Norway Pavilion Frozen construction - Frozen Ever After ride

[A foolish mortal]

Hu, you know this.. because?

First of all the name. Its not only called Frozen.. but Frozen: Ever after.. It'll focus on what happens after the movie story.. Much like Frozen Fever if you ever saw that? Also she says in this clip from D23 Expo that they'll take us to Arendelle for the "Winter and Summer celebration". If you look at the concept you see that its not from the movie...

So as i said.. its not going to be exact retelling of the story Im sure they wanna bring more of the Frozen universe to life with this ride

 

[Cesar R M]

First of all the name. Its not only called Frozen.. but Frozen: Ever after.. It'll focus on what happens after the movie story.. Much like Frozen Fever if you ever saw that? Also she says in this clip from D23 Expo that they'll take us to Arendelle for the "Winter and Summer celebration". If you look at the concept you see that its not from the movie...
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So as i said.. its not going to be exact retelling of the story Im sure they wanna bring more of the Frozen universe to life with this ride

Dont make me pinpoint on how different the concept and the final renditions are most of the time

 

[Bartattack]

And they were already planning and designing the transformers rides 5 years before they actually build it.
That plus the fact that they already had created 2 versions of it, would make that everything could go faster...
The first version of the ride took 2 years to build.
I think the Frozen ride was still being designed while they were already starting with the removal of maelstrom.

 

[A foolish mortal]

Dont make me pinpoint on how different the concept and the final renditions are most of the time

Lol i know

 

[A foolish mortal]

Hu, you know this.. because?

Lets just wait and see who's right

 

[DisneyGentleman]

as far I know, they only managed to do that 1 out of 4 times.
The last one exploded spectacularly.

it tipped over due to ice formation on a collet.
The significance is that they are trying new things and learning rapidly. A bloated organization won't do that.

1 out of 4 is far better than 0 out of 0.

 

[Disneyhead'71]

Transformers is most definitely a clone. So much so that issues/errors with the design were repeated in Orlando's construction instead of being fixed. It's not a good comparison because it was the second time the attraction was cloned.

Certainly parts were cloned. But USF's is the only one with the maintenance bay in the basement requiring a 3 floor RV elevator. And because of that, the ride path was altered.

 

[RSoxNo1]

Are you talking about transformers that is basically just 3D screens... no surprise that it took 11 months

It took Disney 18 months to turn Snow White's Scary Adventures into a meet and greet. Do you want to play this game?

 

[lazyboy97o]

Certainly parts were cloned. But USF's is the only one with the maintenance bay in the basement requiring a 3 floor RV elevator. And because of that, the ride path was altered.

Not just part, huge massive chunks that even Universal does not deny it being a clone and the timeline only being possible because of there having been two prior iterations.

 

[danlb_2000]

It took Disney 18 months to turn Snow White's Scary Adventures into a meet and greet. Do you want to play this game?

Should we talk about how long the Main Street Bypass took to build?

 

[Mike S]

Should we talk about how long the Main Street Bypass took to build?

You can't blame Disney on that one. It was all that damned ladders fault.

 

[Andrew C]

It took Disney 18 months to turn Snow White's Scary Adventures into a meet and greet. Do you want to play this game?

Yeah. Because a meet and greet is worth working on 24/7.

 

[Brer Panther]

I just realized something...

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Maelstrom a THRILL RIDE? You know, like Splash Mountain on a smaller scale?

And since they're not changing the track for Frozen Ever After (still don't like that name), won't it ALSO be a thrill ride?

So most of the children who loved Frozen will either not make the height requirement or be too afraid to ride it!

 

[peter11435]

I just realized something...

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Maelstrom a THRILL RIDE? You know, like Splash Mountain on a smaller scale?

And since they're not changing the track for Frozen Ever After (still don't like that name), won't it ALSO be a thrill ride?

So most of the children who loved Frozen will either not make the height requirement or be too afraid to ride it!

Maelstrom never had a height requirement

 

[PizzaPlanet]

I just realized something...

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Maelstrom a THRILL RIDE? You know, like Splash Mountain on a smaller scale?

And since they're not changing the track for Frozen Ever After (still don't like that name), won't it ALSO be a thrill ride?

So most of the children who loved Frozen will either not make the height requirement or be too afraid to ride it!

I believe the thrill level of Maelstrom was along the same line as Pirates of the Caribbean.

 

[Ripken10]

Not that my mother is a good sample, but she has been on both rides, but after riding maelstrom once said she could not do it again. It was too much for her, yet she loves pirates. She gets nervous about the little drop on pirates. To me they were always similiar but I guess to others it may not have been

 

[Animaniac93-98]

I believe the thrill level of Maelstrom was along the same line as Pirates of the Caribbean.

Correct, and Maelstrom hasn't been advertised as a thrill ride since 1988 when it opened in a park with none at all (a year before Body Wars).

 

[marni1971]

Yeah. Because a meet and greet is worth working on 24/7.

Neither is this it seems. One of their most valuable IPs at the moment.

 

[Next Big Thing]

Should we talk about how long the Main Street Bypass took to build?

You can't compare a ride with a non-essential theming of a bypass, which was in use all the way through it's construction phase.

 

[rle4lunch]

Not that my mother is a good sample, but she has been on both rides, but after riding maelstrom once said she could not do it again. It was too much for her, yet she loves pirates. She gets nervous about the little drop on pirates. To me they were always similiar but I guess to others it may not have been

Was she scared by those pesky trolls? Maybe that's what she meant? Because Maelstrom has far less drops and is about 95% shorter ride time than Pirates. Or maybe she just meant the incredibly crappy storyline and Norway tourism commercial at the end were too much for her. lol.

All in all, it was in the top 3 worse rides in all of Disney.