News Bob Iger Reveals Disney May Develop Figment Content Beyond EPCOT

HauntedPirate

HauntedPirate

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Streetway Again said:
Insane how people here are so allergic to optimism that they’ll spin the CEO saying “we know people like figment, including guests and shareholders, and we want to do more with him” as a negative.

“Oh but he didn’t mention the ride so it MUST be neglected in the future” “They’ll do anything but figment in Epcot” “they’ll use it as an excuse to say he’s somewhere else and get rid of him” like I know it’s not the thing we want to hear but GOD have some optimism. They didn’t assassinate him or anything. This is a GOOD sign.

Do you people even like Disney parks?
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I once had optimism. Had it for a long time, actually. Bob Iger killed it.
 
FigmentsBrightIdeas

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wdwmagic said:
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Bob Iger Reveals Disney May Develop Figment Content Beyond EPCOT

Bob Iger Reveals Disney May Develop Figment Content Beyond EPCOT
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Truth be told folks.. Michael Eisner said this very same thing at a ‘96 shareholders meeting when asked back then. That he’d talk to folks in their other divisions to do more with him and nothing ever came of it. (Infact, as we all know, the exact opposite happened in ‘99, to the point the ride got totally rethemed to unrelated film IP (the Honey I Shrunk/Medfield College connected universe films) instead of tastefully enhanced like (I believe) most of us would’ve wanted/expected) I’ll have to see it to believe it, in this case. Lol. And I hope they get it right. The Little Golden Book that came out recently was perfect! But unless they get folks with similar understanding, love & passion for the original 83-98 Journey Into Imagination attraction involved (if anyone knows their history, they’d know full well, nothing should be used from the ‘99 & ‘02-current Honey I Shrunk IP themed redos and only the original 83-98 one (the one starring Dreamfinder & the curious, childlike Figment), I wouldn’t be so optimistic. Proceed w caution folks..
 
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Tha Realest

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Trueblood said:
That might be the weakest and least committal statement I've heard in a long time, but I'm glad to hear that shareholders keep pushing for Figment.
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My favorite part was this, a/k/a, TFW you didn’t do the reading last night but remembered the title of the book:
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aladdin2007

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Honestly before expanding figment ventures, which is a good thing of course, fix what you have!!! But like others have said already, they will use this an excuse that its fine as it. I don't even think Iger has ever ridden the thing. Not that it would matter, to him it probably would be fine as is in his college campus springscot park.
 
EagleScout610

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Streetway Again said:
Insane how people here are so allergic to optimism that they’ll spin the CEO saying “we know people like figment, including guests and shareholders, and we want to do more with him” as a negative.

“Oh but he didn’t mention the ride so it MUST be neglected in the future” “They’ll do anything but figment in Epcot” “they’ll use it as an excuse to say he’s somewhere else and get rid of him” like I know it’s not the thing we want to hear but GOD have some optimism. They didn’t assassinate him or anything. This is a GOOD sign.

Do you people even like Disney parks?
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The only reason I say there's a chance they'll get rid of him is that the last few years on this forum have taught me that truly no attraction is "untouchable" anymore.
 
FigmentJedi

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Streetway Again said:
Insane how people here are so allergic to optimism that they’ll spin the CEO saying “we know people like figment, including guests and shareholders, and we want to do more with him” as a negative.

“Oh but he didn’t mention the ride so it MUST be neglected in the future” “They’ll do anything but figment in Epcot” “they’ll use it as an excuse to say he’s somewhere else and get rid of him” like I know it’s not the thing we want to hear but GOD have some optimism. They didn’t assassinate him or anything. This is a GOOD sign.

Do you people even like Disney parks?
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It was a really vague and non-committal statement. Like "maybe we'll make some short-form content" could be anything from actual shorts to just random Figment videos on social media. The movie announcement was something that people could actually latch onto, but it's a bad sign that he didn't just bring that up again.
 
Charlie The Chatbox Ghost

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Goofyernmost

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Br0ckford said:
It's a reason to leave it as it is. See, everyone loves it. It's fine.
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Everyone that never saw the original Imagination might love it but those of us that were there and saw the expanse of that Pavilion know how much more potential that building has.

Wait, I figured it out... We're going to get Part III called Figments Great Escape to the Magic Kingdom to form the perfect use for the old Stitch building. Combine that with Inside Out in the old Imagination building (Changed to the Emotions Pavilion) with a ride and maybe a resurrected, modernized mood room upstairs (or elevator) and a movie for the 3D theater. (Great place for the Muppets Movie.)

It's a shame that they got rid of all the Imagineers that actually had enough imagination to build something around all that, that might even be classic Disney.
 
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GenChi

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wdwmagic said:
And the official DisneyParks account posts about it

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I really did think this was some throwaway non-response to a typical shareholder question, but official accounts posting about it really makes it seem there's something specific...

Streetway Again said:
Insane how people here are so allergic to optimism that they’ll spin the CEO saying “we know people like figment, including guests and shareholders, and we want to do more with him” as a negative.

“Oh but he didn’t mention the ride so it MUST be neglected in the future” “They’ll do anything but figment in Epcot” “they’ll use it as an excuse to say he’s somewhere else and get rid of him” like I know it’s not the thing we want to hear but GOD have some optimism. They didn’t assassinate him or anything. This is a GOOD sign.

Do you people even like Disney parks?
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Don't think it's hate. Realize Figment has the most paranoid fandom in Disney Parks, and arguably for all of Disney and all of amusement parks. And you can't blame the paranoid crowd - they already went through Figment being removed for v2 until it bombed so badly they were forced to bring him back as a band aid, then had multiple proposes to remove him again in the 2010s. With that level of attempts it's very obvious why there's no trust no matter how present he is.

They could announce JIIv4 with Dreamfinder tomorrow and we'd still have posts about how it'll get cancelled before it happens like other Epcot projects or they're hiding the Inside Out theme until it's halfway done. That's just them not believing any words because of Disney's prior actions.
 
Tha Realest

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FigmentJedi said:
It was a really vague and non-committal statement. Like "maybe we'll make some short-form content" could be anything from actual shorts to just random Figment videos on social media. The movie announcement was something that people could actually latch onto, but it's a bad sign that he didn't just bring that up again.
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Yeah, announcing a film’s in development a year or so ago to “maybe it’ll be in some shorts” isn’t a sign of confidence that film project is happening any time soon
wdwmagic said:
And the official DisneyParks account posts about it

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I saw this first on my FB feed and thought it was some rando clickbait site. Had to double check and was shocked it was the official Parks socials.
 
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Streetway Again

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I’ve realized something. This isn’t them saying “we’ll do anything for figment unless redo the ride”.


This is an attempt from them to try and make the backlash from the last few months against them go away. They think bringing up figment again is gonna restart the hype and happiness train and make everyone forget about the bad stuff and like them again.


When are they gonna realize it’s not gonna work. Can’t get out of this one Disney.
 

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