It’s just making sure everybody’s on the same page.” “From the beginning, it’s about getting the right people in the room to talk about exactly what we’re going to be doing where and when. “It’s several different projects within one overall project - there’s projectors, underwater lighting, XY mirrors, show effects, coral, painting and seaweed,” Martinez said during an online video interview.

The massive refurbishment project required nearly 500 Disneyland workers and contractors from a wide host of trades and specialties who all had to work side by side in the submarine lagoon and tunnel.

SEE ALSO: ‘Finding Dory’ octopus swims into Disneyland submarine lagoon Every single part of that has sometimes seven different layers of paint. “It’s just absolutely amazing,” Disneyland Resort Lead Ager and Grainer Nancy Hayes said. “It’s a one-of-a-kind experience you don’t get outside of Disneyland - unless you’re a submarine captain,” Dobrzycki said during an online video interview. Sourcing that much aquarium-grade seaweed required six months of lead time.ĭisneyland will reopen the Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage on Monday, July 25 after conducting a series of employee previews aboard the renovated attraction. Dozens of pallets of brightly-colored sea algae in 3-foot-tall bins were stowed backstage under the monorail tracks during the massive refurbishment. It’s like, ‘Who makes seaweed and can we get the factories rolling?’”ĭisneyland added 12,000 linear feet of faux seaweed to the Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage during the yearlong overhaul of the venerable 1959 underwater attraction - enough seaweed to stretch for more than 2 miles if laid end to end. “It’s like going to the store and saying, ‘We want all the seaweed that is currently existing in the world.’ It’s not even a joke. “It’s a lot of seaweed,” Walt Disney Imagineering Art Director Michael Dobrzycki said. Even something as simple as buying seaweed for the Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage is a daunting challenge when you’re talking about the major overhaul of a Disneyland underwater attraction that stretches for acres under Tomorrowland and Fantasyland.

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