Yesterworld: The History & Tragic Fate of Maelstrom - The Original Version of Frozen Ever After 

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transtremm 🖕🏻

You are one of the few channels I watch from beginning to end

Mealstrom

Liaminator lol

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.

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.

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.

L G when

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.

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).

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.

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!

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

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.

@@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.

Xycron !!!!!!

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.

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

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

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

Pride in commerce is a very pre-90's thing.

@@DKGifford19608 Still should be.

@@williamhenderson1161 hell no lmfao

Michael Scrip awesome

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

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

their feature show will just be an apartheid dark ride

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

a... *WHAT*

In Arkansas?

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

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.

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.

Please do

maelstrom not mealstrom

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.

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.

Anjolina Velasquez ditto

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!

Also I was there on frozens first day and it was terrible. They had to hand out ice cream bars and also they had to hand out water as the ride kept breaking down. We waited 5 hours in total...

Quinix Gaming i'd buy them a billion dollars to beat olaf!

Hell yeah!

I'd pay money to watch Olaf tortured and killed by Kevin McCallister's booby traps from Home Alone. Merry Christmas ya filthy animal!

@@stanfordite And a happy new year. *BANG*

@@lunahetfield I'd by that for a dollar! LOL!!

Anything with Frozen should fail.

Hugh Michael XD

I know.

Maddox021 - Comedy and More Tokyo Disneyland intro? The only thing i saw was the DeLorean

@@lunahetfield the sign...

Chase Osborn ikr

@Frizzurd Pretty much.

Agreed! I’ve only been once to the frozen ride but I was pretty scared the whole way lol never again

true. the troll was stitches great escape level of "scary".