Originally Posted By teddibubbles I copy many of the videos online at visions fatastic to see wdw. what is living seas like please. I wish i could see many of the things there but its kind of limited.
Originally Posted By teddibubbles is it a fish tank? ride? allso somewhere along time ago i saw a sub looked like captain nemos sahip what was that? was it just like our subs at dl?
Originally Posted By A Happy Haunt It's a ride that follows the story of Nemo & then it's a HUGE fish tank!! There are also a manatea tank & Turtle Talk w/ Crush. Did u check YouTube?
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer The ORIGINAL Living Seas? It was great...a fully immersive, entertaining, intelligent experience. To someone that experienced it as a child, it was VERY believable. You felt a if you were beneath the Sea, in some futuristic base. As for the experience itself, you entered into a small room whose queue took you through almost a museum of sorts, all types of diving and nautical artifacts displayed. There was always an amusing reference to 20K Under the Sea here, which I loved...It wasn't uncommon that I had ridden that ride a few hours or days earlier. After that, you made your way into a "holding room" for "The Story of The Seas"...your preshow. Though it was just a simple movie, it was powerful. Dramatic music, beautiful narration, imagery...It was EPCOT Center at it's finest. With the Preshow concluded, guests would make their way to a Hydrolator to "descend" to SeaBase Alpha. Essentially, the effect was a elevator in water. It was cool. And realistic if you suspended your disbelief...or were about 7 or 8 a the time. Once you made your descent, you boarded a Sea Cab, and made your way to Sea Base Alpha with a scenic journey past all the tanks. Simplicity, really, the cabs were Omnimovers, open air, and you just glided past, and looked. Very calming...and the theming kept it perfectly in theme. Once you arrived at SeaBase Alpha, it was all up to you...Either looking at the tanks some more..or watching a presentation...or just walking around. Guest flow was always maintained by the steady flow of SeaCabs, punctuated by the Hydrolators, so it never got too crowded. When you exited the pavilion, Hydrolators would take you up to the "surface" and back into FW. You actually felt as if you went down beneath the sea, saw the future of marine technology, and came back up. I loved it. It felt real. Now this whole illusion is gone, there is no preshow, there are no hydrolators, up or down, there is only a ride, on finding Nemo. the ride is good...But it's not right for EPCOT. There's nothing futuristic about it. It's mildly informative, but te illusion of going beneath the Sea to see the future is gone. Sunlight streams into what's left of Sea Base Alpha, and the theme of the pavilion is overtaken by synergy, and feels very disconnected to the rest of EPCOT. There's no future there. No optimism. No practical science, even....it's watered down biology. And while that's a good topic...it's better in DAK. EPCOT's Future World is just that, about the FUTURE. What once was probably by favorite pavilion in 1998 (After Horizons and JII were gone), is now my least favorite. And now that I've depressed myself, I think it's time for breakfast! LOL... Anyone else miss TLS?
Originally Posted By HokieSkipper ^^^^Don't let Mr. Debbie Downer up here ruin the new Seas for you. It's still a fantastically fun attraction. If you ever head to Epcot I would definitely recommend it.
Originally Posted By teddibubbles wow it sounds lovely.. if any of you know some cool stuff like that i could see video of please tell me.. im not a rollercoaster person. but this stuff sounds cool allso one time i THOUGHT there was a gondola type boat. it looked like it took you under ground and you saw some kind of ride too. not just a boat ride.
Originally Posted By A Happy Haunt this is a video of the ride part of TLS.. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6EuqxYh6Ks&feature=related" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...=related</a>
Originally Posted By A Happy Haunt as for a gondola boat maybe it was Living With the Land <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_qqLCoq818" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...qLCoq818</a>
Originally Posted By WDW Imagineer Gondola is Living with the land. The ride you may be thinking of that you saw is the restaurant they have there because it can be seen from living with the land. Great ride
Originally Posted By libertysquare76 <Anyone else miss TLS?> Yes indeed. Nemo is ok but I admit to enjoying the educational value of the original (and future world as a whole come to think of it!)
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer I do too. It doesn't even have to be educational...I just miss the inspiration and the optimism in the attractions in EPCOT. That's what really made EPCOT Center special.
Originally Posted By WDW Imagineer ^The whole park seems to lack this inspiration it once had. Example, spaceship earth. I mean, have you seen the new ending? It really is a reflection on how this park has changed from the promise of tomorrow to toon town
Originally Posted By libertysquare76 I agree, I was a tad dissapointed with the ending and in fairness, don't really think Dame Judi Dench's narration is an improvement on Jeremy Irons.
Originally Posted By WDW Imagineer <<don't really think Dame Judi Dench's narration is an improvement on Jeremy Irons. >> It is in some areas. But overall, you're 100% correct
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer >>>^The whole park seems to lack this inspiration it once had. Example, spaceship earth. I mean, have you seen the new ending? It really is a reflection on how this park has changed from the promise of tomorrow to toon town<<< Yep...Totally agreed. SSE07 really falls flat in the respect that SSE94 covered. That sense of wonder and optimism s gone from the last 5th of the ride. However, I do have to applaud the work on the first 4/5ths of SSE07...It looks beautiful, and the script isn't THAT big of an issue. It's the finale that falls flat.
Originally Posted By WDW Imagineer Oh don't get me wrong, i really like SSE07. I really do, it's probably one of my favorite things about the park. It's just the whole idea that scares me. Look at Epcot of the 80's. It's just sad how it's changing, it really is
Originally Posted By leobloom I never much liked the Living Seas, perhaps because I always saw it as Disney's blatant half-assed attempt to steal business from Sea World. I've never really been impressed with the aquarium at the Living Seas, which looks barren and much like an aquarium, not an ocean. I think I could find better aquariums in most major metropolitan cities. There's a lack of good signs identifying the sea life swimming around the tanks. I guess the two "sections" I enjoy most today are the manatee tank and the holding area for Turtle Talk. And the ride is a vast improvement over the 45-second Sea Cab ride ("what, that's it?"). But, admittedly, the Nemo ride is still an underachiever.
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer I mirror that thought. It's my favorite ride, still...but it used to be SO much better. That goes for ALL of EPCOT, as a matter of fact...
