Here is my script for Journey Into Imagination at long last:
The Ride:
(Guests board the Blue coloured vehicles and come to a door. It stops as the narration starts.)
Dr. Nigel Channing: Welcome to the Imagination Institute. I am Dr. Nigel Channing. Years ago, one of the founders of the Imagination Institute, Professor Dreamfinder, created the first living and visible imaginary friend known as Figment. But then, he went into seclusion, leaving Figment in the hands of us before we left. Figment is the reason we started the sensory labs here at the Institute. We are trying to see what else can be created in a person’s mind. Now the tour will start.
Female Announcer: During the tour of the Institute, we will like you to follow these rules. There will be no Eating, Drinking and Smoking during the tour. No flash photography please, as our subjects during don’t want to be revealed to the world. And please, at the request of Dr. Nigel Channing, don’t let your Imagination run free.
(The Door opens and on the wall are several screens showing Dr. Nigel Channing.)
Dr. Nigel Channing: Now we are going to the Sound Labs for the first test…
Figment: Doctor, I know a better way a looking at the Imagination!
(“One Little Spark” plays in the background.)
Dr. Nigel Channing: Oh, this is Figment, guests. But Figment, we are showing a more scientific way of looking at the Imagination.
Figment: But mine is another good way of looking at the Imagination! You just have let your Imagination free!
Dr. Nigel Channing: I am sorry, Figment. But let’s get along with the tour.
(The cars move into the sound labs.)
Dr. Nigel Channing: Sorry for that little bit of inconvenience. Here in the sound labs, we learn how sounds sometime trigger the Imagination.
(In the background some rock music plays.)
Dr. Nigel Channing: What’s going on?
(The cars move into the Sound Labs Warehouse. Figment is standing near some sound equipment, with a multi-coloured rock guitar. He is singing some words from John Lennon’s “Imagine”.)
Dr. Nigel Channing: Figment, what’s going on?
Figment: I am trying to show what happens when you set the Imagination free!
Dr. Nigel Channing: It looks like you’re trying to start a rock concert, Figment!
Figment: Doc, use your Imagination!
Dr. Nigel Channing: Use my Imagination?
Figment: Yeah!
(Then a rock version of “One Little Spark” begins to play. Figment begins to sing “One Little Spark”.)
“One Little Spark” Rock Version:
When you hear a sound, The Imagination starts.
You hear things, rushing through your mind.
You hear things, real or not,
But they all come from One Little Spark!
(The cars go out of the Sound Labs Warehouse, and they stop near a closed, angular shaped door.)
Dr. Nigel Channing: Guests, we are now about to move into the Sound Lab. The door will open any second now.
(The door opens and the cars proceed to where a screen a giant word game is. The Cars stop near the giant word game.)
Dr. Nigel Channing: Now we will show you that the sight also triggers the Imagination. Now could try to find at least one of the words…
(Then Figment appears out of the game.)
Dr. Nigel Channing: Figment? How did you manage to get into the sound lab without me noticing?
Figment: I used my imagination!
Dr. Nigel Channing: But Figment. The Imagination needs to be controlled!
Figment: Yeah, Doc. But It would be still out of control, even with it under your safe hands!
(He changes all the letters to make the words “Creativity”, “Fun”, “Inspiration” and “Imagination”. Then different things appear in room, such as butterflies, Cats, balloons, a child, even Mickey Mouse, before it all stops right in front of you.)
Dr. Nigel Channing: I couldn’t believe my eyes!
Figment: That’s what happens when you use your Imagination!
(The Sight verse in “One Little Spark” begins to play.)
“One Little Spark” Sight lab verse:
One spark of light, can light your fancy,
Your mind sees more, that what your eyes see,
Your Sense of Sight can make your fancy fly,
There’s to more to sight, than meets the eye!
The Ride (Continued):
(The Cars move out of the Sight Lab, and we move the Smell Lab, where Figment is pressing buttons, and causing nice scents to appear.)
Dr. Nigel Channing: Figment, what are you doing?
Figment: Ah, Doc. The Scent of Smell is also one of the most important things in the Imagination!
Dr. Nigel Channing: Yes, but…
Figment: So let’s see some memories appear! Come on everybody!
(Suddenly in the machine Figment is near, strange versions of him appear in the machine. Figment then tries to stop it all, but he accidentally knocks over a lever and causes fouler smells to appear in the room.)
Figment: Uh oh.
Dr. Nigel Channing: I’ll sort this!
Figment: Of course.
(The scent of Pine Trees fills the room.)
Figment: Doc?
Dr. Nigel Channing: Yes, Figment?
Figment: You know…
(The Smell Lab verse of “One Little Spark” begins to play.)
“One Little Spark” Smell Lab verse:
One Awful whiff can send you reeling!
One lovely sniff can be appealing.
Your mind defies what enters through your nose,
That’s how you tell a skunk is not a rose!
(The Cars move out of the Smell Lab and into the Touch and Taste labs. We stop we get inside the room. On the table is a jar, which Flubber is in.)
Dr. Nigel Channing: We have a treat for you folks. Here is Flubber, which was created here at the Institute. It is Flying Rubber, that’s what “Flubber” is short for. It also…
(Figment flies on the table where Flubber is.)
Dr. Nigel Channing: Figment, what are you doing?
Figment: To show guests that the sense of touch can also trigger the Imagination.
(Figment knocks over the jar that Flubber is in.)
Dr. Nigel Channing: Figment, don’t!
(Flubber then starts bouncing around the room and knocks out the lights. Then you feel Flubber bouncing on you and the cars. Then the cars slowly move out of the Touch lab. They stop near a door. Then a projected Figment appears out of the wall.)
Figment: Doc, we need to go someplace I haven’t been for so long! To the Dreamport!
Dr. Nigel Channing: No!! Figment! Don’t!
(Strobe Lighting effects are used. Then the cars move out of the door, as we enter the Dreamport. Then hear Dreamfinder humming the words to the original “One Little Spark”.)
“One Little Spark” Dreamfinder verse:
Imagination, Imagination!
A dream can be a dream come true.
This just that spark, in me and you!
The Ride (Continued):
(Then we move into another room where Dreamfinder is. Figment and Dr. Nigel Channing magically appear in the room.)
Dreamfinder: Oh, hello Figment! How have you been?
Figment: Just great! Dreamfinder, this Dr. Nigel Channing of the Imagination Institute!
Dr. Nigel Channing: Hello there, Professor Dreamfinder! It’s a pleasure to meet the founding father of the Imagination Institute!
Dreamfinder: Yes, my boy! But the reason Figment brought you here was to show that Imagination should be released! That was his point all along!
Dr. Nigel Channing: Was it? Oh, it was!
Dreamfinder: So Figment, are ready come back home to the Dreamport?
Figment: You bet I am! Come on everybody, let’s go!
(The Original “One Little Spark” plays in the background, as the cars move into the Dreamport. When are in the Dreamport, we see Figment, Dreamfinder and Dr. Nigel Channing painting pictures. Figment is painting a portrait of himself; Dreamfinder is painting his “Dream Machine” and Dr. Nigel Channing is painting the logo of the Imagination Institute. We move into another where Figment, Dreamfinder and Dr. Nigel Channing are telling stories.)
Figment: And then, Figment was charging at the beast that was after him!
Dr. Nigel Channing: Oh, what happens next Figment?
Dreamfinder: Just wait and see. Just wait and see…
(The Cars continue moving around the room. We come at stop where Figment is a specimen in a giant microscope. At the top of the Giant microscope is Dr. Nigel Channing and Dreamfinder.)
Dr. Nigel Channing: I know now that the Imagination IS better set free! Thanks for helping me Figment! And thank you as well, Dreamfinder!
Dreamfinder: Well, Dr. Nigel Channing… It’s your key to unlock the hidden wonders of our world.
Dr. Nigel Channing: Wow!
(The Cars move into a round room. In the middle of the room is Audio Animatronic Figment. Around him are many objects. One at a time, the objects turn into little versions of Figment. He sings the original “One Little Spark” for the last time.)
“One Little Spark” Finale Verse:
We all sparks, Imaginations!
That how our minds create creations!
They can make our wildest dreams come true,
With just that spark in me and you!
Imagination, Imagination!
A dream can be a dream come true!
With just that spark in me and you!
(Repeat of the last two lines.)
The Ride (Continued):
(The Original “One Little Spark” plays in the background as the cars move out of room after completing a 360-degree run around the room. After they move out of the room, Dr. Nigel Channing and Flubber make one last appearance before the end. They are part of sign pointing to the Unload area. Dreamfinder’s piece of narration starts.)
Dreamfinder: We now invite you make more memories by coming to the Imageworks*, where the fun never stops!
Figment: Let’s go play!
(The piece of narration ends, as the cars move into the unload area.)
*The Imageworks are once again upstairs.
