How do I get to the sea needle in downtown bikini bottom?

To reach the sea needle, simply take a bus to downtown bikini bottom where you use the Summon Sea creatures powerpad to arise and climb up the oysters. Pass the conveyor belt and the cinema (reef theater) until you reach a powerpad for super strength where you lift the crate and place it closely next to the powerpad platform (orange glowing circle) and stand on it. Then either double jump until you reach the platform. Or actually jump[ and get zapped by the eel, which will give you a little boost large enough to lift you. Keep going up until you reach a waterball powerup where you descend and hit that thingy that appears a bulls-eye and pass the gate. Remeber, that you need to get Mr. Krab's pass of which you need to locate his lucky nickel. I hope this information was useful. -JWB10

All you need to do is: from downtown bikini bottom go all the way right to the reef cinema use the super strength power pad and move the box to the very right, jump till you see the water ball power pad and hit the target thingi And go through the gate there you'll find two paths one to industrial park and one to the see needle hope this helped ^_^.