Answer: An educational attraction where guests board sea cabs to take them underwater to Seabase Alpha; you return to the surface using hydrolators.
I thought you took the hydrolators "down" to where you boarded the sea cabs too. To me it will always be the Living Seas. ; However I have to remember to use the new names for things when I'm at WDW... On my last trip, the bus driver looked at my mom like she had 3 heads when she asked if this was the bus to the Disney Village...
My memory is fuzzy too... for some reason I vaguely remember getting in them for the trip down to the sea cabs and then back up to "the surface" again with the trip to the surface being much shorter than the trip down. In any case, I think they should have kept them because they really added to the illusion of going under the sea, which I think is somewhat lacking in the Nemo version. ;
As I recall, the hydrolators came after the seacabs and the movie. ; It took me two or three trips up and down before I figured out that we weren't really going up and down.
Wow, what an obscure photo. ; So now we are posting random photos of plants around Disney? ;P ; I think the lighting and background help to discover the location of the photo. ; Also, my mother still calls it Disney Village and throws me for a loop every time since I have only known it as Downtown Disney.