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[Horizons '83]

They need to demo the whole building. It's a joke now; thanks to places like the Georgia Aquarium.

Eh, I live in the Atlanta area, been twice since it opened. Very nice, but not really something I go back to often. Think I have spent more time at the Living Seas, oddly enough.

 

[zipadee999]

When it opened it was an integrated attraction with a unique story and experience.

Now it’s just a rundown, sad remnant of itself.

Oh, but with Nemo slapped on it as lipstick.

I still think it’s a worthwhile attraction. It’s clean and the animals are well-cared for. It’s just lost the original goal. Now it’s just a slightly above average aquarium. The original experience of ‘going to the bottom of the ocean’ was an incredible idea. Most aquariums have you looking into small enclosures made to look like the sea. What the original Living Seas tried to sell was that you were in a small base and the aquariums were the vast expanse of the ocean. That’s a very special idea and it’s a shame it has been left behind.

 

[UNCgolf]

I still think it’s a worthwhile attraction. It’s clean and the animals are well-cared for. It’s just lost the original goal. Now it’s just a slightly above average aquarium. The original experience of ‘going to the bottom of the ocean’ was an incredible idea. Most aquariums have you looking into small enclosures made to look like the sea. What the original Living Seas tried to sell was that you were in a small base and the aquariums were the vast expanse of the ocean. That’s a very special idea and it’s a shame it has been left behind.

I think the original pavilion with the full Seabase Alpha concept was one of Imagineering's all-time triumphs. It was up there with most of the rest of Future World as one of the best things they've ever built at WDW.

As a kid, it made the biggest impression on me of anything at WDW outside of maybe some combo of Horizons, original Imagination, and Spaceship Earth.

 

[Dutch Inn '76]

That is what was genius about the original iteration of the pavilion....Yes it was an aquarium, but more than that, it was a journey to a Seabase... It was never just about the aquarium... because as you say, there are other places with aquariums.... They need to bring back the journey...

Yeah - except they've abandoned all of that pretext and design.

They need to demo and start over.

 

[Dutch Inn '76]

Eh, I live in the Atlanta area, been twice since it opened. Very nice, but not really something I go back to often. Think I have spent more time at the Living Seas, oddly enough.

I don't live in Atlanta anymore, but I've been to the GA at least 4 times, and the aquariums in Baltimore and Chattanooga several times as well. They're all much better than the Seas as it is utilized today.

We skip it most of the time.

 

[Bocabear]

Yeah - except they've abandoned all of that pretext and design.

They need to demo and start over.

There is absolutely no reason they could not go back to a similar design and feel...Make it a Seabase again...or tell a new story, but make the creation and exploration of the seas a major part of it... yeah yeah, the IP Mandate...but that mandate has not helped this pavilion...but has in fact made it less-than.
unless they are thinking 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea....(which is an IP)

 

[Horizons '83]

I don't live in Atlanta anymore, but I've been to the GA at least 4 times, and the aquariums in Baltimore and Chattanooga several times as well. They're all much better than the Seas as it is utilized today.

We skip it most of the time.

To each their own, my wife and I always stop in, not even to ride nemo, but to see the dolphins and the exhibits. It makes for a nice break from the hustle and bustle of the park.

 

[Dutch Inn '76]

It makes for a nice break from the hustle and bustle of the park.

Exactly.