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Gord Green
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I remember going on the ride back in the day. The "views" were kind of lame, but it was just so super cool being on the Nautilus !
If the mini-subs ever came up for sale I would have loved to get one set up in my back yard and "retro-fitted" to be like the movie version!
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scotpens
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| Gord Green wrote: | | . . . If the mini-subs ever came up for sale I would have loved to get one set up in my back yard and "retro-fitted" to be like the movie version! |
Considering that this is what the "submarines" looked like below the waterline, you might have been better off building a scaled-down Nautilus from scratch!
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Currently watching this wonderful "mightiest motion picture of them all!" on Youtube. Something I had never paid attention to before struck me now with this viewing.
We see Captain Nemo & 8 or 9 men performing a burial underwater. We later see 14 or 15 men attacking Professor Aronnax, Conseil, and Ned Land. It made me curious as to just how many crewmen Captain Nemo had under his command who were operating the Nautilus? My best guess is that there wasn't more than 20 crew, including Nemo. The submarine doesn't appear to have been able to hold many more humans than that. If so, it makes the Nautilus an even more remarkable vessel technologically, if it only required that many men. The average crew for today's US Navy submarine is 134: 120 are crew, 14 are officers. |
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mach7
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I miss the 20,000 leagues ride in DisneyWorld. Corny as it was, it worked.
In 2011, when I went to DisneyLand for the 1st time, I was dismayed and disappointed to find the submarines were the US Navy Nautilus not the Jules Vern ship. |
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Bud Brewster
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Ah-ha! So THAT'S what those gaudy yellow submarines are in the images I've seen when I Googled the Disney ride's current status!
Yuck . . . 
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scotpens
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| Posted: Sat May 18, 2024 9:28 pm Post subject: |
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| Bud Brewster wrote: | Ah-ha! So THAT'S what those gaudy yellow submarines are in the images I've seen when I Googled the Disney ride's current status!
Yuck . . . |
When Disneyland's Submarine Voyage opened in 1959, the subs were painted gray and named after U.S. naval subs like Nautilus, Skipjack and Seawolf. In the 1980s, they were renamed and painted yellow to resemble scientific research vessels. The entire attraction was radically redesigned with a Finding Nemo theme in 2007. |
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