Maelstrom Full Ride Epcot Center Sept 12 2008

Maelstrom is a dark ride located in the Norway pavilion of the World Showcase at the Epcot theme park at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida. Visitors ride boats that are patterned after Viking ships and pass through various scenes with audio-animatronic figures. The ride first takes visitors back to a mythological version of Norway's Viking days. The boats first pass through scenes of seafarers and Vikings. The boats then enter an enchanted swamp, and are forced backwards down a waterfall by angry trolls. The boats float rapidly past scenes of polar bears and living trees, before coming to a stop on the edge of another waterfall, exposed to the Norway pavilion's main thoroughfare. After again rotating to a forward-facing position, the boats plunge forward into the stormy North Sea. The boats pass dangerously close to an oil rig and the ride comes to an abrupt end in a calm harbor. After the ride, passengers disembark and potentially have to wait up to 5 minutes for a film about Norway to begin. If you have to wait for the film, you must remain in the holding area until the doors open, there is no other way to exit the ride. Once the doors open to allow guests into the theater, you can choose to watch the film, or walk through the theater, to the exit.

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[tealmarlin]

My Fav ride in Epcot. They did a great job of making you feel like your in a Cold country with trolls, Great memories..

[0AwesomeProductions0]

this ride was weird...but it was okay

[hollisterqueenbee97]

lol i went on thois and it was really wierd

[altarush]

It is fun ride but you can't see much on this video.