Pixar is everywhere at Disney parks

St. Petersburg Times: Now that the Walt Disney Co. owns all of Pixar Animation Studios, the parks are giving a lot more face time to the computer animation pioneer's characters. These include:

• Finding Nemo: The Musical, with an original score by Robert Lopez of Avenue Q fame and a collection of Lion King-worthy stage puppets, debuts this fall at Disney's Animal Kingdom.
  
  
• The long-dormant 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea ride at Disneyland in California is being re-opened with a Nemo theme, too. But the drained remnants of its abandoned sibling ride in Florida will remain hidden under a kids play area in Magic Kingdom.
  
  
• The Living Seas pavilion at EPCOT is being refreshed and renamed the Seas with Nemo & Friends this fall. Inside, the popular Turtle Talk with Crush show will live on, but a new ride will transport patrons in "clam-mobiles" through what had been a lengthy walking tour around the huge aquarium. The ride features a new story line for Nemo the clown fish, this time told in animation projected on a backdrop of an aquarium filled with live sea creatures.
  
  
• In early 2007, a new attraction opens in Magic Kingdom that is a takeoff on the joke-filled Laugh Floor Comedy Club from Monsters Inc.