The Seas with Nemo & Friends (Attraction)
The Sea's With Nemo and Friends is an attraction located in Epcot. If you are looking for the pavilion which houses the attraction see: The Sea's With Nemo & Friends.
Attraction History
The Seas with Nemo & Friends replaced the Living Seas attraction in the year 2006. The Living Seas attraction had orignally included a movie theater, a dark ride (known as teh Sea Cabs) and Seabase Alpha, which featured various aquamarine exhibits. In 2001, the Sea Cab portion of the ride was removed, although the ride track remained. Following United Technologies dropping of it's sponsorship, and the success of the Disney-Pixar movie Finding Nemo, it was decied that the pavilion would be rethemed. From 2004 through 2006, almost every part of the pavilion was given a Finding Nemo theme. The exhibits in Seabase Alpha featured characters from the movie, the popular attraction Turtle Talk with Crush was added, and the pavilions store was completely renovated. Finally, in 2005, the pavilion was closed so that work could begin on a new dark ride attraction titled, The Seas with Nemo & Friends. The ride uses the existing Sea Cab track, plus additional track added to the former location of the Living Sea's theater, to tell guests a story about Nemo and his friends, which takes place after the movie. To do this, characters are projected onto screens, which guests pass by in their "Clamobile". The Clamobile's were in fact restuctured Sea Cabs, which are now shaped like clams.
The finale of the ride, shows characters from the movie swimming with real fish, in the pavilion's giant aquarium. The first three scenes in the attraction are set in a coral reef. To create this enviorment, Imagineers used "very thin castings of fiberglass", which had never been done before. The final scene in the attraction, featuring the animated characters swimming with real marine life, required a new kind of technology. Disney had never projected animation into an aquarium before, but Research and Develpoment Designer, Alfredo Ayala, came up with a new projection technology that allowed Diseny to create the scene.
