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{{Infobox Disney ride|
| image=TheseasattractionTheseasattractionpromo.jpg| caption='''The entrance sign to Promotional artwork for The Seas with Nemo & Friends'''
| park= Epcot
| land=Future World
| custom_label_1= Based on
| custom_value_1= Finding Nemo
| type=Dark Ride
}}
The Seas With Nemo & Friends is an attraction located in [[Epcot]]. If you are looking for the pavilion which houses the attraction see: [[The Seas with Nemo & Friends]].
==Attraction History==
The creation of The Seas with Nemo & Friends is attraction came about as part of a dark ride attraction which replaced the former Living Seas attraction in 2007. larger overhaul of The Living Seas pavilion. Since the late 1990s, the pavilion had originally included seen a movie theatersharp decrease in popularity, a dark ride (known as and the Sea Cabs) and Seabase Alpha, which featured various aquamarine exhibitslost of sponsor United Technologies. After entering In order to boost the Living Seaspopularity of the pavilion, guests would watch a preshow film titled in December 2003, Disney began to tie characters from the 2003 Disney-Pixar movie "Finding Nemo" into The Living Seas" before boarding their Sea Cabs and heading for the Seabase. While aboard their Sea Cabs, guests would travel through this integration originally took place mostly in the pavilion's 5.7 million gallon aquariumgift shop, before reaching their destination. The structure exterior and in some of the pavilion remained unchanged until 2001 when the Sea Cab portion of the ride Base Alpha exhibits, a larger change was discontinuedcoming <ref name= "Martin2"> https://www. Although the track youtube.com/watch?v=wj6VD1bJEYs </ref>. In 2004, Module 1C and Module 1D in Sea Cab's were still visible to guests, the ride ceased to functionBase Alpha closed. Now, after watching When the Seamodules reopened on November 16, 2004 they featured two new Finding Nemo based exhibits- "Bruce's video Shark World" (or skipping it altogetherin Module 1D) guests were required to walk to Seabase Alpha. This change led to and a decline new attraction [[Turtle Talk with Crush]] (in attendance for that pavilion, which many guests referred to as Module IC) <ref name="The Dead Seasbook">Pedersen, R. A. The EPCOT Explorer's Encyclopedia:. Following United Technologies dropping of itStates: Epcyclopedia, 2011. Print. </ref>. While Bruce's sponsorshipShark World was a playground for younger guests, and the success of the Turtle Talk With Crush was an interactive show that featured Disney-Pixar movie Finding Nemo's newest technology, it was decided that the pavilion would tie in with the movie"digital puppetry". In 2004Looking through an arcylric window, a new attraction was added to Seabase, titled, [[on Turtle Talk with Crush]], guests could talk and interact with Crush the Turtle from Finding Nemo. The new interactive show proved to be so popular, that it was Disney decided that the whole pavilion would receive a Finding to integrate Nemo theme. From 2004 through 2006, almost every part of into the entire Living Seas pavilion was renovated or removed. The exhibits in Seabase Alpha were changed In order to tie in with the the moviedo this, Turtle Talk with Crush was expanded, and the pavilions storeon August 21, restaurant and color scheme were completely changed. The final phase of the renovation came In 2005, when the whole pavilion was closed so that work could begin on to the public<ref name= "Martin2"/>. When creating a new dark ride attraction. The new attraction was originally referred for the pavilion, Imagineers decided to reuse the track from the closed Caribbean Coral Reef Ride (also known as the SeaCabs) <ref name= "The Clamobile attractionears"/>. This onmnimover attraction had originally transported guest's from the pavilion's preshow area, but it was eventually also titledthrough the 5.7 million gallon Caribbean Coral Reef Aquarium, The Seas with Nemo & Friendsand to Sea Base Alpha. To In order to create the ride new attraction however, Imagineers used the existing Sea Cab needed more track. To do this, plus additional track added to they extended the former location of original Caribbean Coral Reef Ride track 280 feet <ref name= "The Seasears" movie theater/>. The concept of Seas with Nemo & Friends (as the attraction, was that guests would board their Clamobiles and follow Merlin be called) now took up the area that previously housed The Living Seas' first preshow theater, holding area, Hydrolators and Dory as they once again searched queue for Nemothe Caribbean Coral Reef Ride <ref name= "Martin2"/>. To do thisFinally, characters from the film are projected onto screens, which guests pass by in their old SeaCab ride vehicles were replaced with the "ClamobileClamobiles". The Clamobiles are in fact restructured Sea Cabs, which are now shaped like clams. [[Image:seasconcept.jpg|300px|thumb|Concept art for that take guests through The Seas with Nemo & Friends<ref name= "Martin2"/>.]] Overseen by Imagineer Jerre Kirk oversaw the creation of the attraction, which features The Seas with Nemo & Friends featured cutting edge technologyto tell a story. The In order to create the attraction's first three scenes in the attraction (which are set in a coral reef. To create this environment), Imagineers used "very thin castings of fiberglass", which had never been done before<ref name= "ears">“Imagineers Bring Nemo's World to Life. The ” Eyes and Ears, 28 Sept. 2005. </ref>. Perhaps most impressively however, the final scene in the attraction The Seas with Nemo & Friends features the attraction's animated characters swimming with real marine life, in the pavilion's giant aquariumCoral Reef Aquarium. To In order to create this effect, Imagineers Disney needed a new kind another piece of projection breakthrough technology. Disney had never projected animation into an aquarium before, but Research and Development Designer, Alfredo Ayala, came up with the new projection technology that allowed Disney to create insert the scene, characters into the tank using special effect glass<ref name= "ears"/>. According to WDI Vice President Kathy Mangum:{{Quotation| “He [Alfredo] played with it, developed it, and set up a demonstration. That demonstration really opened up the opportunity for us to create the finale. The technology really drove what the creative application could be.” <ref name="ears"/>}} After much trial and error with the new projectors, Imagineers were able to create the environment that they wanted<ref name= "ears"/>. The final scene also features Nemo and In order to make sure the rest of animation in the characters singing "In attraction was in line with the Big Blue World" which was taken film, representatives from Pixar were on hand to help with the [[Finding Nemo - The Musical]] new attraction<ref name= "ears"/>. Finally, on January 24, 2007 the The Seas with Nemo and & Friends was officially rededicated and opened to the public<ref name= "Martin2"/>.
==Attraction Plot==
The Seas with Nemo & Friends is a dark ride attraction that tells guests set after the story of Nemo and Marlin subsequent to events in the movie Finding Nemo.
===Queue===
The Seas with Nemo & Friends begins when guests enter the pavilion. The first room that they encounter is themed to look like a beachwith a pier. Sand, high grass, beach signs, and wooden fence posts can all be found here. Oceanic sounds such as waves and birds cawing echo around guests as they make there way through the room. After exiting the beach room, guests enter a room that is themed to look like it's "underwater". The room is dimly lit and on the walls, guests can see schools of fish swim by. After exiting the underwater room, guests enter the loading area, where they board their Clamobiles.
===Main Ride===
[[Image:Bruce.jpg|thumb|400px|Bruce on The Seas with Nemo & Friends.]]The first scene that guests enter in the The Seas with Nemo & Friends takes place in a coral reef. Here, Nemo playfully hides from his father Marlin, who is panicked that he has lost Nemo his son again. In fact, Marlin shouts "not again!" before guests enter the next scene. In this area, Nemo can be seen swimming away from Mr. Ray and his classmates. As the entire class calls out for Nemo, one exclaims "(he's) swimming off to sea!". Mr. Ray however does not seem overly concerned, as he continues singing and calmly talking to his class.
After passing by a school of fish, guests see that Marlin has met up with Dory who predictably does not remember who Nemo is. Marlin, stunned by her lack of memory , reminds her that "We went on a huge adventure together!" Despite the clownfish's refresher, his pleas do little to spark her Dory's memory. As guests continue on, they can see many dozens of jellyfish hanging overhead. Although Marlin is alarmed by their presence, Dory does not seem overly concernedto be worried. Instead she treats the situation like a game. At this point the Clamobiles come across a frightening anglerfish, who is trying to eat Dory and Marlin despite the fact that he is stuck. While Marlin is predictably panicked by the situation, Dory taunts the fish.
As guests move further down into the ocean, they come upon a ship wreck shipwreck in a mine field. Here, Bruce the Great White Shark and Chum the Mako Shark are trying to find Nemo themselves. Bruce menacingly says, "Fish are friends, not food", but luckily Nemo swims by unnoticedand guests move on. The next scene takes place in the Eastern Atlantic Current where Nemo has met up with Crush and Squirt. The three of them (as well as other turtles and the Clamobiles) quickly swim by after being propelled by the current. The East Atlantic Current deposits guests into the large aquarium, where the animated characters swim along with alongside real fish. Here Nemo is reunited with his friends and family, and Nemo, Marlin, Dory, Crush, Squirt, and Mr. Ray and his class sing the song "In the Big Blue World". As guests return to the surface (the unloading area), they pass by a starfish who makes humorous quips as the Clamobiles pass move by.
==Cast==
'''Nemo'''- Alexander Gould<ref name= "D23"> https://d23.com/lights-camera-attraction/ </ref>
'''Marlin'''- Albert Brooks(Unconfirmed)
'''Dory'''- Ellen DeGeneres<ref> http://themeparks.about.com/od/disneyridereviews/fr/NemoRideEpcot.htm </ref>
'''Bruce'''- Barry Humphries(Unconfirmed)
'''Squirt'''- Nicholas Bird(Unconfirmed)
'''Mr. Ray'''- Bob Peterson(Unconfirmed)
''' Peach''''- Allison Janney <ref name="D23"/> <ref> http://www.doctordisney.com/2014/05/30/voices-behind-droids-star-tours/ </ref>=See the Attraction!==Imagineers===Imagineers who worked on the The Seas with Nemo & Friends include:
==Fun Facts and Trivia==* In recent years guests have noticed that their are less fish in the main aquarium then there used to be <ref> http://mike151.web.officelivelostepcot.com/TheSeasWithNemolivingseas.html </ref>.aspx
* The attraction's climatic scene features Nemo and the rest of the characters singing "In the Big Blue World" which was taken from the [[Finding Nemo - The Musical]] attraction <ref> http://themeparks.about.com/od/disneyridereviews/fr/NemoRideEpcot.htm</ref>. ==References==
