One of Epcot's opening day attractions in 1982, it explored the world of energy through four large-format film presentations and a slow-moving dark ride through a jungle diorama filled with audio-animatronic dinosaurs.

After years of dwindling popularity, it closed permanently on August 13, 2017[2] and was replaced with Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind, which reused its show building.

At the conclusion of the film, the seating area rotated 90 degrees to the left to face a curtain, which lifted to reveal a primeval diorama.

The entire seating area moved into the diorama, separating into six multi-passenger vehicles that took guests on a seven-minute journey populated by numerous animatronic dinosaurs, including a fight between an Edaphosaurus and two Arthropleura; a family of Brontosaurus in a swamp (with realistic "swampy" smell); a Stegosaurus fighting an Allosaurus on an overhead cliff; several Trachodon bathing beneath a waterfall; a number of Ornithomimus watching helplessly as one of their own sank into a boiling tar pit; an Elasmosaurus that lashed out of a tidal pool at guests; and numerous Pteranodon perched on top of an erupting volcano with flowing lava and a realistic "volcano" smell.

Leaving the diorama, the vehicles entered the EPCOT Energy Information Center, where they reassembled into their original theatre seating formation.

Here, guests viewed a 12-minute live-action film, on three giant wrap-around screens, that took them on an in-depth look at current and future energy resources around the world.

World of Motion had closed in January in preparation for its conversion into Test Track, and Horizons was not operating consistently due to alleged structural issues with the pavilion.

To address the issue, Epcot made the decision to temporarily reopen the Universe of Energy while the remodel was in progress.

Also removed were the maps and television monitors on the wall in the Epcot Energy Information Center in Theatre II, having already been replaced by the KNRG radio tower backdrop for the new show.

However, the elasmosaurus figure had already been reprogrammed for the new show, leading to the awkward result of having it lunge at rocks instead of the ride vehicles as it had originally done.

It focused on the origins of fossil fuels such as petroleum, coal and natural gas, and described renewable sources such as solar and hydroelectric power.

She is watching television in the living room of her apartment complex when her neighbor Bill Nye the Science Guy enters.

She falls asleep and dreams that she is in an energy-themed version of Jeopardy!, playing against her college rival Judy Peterson (Curtis) and Albert Einstein (Benny Wasserman).

The seating area rotates 180 degrees to the right as guests face three large movie screens above the exit doors for the first part of the film: a five-minute CGI live-action film in which Bill takes Ellen back billions of years in time to witness the Big Bang and the formation of the Earth.

Following a big explosion, the screens show a Milky Way galaxy, the Solar System, a volcanic biome and rocky terrain.

The entire seating area moves into the diorama where it then separates into six multi-passenger vehicles that takes guests on a seven-minute journey through the diorama, which is populated by numerous audio-animatronic dinosaurs including two Edaphosaurus, two Arthropleura fighting and a family of Brontosaurus in a swamp (one of whom sneezes water from its nose onto guests), a Stegosaurus fighting an Allosaurus on an overhead cliff, three Trachodon bathing beneath a waterfall, a number of Ornithomimus drinking from a pond (one of whom splashes water at guests), an Audio-Animatronic Ellen standing near a tidal pool fighting off an Elasmosaurus with a tree branch, and several Pteranodon perched around an erupting volcano.

After listening to a brief prehistoric broadcast from KNRG News Radio (which featured the voices of Willard Scott and Chris Berman), guests view a fourteen-minute live-action film on three giant wrap around screens in which Bill Nye takes Ellen on an in-depth look at various current and future energy resources across the United States.

Albert Einstein receives a light bulb and exits the game as he has no money at the end of the round, while Ellen and Judy are tied at $17,800.