Originally Posted By Doobie This topic is for Discussion of <a href="http://www.LaughingPlace.com/Latest.asp?I1=ID&I2=981" target="_blank">The Latest: Latest: Timekeeper Officialy Closes 2/26</a>
Originally Posted By bepo56 I just dont understand Disney!s thinking sometime, across the road they have one of the most overated attractions i have ever seen at Disney in stitchs great escape, yet they officially close down timekeeper.
Originally Posted By basas What's the point in even announcing when it's closing- it isn't even opening again!...or...is it opening for President's Day?
Originally Posted By TDLFAN I am sure it will be since they are anticipating extremely good attendance and lots of flight to Orlando and daytona are overbooked at this time. They are having the Daytone 500 going on as well.. I believe.
Originally Posted By Elderp I have never been to WDW but I have been to TDL is this the attraction with figment and you go arround looking for people with imagination?
Originally Posted By Brian Noble >>>What's the point in even announcing when it's closing<<< At the least, the building will no longer be used for Meet-n-Greets.
Originally Posted By TDLFAN IF you went to TDL, this was presented as LE Visionarium in Tokyo.. from 93-03 It's the circle vision movie from DL Paris.. However, TDL had the original version from DLP, whereas WDW has a sightly different and re-edited version, and THAT is what we are talking about. >>is this the attraction with figment and you go arround looking for people with imagination?<< That's EPCOT's Journey into "your" Imagination. Figment is not seen in any other Disney park except at EPCOT Center.
Originally Posted By gurgitoy2 I love Figment! I wish he'd appear elsewhere, but then I guess he's be less special at EPCOT wouldn't he?
Originally Posted By gurgitoy2 I sure wish I had seen Le Visionarium. I've only seen the Timekeeper version at WDW. At least I got to see THAT one before it went the way of the dodo.
Originally Posted By mickey_ring Post 8 is a great point. Epcot was really cool and unique before Mickey and friends rolled in. No offense intended towards The Mouse or anything, but I'm still ticked off because the Centorium got scrapped for Mousegear. Oops, off topic. Are there any rumors or definites about what will replace Timekeeper? Since two "recent" Tomorrowland attractions are movie based, I wonder if Tk's replacement will be too. Something Chicken Little-ish?
Originally Posted By TDLFAN >>I'm still ticked off because the Centorium got scrapped for Mousegear.<< God, do I miss the glass elevator ride to the upper level... and what painful feeling overcomes me when I think that the current Princesses Room in MouseGear was once the site of an EPCOT *attraction*!!! Imagine that!!!!
Originally Posted By Elderp "IF you went to TDL, this was presented as LE Visionarium in Tokyo.. from 93-03 It's the circle vision movie from DL Paris.. However, TDL had the original version from DLP, whereas WDW has a sightly different and re-edited version, and THAT is what we are talking about." I went in 92. I remember the first part of the attraction was the imagination guy (I thought his name was the Timekeeper but maybe not) and he was talking to figment. Then the second part was a circlevision type show with the two.
Originally Posted By Elderp Nevermind it was the visionarium and it must of been the summer of 1993 because that is the date of my program guide. I think I am going senile!! <a href="http://albums.photo.epson.com/j/ViewPhoto?u=4155657&a=31056532&p=66521648&f=0" target="_blank">http://albums.photo.epson.com/ j/ViewPhoto?u=4155657&a=31056532&p=66521648&f=0</a>
Originally Posted By TDLFAN I knew it had to be after April 15th, 1993 because I *was* there for the official opening ceremony of TDL's Visionarium. Trust me on this Elderp... EPCOT's Figment or DreamFinder (who is the guy from Imagination) have *never* been seen outside EPCOT anywhere! ...and yes.. The Treehouse and Visionarium were opened in 1993 during the 10th anniversary celebration. As for Visionarium... you are confused to some degree... Just like DLP, the TDL presentation included a video preshow featuring the same AA characters you saw inside the theater. They were Timekeeper (yes like the WDW attraction) and Nine-Eye, the robot Timekeeper sends thru time in his time machine. In the preshow... Timekeeper introduces 9-Eye and talks about time travel, Jules Verne and HG Wells...etc etc. ... And THAT is what you saw.
Originally Posted By Elderp I heard it in English (they gave me headphones) and I remember him saying his name was figment. Perhaps there was a translation error?
Originally Posted By Elderp I am going to look through my pictures more maybe I can find more on this.
Originally Posted By Elderp I just looked it up the English translation of that ride is the Timekeeper.
Originally Posted By Elderp Here is a description of it from another english rider: "On to Tomorrow Land and the Visionarium (Timekeeper). The pre-show had monitors in both Japanese and English. The last two rows of the theater had headsets with English translations. It's not the Robin Williams ride. I suspect this is the original attraction from Disneyland Paris. After this, we rode Space Mountain then headed off to Fantasy Land for more Pooh Fastpasses. The Fastpass line was now only 5 minutes so we got 2 Fastpasses. At 10:45 a.m., our return time was 4:15 p.m." http://www.mouseplanet.com/dtp/trip.rpt/report_files/tokyodl.rpt/grant01my.htm
Originally Posted By TDLFAN The description also says 'not the Robin Williams *ride*'. It's not! It's a cirlevision *movie*. Big difference. But for the record.. I annot arguing with you the point that the attraction's main AA character name is indeed Timekeeper, but the sidekick's name has always been Nine Eye. If they refered to him as "Figment" in the headphone translation, then that was a mistake made by the production team. Personally, I never heard the english translation because I understand french and remember the plot as presented in Paris in it's original language, so I never saw the need to hear the show in english in Tokyo. But look in your old TDL english guidebook and you will see the name of the attraction is "Visionarium".
