Maelstrom was nobody’s favourite, Splash is an awful lot of people’s favourite. People are always going to be reminiscing about when it was Splash in a way that most don’t when they ride FEA.
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oooh girl, you are so wrong about that!
Maelstrom has a HUGE cult following. And a tremendous number of people (to be clear, not me - I didn’t care for it) were absolutely devastated (and still have not gotten over) the re-imagineering that took place
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I liked it, a lot. I would much rather have it back than FEA. But favourite ride? Really?!
I agree that there was a lot of turmoil over the closing, but wasn’t that more often directed at the loss of a country-centric attraction versus Disney-fying it?
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I don’t remember ever having to wait to ride Maelstrom. I certainly never waited two hours to write it!
Hey I’m with you.
I just remember the wailing and flailing
It was a sight, let me tell you
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I remember being embarrassed to admit I’d waited 25 mins.
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Me too. But on DIS.
I think it was just over the ride. But is that what’s important?
The point is, whenever something goes away there’s going to be a certain segment - and often a large one - of the Disney fandom that is going to be up in arms about it.
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Yes.
It was only a matter of time until they nailed one that I liked. More often than not I don’t care about the rides getting changed. I do wish they would just make new ones.
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Mine will come, I know it.
If it wasn’t for change there would be no butterflies. Or cheese, if that’s more your thing.
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Ooh cheese
Throw in yeast and add bread to the list too!
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was there a different flume ride in Disney World before that? I seem to recall there was something in 1990. I remember then coming home to hershey park and riding theirs and just being disappointed.
Up until now, I thought it was Splash Mountain…but I guess not?
Definitely not in 1990. Splash I mean, not a different flume ride that may or may not have been there.
[In the early 80’s] " It was Dick Nunis who insisted that the Imagineers create a log flume for Disneyland, but the Imagineers were initially unenthusiastic about it, insisting that log flumes were a too ordinary theme park attraction to include in a Disney park."
It took 6 years from pitching the concept in 1983 to the DLR grand opening in 1989, and two more years for the grand opening in WDW.
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Can you think of a better word to describe it?
I laughed when I saw this! My DH and I joke about the fact that everything in Disney World is made of concrete, even the water and trees. (We know that’s not true, but there ARE a lot of things created with concrete.)
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Actually, we loved Maelstrom. It was in our top 3 rides for sure!
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