We love Figment and are enjoying all the new representation he is getting in the parks!
Hey Figment!
Besides Journey Into Imagination with Figment (which needs a serious update), we love that Disney recently added a Figment meet-and-greet in the Imagination Pavailion’s ImageWorks! Figment now even has his section at the newly re-opened and re-imagined Ever After store in Disney Springs. Although Figment is quite a lovable fellow, we don’t like to ride his attraction for this awkward reason.
Journey Into Imagination With Figment is located in EPCOT’s Imagination Pavilion. As you receive a tour of the Imagination Institute, Figment adds his own flair to the tour and, at one point, even takes over for Dr. Nigel Channing. While you may think this is an adorable slow-moving dark ride, elements of this attraction get a little too close to us.
Journey Into Imagination with Figment
While we love Figment, we don’t like how this ride gets all up in our business. When the tour starts, we are just met with some light messing around from Figment; it’s nothing too major.
Journey Into Imagination with Figment
The problem starts when you arrive at the Smell Labs. Chances are, if you have ridden the attraction and know what is coming, you will probably hold your breath.
We know what is coming next!
As a not-so-nice treat, Figment decides to land on the skunk smell and the attraction actually sprays out a skunk scent.
No thanks!
No one wants to have to smell skunky Figment while enjoying an attraction. We are all for using smells throughout the park, but we would rather smell popcorn and delicious baked goods while walking down Main Street or the refreshing scent of Fiji on Soarin’ Around the World in the Land Pavilion. Even better yet, we would rather smell Tiana’s fresh beignets in the new queue of Tiana’s Bayou Adventure in Magic Kingdom.
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Soarin’ Around the World
Once Figment decides to take over the tour, we get to take a tour of his upside-down house, and we brace ourselves for what is inevitable.
Journey into Imagination with Figment
At the end of the attraction, we are glad that Nigel Channing makes up with Figment! Dr. Nigel Channing ends the tour with a kind message, and when you think the tour is over, Figment has one more surprise for us!
Journey into Imagination with Figment
We don’t like it when Figment tells us that “imagination is a blast” and then proceeds to blast air in our faces.
We can feel the air coming from this picture
No matter how many times we ride this ride and know that the blast of air is coming, we still jump because it spooks us. It is even worse for the people who are not expecting it.
Imagination is a BLAST, literally
If this attraction ever gets an update, we hope that certain show elements are rethought out, preferably ones that do not get all up in our space.
Journey into Imagination with Figment
Due to this, we try to avoid riding Journey Into Imagination with Figment, but sometimes we can’t help ourselves when the line is only five minutes!
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Totally disagree with the article. The quite mild smells, gentle blast, and other aspects that seem to bother the author are a key party of the charm of the ride. If someone in the party is hypertensive to noise, lights, smells, etc., I understand that this isn’t the ride for them, but just like someone who is prone to motion sickness (say me) should think carefully about Guardians of the Galaxy, the answer is discretion in the part of the prospective rider, not “nerfing” the sensory elements of the ride.
The “skunk” smell is just burnt coffee…… It’s truly not that bad…. Certainly not an ‘actual skunk smell’ by any means.
I did read someone smelled vinegar once, which to be fair is pretty foul, but last year when I last rode it, it was still just burnt coffee beans
I do also get the air blast being uncomfortable, tho. That’s fair
The coffee/skunk smell and air blast are just surprising and fun.
I agree with another writer. The skunk smell is coffee. The visual of Figment as a skunk tricks your senses. I liked the original ride with Dreamfinder. The second one (which was before the current one) was horrible. Most of the ride was dark–you were supposed to use your imagination. Scared my kids when they were young.
This Is one of our favorite rides in all of Disney World. I took my daughter since she was 1. She is now an adult and it is still a must do. My mother who is 86 could ride her motorized wheel chair onto the ride without having to transfer. It is wonderful for the whole family. This smell is so gentle and it doesn’t linger and we look forword to the blast. Please don’t change a thing!
I can never understand when people start making “ugh” noises over the skunk smell. It’s not really bad. I can’t believe how people over react.
Smell doesn’t bother me and it’s fun to go with first timers and little kids. Fart jokes are always funny.
Why would you want to get rid of the elements that make the ride interesting?!
It’s silly and charming.
And if you can’t handle a puff of air to your face god help you on tron.
This is a must do for us every year.
Even though it’s one of the few rides that has a wheelchair ride vehicle I can not ride it. That blast of air hit me right in the face/mouth and I stopped breathing. This happened to another friend of mine with the same disease. The way we sit in our wheelchair the blast of air hits us right in the face and took our breath away.
Totally disagree. While this ride does need updates, I think it embodies everything we grew to love about disney over the years and why many of us keep going back. We long to relive the excitement of that first skunk blast and how much it shocked us. It tickled your senses in a memorable way, and it’s completely harmless unlike the bugs life Sting which really got some people.
I agree that the skunk smell has to go. The nice, flower smell from the original Journey was so much better. I still mourn the original, with Dreamfinder. “Two tiny ears, eyes big and yellow. Horns of a steer, but a lovable fellow. From head to toe, he’s royal purple pigment…”. Now that was fun.
I totally agree with this article!!! I love the fact that this ride gets “all up in your space”! That’s the whole idea, to make you use your imagination in a way that you otherwise would not! Not many people know what a skunk REALLY smells like (I do, unfortunately) and the little blast at the end is cool!
I am sorry that this ride bothers some people. I can’t ride roller coasters that have a track that goes in a circle but I don’t ask for them to straighten out the track. If there is a ride I don’t care for or can’t ride I just don’t go on it. Why ruin it for those who enjoy it. Why do people all of a sudden want to change things? I don’t understand.