LITTLE NEMO'S SLUMBERING SEAS
Set sail into the dreams of Little Nemo, boarding adorable yellow submarines that house six people. Venturing into the Sea of Dreams, guests can look through their shared portholes at the wondrous realms of melodious mermaids, literal schools of fish, and Professor Genius' bubble factory. Beware though, for drifting too far down leads to the forbidden Abyss of Nightmares...
Bonus:
Flip and the Octopus
In an animated short, Little Nemo's troublesome friend Flip loses a lucky coin to a kleptomaniac octopus, leading to a frantic chase through the sea.
Just when you think it’s another Nemo and friends’ attraction from the title, it’s not. Love the little twist using this IP, one I get to learn about, to tie into our challenge. Based on the ride and vehicles, I assume this is a simple dark ride in the vein of Disney’s classic Fantasyland style attractions, and it is a solid choice. A bit of adventure, a bit of beauty, a bit of frivolity with the bubble factory and the inclusion of a bit of evil/dark subject matter that stays true to the classic Disney attractions, and I wish they wouldn’t shy away from. Short and sweet explanation, but sounds like an enjoyable, little ride.
Bonus (+1) – A kleptomaniac octopus you say?
Great minds think alike (@WaltWhiz1901)!
Atlantis Submarine Exploration
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At Shanghai Kong Disneyland’s Adventure Isle (near Storyhouse Stage next to Pirates Cove), guests will be able to join Milo Thatch and his Atlantaen wife Kida in a (yellow) submarine exploration of the lost city of Atlantis. Using similar technology to the 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea at Tokyo DisneySea (e.g. monorails on tracks with water/bubbles in window panes to give a submersion effect), guests will encounter the futuristic technology of the Atlanteans as well as a scary face-to-face with a leviathan.
Bonus–Atlantis: The Creatures of the Lost City
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In this 3rd title of the Atlantis series, Milo and Kida, their children, and others like Gaetan Moliere journey out in a submarine to research the unique creatures (including some not-so-friendly ones) of Atlantis.
Some Disney’s Atlantis love is good to see. The first film has grown on me over the years, the second not so much, and I’ve tinkered myself with an occasional Atlantis inspired attractions in the larger comps. Piggybacking off 20k Leagues for this attraction but tailoring it for Atlantis and Shanghai (or is somewhere between Shanghai and Hong Kong?
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Bonus (+1) – A 3rd Atlantis film? I could be for it, as long as its not straight to video quality.
Replacing the Pixar Short movie theater in the Imagination Pavilion in Epcot, Disney created a new theater show featuring a combination of live actors, animatronics, and special effects. The plot follows an Imagination Institute presentation of an alien artifact discovered deep in the ocean by a yellow submarine that conjures up things you can imagine. The show goes off the rails when the presenter (terrified of public speaking) conjures up increasingly funny and disastrous things only to be saved by Dreamfinder who helps them imagine their way out of the predicament.
Disney finally settled on a script and movie for their Dreamfinder and Figment characters.
I am all for diversions that aren’t rides in the parks, but the reliance on playing films in so many spaces with Disney always grinds me a bit so it was nice to see this theater repurposed and you to go a different angle with a show instead of a ride. A submarine fits fine with the wackiness of Figment and Dreamfinder as evidenced by our own prompt at The Beatles. Great to see a mix of actors and animatronics in this space, and imagine this would be an uber popular show in the park.
Bonus (+1) – Who doesn’t want to see a Figment and Dreamfinder film?
This looks really fun so I thought I'd throw my hat into the ring!
Seabase Escape!
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Acting as a new addition to the original defunct version of Seabase Alpha in EPCOT Center, Seabase Escape! is a thrilling rollercoaster/dark ride hybrid across the ocean floor. After boarding enclosed yellow sub pods to visit an undersea wildlife hotspot, unexpected geothermal activity sends riders on a thrilling expedition through the wonders of the Living Seas.
Welcome to the competition! Love the idea of a sea-based (see what I did there) coaster in EPCOT. Would make for a great balance to the park with Guardians on the other side of Future World, yes I still call it that. You’d obviously need to build an expansion to the existing pavilion, but there is space. You still had another sentence, so I’d love to hear more about any scenes, layout or queue, but for a short elevator pitch, you’ve got me hooked!
20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA
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As a plussing of the walkthrough attraction, this water coaster ride expansion for Discoveryland in Disneyland Paris has the guests explore glistening caves, ancient ruins, and industrial steampunk campsites as Nemo recruits. The ride includes a queue scene passing by a Yellow submarine and other failed prototypes as a tribute to the legacy of submarines in Disney parks.
Bonus
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20,000 Leagues will also get an animated remake using 3D/2D hybrid animation similar to Paperman with some Atlantis and SEA connection easter eggs for diehard steampunk fans to dissect.
Back to Disneyland Paris! Very cool to see almost all of the Disney parks utilized this round in some fashion. Expanding on the park’s walkthrough makes perfect sense to easily tie into the surroundings. It would probably take some logistics work, but I think there probably is a way space wise to expand onto the existing walkthrough and fit this in outside of the park’s current footprint. As a water coaster, is this entirely enclosed, outdoors, etc.? Would like to get just a bit more info on that aspect of the ride, but otherwise a cool idea.
Bonus (+1) – Love the idea of an animated version of 20K leagues. Spot on.
INSIDE OUT PRESENTS
the SUBLIMINA-RINE
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The subconscious mind is often described as an empty, waveless ocean, yet underneath lies a limitless depth of
secrets and
subliminal knowledge. Coming soon to Pixar Pier, join
Joy,
Sadness,
Anger,
Disgust,
Fear,
Anxiety, and
co. aboard the
Subliminarine, a fantasical yellow sub on a deep-sea-dive through Riley's subconscious...
to where no emotion has gone before.
The attraction occurs in Pixar Pier's Bay, taking the submarines and ride system from
Finding Nemo's Submarine Voyage while Tomorrowland undergoes a major northward expansion.
BONUS
This attraction canonically occurs between Inside Out 2 and 3 (developing a friendship for Anxiety and the other emotions after past film pitted them as rivals), however, Inside Out 3 will feature the
Subliminarine in a minor cameo role.
A large scale Inside Out attraction is due at some point in a Disney park beyond Emotional Whirlwind right? Picturing Riley’s many emotions on a yellow submarine already has me smiling already. I do wonder about the logistics with World of Color in that space. Does that go away? While the subs themselves from Nemo are maybe not the most ideal operations wise, repurposing these from makes a ton of business sense. Subliminarine is a fantastic name as well!
Bonus (+1) – We know Inside Out 3 is happening at some point, but love the tie-in, even if only a cameo of the sub.
The southern sun is rising on a land of burning deserts and breathing waters, as EPCOT invites you to experience Australia in The Wonders of Down Under, a fourteen-minute panoramic showcase of a nation’s peoples, frontiers, and spirit. Guests will swim beside submarines exploring rainbow reefs, dance around the fire among the Aborigines, and run with the wild animals across the Outback on the adventure of a lifetime, an adventure you can only find in the great Down Under.
An addition to World Showcase? Nice. My folks are in Sydney as we speak so I immediately connect to this. A panoramic showcase is in perfect keeping with some of the best of EPCOT, and probably not actually out of the realm of possibility with them actually doing work on some films in recent years. The film sounds it would definitely put you right in the action so I imagine some pretty cool shots. You got the sub in there in a small way, but that was all that was technically required. If Australia was coming to Walt Disney World, part of me would probably rather see it end up at Animal Kingdom, but hard to complain a World Showcase add.
DIVE INTO IMAGINATION
A brand-new retheme of the dying Journey Into Imagination with Figment brings us back into the beauty of the original with Dive into Imagination, a suspended dark ride featuring a ride vehicle lineup of none other than Dream Finder's magical submersibles - the Red, Yellow, Orange, Green, Blue, and Violet submarines! Each submarine has its unique "feelings" and preferences that make your journey into the Seas of Imagination (a literal ocean of the mind) special - perhaps in the Reality Reef, Blue Submarine make equations dance around the sea, and if you're in the Green Submarine, passing thought-fish would shout out interesting words ("dingleberry!"), and so on... The journey between the three realms- Reality Reef, Creative Cavern, and Abstract Abyss with the additional finale scene Imagination Ocean highlights the hopes and dreams of we the people, exploring every single aspect of imagination that makes it imagination while making it a worthy successor to the original.
edit: my goofy brain thought it was due 12:00 Disneyland time
Similar in ways to Outbound’s Subliminarine, but unique enough to stand on its own. I’m not sure any of us will be alive to ever see Journey Into Imagination formally redone, but like Rock Wren, really like how the sub fits with the characters from the pavilion. A suspended dark ride is absolutely perfect for both the vehicle and the journey. Plenty of great description here and visually I think this would be really, really nice. A bit of variety depending on which sub you get is also a very cool idea. Everything about this is really spot on hitting all the right notes.
Bonus (+1) – Donald under water and dealing with imagination. Enough said.
Donald Duck in the Imagination Ocean! 
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