EPCOT Figment, well, to be replaced by Figment

Inspired Figment

Inspired Figment

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Even the sign outside and the blueprint shown on the vehicles 99-today proudly basically show, hey, that projected maintenance cost of the turntable scene, along with Kodak’s lack of sponsorship funding as we contracted. That allowed for the Honey I Shrunk IP to take over.
And the signage, borrowed straight from Tiki Room Under New Management. (HA! We jabbed at our thoughts on new management changing classic attractions to film IP in that, let’s do the opposite side of the same coin on this ride to jab at the fans of the original Journey Into Imagination and their complaints about our negatively received IP redo we could care less of a damn about.)
 
Agent H

Agent H

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Inspired Figment said:
View attachment 841057Even the sign outside and the blueprint shown on the vehicles 99-today proudly basically show, hey, that projected maintenance cost of the turntable scene, along with Kodak’s lack of sponsorship funding as we contracted. That allowed for the Honey I Shrunk IP to take over.
And the signage, borrowed straight from Tiki Room Under New Management. (HA! We jabbed at our thoughts on new management changing classic attractions in that, let’s do the opposite side of the same coin on this ride to jab at the fans and their complaints about our negatively received redo we could care less of a damn about.)
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Corporate mandate Eisner and Paul probably got upset at under new management making fun of them and forced the team to do the opposite on figment the funny part is the people working on the ride still got the last laugh as the ride still exists mocking them to this day
 
S.I.R. the Robot

S.I.R. the Robot

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Inspired Figment said:
View attachment 841057Even the sign outside and the blueprint shown on the vehicles 99-today proudly basically show, hey, that projected maintenance cost of the turntable scene, along with Kodak’s lack of sponsorship funding as we contracted. That allowed for the Honey I Shrunk IP to take over.
And the signage, borrowed straight from Tiki Room Under New Management. (HA! We jabbed at our thoughts on new management changing classic attractions to film IP in that, let’s do the opposite side of the same coin on this ride to jab at the fans of the original Journey Into Imagination and their complaints about our negatively received IP redo we could care less of a damn about.)
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Also Eisner: "The Peoplemover?? With an evil computer voice?? Nah man, that's way too outdated. Let's make it a thrill ride! I don't care if it destroys the tracks and CERTAIN FANS' hopes and dreams! They won't care about looking at the abandoned tracks, right? RIGHT??"

*cue chainsaw sounds and Xatax "screaming" electronically*
 
Inspired Figment

Inspired Figment

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Agent H said:
Corporate mandate Eisner and Paul probably got upset at under new management making fun of them and forced the team to do the opposite on figment the funny part is the people working on the ride still got the last laugh as the ride still exists mocking them to this day
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Not really, the ride is still mocking the fans through portraying Figment as a nuisance that constantly “makes a mess of the institute” who “finally shows” Dr. Channing (the imagineers and management behind the change to begin with) that he ‘does’ have an imagination.. he just has to “turn his thinking upside down”, like the “upside down thinking Friends of Figment in “Figment’s Open House” who “put him on blast” at the end… (*facepalm*… just UGH.. GAG me. It’s SO insultingly bad, just incase you didn’t already get the smell of skunk fart out of your mind from the scene prior to that)
 
S.I.R. the Robot

S.I.R. the Robot

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Inspired Figment said:
Not really, the ride is still mocking the fans through portraying Figment as a nuisance that constantly “makes a mess of the institute” who “finally shows” Dr. Channing (the imagineers and management behind the change to begin with) that he ‘does’ have an imagination.. he just has to “turn his thinking upside down”, like the “upside down thinking Friends of Figment in “Figment’s Open House”… (*facepalm*… just UGH.. GAG me. It’s SO insultingly bad, just incase you didn’t already get the smell of skunk out of your mind from the scene prior to that)
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Chili dog smell is worse...
 
Agent H

Agent H

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Inspired Figment said:
Not really, the ride is still mocking the fans through portraying Figment as a nuisance that constantly “makes a mess of the institute” who “finally shows” Dr. Channing (the imagineers and management behind the change to begin with) that he ‘does’ have an imagination.. he just has to “turn his thinking upside down”, like the “upside down thinking Friends of Figment in “Figment’s Open House” who “put him on blast” at the end… (*facepalm*… just UGH.. GAG me. It’s SO insultingly bad, just incase you didn’t already get the smell of skunk fart out of your mind from the scene prior to that)
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2 things can be true at the same time
 
S.I.R. the Robot

S.I.R. the Robot

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Agent H said:
2 things can be true at the same time
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At least Body Wars never got anything like that. I'd rather the entire pavilion is abandoned (JUST SO WE CAN HAVE DAVID AS KIERAN OR LOREN IN THE SIMULATOR BAY ONE DAY..... and not only that, there can be a Fantastic Voyage plot of Star-Lord in the former Making of Me theater down a few....)
 
Inspired Figment

Inspired Figment

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Agent H said:
2 things can be true at the same time
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Part of the trouble is the two creative heads behind it literally had a large beef w Tony Baxter and his team at the time, hence why little to none of those original folks were included nor consulted on both redos of the pavilion at the time. The split could be pinpointed by the time EuroDisney failed to get the amount of hotel bookings they’d hoped and once Eisner started pushing trusted creatives away and strictly around business people once Frank Wells passed. Seems the last time the teams were working together on good terms was the WDW version of Splash Mountain. (Could be wrong on that, but that’s what it seems from my own observations)
 
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Inspired Figment

Inspired Figment

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That and because Tony Baxter & co. were basically speaking out & fighting ‘against’ the decisions of management (Eisner, Pressler) at that time, it makes further sense why they wouldn’t have been chosen for things like this at the time. (Not to mention Tokyo Disney Sea being constructed and all) But that’s corporate politics for you when things get real bad up there. The CEOs & WDI management start promoting and appointing the wrong people in the wrong positions & projects they don’t belong, despite their history & track records proving this probably not to be the best idea. And well.. yeah.. and that brings us to where we’ve been for the past few years aswell
 
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Cmdr_Crimson

Cmdr_Crimson

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S.I.R. the Robot said:
At least Body Wars never got anything like that. I'd rather the entire pavilion is abandoned (JUST SO WE CAN HAVE DAVID AS KIERAN OR LOREN IN THE SIMULATOR BAY ONE DAY..... and not only that, there can be a Fantastic Voyage plot of Star-Lord in the former Making of Me theater down a few....)
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Please stay on topic...This is about Figment Not Body Wars..
 
S.I.R. the Robot

S.I.R. the Robot

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Inspired Figment said:
That and because Tony Baxter & co. were basically speaking out & fighting ‘against’ the decisions of management (Eisner) at that time, it makes further sense why they wouldn’t have been chosen for things like this at the time. (Not to mention Tokyo Disney Sea being constructed and all) But that’s corporate politics for you when things get real bad up there. The CEOs start promoting and trusting the wrong people in the wrong positions, despite their track record proving otherwise. And well.. yeah.. and that brings us to where we’ve been for the past few years aswell
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And the loss of Body Wars, S.I.R., the evil computer voice on Disneyland's Peoplemover, and more...

At least they got Chris Pratt, but that's not gonna cut it.....
 
Inspired Figment

Inspired Figment

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Inspired Figment said:
and that brings us to where we’ve been for the past few years aswell
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and this is where I hope… maybe, somehow, someway (gotta have faith & hope here).. maybe management will either finally straighten out and get the right people in the positions they need and figure out what they need to do to get things on the right track.. or, current management needs to be replaced w a new set that genuinely understands what direction to take going forward. I genuinely don’t think it’s too difficult to figure it out.. but.. then again, I’m not a manager. lol Either way, I hope for the best.. and hopefully once things straighten out, we’ll get our proper Journey Into Imagination restoration/rehab that we’ve waited for, for decades now.
 
Moth

Moth

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d&d GIF by Hyper RPG

Can we please, please, PLEASE stop making every thread like this? I open the forums after a few hours away and find six pages of like, literally, the weirdest posts I've ever seen.
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Almost every thread for the last week has kinda devolved into this, I dunno what they're putting in the water but...


Figment! Let's talk about Figment. Do y'all think in a hypothetical redo of the pavilion they'll fix up/replace the water features?
 

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