The Seas with Nemo & Friends, Public aquarium in Epcot, Florida, US
The Seas with Nemo & Friends is a pavilion and aquarium in Epcot's World Nature section at Walt Disney World, Florida. Its 5.7 million US gallons of tank volume make it the second-largest aquarium in the U.S. and ninth-largest in the world. The building houses a dark ride, Turtle Talk with Crush, and the Coral Reef Restaurant.
The facility opened in 1986 as The Living Seas and ranked among the largest artificial seawater aquariums of its time. The original concept used hydraulic elevators to create a simulated descent to the ocean floor before the venue received a thematic redesign in later years.
The pavilion takes its theme from the 2003 Pixar film Finding Nemo, and the ride's clamshell vehicles are called Clamobiles. Three Audio-Animatronic seagulls at the entrance flap their wings and say "Mine! Mine! Mine!", as the gulls do in the film. Turtle Talk with Crush, a talk-show-style show, opened in 2004 and proved so popular that it was moved to a larger theatre.
The facility is open during all park hours and provides accessible routes to most viewing areas. Mornings and late afternoons tend to be less crowded around the glass panels, giving visitors more room to follow the animals.
The three Audio-Animatronic seagulls at the entrance flap their wings and call "Mine! Mine! Mine!", a line taken from the seagulls in Finding Nemo. They were installed when the pavilion was re-themed, and the ride's Clamobiles were lengthened by 280 feet (85 m) through the space of the former preshow theatre, with the last section still running inside the tank.
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