TikibirdLand
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Guess I'll have to wait and pick mine up on EBay for $200.A millisecond later there's a line all the way to Aspen..
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EPCOT Figment, well, to be replaced by Figment
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Cmdr_Crimson
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Way more than that..This is Figment we're talking about..
The popcorn bucket goes on sale Friday the 14th.
pdude81
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Phew. I don't hate myself now.
I will say i noticed a few old school figment things on race weekend. Miller marker drawing. Selfie sculpture, and audio/songs from the original ride. It gives me some hope
Rodj
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Any pictures of the sculpture? Someone said there was a giant Figment statue between the TTC and Contemporary resort, but again no pictures.
In other news, they finally fixed the left hand stuck in the raised position on the animatronic at the Touch and Taste labs platform, although its still not smooth/full motion. Coincidentally after my visit where I told a CM about the issue. Next time someone is there, can someone please tell a CM there about the poor state of the animatronics?
Mickeynerd17
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Well, that's good to hear. It was still stuck as of Friday.
What needs serious help is the sound room. The audio isn't synced with the ride and the animatronic there looks murderous while having a seizure. It needs help desperately.
Also, on Friday there was a delayed opening. Once imagination finally opened the large door at load was wide open and non-functional. You could see and hear the first scene play out from load. Then in the finale the screen for the first car was stuck in it's down position.
Hope these get fixed soon. The ride looks pretty bad right now.
Demarke
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I remember seeing that (and thinking it was odd they didn’t place it closer to Epcot, but happy to see him getting exposure regardless). If I remember correctly, I think it was about 5 feet tall (give or take) and flat (2D not 3D, like a sturdier cardboard cut out). Wish I had taken a pic now, I remember thinking about it
It could be worthwhile asking if anyone on the marathon weekend thread in the running at Disney subforum took one
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muddyrivers
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I can't believe the ride would even be operational in that condition. In the past the ride would have been 101 until those things could be fixed, especially as both of those issues ruin the show.
FigmentsBrightIdeas
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Same.. but I also just recently saw a video of Carousel of Progress with much of the show lighting being out, and/or major show effects, like the oven door in the end scene being stuck open. WDW attraction maintenance is in a sad state atm, to say the least.
FigmentsBrightIdeas
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You’d expect for the 50th anniversary, things would be spotless & refurbed to their original/opening day condition, if not with some slight improvements/enhancements that don’t come at the expense of the original integrity of the show or ride. But nope, it’s the complete opposite of DL’s 50th.
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FigmentsBrightIdeas
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Now granted, I ‘will’ say, they’ve knocked it out of the park in the merchandising & artwork department clearly.. but in regards to in-parks content (besides a couple of the 50th statues), the new EPCOT entrance, and things of that nature, I’d argue otherwise.
Bocabear
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WDW's 50th should have been an epic celebration...Yes, I know Covid really messed it up, but from the beginning they didn't really plan all that much. Who wouldn't rather have had a meaningful refurb and upgrade to all the opening day classic attractions in the Magic Kingdom instead of the stupid gold painted statues? They could have easily taken a million plus out of the advertising budget and put it back into the park for that...
TikibirdLand
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Well, because of the pandemic, only one person can work maintenance in the parks. So, Bob is working on the warped tiles on the Tron building. He can't do it all at once, you know!
Mickeynerd17
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To be completely honest, rides at MK (except Splash Mountain which had a ton of broken effects) were running much better than I've seen recently and facades looked refreshed. I really appreciated that. They could've expanded that to the other parks as well to make it "more inclusive" to the resort as a whole instead of just MK.
That being said, animatronics resort-wide seriously need fixing/replacing. The movements in older attractions like COP, American Adventure, and JIIWF (the ones I've noticed) are extremely limited and look like Chuck E Cheese animatronics in comparison to the figures in RoTR. As much as I love new additions I would also love to see newer animatronics resort-wide. The technology gap between the A100s and what we have now is incredible.
Rodj
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Like I said before, the animatronics at JIIWF are perfectly capable of realistic motion. They just simply won't adjust them properly. There was a good period of Disney ride maintenance in early to mid 2018 that got completely screwed up in 2019. Tower of Terror got new loud speakers in early 2018 and the animatronics at JIIWF got re-adjusted to be more natural moving and match more how they used to be in the early 2000's. If you remember in 2017, the Figment animatronic at the Touch & Taste labs platform used to be very erratic/fast moving.
In mid-2019, both rides got messed up around the same time(Tower with its speakers and JIIWF with its animatronics. It's almost like a maintenance team came through these rides to purposely screw up something that didn't need touched, and both in my example are still not fixed properly.
DoleWhipDrea
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From my understanding listening to Imagineers talk about AA's, function and movement doesn't necessarily get lost over time. Rather, the individual(s) working on the AA have to spend enough time and care to get them to perform at optimum levels.
I imagine that those working in maintenance aren't given enough time and resources to really get everything truly fixed as well as they would like. You need the right amount of experienced workers, a proper refurbishment with an actual closure...and from what I've seen at WDW, Disney stretches their employees thin with work and doesn't do that many lengthy refurbishments. DLR is heading in that direction now, too.
I imagine that those working in maintenance aren't given enough time and resources to really get everything truly fixed as well as they would like. You need the right amount of experienced workers, a proper refurbishment with an actual closure...and from what I've seen at WDW, Disney stretches their employees thin with work and doesn't do that many lengthy refurbishments. DLR is heading in that direction now, too.
Mickeynerd17
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Easy fix: bribe the TDL maintenance team to come to Florida
In all seriousness, I seriously doubt it was on purpose. Both systems are old and they probably broke so quickly because of it. They really should be replaced outright with new technology. Heck, the figments could use similar tech to the security droids at Star Tours. Those seem to have a much better operations track record.
DoleWhipDrea
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The running excuse is probably the same things we keep saying - that they want to redo the attraction in a few years, so the funds and time are never allocated to give the attraction a really good refurbishment.
Meanwhile, two decades later...
Meanwhile, two decades later...
Homemade Imagineering
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This. Animatronics require daily maintenance, especially when performing in a theme park setting. Those Figment AA’s are operated by pneumatic air, and animatronics running off of pneumatic systems often times must be calibrated and taken care of. I own a Mr. Munch animatronic from Chuck E. Cheese’s Pizza Time Theater, and even I myself have to deal with maintenance issues. I’ve been meaning to fix his eyelids for months now, and finally decided to order a part which will hopefully work in place of the original deteriorated pneumatic cylinder. It’s a process, but those Figment AA’s simply need to be recalibrated and I’m sure there are parts that need replacing.