Brer Panther
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Does anyone know why they repainted the building red in the first place? Not that I dislike the red color, I'm just curious...
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EPCOT Figment, well, to be replaced by Figment
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Scamp
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I think the building was repainted to match Kodak's branding colors (yellow and red).
Also they were incorporating theming from HISTA which had the imagination institute.
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FigmentsBrightIdeas
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To match the color of the Honey I Shrunk the Audience color aesthetics, as the ride was then (of course) rethemed in ‘99 to match the film playing in the Magic Eye Theatre at the time, an extension of said theme to be a backstage tour of the institute holding the awards ceremony in the film. A mistake IMO, the original blue & purple was much better, but it is what it is. Still think that film would’ve been a much better fit at DHS than EPCOT, somewhat near where the Honey, I Shrunk the Kids playground once was, certainly would’ve fit much better thematically, but yeah.
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Brer Panther
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The same colors as Figment's sweater, now that I think of it!
FigmentsBrightIdeas
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Ya know.. I just thought I’d mention something that I hadn’t even considered or thought about til now.. but you know the whole excuse of Journey Into Imagination changing that “Oh, it was the turntable opening scene of the ride that was a maintenance cost nightmare. That thing just had to go/be cut”. Well.. it’s funny, cause.. you guys ever notice that very same year (‘98), Disneyland got their very own Innoventions in Tomorrowland that (you guessed it) still utilized their turntable, all refurbed, functioning perfectly fine. Interesting, right? Huh. Granted, you could certainly make the excuse all the complex mechanical slide projectors and such on that scene would’ve been why, but that easily could’ve easily been upgraded/simplified to one or two projectors basically, to project all the spfx via a video file playing off a computer rather than the set of complex mechanical slide projectors to make it happen, if they really just wanted to cut maintenance on that so badly without destroying the core/theming of the ride entirely. Oh well, reeks of executives simply not being familiar/knowledgeable enough or caring enough about their own properties to make good decisions regarding those sorts of things, But yeah.
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WaluigiTime
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Yup! Kodak wanted Figment to be their color scheme and that sweater was Tony Baxter meeting them part way. Originally he was going to be green but Kodak said people would associate him with Fuji Film.
Zak and Wheezie
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I wonder if there's any photos of the 1983-1998 ride just after it closed, around October-December 1998. Horizons closed forever January 9, 1999 and there is a picture of the outside of the closed ride from a day afterward.
FigmentsBrightIdeas
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Haven’t seen photos from a day after per se but there ‘is’ a photo taken during the transition/construction I’ve seen before. This one:
Zak and Wheezie
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Aw man. They should have had a second thought...