NEW Journey Into Imagination Press Release

steamboatwillie

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Original Poster
Here's a press release from wdwnews.com about the new Journey Into Imagination ride. To me, it doesn't sound like they've changed much, just brought back the song "One Little Spark". Anyway, here it is:

Journey Into Imagination with Figment Brings Popular Purple Dragon Back to Epcot

Figment is back! The playful purple dragon who captured millions of hearts at Walt Disney World Resort returns to Epcot in June to once again demonstrate the power of imagination.

Journey Into Imagination with Figment invites guests to an open house at the Imagination Institute led by Dr. Nigel Channing, who plans to show how the five senses can influence a person’s imagination.

Future World guests traveling through the colorful, energetic attraction stop for Dr. Channing’s demonstrations in laboratories to discover how the human senses are being studied to help “capture and control” the imagination. The stops are interrupted, however, by the free-thinking Figment, a mischievous dragon who tries to show the ever-practical Dr. Channing and his guests that the imagination works best, not when it’s controlled, but rather, when it’s set free.

Guests will encounter stimulating experiences:

In the sight laboratory, Figment has fun with a vision chart to prove that there is more to the imagination than meets the eye!

Sniff, sniff – What’s that aroma in the smell laboratory?

In the sound laboratory, guests enjoy a symphony of delightful melodies as Figment shows how thoughts can appear by way of the ear.

The fun continues when guests are invited into Figment’s house, which is upside-down to show how imagination can really come “home” when you look at things from a new perspective. By the end, his impish antics convince Dr. Channing how much fun a free imagination can be.

“The return of Figment adds another level of excitement to this re-energized attraction,” said David Mumford, show designer for Walt Disney Imagineering. “Journey Into Imagination with Figment is bright and fun and should appeal to guests of all ages.”

The revamped attraction also heralds the return of “One Little Spark,” an uplifting song written by legendary Disney composers Richard M. and Robert B. Sherman for the attraction’s original opening in March 1983. Comic actor Eric Idle also returns as Dr. Nigel Channing, a role he originated in the adjacent “Honey, I Shrunk the Audience” 3-D attraction at Epcot.

Journey Into Imagination with Figment is part of the Imagination! pavilion presented by Kodak at Epcot.
 

WDWKing

New Member
no offense to you Steamboat but this is the 6th time this has been posted and I'm getting tired of all these JIYI threads. But thats just my opinion.
 

steamboatwillie

New Member
Original Poster
It's already been posted? I'm incredibly sorry. I didn't have the chance to look through all the other threads and just wanted to make sure this got on the boards. Thanks for notifying me.
 

Domboy

Member
I might be asking a question already answered, but why did they get rid of it in the first place?

was it money, or was it customers didnt enjoy going?

and when is this new version going to launch or has it? Difficult to work out form across the water

ta
 

NowInc

Well-Known Member
Originally posted by Domboy
I might be asking a question already answered, but why did they get rid of it in the first place?

was it money, or was it customers didnt enjoy going?

and when is this new version going to launch or has it? Difficult to work out form across the water

ta

Eh...lack of intrest...at least they thought so. They figured it was time for it to be redone...they were wrong ;)
 

Sansaarai

Account Suspended
It was absoultly one of WDW worst rides. Totaly devoid of the spirit of the original. And Figment was not in the new verision which, upset some people.
 

Domboy

Member
got it

thanks Now Inc.

cant quite remember that much about it - but knew the song stuck in your head - always seems quite a popular ride though - long queues

power to the people :) hahaha
 

General Grizz

New Member
Kodak and Disney made an agreement that the old ride must be replaced in the late 90s or something...so, I supposed they waited till the last minute to design...
 

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