![]() The Disneyland edition of this attraction closed in 1998 but was brought back to life as Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage in 2007. At park opening in 1955, Walt presented a walk-through experience of sets from his 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea movie production, whilst later the iconic Submarine Voyage would literally take guests below water level to discover the hidden mysteries of the deep. This walk-through attraction is totally unique to Disneyland Park at Disneyland Paris, but can be seen as a subtle nod to one of the very first attractions of Disneyland in California.Each vehicle uses the same "dry for wet" technology of the giant squid window in Paris, their double-glazed windows filling with water to simulate the dive below water. Here, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is a unique dark ride where guests take a simulated elevator to the seabed to ride in "Neptune" mini-subs through an underwater landscape. A more grandiose attraction based on the Nautilus did at least find home at Tokyo DisneySea, the second park at Disney's Japanese resort.Through the use of bubbles and currents, the (very dry) animatronic squid can appear to be floating in water. The giant squid attack scene uses a film technique known as "dry for wet", whereby the only water involved in the scene is inside the glass window in front of you.At the inauguration, Discoveryland show producer Tim Delanely presented Tom Sherman with a certificate officially declaring him "Admiral of the Nautilus". After years building scale models of the famous sea craft, to design and build a full-scale replica was truly a dream come true. For the design of the Nautilus, Verne was inspired by the French Navy submarine Plongeur, a model of which he had seen at the 1867 Exposition Universelle. Verne named the Nautilus after Robert Fulton's real-life submarine Nautilus. For Les Mystères du Nautilus, Tom created a complete walk-through plan of the submarine first dreamt up by Jules Verne in 1869 and saw it right through to completion, on time and under budget. Nautilus is the fictional submarine belonging to Captain Nemo featured in Jules Verne's novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas and The Mysterious Island. In the film, for example, there was no need to show how one chamber connected to another, where the Grand Salon was in relation to the Diving Chamber. The attraction was a labour of love for artist and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea expert Tom Sherman who, despite being in remission from cancer, took helm on the project to perfectly recreate the original sets and props of the film - and then some.Construction began at the same time as Space Mountain just behind the lagoon, although Les Mystères du Nautilus was completed one year earlier, in July 1994.Original dreams of Discoveryland from the land's show producer, Tim Delaney, could have seen the Nautilus submarine actually moored inside, as part of the vast Discovery Mountain complex! This enormous show building, at least twice the size of the final Space Mountain, would have housed the roller coaster only in its upper levels, with a large free-roaming cavern below home a lagoon where a full-scale Nautilus restaurant could be found - complete with aquarium fish in the windows!. ![]()
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