EPCOT Figment, well, to be replaced by Figment

[Homemade Imagineering]

Horrible as it seems anyone of persuasion in a position of power who’s less than 35 years old probably wouldn’t appreciate the original attraction.

Sadly yes. Hopefully Figment’s current popularity in terms of merch sales helps to keep him in the park in whatever is to come. I’d be more worried for the Dreamfinder. I’d like to think a revival of the original using new SPFX could still be possible several years down the line, but I don’t know whether that’s necessarily realistic. It’ll be interesting to see where they take Figment in the next several years from now. I definitely think fans, including myself, have been taking a magnifying glass to every little possible hint towards the refreshed attraction we deserve. Hopefully a D+ series is in the cards, as that would probably convince the execs to greenlight such a project.

 

[NateD1226]

Thought I might share Eric Idle's recent tweets about him forgetting Figment and Nigel Channing.





Here is the dragon that he is referring to lol

 

[Homemade Imagineering]

Y’know, it’s absolutely baffling to me that Figment wasn’t in some way apart of the Inside Out proposal. Heck even Dreamfinder. Both of em would fit seemlesly in an Inside Out attraction, and you’d please both crowds for the most part. Not that I’d want the synergy, but it’s almost a win win scenario from my perspective. It’s a shame the execs are so blind.

 

[FigmentJedi]

The real irony of the "Eric Idle forgot Figment" drama on Twitter right now is that him getting cast as Nigel Channing was a last minute change because Raul Julia had to drop out of production of Honey I Shrunk the Audience because of his declining health.

 

[Homemade Imagineering]

lol, DisTwitter is insane rn...

 

[Giss Neric]

 

[DreamfinderGuy]

So who do we have to send all these tweets to to get the ball rolling? Someone somewhere has gotta care. At least more than Eric Idle does.

 

[Homemade Imagineering]

This fills me with many intense emotions all at once . I mean, he isn’t technically responsible for JII’s demise, that’s Kodak’s fault... although it would’ve been nicer if he responded differently lol. I’m just gonna sit here with my popcorn and watch as this madness plays out for the rest of the night... all of this is pretty ironic.

 

[Brer Oswald]

I do feel bad for the guy. He likely spent no more than 2 days recording what is less than 4 minutes of dialogue, and people are bombarding him, either discussing it like it was his only role ever, or pretending that he’s the reason it turned into a catastrophic disaster.

 

[Homemade Imagineering]

I do feel bad for the guy. He likely spent no more than 2 days recording what is less than 4 minutes of dialogue, and people are bombarding him, either discussing it like it was his only role ever, or pretending that he’s the reason it turned into a catastrophic disaster.

Yeah, everyone needs to calm down, it’s not like he personally went into JII with a sledgehammer and smashed the Dreamfinder AAs. Now, if only Kodak had a more responsive Twitter account, I can’t say I’d feel nearly as bad if this were Kodak in a war with DisTwitter

 

[Brer Oswald]

Yeah, everyone needs to calm down, it’s not like he personally went into JII with a sledgehammer and smashed the Dreamfinder AAs. Now, if only Kodak had a more responsive Twitter account, I can’t say I’d feel nearly as bad if this were Kodak in a war with DisTwitter

DisTwitter is just a bunch of babbling clowns. They have no say in anything.

 

[TalkingHead]

It's reminiscent of the classic SNL sketch with William Shatner at a Star Trek convention. Back then the idea of a celebrity ridiculing fans to their face was satire, but now...

 

[Homemade Imagineering]

According to Ron Schneider, Micheal Eisner said “f that purple dragon” at some point during the whole debacle back in the late 90s, which, if I’m assuming is something he actually said, reminds me of this situation... except Idle has no familiarity with the character, and is simply tired of fans harrssing him, understandably... it certainly doesn’t make us fans look good. I wish the folks on Twitter treated him with more respect, since again, he wasn’t at all responsible for JII’s demise.

 

[DoleWhipDrea]

Eisner didn’t understand Figment’s appeal. He also thought it would be smart to build a cheaply-made California-themed theme park in California and would keep tourists on Disney property as opposed to visiting the rest of the state.

I do feel bad for Eric Idle, though he did reply to a tweet regarding the attraction not that long ago. This past year has felt like 5 in his defense.

 

[DoleWhipDrea]

With all due respect what about this EPCOT Re-imagining gives you any clue WDI cares what EPCOT fans want?

Never claimed that they actually care about what we as fans want, though certain project leads drop hints every now and again. It’s ultimately hollow without action.

But WDI isn’t who ultimately decides what gets the final approval. There are thousands of amazing concepts that they submit that we would love, but will never see actually built. Instead the bigwigs get excited at the prospect of selling more Baby Groot figures as they churn out more Marvel material, as film-wise its their biggest cash cow. So instead you have someone like Iger or Chapek say to WDI, “Epcot needs something new? Okay, that’s where a new Marvel attraction can go. Make it work.”

 

[Giss Neric]

Lies and Deceit in these portraits. This is actually one of my favorite parts from the entire attraction. Pretty sure Wayne Szalinski (Peter Scolari) knows about Honey, I Shrunk the Audience unless they filmed it way before the attraction was built.

I wonder if Brendan Fraser knew about the Mummy ride when he was shooting his scenes for it.

 

[Homemade Imagineering]

I wonder if Brendan Fraser knew about the Mummy ride when he was shooting his scenes for it.

I know it’s not Orlando, but it seems he’s certainly familiar with Hollywood’s!

 

[Giss Neric]

I know it’s not Orlando, but it seems he’s certainly familiar with Hollywood’s!

Johnny Depp as well


We can forget about Ellen Degeneres.

 

[Homemade Imagineering]

Instead the bigwigs get excited at the prospect of selling more Baby Groot figures as they churn out more Marvel material, as film-wise its their biggest cash cow.

Figment fits this criteria, sans a blockbuster film of course. I still have hope he’ll at least be included in a revamped attraction, since the execs care so much about turning a profit through merchandising. Also, Figment technically hasn’t left the park yet, and despite his crappy personality in the attraction, he’s still popular among the young ones and shows no signs of slowing down. He’s timeless, which isn’t necessarily the case for anything else in FutureWorld atm.

 

[RSoxNo1]

I support Eric Idle's opinion and description of the current version of Figment. I will be using his term to describe Figment until the attraction is modified and suggest that Steve do an automatic find/replace of Figment as a forum rule.