Turtle Talk with Crush, Interactive theater show at EPCOT, Walt Disney World Resort, United States.
Turtle Talk with Crush is an interactive theater show in a climate-controlled auditorium where guests speak with an animated sea turtle displayed on a large screen. The performance combines film, animation and real-time dialogue as the audience sits on benches and asks questions to the swimming character.
This attraction opened in November 2004 at The Living Seas pavilion in EPCOT and used a then-new technology for animated real-time conversation. By 2009 the concept had been adopted and adapted across several Disney parks worldwide.
Crush addresses children by describing what they wear, as when he calls out a "dudette in the pink shell" on the floor below. The show is improvised, so its content shifts with each audience's questions. In the Tokyo DisneySea version, a museum displays photographs, drawings and newspaper articles about the S.S. Columbia and its undersea observation room.
The theater holds about 200 seats, with children invited to sit on a carpeted area at the front and adults on benches behind them. A host moderates and picks guests for questions, and Crush often names them by their clothing. The hydrophone hangs at the upper right of the screen.
A hidden performer controls both the animation and the voice of the turtle simultaneously, responding spontaneously to audience comments and questions. Every show therefore unfolds differently depending on what questions are asked and how guests participate.
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