The reference is to the area in the OLD Image Works named "Sensory" - hundreds lights make up a winding hallway - and a certain color followed you as you walked!
"IT KNOWS YOU'RE THERE!"
"IT KNOWS YOU'RE THERE!"
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IMAGINATION! Discoveries! (Part 3): The Wrap-Up!
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cuteypatooty78
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Originally posted by grizzlyhall
The reference is to the area in the OLD Image Works named "Sensory" - hundreds lights make up a winding hallway - and a certain color followed you as you walked!
"IT KNOWS YOU'RE THERE!"
So its still there and working?
Unfortunately, no. The lights here were removed and placed in various locations of EPCOT...not sure where specifically.
However, everything is still "intact"...
What a shame.
And to think, insurance isn't getting ANY lower...
However, everything is still "intact"...
What a shame.
And to think, insurance isn't getting ANY lower...
Bagheera
New Member
"Can they imagine, too?"
"Of course! Imagination is something that belongs to all of us!"
"You mean everyone can think up new things!"
"That's right! Unless, of course, they're Imagineers who want to get rid of us an put an unimaginative Imagination attraction in. Isn't that right, Figment?"
"Yeah, Dreamfinder! Why can't they just leave well enough alone?"
"Even I don't have enough imagination to answer that question!"
::drat::
"Of course! Imagination is something that belongs to all of us!"
"You mean everyone can think up new things!"
"That's right! Unless, of course, they're Imagineers who want to get rid of us an put an unimaginative Imagination attraction in. Isn't that right, Figment?"
"Yeah, Dreamfinder! Why can't they just leave well enough alone?"
"Even I don't have enough imagination to answer that question!"
::drat::
Timekeeper
Well-Known Member
why?
Why in the world are theme parks doing this? ...leaving empty, unused space, that is. First with 20,000 Leagues. But it's not just Disney - Univseral's Shrek 4-D uses only the original theater where the 3-D Hitchcock film played, and not the 2nd theater featuring the shower scene mockup and the Bates house. Some of the Hitch props remain (although most have been removed), and that space could have been used to create a larger Shrek theater to accomodate more guests! (sorry for the topic drift, ...the issue remains the same)
You would think that park real estate availability would mean making the most of the space provided. It sickens me when such gross shortcuts are made. Thumbs down.
Tk
Why in the world are theme parks doing this? ...leaving empty, unused space, that is. First with 20,000 Leagues. But it's not just Disney - Univseral's Shrek 4-D uses only the original theater where the 3-D Hitchcock film played, and not the 2nd theater featuring the shower scene mockup and the Bates house. Some of the Hitch props remain (although most have been removed), and that space could have been used to create a larger Shrek theater to accomodate more guests! (sorry for the topic drift, ...the issue remains the same)
You would think that park real estate availability would mean making the most of the space provided. It sickens me when such gross shortcuts are made. Thumbs down.
Tk
KevinPage
Well-Known Member
This is not a diss against Eisner and everyone has different priorities in life. By if someone was stupid enough to make me a CEO of a company, I would pay to bring back the original JIY myself. Heck, when you make $500 million per year, what's $20 million to bring back a ride you could get life long praise for (granted from a small faction of fanatics, who are generally your toughest critics though).
Anyways, it was KODAK who wanted to keep Figment? I had always heard they wanted him out. So I had this hostility towards Kodak all these years for not?
Anyways, it was KODAK who wanted to keep Figment? I had always heard they wanted him out. So I had this hostility towards Kodak all these years for not?
Let's put it this way...if it weren't for KODAK, JIYI may just have been worse! :lol:
(Can you possibly IMAGINE that?!)
(Can you possibly IMAGINE that?!)
Figment1986
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god, that would be bad, Jurney into Your Images, Ahhhh
Originally posted by KevinPage
This is not a diss against Eisner and everyone has different priorities in life. By if someone was stupid enough to make me a CEO of a company, I would pay to bring back the original JIY myself. Heck, when you make $500 million per year, what's $20 million to bring back a ride you could get life long praise for (granted from a small faction of fanatics, who are generally your toughest critics though).
Anyways, it was KODAK who wanted to keep Figment? I had always heard they wanted him out. So I had this hostility towards Kodak all these years for not?
Haha, I wish. But I'm afraid the money just can't generally go somewhere...it's all set up within different departments.
I was told quite the opposite; very few props were destroyed or released from the company's posession. Just before work started on the new JIYI, all the props were tagged by WDI and shipped off to a warehouse. Some of the more common props that appeared in multiples within the attraction were given to people who worked within Imagineering, but that was it. Props were only destroyed if they were damaged to the point where they were no longer usable; and larger props were dismanteled but still kept together.
I would estimate that more than 85% of the rides original props are still usable and could foreseeably be put back into the attraction if they ever wanted to re-do the ride. Not that it would happen, but it could if the powers to be ever decided otherwise.
Lovecraft
Member
I guess I am in the minority here... but the first time I rode the ride with Dreamfinder and Figment I turned to my wife and said "Wow. That totally sucked-- they need to do something cool in here"
So when we came back and they had changed the ride I said "Hey let's try it now! They changed it! Maybe it won't be so terrible?"
We rode it... and both of us turned to each other and said (at the end of the ride) "I can't believe they made it even WORSE!"
So.. then it changed again... and we rode it... of course, we weren't expecting much. And, that's what we got. The coolest thing in the ride to me was the end when the fiber optic starfield "changed" into the unload area. and that has even been "tamed" by not being as dark (for safety reasons I imagine) and now loses the effect.
Ho - hum... normally this type of ride, a dark ride with educational opprtunities, is my favorite kind of attraction.
I say gut the entire thing, get rid of the silly figment dolls littering up the giftshop (or, at least make some kind of figment cartoon or something to make me actually want one those things) and put in a ride that actually inspires imagination... sheesh, imagination is the thing that Walt Disney himself used most! It is a CRYING shame that a pavillion devoted to this most human experience and ability lacks so much of it.
I feel for the imagineers... I bet they want to do something SUPER COOL with the place.
oops, I ranted.
-- Lovecraft
So when we came back and they had changed the ride I said "Hey let's try it now! They changed it! Maybe it won't be so terrible?"
We rode it... and both of us turned to each other and said (at the end of the ride) "I can't believe they made it even WORSE!"
So.. then it changed again... and we rode it... of course, we weren't expecting much. And, that's what we got. The coolest thing in the ride to me was the end when the fiber optic starfield "changed" into the unload area. and that has even been "tamed" by not being as dark (for safety reasons I imagine) and now loses the effect.
Ho - hum... normally this type of ride, a dark ride with educational opprtunities, is my favorite kind of attraction.
I say gut the entire thing, get rid of the silly figment dolls littering up the giftshop (or, at least make some kind of figment cartoon or something to make me actually want one those things) and put in a ride that actually inspires imagination... sheesh, imagination is the thing that Walt Disney himself used most! It is a CRYING shame that a pavillion devoted to this most human experience and ability lacks so much of it.
I feel for the imagineers... I bet they want to do something SUPER COOL with the place.
oops, I ranted.
-- Lovecraft
And apparently, a lot of the mechanism props can be seen on the storage racks in the current queue.
FigmentJedi
Well-Known Member
And the dreamvehicle is now in mousegear,without the balloon and the idea bag has been replaced.I am going to guess where the first figment(in the old opening)is now(the one in the hot air baloon?)
I think the hot air balloon Figment's head is the "Showbiz Figment" from 1983...but nothing is confirmed.
The "imagination" side pretty much starts after Channing's open house and into Figments...
Hmm...what's the difference between the two? :veryconfu