Originally Posted By dennis-in-ct Alright - please clarify .... there will be no "Imageworks"? You mean, the whole interactive area? Has that area been closed and used for ride space? Or has the track length been shorten YET AGAIN like the witches said? and Britain ... WELL SAID and SJHYM re: a new reef ... ROTFL!!!!!!!!!
Originally Posted By SJHYM I think the comment was in regards to the old Image Works area on the second floor of the pyramid. There is still the Imageworks are at the exit of the attraction. As for opening dates, a cast member told me the first week of June I am not holding up too much hope on this one. I think we will see alot of the rehabed ride still in place with figment added to tie the story together. For those of us who are pining for the old attraction, I think we will just have to let it go. Its gone. sniff sniff sniff. I am taking too asprin then submerging myself in the ocean. Maybe I will become a coral reef
Originally Posted By leemac Sorry, Dennis, I should have explained further. The new ImageWorks is staying put, the upper levels are still disused. Kodak makes a bundle from their special photography and etching systems there, so they are still intact. I was told that the ride WILL open in May, but this is WDW (anyone say Test Track?!?!). It does sound a big improvement on the MK2 version and hopefully those wily merchandisers at WDW will finally realise that Figment would be the PERFECT mascot for EPCOT (again!). Could you imagine all the cool things they could make with the cute purple dragon on it?
Originally Posted By mrkthompsn One of my favorite niches in EPCOT was standing inside those sunlit glass pyramids, upstairs.
Originally Posted By SJHYM I have heard from several people that there will be lots of new Figment merchandise for the new opening. would love to see a figment watch.
Originally Posted By ThreeCircles >>>mrkthompsn: "One of my favorite niches in EPCOT was standing inside those sunlit glass pyramids, upstairs."<<< Didn't it always seem like an inferno up there? It was HOT!
Originally Posted By mrkthompsn Yeah, but I was usually under the influence of Disney-reality-shock. Once I'm in a favorite place like that, the heat/humidity has to be pretty awful before it begins to get to me. When I'm standing a few yards from red-hot lava on a volcano in Hawaii, on the edge of Half Dome in Yosemite, breathing in the stench of a Yellowstone geyser, hiking next to the Colorado river at 120 degree in the Grand Canyon, or standing inside the glass pyramids of Journey into Imagination, the beauty of moment makes everything else negligable.
Originally Posted By NikkiLOVESMickey I know what you mean, mrkthompsn. It happens whenever I stand on Main Street, or at the entrance to World Showcase, or when I see the castle from afar at night, or when I see the Grand Floridian...the list goes on and on! A typhoon, hurricane and earthquake could hit at the same time and I'm not really sure I'd notice! Chihuahua I want to go to WDW right now!!!!!
Originally Posted By bwanabob But what about Figment's voice? Has anyone heard anything about that? Are they just recycling old audio or won't Figment speak at all?
Originally Posted By jmuboy I am wondering if they won't cut and splice some of the old voice recordings and mix them with new voiceovers to make Figment sound as "real" as the original ride as possible. All of this is very interesting. Can't wait to see the finished product.
Originally Posted By BuzzLightyear84 The Internet Movie Database lists Jeff Bennett (the voice of Johny Bravo, Tramp Smee in Return to Neverland, and Prof Porter in the Legend of Tarzan TV show among many others) as doing Figment's voice for a future episode of House of Mouse. I would guess that he would be performing any new dialog for the ride as well.
Originally Posted By leemac My understanding is that there is no new dialogue. They are re-using dialogue and even the song is recycled from the original.
Originally Posted By goldenstate5 Well, they did new dialog in the queue videos in JIYI, didn't they?...
Originally Posted By coral_barks Is there going to be any explanation for Figment? Is he going to really have a sense of history to him, for those who never rode the original? Or are they just putting him in to appease the rabid fanatics? I worry that people are going to ride this and then say, "what's up with that purple dinosaur thing?" while they queue up to ride the golf ball.
Originally Posted By BuzzLightyear84 "Is there going to be any explanation for Figment? " Well there really wasn't much of an explination for Figment in the origional. He was just a figment of imagination that Dreamfinder created to help explian how the imagination works. I would suppose the same will be true for the new ride but with Eric Idel somewhat taking over Dreamfinder's role.
Originally Posted By tonyanton I was under the impression that the dialogue in the JIYI queue was re-used from the original.
Originally Posted By coral_barks There was plenty of explanation in the original: Dreamfinder explicitly created him before your eyes, explaining what makes Figment (two tiny wings, etc.) and what he is. For JIYI, Figment seemed to have no reason for being there; his presence and relationship with the Imagination Institute was not explained. I'm hoping that error will be corrected.
Originally Posted By Disneybrad "For JIYI, Figment seemed to have no reason for being there; his presence and relationship with the Imagination Institute was not explained. I'm hoping that error will be corrected." If you had bothered to watch the Video's of Eric Idle in the queue it explains exactly who Figment was and why he was there. He was what Popped out of Dr. Channing's Imagination when he when through through the Imagination Scanner. I guess most people just nevcer bother to watch or pay any attention to the Information presented.
