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Epcot Center on a Weekday. I still like to take photos of people taking selfies. I got two in one shot here.
Which Park has the best Christmas Tree?
I went to EPCOT extra early to to take a few photos of the park before it opened while I waited to practice with the Candlelight Choir and help the cast members learn how to group and move the guest choirs. It was a fun event, but I certainly had more fun that morning taking photos. I cam across the Christmas tree and noticed they were sweeping away the water from pressure washing the ground that...
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The former light tunnel in Imagination. This exhibit has revamped a few times, the ride portion is still open. Nearly all the exhibits have updated since the 80s. However, The Land and the International Showcase exhibits have largely remained the same. The Oceans (if I named that right) updated in 2007.
Inside Disneyworld's Epcot Center, Orlando, FL.
I still live in Chicago, of course :) . I just have not gone out yet to take pictures of this beautiful city and the surrounding areas. Meanwhile, to keep my stream going, you will be seeing more pictures from a recent vacation in, at least, a few more days.
The Seas with Nemo & Friends, Epcot Guests are invited to come down to the shore and dive in to discover a whole new world. The journey starts outside the pavilion, where waves crash upon the rocks and a flock of seagulls squawk, "Mine. Mine. Mine."
Around the corner, the queue winds down Coral Caves Beach past dunes and tall grasses. Along the way are all sorts of fun graphics that not only help set the scene, but refer to characters and elements from the Disney-Pixar film Finding Nemo... as well as foreshadow moments from the ride ahead.
In December of 2003, Disney started re-theming The Living Seas into a new pavilion based on the recently released Pixar film Finding Nemo. Most of the transformation started in exterior elements, but in January of 2004, the interior began to see change as well. On November 16, 2004, Turtle Talk with Crush opened in what was once Module 1C, or the Earth Systems exhibit. The show's unexpected success was overwhelming to the pavilion, causing plans to be made to move Turtle Talk to a larger area of the pavilion.
Turtle Talk with Crush was just the beginning of changes to The Living Seas. On August 21, 2005, The Living Seas closed for its transformation into a new pavilion called The Seas with Nemo & Friends. Part of the pavilion reopened in late November of 2005. The exit Hydrolators were gone, replaced with glass doors that served both as a temporary entrance and the exit. While 'Sea Base Alpha' was already re-themed to Finding Nemo, the entire original pre-show area was still being rebuilt. Decor and signage was replaced, and scientific displays replaced by Nemo-themed versions of them. Turtle Talk with Crush was still as popular as it had been before.
Now, the Seacabs were boarded up for a good reason: they were being re-themed and rebuilt.
Outside, the facade and mural were changed with some additions, depicting species of sea life seen in Finding Nemo.
Throughout 2006, construction walls hid away the undergoing-reconstruction pre-show area. With the former 'Sea Base Alpha' opened, work progressed on the new queue areas and the new 'Clamobile' attraction that the Seacabs were being rebuilt as. The project resulted in the complete removal of the remaining Living Seas pre-show theater, the entrance Hydrolators, the holding areas, and the Seacabs queue line. A new themed queue area would replace all of these, replacing the Hydrolator story. Hydrolator Three and Theater 1 were replaced by a number of new dark ride sets. The former Seacabs ride was lengthened by 280 feet, but the final section still took place inside the tank. The tank and the new show scenes received a new projection technology. The existing Seacabs were given a clam shell shape to them and renamed 'Clamobiles'. The entrance also received three animatronic seagulls, who, as in the movie, constantly squawk "Mine! Mine! Mine!"
On October 10, 2006, the walls in front of the entrance to The Living Seas, now The Seas with Nemo & Friends, came down, and the temporary entrance/exit became just an exit. The Seas with Nemo & Friends was rededicated on January 24, 2007.
Turtle Talk with Crush closed five days after the pavilion was rededicated. Its unusual success was overwhelming the pavilion. When it opened, it occupied Module 1C, formerly Earth Systems. Reopening a few weeks later, Module 1A was closed and its displays moved to Module 1C, 1A becoming the new entrance to Turtle Talk with Crush. A corridor was constructed from the module into the second preshow theater, which had been unused since United Technologies dropped sponsorship of The Living Seas, when Disney had built a bypass corridor so guests could skip the attraction preshow.
A loosely related attraction, Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage has also been built at Disneyland which is located in the same area as the original Submarine Voyage, which closed on September 9 1998. This attraction opened on June 11th 2007.
The Seas with Nemo & Friends
Walt Disney World EPCOT Orlando Fl.
EPCOT (Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow)
Disneyworld, Florida
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It was pretty awesome that the Belle actress arrives at the Meet & Greet location with her head seemingly in a book like this - and she doesn't have the "handler" quite so obviously as others do. Very in character and charming!
She was my favorite character interaction, followed by Lilo & Stitch at Animal Kingdom.