Brer Panther
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Figment is now a character you can get in the Disney Magic Kingdoms app. That's worth noting, I think.
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Moth
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Yeah between that and Speedstorm he's in 2/3 of their current "main" mobile games. Just need him in Dreamlight Valley.
WeNamedTheDogIndiana
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He does have a topiary in DLV, so he's got at least minor representation there.
Rodj
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With one of the most cheaply done/low poly models of Figment I've ever seen, I'd say it's almost eerie looking in a way:
They also traced over this piece of art(right), which I still can't figure out if that was made by Disney or if it was fan art. Can't seem to find where the origin of it is from.
FigmentsBrightIdeas
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That clipart was originally taken from the D23 Expo ‘09 drawing/artwork featuring him. Which generally looks pretty darn close to the way he looks in the animated segments of the original ride (in the Realm of Science scene). The trouble is the colors and linework are slightly off on the fan redraw/coloring of it. Though truth be told, the CG model (IMO) is much better/more on model in Disney Magic Kingdoms than the one featured in the ‘02-current era “Journey Into Imagination With Figment” ride. Something that’s always bugged me about the 02-current attraction model besides it looking generally off-model when compared to his 83-98 animated and audio-animatronic selves, and far below Disney Animation standards (then again, what else can you expect from Disney farming that out to the same animation studio that brought us FoodFight! rather than in-house (like Mickey’s Philharmagic. That actually looked pretty darn good) ) , is that the soles of his feet are the wrong color aswell. They’re orange. While thankfully in the Magic Kingdoms model they’ve been corrected to the proper pink color.
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Cmdr_Crimson
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Threshold Animation did the animation for this? According to their site they only worked on that Armageddon effect show and Mission: Space.
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FigmentsBrightIdeas
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Yep. My guess is it wasn’t deemed as successful of an attraction revamp for them to put on their resume of works they did (can’t say I blame em. Lol) .. so, there ya have it. lolThreshold Animation did the animation for this? According to their site they only worked on that Armageddon effect show and Mission: Space.
MISSION SPACE | threshold-ent
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FigmentsBrightIdeas
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On that same note, during a presentation about Mission: Space, apparently they had Dave Goelz reprise his role as Figment to sing, announce or talk about it at an event done for when it (Mission: Space) opened. The presenter mentions it to Tony Baxter during this presentation about the creation of the original 83-98 Journey Into Imagination ride when the topic of Figment’s voice comes up: 37:45 :
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FigmentsBrightIdeas
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My guess is they were also contacted to do the little animations for Figment for that Kodak photo lab activity they had in the 02-current downstairs “What-If Labs” ImageWorks aswell that we’d mentioned earlier in this thread. Not to mention the little animations in the short-lived 99-01 Journey Into >Your Imagination (w little to no Figment. LOL), for the overhead queue videos and finale.
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Gillyanne
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And a motif, and a popcorn bucket (Parks Starpath, and craftable from the button/summer event IIRC)
Figment started as the tappers and then got his topiary with the club on DMK before he became a playable character. Fingers crossed DLV does do something similar. Or maybe as a companion or something.
Rodj
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This is still outdated as the soles are supposed to be deep purple now(The best contrasting IMO), though the artwork/merch throughout the years has been so inconsistent that you can’t tell when this change occurred. I’ve seen it in some merch from the 90’s.
Zak and Wheezie
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I wonder if there'll ever be any footage/audio of that found :O
Homemade Imagineering
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Foodfight! was peak cinemaThreshold Animation did the animation for this? According to their site they only worked on that Armageddon effect show and Mission: Space.
MISSION SPACE | threshold-ent
Cmdr_Crimson
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Interestingly they also had also done the Hershey's Really Big 3D Show that use to play at Hershey's Chocolate World..And the Animation looks much better before they went all motion capture.
Homemade Imagineering
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I hope Henry Mystic was right
tparris
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Didn’t it turn out that he didn’t actually know anything?
Homemade Imagineering
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Can’t even remember atp tbh, I think it was a bit of both lol
He didn't know anything special. When challenged on his source he slyly said it's from knowing how to look in the right places.
IOW... he guessed.
IOW... he guessed.
Moth
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iirc he said it was largely from "looking at trends".