In all due seriousness though, it just baffles me that they haven’t thought to restore the ride back to its former glory ‘first’. You’d think that’d be an obvious choice since Figment & Dreamfinder merch sells as well as it does and the meet n greet is well received, you look at how well Haunted Mansion does as a property for instance even without a successful movie and the merch sells great and it’s well beloved. The same should be able to be said about the original Journey Into Imagination. It’s the uneccesary Honey, I Shrunk/Medfield College connected sci-fi flick IP retheme they did in ‘99 that ruined it and what people don’t like.. was a mistake to attach film IP to it then, and it still would be now. And simply shoehorning in Figment in 02 to “fix it/please fans of the original”, let alone changing his OG characterization from the relatable wide eyed curious child that was an example of a “figment of imagination”, a creation come to life, who discovered his own creative abilities & potential, to further add to the ride’s theme in 83-98 to then in 02-now a random discovery that’s supposedly an “interference” that “makes a big stink & turns the institute open house upside down” wasn’t the way to remedy the issue either. He works best in the ride & role he was designed to be/for, not carelessly tacked into an ill-conceived, unneccesary & unfitting film IP themed ride.
