What I wanted for this is to mix the best of the old ride with new parts entered into this. This includes classic characters with classic music and the same scenes as the original ride, but with new scenes and new dialogue. I also like to point out that each scene are just general ideas for each scene.
Dreamfinder Presents: Journey Into Imagination with Figment - Go into the Imagination Institution
as you join Professor Dreamfinder and Figment into the realm of your imagination.
Queue: Guests will enter the queue from the outside. As they enter, they come upon what looks like an Imagination Lab. This lab will have windows where guests will look out on various experiments centered on one’s imagination. Such windows are: a music lab (there’ll be something that looks like an IPod connected to speakers that surrounds the room), a literature lab (a book will be placed on a table and projected on a screen), an art lab (famous paintings will be put on the walls like an art gallery), a performing arts lab (probably a dark room with a classic Disney film being shown in a theater-like room), and a science lab (a room with a microscope, rocks, plants and a few other essential science stuff). All of these labs will be scattered throughout the queue as to make it feel like they are walking into a science institution on imagination.
Ride Technology: It will be kept the same ride tech.
Ride Experience
Intro Scene: Guests will finally enter the loading dock. The loading dock will be brightly colored with a mural, but it is still kept with the feel of an institution. Guests will hop on board a purple covered car and the ride begins. I will try to make this ride as close to the original as possible, but keep it new and modern as much as I can. You travel to the first scene where you encounter Dreamfinder. He’ll say that he’s a scientist working for the institution. He will then proceed to say that they find that imagination can be quite useful, especially when it comes to creating something from his figment of his imagination. Thus, he creates Figment. Figment will “be born” and will greet you guys in his hyperactive self. Dreamfinder will tell him to calm down and he’ll say that he’s taking them along with him to explore the far reaches of imagination. To end the scene, he’ll say: “Come on, off to the first part of imagination: Art!” He’ll also begin singing “One Little Spark”, as you go throughout the ride with moments where he talks and explains to the guests about each place.
Art Scene: In the art scene, you find many famous paintings literally come to life from Dali’s “Melting Clocks” to Van Gogh’s “Starry Night”, and a few other paintings. Also, you’ll see Figment messing around with painting on a giant canvas, only to make a mess with himself, but successfully paints a picture of him. In here, Dreamfinder, found in a painted boat, will explain how imagination has influenced many painters throughout time, envisioning many interesting scenes that takes us place upon first glance, and it will continue to make its mark in the future with newer technology that takes art to new places than it has before. Then you’ll pass under paintbrushes ontop and easels on the side.
Literature Scene: You continue through this scene until you get to the next scene, which is literature. When you get into the literature scene, you see many scenes literally come out of the pages, all of them recognizable characters ranging from novels, short stories, to poems. Dreamfinder, found on a pile of books, will explain that upon the pages of these stories comes imagination you can’t get from anywhere else. Each tale takes readers to its whimsical land and has us captivated as knights fight dragons and pirates rule the seas. Figment will be in this scene as he tries fighting a dragon and tries to read a book. You’ll pass under an arch made out of books to take you to the performing arts scene.
Performing Arts Scene: In this scene, you find much cliche glitzy Hollywood stuff with projectors projecting film, lights playing a show, and music being played. Dreamfinder, found overhead in a director’s chair, will explain that movies were brought by the most imaginative people of all times and will continue to do so. You will see such things like a theater entrance, to a limousine and props representing different genres of film (like a spaceship for Sci-Fi and Wild West buildings to represent Westerns). Figment will be in proper Hollywood attire as he rides a limousine, sticking his head out the window, on the street. The scene will end as you enter through a film reel and into the final scene, which is the science room.
Science and Outro Scene: This room will look similar to one big science lab with lots of scientific gear. Dreamfinder, found as he is on a step leading to a rocket ship, says that with imagination, one can make many discoveries. You will go pass giant screens displaying different parts of science like biology, chemistry, geology, and astrology. Figment will be conducting a chemistry experiment, by mixing two liquids together in one test tube, only causing an explosion to occur. Dreamfinder , as the scene ends, will thank you for going on this tour on Imagination and Figment will be saying thanks and goodbye unending. Dreamfinder will ask Figment: “Shall we sing one more time?” Figment responds: “Sure.” And they close the ride with a revise to “One Little Spark”. Guests will get to the loading dock and will unload off the ride to Figment’s Imagination Labs. This lab will take kids right through a review of different aspects of imagination that was already mentioned in the ride.
One Little Spark
The music is the same exact lyrics as the original ride, but there'll be new dialogue for the ride.
Exit Experience – Figment’s Imagination Lab
First Floor
- Figment’s Artist Splash – Similar to Goofy’s Paint-n-Playhouse at Tokyo Disneyland, guests will approach a wall with paint guns. Each guest will take a paint gun and a random room/picture will appear. Guests will press the button and start painting the wall. Once the room/picture is fully painted, the time is up, and the next guests will move in to take part.
- Act Out! – Guests will approach a screen with a sensor and camera system embedded in the wall. Guests will choose a scene in which they want to act out and stand on the pad to begin acting the scene out. The scenes will be anything from dancing in a musical to a classic scene from a Disney movie. It will last around minute. There will be around three stations guests can go to, and each station will allow more than one person to perform.
- Tap Music – Guests will enter one big room with colored squares on the floor. Each square will produce a different note and guests can perform a song using only their feet. They can also choose to perform a song to perform. If guests do that, then lights will come on in the floor telling them which floor tiles to press on.
Second Floor (Guests can either take the stairs or the elevator between Act Out! and Figment's Artist Splash)
- Light Show – Guests will approach a light machine with a projector, projecting colored lights to a wall. On the light machine is a screen with different effects on it. They can put in different effects and arrange it in the order they choose. When they complete their show, they’ll have a chance to preview the show, in case changes need to happen. If changes need to happen, they can quickly edit, or try out other effects, and preview it again. If there aren’t any changes needing to happen, then they can go on to submitting it. Once they submit it, then they, and other guests, can see the show and awe at what they made.
- Writer’s Block – In the middle of the second floor, there’s a cube building with writing on it. Inside, guests can go to a booth with a keyboard. They first enter their name and choose the story they which to continue. Once done, they can move onto the next scene where they see the previous page of the story and a blank page where they can write the next page of the story. Guests also have a chance to complete a story. If a story is completed, the next guest can begin a new story where others can write a page of the next story.
- Dreamfinder's Science Fair – In the back of this floor, guests will enter a huge area where guests can experience different types of science. They can see plants grow and drop rubber balls off of a high platform. They can watch someone perform a science experiment and participate in that. They can also interact with simple science experiments on their own throughout the room. Plus, they get to see different exhibits relating to science as well.
The New Show: I will take out Captain EO, but I will place it somewhere else, probably in Tomorrowland at Magic Kingdom. To replace it, I will place in a 4-D show featuring Figment. It’ll be called “Figment Presents: Your Five Sense(s)”. The show will present your five senses and how they contribute to your imagination. He’ll say, “It’ll open your world of imagination.” The description for the show will be as followed: “Join Figment as he takes you on 3-D show with 4-D effects into 5-D senses.”
