I think there will be a lot of people at the closure of Journey into Imagination with Figment.
Indeed, being seen exactly for what it is, one of the biggest shams in theme park history. The “whimsical Journey Into the realms of Imagination” that isn’t one anymore. Some “return/comeback”, Where Figment isn’t a creation of Dreamfinder’s made up from collecting & combining sparks of inspiration anymore, but a “discovery” that’s “Dr. Channing’s invention” but actually isn’t (pay attention to the queue and what happens when you board and see the first scene) and is seen as interference to his own ride (that actually isn’t anymore, it’s a Honey I Shrunk themed sensory testing institute), til the last minute or so. What the hell. Good riddance
I reiterate my point about hoping current management is not stupid enough to tempt fate by repeating history.
I think the Locals that are sad about it, are also part of the Diehard fans...
My son refused to go on it because of this.
Honest to God, it is seriously ‘the’ worst ride redo we’ve ever seen in the company’s history. Legit. So, SO bad. You’ve never seen a character & experience so badly screwed up, mixed-up, & trivialized as you’ve seen here. It’s truly horrifying when you really look at it. It begs the question how they got away with this, let alone how they got these creative decisions passed. Nothing makes any sense at all when compared to its original incarnation. Take the 2nd most popular attraction in the park below Spaceship Earth, that sold the highest level of merch, and make it ‘THAT’. Just.. what even
It'd probably come with an announcement of the Seth Rogen project being a go and that'll probably end up dampening the enthusiasm since it raises the possibility that they're going to go full movie tie-in with it. And if the plot leak rumors I've read of the movie being a topical "Figment and Dreamfinder representing Human Imagination versus an AI obsessed Imagination Institute" metacommentary on the state of Hollywood aren't just a LARP, it gives them an excuse to keep the current setting.
Probably not the right thread but could you expound on that. Interesting.
4chan posts a few months apart so huge grain of salt since you're just as likely to get dumb Nintendo Direct fanfic type of stuff as much as you get disgruntled studio employees anonymously dumping a ton of production documents. The more detailed of the posts I saw was claiming a desire to cast Tom Hiddleston as the Imagination Institute chairman villain and trying to get Jenna Ortega as a "Dreamfinder's granddaughter" co-lead character to a 2D animated Figment.
Yikes, that sounds dreadful.
maybe but I would argue literally anything is better than the current version and also its not like they have much to lose besides the 5 minutes worth of wait. I just say give the new test track ppl this project as they knocked that out of the park. Plus any new figment would at the very least help balance out wait times, produce even more merch, and better ride then the current version.
Making "Figment hates AI Slop" canon is a nice idea. If they had gone the TV show route, it'd be a fun episode. But its not the best thing to center the big "Reintroduce the character to a mass audience that only knows him as a popular collectible popcorn bucket" project around.
I have argued that in a sense that as unquestionably bad as the second version was, the third version could be considered worse in the sense that it was clearly just a half-baked way to try to hodge-podge two completely different styles and concepts and force them together in a way that has always felt forced and done as cheaply as possible. Why it managed to last twenty-five years is actually quite amazing and a testament to the hubris and stupidity of today's Walt Disney Company and its leadership.
On the one hand, 4chan "leaks" tend to be pretty accurate. I recall somebody on there managed to leak the plot of Scoob! before it was released.