Sesame Street 4 - D Movie Magic Sesame Street 4 - D Movie Magic is a four - dimensional show / attraction that premiered at Universal Studios Japan in Osaka on April 26 , 2003 . The 3 - D show was filmed on dual 35mm Eastman Kodak film at Universal Studios in Florida in 2002 . It is shown at the theme park ' s " Cinema 4 - D Theater " , along with " Shrek ' s 4 - D Adventure " . ( Sesame 4 - D operates from the park ' s opening hour to 1 : 45 pm and Shrek operates from there until closing time ) . Since March 2008 the attraction , in its original shot English form , is also showing at SeaWorld , California , but has been renamed " Lights , Camera , Imagination ! 4D " for US - audiences . The film is also played at two of the Busch Gardens theme parks , in Williamsburg , VA and in Tampa Bay , FL . Universal Studios Dubailand and Movie Park Germany is building a 400 - seat theatre for the show , as well as a carousel and " Elmo ' s Emporium " gift shop . Synopsis . The show ' s basic theme is imagination . In a projection room , the Sesame Street Film Festival is being held , and everyone is busy adding final touches to their films . The first preview is a western flick made by ( and starring ) the Count , entitled " The Counting Kid Counts Again " which was filmed in the Arbor area . The second preview is Prairie Dawn ' s sci - fi / adventure film " Prairie and the Pretty Space Ponies " , which stars her along with Telly , Zoe and the Two - Headed Monster as the title characters . Suddenly , the projector breaks . Disappointed , everyone leaves the room . Elmo , being the only one left , has an idea that everyone can still show their movies by using their imaginations . Elmo leaves the room and guests enter the main theater . As soon as everyone is in the main theater , Big Bird , seen with two anonymous Twiddlebugs appearing in CGI form , welcomes the audience and walks over to 123 Sesame Street , where he meets up with everyone else , looking rather disappointed about what happened earlier . Elmo comes in riding his tricycle ( bumping into a crate near Oscar ' s trash can ) . The " movies " then begin . Grover climbs off the stoop and pretends that he ' s a cowboy , fireman ( squirting the audience with a CGI " Muppetised " hose ) and Super Grover ( who gets struck by a huge rock that falls from the sky ) . Ernie , who is sitting on the stoop with Bert suggest that they imagine themselves in different places ( much against Bert ' s will ) . First , they imagine being in a desert , followed by a bathtub ( possibly in their apartment ) where Ernie throws his Rubber Duckie into the air , leading them to the bottom of the ocean , where Ernie plays fetch with a " dogfish " . Out of nowhere , a purple octopus pulls Bert away - not to harm , but to dance the tango with him . Bert is having so much fun dancing with him until he ' s snapped out of the dream sequence and finds himself held by Oscar . Next , Cookie Monster imagines himself in a monster movie spoof entitled " Cookie Monster vs . Monster Cookie " , which starts with him on top of the Empire State building ( a reference to King Kong ) and a bunch of Anything Muppets below him screaming . Cookie explains that it ' s not him who ' s causing the distress , but rather , a giant cookie which flies around like a UFO , squirting chocolate on the buildings . Cookie makes an attempt to defeat him , but he fails . That is until he " walks off " , tricking the over - sized cookie into having his way until he is smashed into crumbs . Cookie then swallows the crumb like a vacuum cleaner and he ' s back on the street . Oscar the Grouch then imagines himself and the others on Sesame Street , which has become a dump surrounded by Pesties ( who crawl around the audience members ' legs , yet only one is seen ) , socks that sing " I Love Trash , " and rain falling from the sky . Elmo comes up with a " happy ending " involving sunny skies , balloons , decorations and so on . In the final part of the attraction ( in which the audience steps through the screen and enter the third hall with an almost exact replica of the street set ) , Big Bird , Cookie , Elmo , Ernie , Bert , Oscar , Grover , Zoe , Telly , The Count and Prairie Dawn are seen back in their same old street being interviewed by a Large Lavender Anything Muppet female reporter .