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Ellen's Energy Adventure

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Ellen's Energy Adventure is a 45 minute attraction with consists of four films and a dark ride.
===Preshow===
[[Image:EnergyStars.jpg|thumb|250px300px|Ellen's Energy Adventure stars Ellen DeGeneres (left), Jamie Lee Curtis (top right) and Bill Nye (bottom right)]]
As guests enter the attraction’s first room, they can see a dark movie screen on the wall. After everyone is in the theater, Ellen DeGeneres walks onto the screen and begins to talk to the audience. Ellen introduces herself as the spokeswomen for the Universe of Energy, which she admits is somewhat surprising. She then tells guests that while she is an expert on a lot of things, not too long ago she could have cared less about energy. Ellen then explains that one day everything changed as she was watching TV in her apartment. With a snap of her fingers (for a second time) Ellen transports guests back to her apartment, where they hear the TV announcer say, "This is ... Jeopardy!" As Ellen is watching Jeopardy, her neighbor Bill Nye the Science Guy walks in. Bill says he came over to borrow some foil for an experiment, but soon enough he is watching the game show too. The announcer then tells guests that the first contestant on that day's Jeopardy is a professor of energy at Princeton University, named Dr. Judy Peterson. Hearing this, Ellen exclaims that Judy was her "know it all" roommate in college. Ellen claims that both Judy and energy are stupid, which Bill disagrees with before leaving. After Bill leaves, Ellen says that even if the universe needs energy, she doesn't, before she falls asleep.
Following this 8 minutes preshow video, guests enter a theater where they are seated in one of six seating areas.
 
===First Film===
After everyone is seated in the first theater, the theater itself turns 180 degrees so that guests are facing another large screen. This new screen shows Ellen and Bill standing in almost complete darkness. Although Ellen is confused, Bill explains that they are going to witness the Big Bang, which many scientists believe is how the universe started. Bill tells Ellen that they are about to witness how the universe formed, and that they should probably get out of the way. All of the sudden, the universe explodes and guests see a high speed depiction of how the Earth was created. In the scene, volcanoes erupt, mountains are formed, and vegetation covers the Earth. Bill then emerges from a jungle and tells Ellen that they are "two hundred twenty million years in the Earth's past, give or take a day". When Ellen asks Bill where all the energy is, Bill explains that when the plants and animals that they see around them die, "time, pressure and heat" will turn them into fossil fuels. Bill then says he wants to go explore, and while Ellen is at first hesitant, a dinosaur roaring convinces her to go. Following the six minute film, the theater seats break into six ride vehicles and guests proceed into the next room.