EPCOT Figment, well, to be replaced by Figment

Moth

Moth

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Mom! Dad! Imagination 4!

THAT'S RIGHT! IMAGINATION 4 YOUR MOUTH!
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DreamfinderGuy

DreamfinderGuy

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Moth said:
The ride has lasted 42 years, let's break it down.

15 years as JII.

2 as JIYI.

23 as JIIWF.
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While we're crunching numbers, I feel it's worth mentioning that JIIwF will become the longest running attraction in Future World's history in three short months. It will have had a lifespan longer than any other incarnation of anything else there ever has. I remember when people were complaining about how Ellen's Energy Adventure was the oldest thing there and how it was 21 years old at the time of its closure. JII 3 is gonna be 23 this year.

(The current record holder is the Lion King movie that used to play in The Land. It ran for just over 23 years, which is an almost sadder attraction to hold the record considering this is the park that used to have Horizons, JII, SSE '94, etc.)
 
Cmdr_Crimson

Cmdr_Crimson

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DreamfinderGuy said:
While we're crunching numbers, I feel it's worth mentioning that JIIwF will become the longest running attraction in Future World's history in three short months. It will have had a lifespan longer than any other incarnation of anything else there ever has. I remember when people were complaining about how Ellen's Energy Adventure was the oldest thing there and how it was 21 years old at the time of its closure. JII 3 is gonna be 23 this year.

(The current record holder is the Lion King movie that used to play in The Land. It ran for just over 23 years, which is an almost sadder attraction to hold the record considering this is the park that used to have Horizons, JII, SSE '94, etc.)
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Isn't Impressions de France " Technically' the longest attraction at Epcot??
 
S

Streetway Again

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DreamfinderGuy said:
While we're crunching numbers, I feel it's worth mentioning that JIIwF will become the longest running attraction in Future World's history in three short months. It will have had a lifespan longer than any other incarnation of anything else there ever has. I remember when people were complaining about how Ellen's Energy Adventure was the oldest thing there and how it was 21 years old at the time of its closure. JII 3 is gonna be 23 this year.

(The current record holder is the Lion King movie that used to play in The Land. It ran for just over 23 years, which is an almost sadder attraction to hold the record considering this is the park that used to have Horizons, JII, SSE '94, etc.)
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Is there a virtual equivalent to sticking my fingers in my ears and going “La la la, I can’t hear you”?
 
TheMaxRebo

TheMaxRebo

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DreamfinderGuy said:
While we're crunching numbers, I feel it's worth mentioning that JIIwF will become the longest running attraction in Future World's history in three short months. It will have had a lifespan longer than any other incarnation of anything else there ever has. I remember when people were complaining about how Ellen's Energy Adventure was the oldest thing there and how it was 21 years old at the time of its closure. JII 3 is gonna be 23 this year.

(The current record holder is the Lion King movie that used to play in The Land. It ran for just over 23 years, which is an almost sadder attraction to hold the record considering this is the park that used to have Horizons, JII, SSE '94, etc.)
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What about Living with the Land? It opened on Dec 10, 1993 after Listen to the Land closed in September of that year. So been Living with the land for over 31 years - or are their updates to it you are counting as a "new version"?
 
DreamfinderGuy

DreamfinderGuy

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TheMaxRebo said:
What about Living with the Land? It opened on Dec 10, 1993 after Listen to the Land closed in September of that year. So been Living with the land for over 31 years - or are their updates to it you are counting as a "new version"?
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Removing the boat guides and replacing them with prerecorded narration I feel is a significant enough change to warrant the current version being considered its own iteration. The track and scenes are the same but it’s still a very different experience than it was in 1993
 
TheMaxRebo

TheMaxRebo

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DreamfinderGuy said:
Removing the boat guides and replacing them with prerecorded narration I feel is a significant enough change to warrant the current version being considered its own iteration. The track and scenes are the same but it’s still a very different experience than it was in 1993
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fair, and guess that was 2006 only 19 years (feels like it has been longer than that with the prerecorded audio)
 
Centauri Space Station

Centauri Space Station

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DreamfinderGuy said:
Removing the boat guides and replacing them with prerecorded narration I feel is a significant enough change to warrant the current version being considered its own iteration. The track and scenes are the same but it’s still a very different experience than it was in 1993
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Eh all they did was go from live spiel to prerecorded, is the narration even that different?
 
DreamfinderGuy

DreamfinderGuy

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Centauri Space Station said:
Eh all they did was go from live spiel to prerecorded, is the narration even that different?
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SSE 82 -> 86's most drastic change was a new narrator, those are considered two separate incarnations even though the ride itself was minimally changed. Without the live guides you lose commentary on any crops that aren't grown there year round and on what greenhouse workers are up to if any are present while you're going through. You can't shoot quick questions at a prerecorded spiel like you can with a live guide either.

Also worth mentioning that considering you're not likely to have the same guide twice your experience could be slightly different on each ride. I'm not trying to say taking the guides away sucked the soul out of the ride like it would've for something like GMR, but I think it's valid to say they're different experiences.
 

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