It was so good! I have pictures of my kids with their Mascot and it was so much fun. Why is frozen there now? The World Showcase has changed......glad I was able to experience the original
1:52 In Soviet Russia, Epcot represents you. Da comrades, now is time for revolution
Wrong Communist leader. You're the glorious leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, for our eternal president Kim Il-sung's sake!
Lol the quick ending got me like “whattttttt?!” 😂
I feel like I've watched about half your stuff now and I love the way you put these together. (also, thank goodness your pod is on Spotify, I can listen to it later.)
Thanks for the memories. I had forgotten some of the details, like how absolutely awesome it was when the Viking boat went under the drilling platform in the middle of a storm.
Spirit of Ireland 🇮🇪. Bars bars bars and taverns.
I’m Irish so I can say it
So the troll is actually Elsa? 🤔😂
Hugh Michael XD
I was wondering why none of this seemed familiar to me despite visiting Epcot a few years ago. Turns out I was there in early 2016, right in the middle of the short window between when Maelstrom closed and Frozen opened!
Yes!!! I’m so glad you covered Maelstrom!
I know people look at what happened to Maelstrom as shameful because "It's a PR jig to pull people into the Norway" but I always take it more insulting as a Norwegian myself who has never been to my ancestral homelands in Scandinavia.
When I went there for the first time back on '05, and my second and last time in '08, watching the "Spirit of Norway" video at the end always touched something in my soul, connecting me to my heritage that now is removed for a beaten pulp that once was a dead horse that even the little girls that watched Frozen in theaters call 'overdone.'
stormhawkdude I am disappointed too, I liked it when Epcot was all about learning about cultures and I truly think that deeply taught a lot.
You're not Norwegian if you've never even lived in Norway.
@@hedgehog3180 uh. Dude. You do realise there's such a thing as um...I don't know, immigrants? Expats? People who were born on their country's soil but had to move for one reason or another? Right? Apparently No, because otherwise you wouldn't be so close minded. Either that or you're one of those pricks who believe that if someone dares move to another ountry despite loving their home that they're a traitor to their own home land. Just because they don't live in their home country doesn't mean it isn't their home. Even if they had to leave it because of circumstances. Source, I'm a South African expat who had to move because of the stock market crash. And I've been living between South Africa and the Far East for almost 11 years. So, technically by your logic, I'm not a "real" South African either, because I didn't stay in South Africa. Even if me and my family would've lost everything and starved to death because the industry my family was in went to jackshit because it was the bloody stock market crash. Which ofcourse meant we had to find work else where. But even then we stayed loyal to our country and still loved her as much as anyone else born a South African, whether it be on South African soil or to South African parents. Same with this person, you never know their story and how he ended up there, but if he's born on Norwegian soil and/or to Norwegian parents, he's a Norwegian. Regardless of if he grew up in Norway or not. I mean, he definitely loves his country as his own, and loves it as much as anyone else on Norwegian soil. I can definitely see that. The love you can have for your home is one that is unique and indescribable. But just because he doesn't know as much as you about his home doesn't mean he should be denied the right to love it and claim it as his home.
Not to be mean, but I don't really care. I think 'Frozen' attraction is brilliant. I was one of the people stuck on the ride when it malfunctioned. I was blown away by the technology that the animation inside has an A.I. effect meaning the characters don't just stop working they do some kind of human-like loop like video game characters waiting on the player to do something. 'Frozen' made people cry from happiness. Maelstrom never did that.
One of my absolute favorite Disney rides, in my favorite park. Made my parents go on this ride over and over again. 7 year old me liked to think I was Viking warrior princess... Haven't been to Disney or Epcot in years, so I am sad to hear it's gone. Thanks for posting and letting me relive happy childhood memories. :-)
I remember this from when I was little. I loved the ride. I was so sad to see it go 😞
I'm so obsessed with these videos. Thanks for giving me background noise while i sketch!
i'm glad that it's back to the original Tokyo Disneyland intro... The Harry Potter intro was just too off model. Thanks Yesterworld!
Maddox021 - Comedy and More Tokyo Disneyland intro? The only thing i saw was the DeLorean
@@lunahetfield the sign...
Class videos mate. Keep up the work
Love your videos. I grew up going to Disney world so these videos bring up a lot of memories, and I always learn a lot of interesting information. I’d love to see a video on hidden mickeys ! I used to love trying to find all of them in the parks when I was younger.
all of my family are Norwegian and Maelstrom and Norway Epcot were my some of my favorite disneyworld stuff as a kid. watching this video is literally how I found out it was demolished for that terrible Frozen movie. what a loss
I know.
I was so mad when I heard Mealstrom was getting taken over my frozen.
I feel you.
I was so mad when I went to epcot a couple years ago to find Maelstrom replaced by another Frozen attraction
Love your channel and video, thank you for the post!