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The Seas with Nemo & Friends

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/* The Living Seas (1998-2006) */
===The Living Seas (1998-2006)===
The Living Seas remained essentially unchanged until In June 1999 when , United Technologies ended their decided to end its sponsorship of the pavilion The Living Seas <ref name= "Martin"/>. With the end of United Technologies the sponsorship, all references to the company were removed from the pavilion by the end of 1999 the year <ref> http://www.intercot.com/EDC/LivingSeas/index.html </ref>.
The next major change to come to The Living Seas took place in 2001, when one of the two preshow theaters was also closed in order to allow returning guests to skip "The Seas" film altogether and move directly to the Hydrolators <ref name= "Martin"/>. Subsequently, on October 21, 2001, the Caribbean Coral Reef Ride portion of the pavilion closed, with guests now walking from the Hydrolators, past the Coral Reef Aquarium, and into SeaBase Alpha. Although the SeaCabs remained intact, in January 2002 they were boarded up <ref name= "Martin"/>.
With no sponsor and a decreasing popularityBy 2003, Disney decided The Living Seas was a far cry from the busy and vibrant pavilion that it had been when it opened in 1986. The changes to the pavilion's structure in the previous years had killed the natural flow the pavilion relied on. As previously mentioned, the original Living Seas needed was designed to changebe more than the sum of its parts. In order With the ability to increase bypass the pavilion’s popularitypreshow and the loss of the SeaCabs however, the pavilion no longer worked. As attendance problems continued to plague The Living Seas, Disney began to tie the popular 2003 film Finding Nemo into the exhibits in SeaBase Alphalook for a change.
In Following the release of the Disney-Pixar movie "Finding Nemo", in December 2003, references to Nemo Disney began to appear through tie the pavilion, especially popular animated characters into The Living Seas. While this integration originally took place mostly in the pavilion's gift shop , exterior and in some of the SeaBase Alpha exhibits, a large change was coming <ref name= "Martin"Martin2> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wj6VD1bJEYs <.ref>. Next, in January In 2004 , Module 1C and Module 1D in SeaBase Alpha were Sea Base alpha closed <ref name= "Martin"/>. When the modules reopened on November 16, 2004 they were replaced by featured two new Finding Nemo based exhibits- "Bruce’s Bruce's Shark World" (in Module 1D) and a new attraction [[Turtle Talk with Crush]] (in Module IC) <ref>Pedersen, R. A. The EPCOT Explorer's Encyclopedia:. United States: Epcyclopedia, 2011. Print. </ref>. While Bruce's Shark World was a playground for younger guests, Turtle Talk With Crush was an interactive show that featured Disney's newest technology, "digital puppetry". Looking through an arcylric window, on Turtle Talk with Crush, which allowed guests to could talk and interact with Crush the Turtle from Finding Nemo. The new show proved to be so popular that Disney decided to integrate Nemo into the entire Living Seas pavilion. In order to do this, on August 21, 2005 the entire whole pavilion closed to the public<ref name= "MartinMartin2"/>.
===The Seas with Nemo & Friends (2006-Present)===