The septopus - or seven-tentacled octopus - is voiced by “Modern Family” actor Ed O’Neill. In “Finding Dory,” Hank is an escape artist with camouflaging abilities and a penchant for solitude. SEE ALSO: How Disneyland updated ‘Fantasmic’ and ‘World of Color’ special effects The Pixar, Imagineering and Disneyland teams settled on the bright orange-red octopus who lost his sense of humor along with one of his tentacles. “When we were brainstorming the project with the Pixar team there was a real interest in saying, ‘Hey, what can we do to bring a ‘Finding Dory’ character into the story?’” Dobrzycki said. The “Finding Dory” octopus will be visible from Matterhorn Way between the bobsled roller coaster and the submarine lagoon. Imagineering “plussed up” the venerable attraction by extending some rockwork above the water line to give the Hank static figure a place to hang out. “Hank is going to be facing that direction with one of his tentacles shielding the sun and trying to figure out where all this racket is coming from.” “The seagulls are pretty rowdy and noisy on the other end of the lagoon,” Dobrzycki said.

The secret identity of Hank the septopus was revealed on Monday, June 27 when Imagineering removed a tarp that had been covering a rock outcropping in the submarine lagoon near the squawking seagulls from the films. “Anytime we take an attraction down for a longer period of time - and this has been a long one for Nemo - it’s always great to bring it back with new magic, especially for a franchise like Finding Nemo,” Imagineering Art Director Michael Dobrzycki said during a online video interview. Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage has remained closed since the Anaheim theme park reopened in April 2021 after a yearlong pandemic closure while Imagineering and Disneyland crews refurbished the classic 1959 attraction.

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