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As part of EPCOT Central’s What Works series, they posted today about Norway. I agree that it is underrated and possible undervalued attractions at EPCOT. When I took my daughters to Disney for the first time back in 2006, one of the first things that I planned was a Princess lunch at Restaurant Akershus in Norway and it was one the best things I could have done. The food was good, it wasn’t crowded and the individual attention was amazing. The almost 5 minute Maelstrom boat ride is still one of my favorites, it’s a dark ride that takes you on a journey from a mythological Norway’s Viking days all the way up to today. The big thrill of the ride comes after the boat enters an enchanted swamp and you’re forced backwards down a waterfall by angry trolls. The movie afterward is indeed dated but still interesting. The kid’s play area used to have a full-scale Viking ship but it was removed in December of 2008.

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Very cool article about how they engineered the sound for Walt Disney World.

In the mid 1990’s, the park started researching the problem. It would eventually find no existing solution, so the engineers had to design and construct, on their own, one of the most complex and advanced audio systems ever built. The work paid off: today, as you walk through Disney World, the volume of the ambient music does not change. Ever. More than 15,000 speakers have been positioned using complex algorithms to ensure that the sound plays within a range of just a couple decibels throughout the entire park. It is quite a technical feat acoustically, electrically, and mathematically.

Read the whole article here.