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Don’t miss Shedd’s 4-D Experience, where anything can happen!
The whole family will enjoy our 4-D Experience in Phelps Auditorium. The combination of high-definition digital 3-D projection, high-tech audio and “special FX” seats will thrill you with bubbles, wind, strange and wonderful smells, tickles, amazing sounds and all kinds of surprises. There’s nothing else like it in Chicago!
SpongeBob Square Pants
15-minute feature at 10:00 a.m., 11:00 a.m., 12:00 p.m., 1:00 p.m., 2:00 p.m., 3:00 p.m., and 4:00 p.m.(Also at 5:00 p.m. for 6:00 p.m. closing time.)
Get ready, landlubbers! Shedd Aquarium proudly presents SpongeBob Square Pants in 4-D! You'll find 3-D animation, bubbles, leg ticklers, seat buzzers and, of course, SpongeBob's beloved pickle.
Starting Nov. 27, SpongeBob Square Pants will be temporarily replaced by The Polar Express.
Planet Earth™: From Pole to Pole
15-minute feature at 9:20 a.m., 9:40 a.m., 10:20 a.m., 10:40 a.m., 11:20 a.m., 11:40 a.m., 12:20 p.m., 12:40 p.m., 1:20 p.m., 1:40 p.m., 2:20 p.m., 2:40 p.m., 3:20 p.m., 3:40 p.m., 4:20 p.m., 4:40 p.m. (Also at 5:20 p.m. for 6:00 p.m. closing time.)
Follow the sun as it touches the lives of creatures across the planet, bringing a fresh understanding of how the world is interconnected. From Pole to Pole shows us where water is abundant—and where it is scarce. As spring arrives in the Arctic, a mother polar bear emerges from her den with two tiny cubs. They have just two weeks to cross the frozen sea before it melts and they become stranded. At the other end of the globe, emperor penguins are plunged into darkness for four months. They endure the coldest temperatures in the world as they suffer through winter in Antarctica—huddled together to protect their precious eggs. See where the seals go to breed—followed by great white sharks. Then watch the mighty elephants of the Kalahari as they set off on an urgent search for water. From Pole to Pole examines how the seasons produce the greatest spectacles on Earth and illuminates the importance of the sun's energy to life on Earth.
The Polar Express
15-minute feature at 9:20 a.m., 9:40 a.m., 10:20 a.m., 10:40 a.m., 11:20 a.m., 11:40 a.m., 12:20 p.m., 12:40 p.m., 1:20 p.m., 1:40 p.m., 2:20 p.m., 2:40 p.m., 3:20 p.m., 3:40 p.m., 4:20 p.m., 4:40 p.m. (Also at 5:20 p.m. for 6:00 p.m. closing time.)
Starting Nov. 27 and running through Jan. 3, enjoy a holiday classic in a new way with The Polar Express 4-D Experience. The movie has been transformed into a magical 15-minute 4-D feature.
THE POLAR EXPRESS and all related characters and elements are trademarks of and © Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. Based on THE POLAR EXPRESS book and characters™ & © 1985 by Chris Van Allsburg. Used by permission of Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. (s08)
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