To be fair the thought process for the second one was a unified theme for the pavilion, it's just that the ride sucked. The current version is basically the quickest and most awkward band-aid they could throw on it. On a personal note, a succesful re-do of Imagination with Figment and Dreamfinder is probably the ONLY thing that would even tempt me to return to EPCOT or really the whole resort after killing Reflections of Earth.
But yet.. that final scene that resembles anything from the original exists for 15 seconds. And the other scenes are changed considerably enough from the middle version (namely the Sight Lab, Smell Lab, and Touch & Taste (lack therof, two doors and a ledge) scenes, where you wonder.. what were they thinking? This couldn’t possibly be the best they could do with what they had
At this point I would think that every project done at EPCOT in the past 23 years has probably stolen the budget for Imagination 4.
Those were once.. a magnifying glass magnifying a room (or is it?), a brick crashing through a glass table referencing common sense being shattered, a shelf with a small household aquarium with a fish floating in & out of it representing illusions, a bunch of screens displaying nothing but colors with crazy sounds coming out of it representing how color apparently effects the imagination. star constellations representing connections, and an upside down mirror representing “looking at things from a different angle”
Maybe to the five riders who actually notice it.
You do have to keep in mind that they were bleeding revenue at that time since it was almost immediately post 9/11. Everyone was afraid to fly Also, Kodak wisely (for them) decided not to lend any financial support.
Yet Disneyland’s Winnie the Pooh ride turned out the way it did. That ride actually made sense. Budget is no excuse for replacing a brick crashing through a glass table with.. an eye chart and a table of more office equipment/supplies?? as a “fix”, as a “return of the original ride’s spirit”, when that was originally a whimsical carousel of origami animals with a rainbow of colors in a Realm of Art. I swear. And again, not like it wasn’t possible to create better scenes. That final scene is composed mainly of painted flats and static figures
Disneyland was starting to slowly rebound from the disaster that was the Pressler/Harris era at that time so i guess corporate thought that needed the money more. It's no secret that Burbank has an obvious pro-Disneyland bias since most of the people working there are California kids who grew up with Disneyland whereas WDW is mostly run by Business School graduates who consider working for Disney as just another accomplishment on their resume on their way to higher paying positions, elsewhere.
You still honestly think it was budget that made them think an eye chart and smell slot machine that sprays skunk was the best improvement that fit Figment & “Whimsical Realms of Imagination” over a glass table & brick and a bunch of color screens making random crazy sounds?, that was originally an elaborate realm of art with color & origami sculptures, literature with words and various things from literature to represent how words create different ideas?… no man, something else happened here.
Well, it's not like it's a multi-billion-dollar company or anything.
The syndicated Series with the late Peter Sclari was pretty good and still suprised it hasn't made it to Disney + yet...
If Olaf wasn't so endearing, Frozen wouldn't have been such a runaway success and we wouldn't be in this mess. Josh Gad really has no one to blame but himself.
You may have something there. Roger Rabbit was HUGE. I was in a packed theater in 1988 (& it was a matinee...#1 film of 1988). I remember it still going strong on Pay-per-view in early 1990....about a year and a half after it's release (and this was the all-time peak of "PPV"). But I did enjoy Tummy Trouble more than the film (don't get me wrong, the film's very good...especially for the cast..but never felt I had to see it more than once).
I also only rode 2.0 once. Like most attractions that only have "camcorder-like" archives...nothing can do justice to actually experiencing it.
They weren't.
wait what? I don't remember that. He was great (I'm sad that he's passed-on relatively young imo).