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UpStairs Imagination Abandoned 2013- Weird little room
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danlb_2000
Premium Member
The image on the monitor is from the new Test Track. It's been known for a while that this area was being used as an Imaginnering workshop.
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Goofyernmost
Well-Known Member
What I find the most fascinating about those and other pictures done recently of the upstairs area is that they have and are still paying cleaning crews to keep it shiny and bright. I noticed that railings, benches, old displays, etc. are all clean looking and ready to be used. That area has been closed to the public for a long, long time, yet, still looks good and has not been allowed to deteriorate the way that most abandoned areas are. I wonder why?
Good question. Maybe because if you take the Undiscovered Future World tour you can request to go up there? Also i remember they did the Kim Possible thing up there. Ohh and the first dark room, the one after the rainbow tunnel, was completely destroyed! The exhibits were ripped out and things were ripped. You can also notice that the crystal on top of Dreamfinders spinny thing has been placed back (2012 video it was gone).Some very funky stuff goes on up top!
DManRightHere
Well-Known Member
If they have been moving a lot of stuff out anyone think they could possibly have a future for the area as an attraction with the rumored work (or closing) of this area? It is such a cool building.
Bairstow
Well-Known Member
Have you been up there yourself, or just making observations based on the video?
Other accounts I've heard make the place seem to be a bit of a mess.
lazyboy97o
Well-Known Member
If Walt Disney Imagineering is using the space then it is not completely abandoned.
tissandtully
Well-Known Member
Looks like a good way to get banned.
The Empress Lilly
Well-Known Member
It's not fully abandoned. Ever since they kicked him out of his house @George sometimes crashes at the Imagination upstairs. This keeps the benches clean and sometimes he wipes a cloth over some displays, as he reminisces about the good old days, back when Figment still roamed here, and he had a house, and a wife, and warm food each day.
TP2000
Well-Known Member
Is it just me, or does it seem to be a liability issue for Disney that this abandoned area is so easily accessible to park visitors? 
Not that I don't enjoy watching these forbidden videos, but it would seem to be a problem that this area is still accessible. It's open, unstaffed, and not monitored. And yet there is old equipment laying around, new computers and work areas with valuable and/or proprietary information on them, and various odd things that could get someone injured if they started playing around with it all.
From a safety and legal liability perspective, it's very odd to me that Disney hasn't closed this area off permanently with walls and locked doors.
Not that I don't enjoy watching these forbidden videos, but it would seem to be a problem that this area is still accessible. It's open, unstaffed, and not monitored. And yet there is old equipment laying around, new computers and work areas with valuable and/or proprietary information on them, and various odd things that could get someone injured if they started playing around with it all.
From a safety and legal liability perspective, it's very odd to me that Disney hasn't closed this area off permanently with walls and locked doors.
MinnieM123
Premium Member
Is it just me, or does it seem to be a liability issue for Disney that this abandoned area is so easily accessible to park visitors?
Not that I don't enjoy watching these forbidden videos, but it would seem to be a problem that this area is still accessible. It's open, unstaffed, and not monitored. And yet there is old equipment laying around, new computers and work areas with valuable and/or proprietary information on them, and various odd things that could get someone injured if they started playing around with it all.
From a safety and legal liability perspective, it's very odd to me that Disney hasn't closed this area off permanently with walls and locked doors.
Exactly—every time I see this type of video, I wonder the same thing (even though I like watching these videos). The lack of security is appalling. What other major company would make it so easy for unauthorized access?!
MickeyPeace
Well-Known Member
Next you need to write a book with a Disney legend and earn enough money to move to Anaheim.
"It all started with trespassing"
"It all started with trespassing"
MarkTwain
Well-Known Member
Is it just me, or does it seem to be a liability issue for Disney that this abandoned area is so easily accessible to park visitors?
Not that I don't enjoy watching these forbidden videos, but it would seem to be a problem that this area is still accessible. It's open, unstaffed, and not monitored. And yet there is old equipment laying around, new computers and work areas with valuable and/or proprietary information on them, and various odd things that could get someone injured if they started playing around with it all.
From a safety and legal liability perspective, it's very odd to me that Disney hasn't closed this area off permanently with walls and locked doors.
You'd be surprised just how much of backstage WDW fits this description... actually, almost all of it.
coolbeans14
Active Member
Do they assume everyone's having too magical a time to go snooping?