Mouse Extra

TouringPlans.com reported yesterday on changes coming to the Imagination pavilion at Epcot’s Future World.  Rumors seem to be constantly swirling around Figment’s house.

Disney has filed a permit to refurbish the post-show Kodak Imageworks area of the Imagination pavilion. Rumors suggest that perhaps the upstairs portion of the building may reopen, though the permit only specifies new carpet and such. The upstairs are is rumored to be currently use as staging area for the Waste Management exhibit coming to Innoventions East in February.

Recently, Imagineering has accomplished some great things with refurbishments to older attractions.  But that was certainly not always the case.  There was a period when Imagineering garnered more criticism then praise and nothing is more a poster child for that time then this pavilion.  People fell in love with its trippy and whimsical playfulness when it first opened, only to be repeatedly disappointed when less then interesting updates ruined much of the appeal.

Since then rumors seem to be constantly circling this building, perhaps caused by the wishes fans have to see a return to its former glory.  And this rumor seems to be no exception.  Even though the permit seems fairly specific about what the work will include, we can only hope that it is just masking more intense changes.  But I doubt anything of real inertest and fun will be added here.  Sooner or later the time will come for Disney to either turn Imagination back into an attraction that actually attracts attention, or turn the page to something else that will.