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  • wow i thought of 20 mp references just now

  • Ugh, I remember my grandma literally dragging me into this ride (I wasn't six, but around eleven or twelve; embarrassing, I know). She loved this ride while I absolutely hated it. Ah, the scars of childhood...

  • 99% don't know the esoteric meaning of the Butterfly in Bird cage , checkerboard pattern or one Eye .... look it up . You're being brain washed when you don't even know it ...

  • Ugh i hate this ride. Not only is it annoying as hell, but its also sooo stupid!!! I never visit this area of epcot and im a Huge epcot fan!!!!

  • Even one of the Monty Python actors can't save this horrible ride.

  • This goes directly to anyone working with or for Walt Disney Imagineering(WED). This is constructive criticism, I don't understand why you got rid of the original version of the Journey into Imagination. I'm sure you had your reasons but, the original attraction was one of the most original, and creative rides I have ever seen in my life. So it baffles me that you guys basically gutted the whole place, then added Figment again two years later. And the current incarnation is still one the wo

  • @96gamerdude Really they took it out because of three main factors:

    1. Kodak and WDW are cheap bastards.

    2. The ride was getting costly to maintain.

    3. The ride never actually worked properly, the cars never synched perfectly, some of the speed ramps never worked, etc. (but by 1998 they could have probably fixed it instead of taking an axe to it)).

  • It was clever to put on the old music at the start

  • This is my favorite EPCOT ride :) Figment is so cute!

  • I like this ride but the old one was better

  • that moon is fricken scary lookin.

  • I liked the first Figmen better. 

  • Its so weird the ride went from colorful and beautiful like a dream to dark musty, and eerie, like it died those dark corridors seem so vacant. its like making the small world a lecture on international relations or turning splash mountain into a study of pre civil war south. this is better than the last one but only by a tiny little bit.

  • Ironic that the older version had more Imagination than this one. I miss the old one so much. D:

  • who's the actor who plays that scientist

  • @RossEStern Eric Idle.

  • @CeletialDarkness well he went downhill

  • touch lab.... sounds sexy! lol

  • the part at 7:31 scared the crap outta me the first time i went on this...

  • Isnt the current que area and the first part of the ride where the Flight to Imgination Turntable and Revloving Set was located in the orginal version ?

  • THANK YOU SO MUCH for posting this! I WUV Figment!! :-D

    Did Kodak really leave? Wow...wow....wow... I was Trespassed[AND ARRESTED] at Walt Disney World 4-11-10... i used to spend the entire day of this ride..just thinking/problem solving/watching people's reactions, etc... did Kodak really leave? LOL, i prayed that any company that was in my portifolio, and was a sponsor at WDW, would exit...because it's it's like a death annuity. Or, LOL, did i actually write to Kodak besides just praying?

  • @JulieSomeone I was there in November and the Kodak stuff was gone. A cast member told me Kodak left, and I think it's a good thing. Without a sponsor, Disney has complete control over the ride, but I'm not sure yet if another sponsor is coming. Space Mountain in Disney World has no more sponsor, and look how terrific it is now! It's a whole different universe when I enter. Go to my channel and there are recent videos of it under uploads, including the line, ride, exit, and Peoplemover view.

  • Figment is such a cute , free-spirited and fun-loving dragon. I loved him.

  • @Sarah276602 Now he just seems obnoxious and doesn't have the same cute voice.

  • Why Dreamfinder? Why not The Wonders of Life?

  • "Szalinski! You are stripped of your occupation at the Imagination Institute!" -Dr. Nigel Channing

  • this looks so lame

  • Well Kodak left, maybe someone else will take it up, they finally had the brains to bring back Captain EO.

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  • I just like the song, I could definitely see it being played during Inception.

  • Hopefully now that Captain EO is back the original version or something to the original version will return because it doesnt make sense to have an Imagination Institute tour when there is no Imagination Institute Inventor of the Year Award Presenstation anymore.

  • don't worry, riding this only leaves a flesh wound.

  • @CeletialDarkness - LOL, nice MP reference!

  • @ru42 why, thank you! i mean, it's got eric idle in it, so why not? lol!

  • Did you people knew that the original image works is still upstairs? It's true it's just closed off.

  • @ru42 I'm glad you agree with me. You know, some people I know actually didn't know that JII was changed around at all

  • theyre bringing Dream Finder back you know :)

    In 2013 or something.

  • OK! This version is not as good as the original. But, come on! It's WAY better than Journey Into YOUR Imagination, the second update

  • @awesomaniac1 - - Very true

  • I now feel so bad for recommending this ride to a friend (and understand why her family hated it- and thought I was nuts for liking this). When I pushed her to try this, I had the original ride in mind -I had no idea they'd changed it. I used to love Figment, but they've made him so annoying with the ride update.

  • This ride may seriously SERIOUSLY lack to the original, and Figment may be a spoiled brat in this one, we need to give this one a chance knowing that the actor who plays the purple critter is a veteran Muppet actor, Dave Goelz. And yes, they shortened the track, and yes, I prefer the original to this one, but the end is reminiscent to the original. When are they gonna open up the second floor again???

  • i miss the old version...ppl think this is decent...the old ride use to be the star of epcot...1 of last to ride old version and one of first to ride this version

    ...the original was AWSOME!...

    I give this ride the "EPIC UPDATE FAIL!" award for down grading the ride

  • I went on this ride two days ago. It's easily my favorite ride in the park, but it's extremely dull and boring compared to the original.The replacement of animatronics with projections that I see happening alot is really upsetting me, as projections are nowhere near as magical as animatronics I want the old version of this ride back.

  • This ride is sooo awesome! I like the songs. Imagination! When I was 5 my favorite video game was Spryo and when my family would take me on this ride I would be like "Lets go on the Spyro ride!!!! Kill Ripto!!!!"

  • This one is meh. I cute ride, but gets awful annoying after a while. I wish I could've seen the original ride just once. I missed it by a year. :/

  • @xolovemexhatemexo Ouch It was SOOOOO much better

  • figment is a great childhood memory for me! I miss being a kid

  • Notice how there's never any line for this ride?

  • I love Figment...

  • alot of us still love Figment and always will.

  • OMG I remember going on this ride with my dad.

  • This ride is till there and still has Figment

  • HOPEfully not for long...

  • OMG i remember this!!!!!!

  • the original ride was way better than this . This Figment attraction was a huge disappointment comparied to the first one.

  • @luvmusic325 at least this one is better than Journey into your imagination.

  • love it sucker

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  • were there actual smells on the ride?

  • yes, there were.

  • BRING BACK DREAMFINDER. Gah. Effing Eric Idle. *stabs*

  • I've never seen this attraction, but I just saw a video of the original attraction. Now that I've seen this, I can't believe what they've done with it!

  • I am boycotting until the old ride or something as good as the old version with Dream Finder comes back. Right now I play with the fountains and dont even think about setting foot into the building.

  • Not as good as the old Imagination is it

  • cool i found the answer to a 5 year long question!

  • I think I might regret this....but what was the 5 years long question?

  • what the name of this ride was because i never knwe what it was.

  • "Journey Into Imagination with Figment" - i went on this ride in 1993... it no longer exists :(

  • wait WHAT????!!

  • you want me to spell it? THIS RIDE NO LONGER EXISTS

  • @asantos

    you sure. I went on it the other day.

  • i meant the original version that closed on 1998

  • @asantos

    ah

  • then whats there now?

  • this one.

  • This ride is still their but original Journey in your Imagination was destroyed in 1999.

  • does any one notice at 2:10 min that is Eric Idale

  • at 0:15 is my grandpa and cousin my grandpa blocked me i eeven saw it getting video taped!

  • i was on this it was FUN

  • This is a really dumb ride... doing a ride that has to do with the 5 senses and 2 are un duable? Common!!

  • bring back dreamfinder

  • Does Figment Remind You Of Spyro On Spyro A Hero's Tail

  • i loved figment , i was two and i have a little figment toy! :P

  • For some odd reason this ride kind of reminds me of a mixture between Barney and PeeWee's Playhouse...

    It's like a regurgitation puddle of absolute amazingness! <3

  • this ride was so friggin weird

  • I remember the whole touching and tasting bit I was so scared that we were going to have to touch and taste some really weird things until the ride changed course.

  • FIGMENT PWNS!!!

  • This is my favorite ride in all of Disney World. It's so cool. I even got a Figment t-shirt

  • Its pretty good but I wish they would keep some of the old stuff and not change it so dramaticly. i heard that the following light tunnel is still working. Obviously noone likes most of the changes shows they dont care about the visitors anymore.

  • i think this is test track now :D

  • nah its not i was here last year

  • No, World of Motion was remade into Test Track.

  • WAIT A SECOND!!!! I just realized something! The old upstairs imageworks, even though it is now used for something else, I hear that much of the old equipment is still there. THAT EQUIPMENT IS THE LAST SURVIVING PIECE AND LEGACY OF THE ORIGINAL EPCOT!!!!!!!!!!!! (1982)

  • One ride they didnt manage to mess up. Thank God!!!!!!!!!!!

  • This is one of those 'easy' rides you can always seem to get on with little q's. I could go round and round on it just chillin'!

  • this is the best ride in epct exept mission mars

  • mission space

  • how do they make the butterfly disappear?

  • wow i havent been here in so long now its coming all beck to me........and now i remember the ride kinda creeped me out haha but still it was pretty fun

  • didn't they replace this with the ellen degeneres thing?

  • You are at the wrong building. Ellen is at the Energy Building; this is the Imagination building.

  • oh. right. i always get those confused. thanx

  • amazing ride. i love it

  • they completely ruined this ride, the original with the Dreamfinder is way better, the original was one of the best rides in Disney because of all the theming in it, now in days it's probably one of the worst rides in disney

  • Sadly, people have to agree with that... it was so beautiful the original one, the second one one sucked, the one now is okay... just okay, it is very unpopluar, a 0 minute wait... it probably turns to five minutes when people are let out of Honey, I Shrunk the Audience (true). They said they would do something to it in 2011 or 2012 because of the Magic Kingdom's 40th anniversery or 2012 because of Epcot's 30th anniversery... hopefully 2011 though, give me any news if you have anything about it!

  • okay I'll try

  • GNRfan97, thanks so much for telling this information, it is not the most popular ride, but it is my second favorite ride at disney... they have changed some features this year,(2009) as of june,27-may,7(when i went) and they have some beautiful features toward the end. i am so excited to hear the changing news. this ride is on its 3rd change *sighs* and going to its 4th with ur info. it gets worse than better to some people but it is always great to me. i'm looking forward to this improvment!!!

  • Yeah, so I've heard, I think they will change it due to the unpopularity of this ride, but I am hoping and hopefully positive they will change this ride in the next 1-3 years, this will be the ride they might go to first if they are going to change a ride in Epcot, I am sure on that one!

  • iiiimmmmmmmaaagiiiinaaAAaaaAAA­aAaaaaatiooooooooooon....

  • I have been to disney land and it was so much fun and i would love to go there agin and i loved going on that ride at epcot as well.

  • i havnt been here in a long tyme!

  • follow the bouncing figment.

  • this ride is freakin awesome!!!! I mean a little purple singing animal is hilarious. i am a little old for this ride but i still go on it.

  • What did they do to the Dreamfinder?

  • TRIVIA: Eric Idle voiced a dragon of similar design to Figment's in "Quest for Camelot" (1998).

  • Do u drop at end?

  • Figment got a lot more annoying in this version than the original.

  • i cant believe Dave Golez (Gonzo the Great) does Figment's Voice.

    I LOVE this Ride!!

  • i adore Figment!!! I love this ride!

  • I work at epcot :3

    and I love this ride!

  • i didn't go on this ride they didn't have at disney world

  • This ride is at Disney Word, it is at Epcot.

  • i must not have went on it then (or if i did i was 6 or 7 at the time and now don't remember going)

  • when i was there, that blast near the end really caught me off guard!

  • I love Figment. I just go to Epcot to see Figment and the American Adventure show.

  • Does anyone knows the lyrics of that figment song?

  • And please check out the old and first version to find out its richness and beauty. You at Disney have chosen poorly!

  • People at Disney don't get it! What the hell this guy is doing there? People go to Epcot to dream and to see characters and not actors such as this guy. Same thing happens with Ellen at the Universe of Energy. Epcot nowadays is nothing but a camp and poor verion of the glorious theme park of the 80's. Pls bring back the original and glorious attractions.

  • i loveee figment<3333

  • Freaking love this ride. Especially the last part with the rainbows! IMAGGGGGGGGINAAAAAATION!

  • E. E. Ma Ma gina gina tion tion (song line from the E. Magination theme from two 1980's kids videos: Camp Melody and USS Songboat)

  • I got stuck on this when I went. the end of the sound part, SO ANNYOING!

  • Imagination Institute + Dr. Nigel Channing + Senses =Awesome!!

  • first version:best

    Second version:haunted mansion(hell)

    Today s'version:Okay

  • Isnt the door with the name Dean Finder a tribute to Dreamfinder from the original Journey Into Imagintion ?

  • you ever notice that there are not many people in line ..... but.... when there the lines are looooonnnngggg... but worth the wait

  • Cool, is Honey, I Shrunk the Audience nearby?

  • it's right next to the ride

  • This ride used to be so much better before they renovated it. I don't like what they did to it. Bring back the original Journey Into Imagination that we enjoyed throughout the 80s and 90s, that was the best.

  • how come ALL disney music get stuck in your head eventually? seriously, i can't get this out of my head anymore! ... I have to say, i still love everything about disney though...XD

  • I never noticed so many of those things on the ride before! Cool! THAT'S how WDW gets return customers! XD Man...I remember I was on here and forcing myself to have an open mind...I couldn't help blocking some things, tho. Had fun, tho. Fig sounds different from what I remember...

  • At first I thought the dragon's name was Phoebus, like the character in The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

  • Hell yeah, Eric Idle!

  • Looking at this video, this ride is not worth the trip. When I look at the hallway on the way in, it reminds me of -- Work!

  • You work in the Science dept., then? (Seriously. My dad worked at UW-Madison's Physics dept., and that hallway reminded me of it a little with all the gadgets)

  • I miss the old version I like the 1983 version better it was allot diffrent rip 1983-1998

  • i hate the end when figment goes "imagination is a blast" i screamed

  • Aw, that's the best part!

  • This looks like one of the babyish rides..

    Sorry If I said that wrong.........I havnt went to Florida Yet but GO to 2009

  • how does the butterfly thing disappear? i know its done with mirrors, but ...how?

  • Because the butterfly is symmetrical, there is a two-sided mirror with half of a butterfly on one side, and nothing on the other. When you pass to the other side of the mirror, the butterfly seems to disappear!

  • Figment i found out last summer cause i asked is exclusively with Kodak and not really Epcot and why you can't find him anywhere else. But i love figment too. Everytime i come to Orlando i have to see my Figment and get alot of figment stuffed animals

  • Whaaaaat? Fig's with Kodak?! I doubt Disney'd sell ANY of their characters. Remember, too, Fig came BEFORE they involved Kodak, if memory serves correctly.

  • I asked a worker about getting fig outside of Epcot and she said it is hard to do cause of it being under Kodak . I don't remember when kodak came into play.

  • Uh, Kodak has been the Pavillion's sponsor since the beginning (1982) and legally, Figment and Dremfinder are owned by Kodak.

  • i love this ride

  • Figment must be exclusive to Epcot Center! I have never seen or heard about him anywhere else but there!

  • I believe Figment and Dreamfinder were an original part of Epcot and thus, did not have a movie that went with the ride. Michael Eisner wanted every ride to be associated with a movie, so as to increase sales of the movies. This may have been one reason for the first rehab without Figment. Eric Idle was in an unsuccessful Disney movie. See what happens when people with MBAs make creative decisions? They have NO imagination!

  • He was more prominent and popular through the 80s. It was when the contracts with sponsors of the attraction expired, and required the attraction to change entirely thereafter.

    It's a lame attraction now.

    Yo RU! It's me "Tampa" from DWT lol.. hope all is well!

  • How were you allowed to get this video?

    And do you have the Figment song CD?

    Or Itunes

  • I shot the video; Disney has no objections to video taping most rides. As far as audio tracks go you will need to do an internet and/or itunes search. - - RU

  • I don't know Eric Idle, but if you never saw the first version of this dark ride it would be OK. Actually, it's pretty good if it were a Kennywood/Hersheypark/Cedar Point ride but kind of a disappointment for Disney. I heard this was just shut down. If I was writing for this ride, I don't think I would have Figment do a skunk smell. At least they do have Figment, would be a bore without him.  I just don't believe they destroyed the mural and the rest of the architecture to make this.

  • The previous version had a beautiful mural at the queuing area, now all they have is black ceiling panels, purple and orange walls, and ringing phones. I can go to the hospital where I work to see that. I'm glad to see it here it saved a trip to WDW. Figment is the only entertaining character there. I have to know: Do they actually release a skunk scent in the smell scene? Talk about scaring the kids and everyone else away!

  • Yes they really do release a skunk smell. I actually don't think this newer version is that bad. I love Eric Idle.

  • I'm going to Disney and MArch and cant wait to Ride!!

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  • I love this video. I always got to Epcot to see Figment. Figment is my favorite ride and character of all the theme parks. He is a cute and love able purple little dragon. I love dragons anyways but love him the most. I him last summer and you are right there is no hills on the ride. My mom took picture on the same ride back in 85. She didn't get into trouble.

  • The reason I said " Record the ride without getting caught" it's because my mother told me that anyone tape record any type of rides will get you into trouble. Is that true or fasle?

  • 100% FALSE. Disney allows the video taping of most all of their rides. They say no only only a few. There are signs at each ride that say if you cannot plus the pre ride instructions would say no too. Also, Disney makes the distinction between no flash photography (means picture taking is alright but just no flashes) and no photography at all. - - RU

  • How you record this ride without getting caught?

  • What do you mean without getting caught? There is nothing wrong with recording most Disney rides including this one. I broke no news, I never do. If Disney says 'no taping' then I don't tape. It is that simple. There are no rules against taping this ride. - _ RU

  • buh how muuch dropz r there???

  • There are no drops on this ride. Watch the video. You go up hill and downhill as the cars move along their track but there are no drops. RU

  • is there a big drop in this ride at 6:53

  • There are no 'big' drops on this ride whatsoever. -_ RU

  • I agree with ru42. Yes, it does have a little hill, but they go real slow, on it. Trust me, if it was a mini coaster, then Disney would not recomend it for all ages.

  • Was That Nigel Channing in Honey I shrunk the audience?

  • your all right but why dose it keep stopping

  • This one is good, but I like the old one, too.

  • When I first came here, I didn't know what this shows and at the end it is feally fun. Figment is so cute, funny and looks like a dragon. On the smell lab he spray us with air and he really scared us when he exploded. But we all have fun with Imaginations.