UpStairs Imagination Abandoned 2013- Weird little room

[Goofyernmost]

We're fans. We have an emotional connection to this place. We stand in a two-hour long line to buy merchandise for an anniversary of this place.

I have memories of playing with my siblings in the Imagination upstairs, thirty years ago. With my parents. It is why I come back to WDW, and it is why sometimes I tell a Disney employee "oops, I was on my way to the bathroom. I thought it was over here and...."

Besides it's not exactly a threat to national security. It's just an empty room loaded with memories. I wouldn't do it because I'm basically afraid of getting caught, but, I'm glad that others have the intestinal fortitude to do it. Disney, in these abandonment cases, does not deserve a whole lot of respect for closing some of our favorite things to see and do because of money and hassle. Getting a glimpse of the past doesn't hurt anyone except the soulless accountants running the show.

 

[Seabasealpha1]

I think what is best of all, is that seeing Imagination abandoned like this makes us imagine so many things...for instance what could be there if they wanted to actually put in the effort, we imagine what happened to the area or why it has been closed and apparently emptied...and we imagine different reasons for them keeping the place clean when it gets like ZERO traffic anymore...

Funny how despite the failure of the attraction now-a-days we can still find a glimmer of the original intent under all the dust and debris and nostalgia...

 

[Dragonrider1227]

WOL baffles me more than Imagination. I know they occasionally use the area for events, but so much of the area is still running. It doesn't even look abandoned. This could actually be a bigger waste of space than Imagination ._.

I wonder sometimes if E.P.C.O.T. as (Walt envisioned it) would have been a success or if it would have been the downfall of the company.

Considering I've heard the EPCOT we got was nearly the downfall of the company...
At least that's what I've heard

 

[Goofyernmost]

WOL baffles me more than Imagination. I know they occasionally use the area for events, but so much of the area is still running. It doesn't even look abandoned. This could actually be a bigger waste of space than Imagination ._.


Considering I've heard the EPCOT we got was nearly the downfall of the company...
At least that's what I've heard

Not sure what you mean by "still running". Nothing within the building is still running, it is just sitting there not torn out yet. I think that they are wise enough to know how curious we humans are and that some of us will go in there during the special events just to see what it looks like now and trigger old memories. Good move on their part.

 

[Dragonrider1227]

WOL baffles me more than Imagination. I know they occasionally use the are

Not sure what you mean by "still running". Nothing within the building is still running, it is just sitting there not torn out yet. I think that they are wise enough to know how curious we humans are and that some of us will go in there during the special events just to see what it looks like now and trigger old memories. Good move on their part.

Many of the lights were running. Some of the screens appeared to still be running. At least in the footage I saw

 

[Captain Neo]

why doesn't disney just open it up again so people don't have to sneak into that area?? It was designed as a guest area.

 

[Goofyernmost]

why doesn't disney just open it up again so people don't have to sneak into that area?? It was designed as a guest area.

Because it would have to be staffed for insurance reasons.

 

[Goofyernmost]

WOL baffles me more than Imagination. I know they occasionally use the are

Many of the lights were running. Some of the screens appeared to still be running. At least in the footage I saw

If the footage you saw were the one's that you posted with your reply, what you were looking at was, in the case, of the 'Woo' footage the pavilion being open as a festival area interspersed with old footage of when WoL was actually WoL. The new footage had lighting and screens because it WAS open as the festival center at the time it was filmed. The second video was of a between time when there were people in there either setting up for the next festival or taking down, hence the lighting needed for them to see what they are doing. I don't remember any screens showing on that one. I wouldn't be surprised if they always keep some lights on so the surveillance cameras will be useful in preventing sneak ins.

So it runs, as a festival center or it doesn't run at all.

 

[prberk]

We're fans. We have an emotional connection to this place. We stand in a two-hour long line to buy merchandise for an anniversary of this place.

I have memories of playing with my siblings in the Imagination upstairs, thirty years ago. With my parents. It is why I come back to WDW, and it is why sometimes I tell a Disney employee "oops, I was on my way to the bathroom. I thought it was over here and...."

Not sure what you mean by "still running". Nothing within the building is still running, it is just sitting there not torn out yet. I think that they are wise enough to know how curious we humans are and that some of us will go in there during the special events just to see what it looks like now and trigger old memories. Good move on their part.

I would hope that Disney execs might actually get it someday and restore this area to a working area. It would help with crouds and be an inexpensive, fun way to add to the experience in a way that people would respond to.

All they need is "one little spark" of "imagination"! (Of course, perhaps that it is what is missing...)

 

[Goofyernmost]

I would hope that Disney execs might actually get it someday and restore this area to a working area. It would help with crouds and be an inexpensive, fun way to add to the experience in a way that people would respond to.

All they need is "one little spark" of "imagination"! (Of course, perhaps that it is what is missing...)

That would be nice, but, jumping in my wayback machine, I see a Disney Co. run buy the guy that owned, controlled the purse strings and was the one with the imagination as well. Disney is so many layers now that the absolute last grouping on the control totem pole are those that imagine. Used to be at the top when all this was created.

 

[puntagordabob]

You'd be surprised how much "wasted" space there is at the WDW Resort!

yea and what drives me crazy is to add something they always have to rip a bunch of stuff down.... rediculous.... Look at Disneyland Resort with their little spec of property...when its time to add there they seem to ask "How can we make this work in the space we have here?" and meanhwile at Walt Disney World the question seems to be "We have plenty of room by knocking this and that down No Problem!"

Which to me is the OPPOSITE attitude you would expect from each!

 

[Vader2112]

...said nobody in classic EPCOT ever.

Oh, poor Imagination, what have they done to you!

The ride itself is is sorry shape. My 4 and 5 year olds love the ride and Figment. I tell them about how great it once was. We rode on Thursday last week and I wanted to cry. TLC is not enough at this point.