Germany Boat Ride

Pens24

Pens24

New Member
Original Poster
I heard from a CM that originally there was suppose to be a boat ride along Germany's most famous rivers and famous landmarks in the Germany Pavilion...is this true?
 
ToTBellHop

ToTBellHop

Well-Known Member
yep...they even built some of the ride building for this! It sits dormant now...although you can see where the entrance was to be (it's still there).
 
November Girl

November Girl

New Member
Epcot definitely needs more rides...when we ask my 11 year old to visit the countries she says "Boring!-no rides except Maelstrom, and it takes too long just to walk around for no rides," I would like more rides in the countries too, Mt. Fuji ride sounds good, maybe a nice Wonders of the World log flume, an Egyptian themed dark ride, and while they're at it, how about opening it up for breakfast?? We like Epcot now, but with things like this we would have to add another day or two to our trip!
 
marni1971

marni1971

Park History nut
Premium Member
November Girl said:
...and while they're at it, how about opening it up for breakfast?? We like Epcot now, but with things like this we would have to add another day or two to our trip!
Click to expand...
You just answered your own question.

Pens24 said:
why didn't they end up putting this in germany?
Click to expand...
Time, money and manpower. EPCOT Center, like the other 2 parks before it, HAD to open on it`s announced date - October 1st. Money was being thrown at what could be finished, and what had to be finished. Manpower was too - working 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The park was seriously underestimated by everyone. Attractions that couldn`t be completed by September were moved to phase two. Some got built. Horizons was one. Others were mothballed since the park cost double it`s original budget to have open, with another $100m already allocated for the first year of operation. Anything not ready to be built, and that could be built quick, was postponed. Italys Gondola ride, Rhine River, Japans Carousel Theatre, the UK Dinner show and Mexicos boat ride were amongst the casulties. El Rio Del Tiempo was brought back when WED realised WS was under capacity, since this was the attraction furthest along production wise.
 
EPCOT Explorer

EPCOT Explorer

New Member
marni1971 said:
You just answered your own question.

Time, money and manpower. EPCOT Center, like the other 2 parks before it, HAD to open on it`s announced date - October 1st. Money was being thrown at what could be finished, and what had to be finished. Manpower was too - working 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The park was seriously underestimated by everyone. Attractions that couldn`t be completed by September were moved to phase two. Some got built. Horizons was one. Others were mothballed since the park cost double it`s original budget to have open, with another $100m already allocated for the first year of operation. Anything not ready to be built, and that could be built quick, was postponed. Italys Gondola ride, Rhine River, Japans Carousel Theatre, the UK Dinner show and Mexicos boat ride were amongst the casulties. El Rio Del Tiempo was brought back when WED realised WS was under capacity, since this was the attraction furthest along production wise.
Click to expand...

Could you imagine WS with ALL of that?:dazzle:

Holy CARP!:sohappy:
 
hpyhnt 1000

hpyhnt 1000

Well-Known Member
marni1971 said:
You just answered your own question.

Time, money and manpower. EPCOT Center, like the other 2 parks before it, HAD to open on it`s announced date - October 1st. Money was being thrown at what could be finished, and what had to be finished. Manpower was too - working 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The park was seriously underestimated by everyone. Attractions that couldn`t be completed by September were moved to phase two. Some got built. Horizons was one. Others were mothballed since the park cost double it`s original budget to have open, with another $100m already allocated for the first year of operation. Anything not ready to be built, and that could be built quick, was postponed. Italys Gondola ride, Rhine River, Japans Carousel Theatre, the UK Dinner show and Mexicos boat ride were amongst the casulties. El Rio Del Tiempo was brought back when WED realised WS was under capacity, since this was the attraction furthest along production wise.
Click to expand...

EPCOT Explorer said:
Could you imagine WS with ALL of that?:dazzle:

Holy CARP!:sohappy:
Click to expand...

You said it. I mean, as it is, World Showcase is still agreat area; definitely one of the best themed areas ever. But if had even half of those things Martin listed, it really would be amazing.
 
EPCOT Explorer

EPCOT Explorer

New Member
hpyhnt 1000 said:
You said it. I mean, as it is, World Showcase is still agreat area; definitely one of the best themed areas ever. But if had even half of those things Martin listed, it really would be amazing.
Click to expand...

If we can Dream it...;)

Maybe in a few years?I mean how much longer can WS go without an update?1988-Norway is waayyyy to long.:dazzle:
 
brkgnews

brkgnews

Well-Known Member
marni1971 said:
You just answered your own question.

Time, money and manpower. EPCOT Center, like the other 2 parks before it, HAD to open on it`s announced date - October 1st. Money was being thrown at what could be finished, and what had to be finished. Manpower was too - working 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The park was seriously underestimated by everyone. Attractions that couldn`t be completed by September were moved to phase two. Some got built. Horizons was one. Others were mothballed since the park cost double it`s original budget to have open, with another $100m already allocated for the first year of operation. Anything not ready to be built, and that could be built quick, was postponed. Italys Gondola ride, Rhine River, Japans Carousel Theatre, the UK Dinner show and Mexicos boat ride were amongst the casulties. El Rio Del Tiempo was brought back when WED realised WS was under capacity, since this was the attraction furthest along production wise.
Click to expand...
Let's also keep in mind that when they built EPCOT Center, they were literally building two parks at once. World Showcase and what became Future World were both originally supposed to be separate gates. On that fateful day when two WED staffers (I believe it was John Hench and Marty Sklar) literally pushed the scale models together, it became a whole-nuther ballgame entirely. Huge in scale and scope, and not afraid to dream beyond big. There's no way anyone could have built EPCOT Center "to plan"... as it was, crews were working 100-hour shifts, sleeping either on-property at cabins around Fort Wilderness or worse yet, sleeping on the floor at the attractions they were working on. Read Steve Alcorn's "Building a Better Mouse" for many a tale of spending the night in the pit at American Adventure. Even when they were asleep for a few precious hours (usually every other night), they were "on call" and could be summoned by radio at any time. Add in that to get any of this stuff working they had to literally invent computers... keep in mind that in the 80s the PC was hardly personal; and they also had to endure numerous setbacks... SSE's ascent was too steep to allow the motor they'd selected to pull the vehicles; and thunderstorms would fry computers and knock out power to the site for hours on end. Plus there was an accelerated opening... not just for October 1st 1982, but also Labor day (a month earlier) to use all the workers and construction folks as a "test audience." Anything that was mothballed got further buried in the closet by a tepid audience response. It's a miracle we got what we did.
 
M

MAGICFLOP

Well-Known Member
WD said "if we(meaning WDW) can dream it, the we(meaning WDW) can do it.

If you(meaning the rest of us) can dream it, Then you(meaning us) can do it.

Hence the Germany boat ride is our dream and they arent going to do it. :veryconfu


I am amazed that this ride has picked up in frequency of threads this year. Probably cause this is the year of a million dreams:lol: OURS
 

Register on WDWMAGIC. This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.

Back
Top Bottom