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The 58,000-square-foot (5,400 m 2) Norway Pavilion is designed to look like a Norwegian village. [1] The village includes a detailed reproduction Stave church, with a statue of Olaf II Haraldsson out front, and the exterior of its main table-service restaurant, Restaurant Akershus, resembles its namesake in Oslo.
Maelstrom was a reversing Shoot the Chute dark ride attraction located in the Epcot theme park at Walt Disney World Resort in Florida. Designed by Walt Disney Imagineering, the ride opened on July 5, 1988, in the Norway Pavilion of the park's World Showcase section. It was a mix between a log chute and a traditional film attraction.
On September 12, 2014, Walt Disney World officials announced that the Maelstrom attraction in the Norway Pavilion of the Epcot's World Showcase section would be replaced by an attraction based on Frozen. [4] [5] [6] Maelstrom's final day of operation was October 5, 2014. [7]
The Maelstrom boat ride in the Norway pavilion. Gene Duncan/Disney/AP A "cool" new attraction will be coming to Disney's (DIS) Epcot in Florida, but it may prove to be as initially controversial ...
The Norway pavilion recently made its way to the top of many Frozen fans' lists thanks to Frozen Ever After. The ride, based off the hit movie, takes guests through snowy scenes from the film and ...
Gene Duncan/Disney/AP You don't often see international politics come into play in theme parks, but there's an interesting brouhaha brewing between Walt Disney (DIS) and Norway. The back of Disney ...
EPCOT during the annual Flower and Garden Festival. EPCOT hosts a number of special events during the year: The EPCOT International Flower & Garden Festival, inaugurated in 1994, uses specially-themed floral displays throughout the park, including topiary sculptures of Disney characters. Each event takes more than a full year to plan and more ...
Although the premise has stayed the same, the pavilion has been renamed and all of the original attractions have been removed (in World Celebration). Magic Journeys: 1983–1986 A 3-D art film that takes guests through the world of a child's eye. Disney & Pixar Short Film Festival