disney 'n universal pic-o-rama 2

[phosfate]

Poster for the ride located in Epcot's micro version of Norway*, done in the hotel room a few hours later. This particular bit is Odin's greeting: "You are not the first to pass this way," he warns us. We're perfectly well aware of this, since we saw him say the same thing to the previous boat about 15 seconds earlier. The ride's genius lies in its cunning combination of coolness and inanity - "That was the godawfullest stupid fake polar bear I've ever seen! It ruled!" The real name of the ride is...er...Storm, or Tempest, or something like that. I'd call it Tove Jansson's Spash Mountain, except she was Finnish.

The Norwegians made the crucial mistake of putting the movie describe the joys of trolls and oil drilling after the ride, so anyone familiar with the thing (or warned in advance) makes a break for the exit. "Wait! We have a movie!" "We know!" Slam! Your time will be better spent in the Norwegian bakery down the street, which does an excellent Viking Chocolate-Chip Cookie.

Hidden Mickey: Look in the Viking boat on the far left of the mural as you wait on line.

*One assumes that the real Norway is not covered entirely in asphalt, and that it rarely reaches 105 degrees except around some of the geothermal bits.

Comments

[nitasee.livejournal.com]

Do the Gods like drill for trolls? Is this a bit like bobbing for apples? Where does the oil come in to this? For cooking trolls?

Fake polar bear? Did they have fake penguin anywhere?

Du be du be doo, da do be do be....

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

No penguin. Wrong hemisphere.

It's sort of meant to be a history of Norwegian exploration, from the Viking days to the exploitation of the North Sea. And trolls.