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 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. 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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