THE ATOLL | The Floating City of Waterworld 

I was the Lead Engineer for the large floating platforms designed by Lockheed that the set was built on. It was quite a project, very different from the rest of the projects I've worked, before or since. This video is the most accurate and thorough I have seen. Thanks for making it. 68percentwater is the amount of surface on Earth that is covered by ocean...at least for now.

It really helps put the bloated budget of the film into perspective when you see the lengths they had to go through to make these things possible. So many props and pieces that either flash in a scene for an instant, or seem unused entirely. Great video! These longer videos are really well done, very thorough, and thoughtful. I look forward to more of your work.

Waterworld was always one of my most favourite movies of all time. Also Jurassic Park, Independence Day and Back to The Future. But Waterworld was always so magical...the water, the music, the postapocalyptic-setting. It was probably the main reason, i'm now a huge fan of nearly every postapocalyptic movie out there. I had that movie recorded on VHS from the TV, then as DVD, a few years later as Bluray, and now i own that movie on UHD-BD w/ HDR! 😍 And of course i will buy the "8K-Remaster Anniversary Platinum Edition", whenever it will possibly be released. P.S. I'm german btw, so by english grammatic could be bad, tbh xD I'm sorry, if that's the case. 🙈

Even as a huge WW fan, you're always teaching me things, as well as showing me footage/photos/information ive never heard/seen before! Great video!

The combination of dedicated, practical craftsmanship and pure ridiculous camp is what makes this such a legendary movie. Thanks for celebrating it the way you do 👍 I hope the Ulysses Cut becomes digitally available one day.

From a tactical standpoint putting your food in between the highly explosive armoury and distillery is pure genius

My cousins are 2/3 kids sitting on the pier where Kevin Costner is shining the rearview mirror and they shield their eyes, and my mom grew up there... Such a wonderful movie imo

Honestly, given the enormous cost of the sets etc. They really should have planned on making a trilogy, then the sets could have been utilized enough to justify the expense. The sets from miniseries like Game of Thrones were massive and expensive but were frequently seen locations throughout the series. So if they were making a trilogy where in which locations like The Atoll and the Deez would be frequently visited, their destruction only occurring at the end. A larger epic, effectively a Star Wars contender, could have grossed enough to have been successful.

I love these videos, but I cracked up big time at 30:29 when you called manatees mantises. I was like wow, I dind't know there are praying mantises in the ocean. Rad.

Awesome and very thorough video, I'm impressed! Keep at it and you'll become the encyclopedia of Waterworld here on YT, if you aren't already!

This is the most comprehensive and in-depth look at the mysterious and expensive structure that is "The Atoll" from Waterworld. Amazing work my dude!

I barely remember when my dad took me to see this film in theaters when I was seven years old, but it left an impact on me that caused a renewed interest in it during my teen years, which has endured well into adulthood! The one thing that stood out to me the most was the Atoll (or Oasis). What an impressive set, the likes of which may never be seen again in film. While a logistical challenge to create this film in the traditional way they could at the time, I'm so glad that they did and we have a permanent monument to a bygone era of high risk film-making in "Waterworld!" I can see any spiritual successor to Waterworld making use of CGI or camera tricks to simulate the water-bound setting. I really enjoyed your video on this underrated, yet spectacular floating set! So much lore was included into every detail that it's a shame that "Waterworld" was only able to fit so much of it into its story. There is still so much that the visionaries behind this post-apocalyptic world can tell us! And I hope they get the chance, one day!

Such epic vision for a movie, just astonishing! They just dont make movies like this anymore. Maybe Avatar being the most recent I can think of. Its a shame all that effort was not used more extensively like in a series or something. But glad we'll always have the movie on Bluray to appreciate. And you Sir did an excellent job with this vid. Well worth the wait. You treated the subject matter with the grandeur and scope it deserved with this extensive vid. Congrats to you!

Every video of yours I watch about the production, the more I appreciate both the monumental cost, and the effort that was put in by the crew.

Can you make another video about Enolas tattoo. Or the drifter with the paper

So happy. This is a channel i never knew i needed. I don't feel alone for loving this movie and stunt show anymore.

I'm so glad this was done with practical effects and not all cgi

Great vid bro - your delivery, passion and production quality are top notch ❤

Well done documentary, your channel (and voice) is good covering all this about Waterworld.

This video is top tier content, absolutely awesome. Thank you for pulling together so much interesting information and visuals to match. Looking forward to more content!

30:31 mantis's!? Haha. Great video though, man. Very detailed and in-depthed.

Another excellent video! Keep up the amazing work!

Fantastic!!! Thank you so much for making such a comprehensive and fun video!

Great video, watched during my lunch break. Thank you! Subscribed.

Kewlness. The days of those.colossal sets are long gone but they made the most epic and memorable movies. I love anything and everything post apocalyptic! Great vids man!

Great job bro!! Love this movie and you have made it better with your videos!! Very informative keep up the great work!!

Awesome Video! Absolutely Great 👍🏼

Awesome video!!!

Awesome movie!! Keep it up!!!

Absolutely outstanding my dude 😊👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Wow, this video is incredible and clearly took a massive amount of time and effort to put together! I Iove Waterworld and I love this channel! Thank you for starting up this channel and for spreading your love and knowledge of the Waterworld universe! Much love and success to you!

I can't even explain how much I am enjoying working through all of your uploads 👍🙂

Does nobody else think how flimsy most of the boats and the atol looked .After one decent storm the whole lot would have fallen apart ..That was the most unbelievable thing about the movie i found

Now a days they don’t dismantle such movie sets.

great video dude :)

I love that background music

Fantastic video. I've nearly watched all your videos. Saved this one til the end!

I can't think of a more suitable ending for The Atoll than to be dismantled and sold off for scrap! That may sound like an insult but it is far from. I find it rather poetic, and embodies the spirit of Waterworld,

nice work on this one! i enjoyed hearing about how the builders overcame problems with the atoll

Great research work on this often unappreciated, but great movie!

another banger ❤❤❤

Great video very interesting

I remember as a kid maybe six years old. My father brought me to Universal Studios California. We watch the Waterworld show having never seen the movie as a kid I have been fascinated with this live show my entire life in circa 2015 one of my best friends named Ryan, who is obsessed with the show played it randomly as we were hanging out and I got infatuated for no reason other than this was an incredible movie and it brought back some nostalgia that I wasn’t sure of. I asked my father what the name of the show was that night and he said Waterworld I’ve never been so obsessed with the movie. Great video.

I always enjoyed this movie. I always wanted to know so much more about the world they created for this story. I'll have to find the novel now 😂

I love this movie one of my all time favorites.💖

Such a detailed video! It is incredible that the production team went all out on building the Atoll, They could have made it into a theme park or find some other use of this.

Probably the best movie set of all time.

So glad I found this channel! These bts stories are so interesting.

Thanks for your awesome channel. Discovering it was such a pleasant surprise and I'm telling all my nerd friends lol. If you find the time, I hope you'll make a video about the film "Rapa Nui" one day. Kind of a sister film to Waterworld I think it shared producers with, also a very unappreciated film and much less well-known than WW. No one ever watches it or talks about it so it would be cool to hear stories about the production of that. Cheers

I wish it wasn't so ugly. I like the idea of the walls being colored plastic, give it some humanity, life.

I love atoll

With the way things are going we need to start building atolls

Awesome video! Have anyone build this in minecraft or anything else? Want to walk around in it

Despite seeing this movie so often, I just realized that the tombstones are made of old surf boards! It would be funny if thes used the recycling symbol instead of crosses though

imagine how cool of a dive site it would make if it had sank at some point

That right! Waterworld was the last movie made with huge sets. They moved to CGI after this movie.

If the waterworld tv series comes out will have a chance to see not only new enemies but many atolls societies instead of just one that we saw in the film.

This is incredible! How do you find all this stuff out?

I wonder what happened to the atollers in "New Oasis", after Helen, Gregor & The Enforcer left to help The Mariner with the rescue?

I love the atoll. Its like the middle class of bioshock couldnt afford rapture so they came up with this

The things you'll do to avoid what would have been a much better looking matte painting. That set is so small compared to what it was intending to represent despite all that legendary effort.

The Waterworld show at Universal Studios in SoCal is still the best attraction there. It’s amazing!

Meant mantas, said mantises, showed a manatee. Lmao

I just realized, someone should make a tribute video to the Deccan and the smokers with “Smoke On The Water” by Deep Purple as background music.

Waterworld's one of my favorite movies of all times. It's not perfect but the scale of the props involved is mind boggling. It reminds me of something like lord of the rings were I can't even believe they built a whole unique town just for the movie.

I really wonder what a sequel would’ve been about since they spent so much money on this you’d think they were planning a trilogy beforehand

The headstones look like they are from the tips of surf boards.

I’d like to know about the tri-maran and how it functions.

I'm honestly kind of surprised that they didn't approach this the same way they did the oil tanker as far as using more model work and studio sets to pull it off. They ended up spending a lot of money on it considering it wasn't in the movie for all that long.

I need to travel to all these amazing locations before deciding I liked the first location most. Hmmmmmm.

How is the Deacon alive if it's a sequel to the movie?

What happened to the Atoll? By any chance does it still exist?

It's funny he said "they're dying" but the Oasis Atoll wasn't doing too badly considering they had agriculture and large supplies of water and plankton cakes.

Hawaii represent.

30:31 Those are Manatees, not Mantises. The Praying Mantis is an insect, while Manatees are medium to large-ish sea mammals.

Sargasso is in the Atlantic. Your voiceover says the Pacific.

I heard that the Atoll was damage in a storm or something. Did that not happen?

Those "Mantises" are better known as Manatees. I'm pretty sure a Mantis is an Insect.

I find the deleted scene with the desperate people outside the atoll interesting and shows humanity in decline, or as the mariner says "your dyeing". Since I have learned to make cordage by hand I can see why they let the man in to trade his hair for hydro and salvaged the hair of the dead. This is also one of the reasons the mariner angerly cuts the hair off his companions when their actions damage his ship. He will retwist his ropes mending them with the hair as best he can.

Great Work 👏💯

Mad Max 2 on Water

30:30 those are manatees, not mantises. The mantis is an insect.

Lol, you've already heard of manatees, now get ready for seafaring mantises.

@17:31 *Indian Ocean

Just wondering about your opening graphics, was that from a game or did ya make it?

Electric

If they ever make another water world movie that's great, a mini series or even a big open world video game of this great universe in such potential it has... I would love for them to make atolls in it even larger & more interesting than this small one in lore = because even though I loved seeing it all while I was younger growing up with it... it just felt too small for my tastes in supporting such a big population in it = maybe over a mile in diameter or so next time with more room to spare for buildings, facilities and harbour for the boats to station themselves in to move around = just to make it more realistic in use. I know it's a movie, but realism really counts... but that might cost them another $80 million or more for the new one eventfully when that happens, but if they plan ahead = they can use it for tourism afterwards if organized for after the filming period for later years for people to enjoy seeing & use for other things stationed off the shores safely... and that will pay for itself over due time. But the worst thing they'll do instead these days is they'll properly build small parts of it for filming scenes, and the rest will be CGI, even if it is great quality... it won't always feel the same in being organic & real as before. The best thing they can do for future follow ups instead, is to make a prequel franchise or series in how the world flooded bit by bit + how careless humanity & other factions were in letting it come to pass with the chaos that followed, how the atolls came to be... as we know from the deleted scenes that they were many more of them back in the past. How better off they were before the decline post land being mostly gone on their own with resources being used up over time, how they coped in the early days... and how the rest fell into ruin over the three centuries after that leading up to the first film's events with the smokers attacking & destroying most of what's left of them throughout the world = even showing the Deacon in his very early years as he rose to power... there's potential there if done right. And other subjects to look into as well = fleets of ships surviving in the water world all over + large cargo, military and other ships like the Deeze on its own & others, water outposts like the slaver's one but way bigger & operational in practical effects + small communities of boats coming together to try to survive in this water world through harsh climates & raids by others, and many other factions as well. Like what they did with Mad Max Fury Road, but staying mostly true to lore and add more to it all in background info... a continuation of the franchise, but prequels instead of remakes or sequels, because there's not much to go by follow ups unless it all has great stories in mindset with more to see of that world... which I see highly unlikely these days. If they ever need an advisor & writer for future lore for new movies & series in great ideas about water world = if they take 5 years or more in preparing for it in making properly with the best crew around... here I am! = not in everything, but good enough to get it all started with great inspirations for more later on. But the new film or series would likely cost around a quarter or half a billion with everything that needs to be made for it all to make... then, they'll most certainly need to bring back the new movie merchandise in vast numbers in good to great quality for all of us to enjoy once again... I would. 😊💲 As a cult classic if done right, it will help pay for itself after release at Cinemas & streaming, and continue to do so for many years & decades after that in follow ups. As long as there's no political BS in it with today's world, just practical reactions to how the world ends in water with events in natural reactions and afterwards in survival in that ocean world, it will pay off. 👍✔🤞

Megaton on water

Aa-tol

A floating town. They actually built that! Now a days they would use garbage CGI

What a shame you never truly get to grips with the geography of the thing in the film.

Lol this whole time i thought it was steel sheets

Hello everyone! Would any of you awesome Dry Landers out there know where to find blueprints for the Atoll set?

There was a guy who live on the Atoll who was a huge jerk, everyone called him the Atoll Ay-hole.

i have never understood why waterworld had such ab bad review i still like the idea, of the movie, but it made me so sad to see that nice katamaran destroyed in the end..

@30:31 manatees or manta rays?

I can’t believe we put up with CGI when movies used to be made like this. Modern media (movies, video games, and even most music) truly is awful

30:28 Mantises don't live in the ocean around Hawaii. Manatees don't live in the ocean around Hawaii either.

Its shaped like the millennium falcon

soooooo. the atoll sinking during a storm was just an urban myth?