Walt Disney Imagineering: rollercoasters and rides

Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage opened in Tomorrowland at Disneyland in 2007, replacing the Submarine Voyage that ran from 1959 to 1998. Eight of the original 1959 submarine hulls were refurbished and converted to electric power, and each carries 40 passengers through a lagoon of about 6.3 million US gallons. The trip of roughly fourteen minutes passes Marlin, Dory and Nemo, and ends with whales and a volcanic eruption. It reopened in 2022 with updated effects.

Journey Into Imagination with Figment runs through the Imagination pavilion at Epcot. The ride first opened in 1983, and this version dates from June 2002. Riders travel in modified omnimover vehicles with seven seats, through five labs based on the senses: Sound, Sight, Smell, Touch and Taste. Figment causes mischief in each one and appears in every show scene. The song One Little Spark, by the Sherman brothers, runs through the ride, which takes about seven and a half minutes.

Living with the Land is a boat ride through greenhouses in The Land pavilion at Epcot, opened in October 1982. It starts with theatrical scenes of a thunderstorm in a forest, a rainforest, a desert and an American prairie, then glides through working greenhouses. Growing methods on show include hydroponics in sand, perlite and coconut coir, and aeroponics, where roots are misted with nutrients. The tour takes about fifteen minutes and shows how farming can be efficient and sustainable.

Seas with Nemo & Friends is a dark ride in the Epcot pavilion that opened in January 1986 as The Living Seas and was rethemed after Finding Nemo, rededicated in 2007. Riders travel in clamobiles, clamshell-styled omnimover vehicles for two or three, in search of Nemo with Marlin and Dory. Scenes include a coral reef, jellyfish, an anglerfish, a submarine wreck with sharks and the East Australian Current, before the ride enters the pavilion's large aquarium of 5.7 million US gallons.

Spaceship Earth is the ride inside the 55 m geodesic sphere that is Epcot's landmark, opened in October 1982. Riders in Omnimover-type vehicles seating four spiral up through the sphere on a tour of the history of communication, from early language and cave paintings through hieroglyphs, the alphabet and the printing press to mass media and the internet. At the top the vehicles turn, and riders travel down backward while touchscreens build an animated picture of their future. The ride takes about fifteen minutes.