Cheap garbage.
As a big fan of Epcot it pains me to say that, but it's true. Compared to Disneyland's Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage, the Epcot version is cheap and dumb. But then, that Sea Cab ride past aquarium windows was always kind of hokey and underwhelming, even in the 1980's. If we'd had the Internet in 1986 when
The Living Seas, Presented by United Technologies opened the online fan forums would have skewered the place for cheaping out so much and cutting so much from the original WDI artwork for that pavilion.
In 1982 WDI was saying we were going to get this...
But in 1986 we just ended up with this...
Heck, now that I think about it, The Seas With Nemo And Friends is a big improvement over the 1980's version. Even without the Hydrolators. Sometimes I don't envy Disney execs in the 2010's, because there's just no pleasing many hardcore fans, especially when we hold up the 1970's and 1980's as some mythical Golden Age when in reality there were plenty of budget cuts and lowered expectations back then too.