Changes

The creation of The Seas with Nemo & Friends attraction came about as part of a larger overhaul of The Living Seas pavilion. Since the late 1990s, the pavilion had seen a sharp decrease in popularity, and the lost of sponsor United Technologies. In order to boost the popularity of the pavilion, in December 2003, Disney began to tie characters from the 2003 Disney-Pixar movie "Finding Nemo" into The Living Seas. While this integration originally took place mostly in the pavilion's gift shop, exterior and in some of the SeaBase Sea Base Alpha exhibits, a larger change was coming <ref name= "Martin2"> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wj6VD1bJEYs </ref>. In 2004, Module 1C and Module 1D in Sea Base Alpha closed. When the modules reopened on November 16, 2004 they featured two new Finding Nemo based exhibits- "Bruce's Shark World" (in Module 1D) and a new attraction [[Turtle Talk with Crush]] (in Module IC) <ref name="book">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, guests 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 whole pavilion closed to the public<ref name= "Martin2"/>.

When creating a new attraction for the pavilion, Imagineers decided to reuse the track from the closed Caribbean Coral Reef Ride (also known as the SeaCabs) <ref name= "ears"/>. This onmnimover attraction had originally transported guest's from the pavilion's preshow area, through the 5.7 million gallon Caribbean Coral Reef Aquarium, and to SeaBase Sea Base Alpha. In order to create the new attraction however, Imagineers needed more track. To do this, they extended the original Caribbean Coral Reef Ride track 280 feet <ref name= "ears"/>. The Seas with Nemo & Friends (as the attraction would be called) now took up the area that previously housed The Living Seas' first preshow theater, holding area, Hydrolators and queue for the Caribbean Coral Reef Ride <ref name= "Martin2"/>. Finally, the old SeaCab ride vehicles were replaced with the "Clamobiles" that take guests through The Seas with Nemo & Friends <ref name= "Martin2"/>.