Figment

And from there, with versions two and three, it became mostly a shadow of its former glory.

So even if there was no artwork presented at D23 for what a remade journey into imagination might look like, simply the promise that this attraction would be remade and that it would include both Dream Finder and Figment was a note directed at longtime fans.

A similar note was hit repeatedly from stage in terms of Disneyland.

The former Disney CEO Bob Iger's career mostly moved through TV streaming and film production.

We're in the business of creating places and stories and experiences where people feel like they actually belong, where they feel like their home.

But in this statement and in various other announcements, DeMauro was elevating this slightly, the importance of the fan feedback loop in terms of how the company would make decisions moving forward.

Figment and Dreamfinder were clearly included in the presentation that night because Journey into Imagination, at least in terms of the Florida fan base, has been a top request for years and years.

But in doing this, and in talking about the unofficial mayor of Main Street from DeMauro's official position as CEO, he was also gesturing to fans that his stance, at least towards the Parks, would be slightly different than that of his predecessor, Bob Iger.

going to.

If you're watching me on the screen, I have a Figment shirt on, and it's not Figment.

Figment's face could be on there as being sort of the mascot of Mount Rushmore, but it's not, because that ride has been so bad for so long, okay? Figment as a character is great.

Mischievous, creative, fun, love the character, but the ride has been beat for a long, long time.

But so far they have not announced, I think what everyone was hoping for, a continuation of the new Muppet Show.

They did announce they're doing a new Journey into Imagination with Figment-

[laughs]

... which is exciting.

So it seems like they're completely redoing it-

Mm-hmm

... whereas I think most people were worried that they were going to announce that Figment was going to go away forever.

[laughs]

But there's

some, like the science scene in Figment?

I don't remember that as a kid.

I don't know if I just like checked out when he's standing in the middle of that thing and plants are growing.

We went, he invited me over and we spent the morning sort of going through and looking at, he had kept like a lot of preparatory drawings and archives of material and stuff.

So like, and you can like, and the Gibson family still has this stuff, which is amazing because some of it is like getting back to like some old friends.

Like, he did a lot of the character development work for Dream Finder and Figment in terms of taking them from two-dimensional to three-dimensional

form.