FigmentsBrightIdeas
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Absolutely!!
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EPCOT Figment, well, to be replaced by Figment
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FigmentJedi
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Heard claims on Twitter that Bob and Josh were touring the pavilion and its unused areas this week
Cmdr_Crimson
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We can only hope that meant anything..
Mickeynerd17
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Mainly backstage stuff for the image works and the old ride. The old turntable core access is up there.
Dragonman
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I’d love to see the turntable return and it could be done in theory as the general footprint is still there however it was also a well known maintenance nightmare. Whether modern tech could remedy that I’m not sure.
Cmdr_Crimson
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Perhaps the former planned Mary Poppins ride was to have you ride the Carousel horses and the rotating table tech could have been used so now they have an attraction that can utilize that rotating table..Hmmm??
FigmentsBrightIdeas
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It ‘absolutely’ would & could.. no question about it. hell, that whole “maintenance” thing always seemed like a lousy excuse of a reason to redo it, moreso from just a general estimate/projection of maintenance costs at the time with the complex spfx slide projectors mainly, considering I’ve ‘never’ seen any video footage of the ride breaking down in that turntable scene ever. And even when it did have any ride system issues, the computer always corrected it. Truth be told though, our phones & computers we have now have far more power than those computers that ran the ride originally ever did.
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FigmentsBrightIdeas
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If it genuinely was that much of a problem/unreliable during it’s run… then how come it lasted as long as it did with seemingly no issues… hmmm… and again, why no video footage of it breaking?? Huh…
FigmentsBrightIdeas
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The only real issues I know of was really getting it up & running from the time in between Oct 82 - March 83... and that was mainly the originally proposed roller coaster drops into the literature scenes and (I believe) the Realm of Science scene. But that’d been taken out before it’d even opened.
That theoretically could also be fixed with today’s technology.
That and the moving/speed ramp at the very end that was removed/altered, which ‘that’ had caused issues. But again, yeah..
That theoretically could also be fixed with today’s technology.
That and the moving/speed ramp at the very end that was removed/altered, which ‘that’ had caused issues. But again, yeah..
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Dragonman
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According to @marni1971 ‘s wonderful video there was also a problem with interfacing the vehicles with the rotating turntable and fitting the 83 drive motors for the ride.
Mickeynerd17
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Just because there's no video or audio of imagination breaking down doesn't mean it never happened. I believe there was an issue that they decided to remove rather than fix. Also moving imageworks downstairs was a factor in the decision.
Heck, the original energy exterior music loop is "lost" because no full audio/video recording either exists or has been posted online.
Heck, the original energy exterior music loop is "lost" because no full audio/video recording either exists or has been posted online.
Haymarket2008
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Just caught the Imagination light show on SSE. Gorgeous. Hearing that music played in the park in that way was amazing.
Cmdr_Crimson
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Dragonman
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From what I’ve heard the archives weren’t even able to find it when it was going to be reused for a show. Apparently it was stored on a Laserdisc that got discarded during the Ellen renovation. You’d think backup copies would exist though.
At least we still have the sacred Imagination bathroom loop.
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Epcot82Guy
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Epcot is in the Toilet confirmed.
All you need to do is look at the Harry Potter ride down I-4 (the magical bench's) that features no less than 2 turntable sections.
It can be done.
Now just think about those magical benches, being "magical dream catchers" that fly you around your imagination.
You get the idea.
Brer Panther
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Can't they just use the trackless ride system? Then you could do what all the other trackless dark rides do and have the ride vehicles just park in front of the Dreamcatcher instead of having a turntable.
Mickeynerd17
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At this point, a trackless ride system would turn imagination into another MMRR. I'd rather recycle/expand the current track with a lot of repairs.
FigmentsBrightIdeas
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Right, just remove the floor boards from the top of and restore the original track.