At this point, I headed back towards the other side of the park.
On my way, I saw the cool Disney Earth sand sculpture.
Can you believe they actually changed this several times throughout the festival?
It must take a long time to make.
And how about this view?
But I couldn’t stop – I heard a funky beat.
Right near the Innoventions entrance were the Jammitors!
But instead of their standard garbage can drums, they were decked out as gardeners.
They were using racks, hoes, shovels, flower pots, and other instruments of destruction as drums and having lots of fun!
I stopped and took some video and here’s some pictures spliced from that video.
After my musical interlude, I continued on and ended up in my Imagination!
I always love the reverse waterfalls.
Such a simple thing but it fits so well with the upside-down universe of my favorite purple dragon!
While I loved the original ride with Dreamfinder and Figment and hated the 2nd incarnation, this one is passable.
Not the best and not the worst.
I’m not a big fan of the Imagination Institute idea but at least the little detail of previous “Inventors of the Year” is a nice detail:
Then it was time for an Open House at the new and improved Imagination Institute:
Luckily, Figment was around to wreak havoc with Eric Idle’s tour of the Institute!
I love Figment.
And I always look for the homage to the original – the office door of “Dean Finder” (sorry it’s a little blurry):
So, first lesson – The Sense of Sight.
Of course, we start with the eye test.
F-I-G-M-E-N-T! Hey, wait a second!!!
I believe the Sense of Hearing was next.
RUNAWAY TRAIN!!!!
AAAHHHHHHHH!
I always like that part – with the binaural audio, it sounds so real.
The Sense of Smell was up next.
No whammies, no whammies, no whammies, STOP!
EEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
Figment then decided to take over the tour again.
In fact, he was kind enough to invite us to his house.
And what a house – an
upside-down house!!
It’s so much fun to see everythere on the ceiling.
Everytime I have to wonder how the water stays in the toilet bowl without falling.
I’m just a little boy inside apparently – potty humor never goes away entirely…
Then it’s time for the finale.
A huge room with Figment EVERYWHERE!
A little trivia - if you look close, there’s even the sheet music to the original version of “One Little Spark”
(unfortunately I didn't get it in my picture).
After a brief space room (it's too dark to get a good picture),
the ride ends and you are ushered into the Imageworks.
Also a shadow of it’s former self but it’s still got a couple of fun activities for the little ones.
I think my favorite part now is the series of Figment posters reminiscent of the ride.
After all, they are much clearer than my pics of the ride itself.
First there’s the eye chart:
And then Sense of Smell:
And finally Figment is all packed and ready to go home with me!
I wandered over to the computers and decided it would be fun to make a silly postcard to send home to the gang.
As I was working (or trying to – most of the computers were broken), a girl walked over to me.
“Excuse me – are you on Disboards?”
I was a bit startled as I hadn’t expected anybody this being a solo trip and all.
“Ummmmm, yeah?”
“And you have three kids and are in the middle of a trip report?”
“Ummmmmm, yeah…”
“We’ve been reading it!! I thought that was you!”
Then it occurred to me that my pics must’ve given me away.
I was still basically in shock and out of my element but Princess Caitlin proceeded to introduce herself and her mom, Dawn, and dad, Dale.
Very surreal experience.
It was a quick meet and greet – probably because I was at a loss for words since it was completely unexpected.
Caitlin mentioned a couple of things they tried after reading about them in my report and I was happy I could help out.
We chatted for a bit and then they excused themselves to let me continue my day.
I guess I must've seemed not very interested to talk but I mostly just surprised.
Still mostly in shock, I wandered out of Imagination and quickly dialed home to relay the story.
"Hey DW, apparently we’re “celebrities” and it really is “a small world after all.”
In hindsight – it was great to meet you guys and I’m sorry I was so out of my element.
Next time I’ll be more prepared (and I was –
at least slightly).
And to prove how “out of it” I was, I never thought to take a picture of all of us.
Thousands of pics and it never even crossed my mind to snap that one.
I can’t believe it.
Anyway, back to the story.
After my brush with the “paparazzi”, it was time to move on.
And since it was closing in on 11:00, it was time to head towards the World Showcase.
Stay tuned!!
The gift shop and little play area at the end is def great but you won't catch this chick on that ride , green or no green , I would def lose my cookies ! lol
It's just fun!
Anyway, that was almost a year ago, and a couple TRs ago, and now if we ran into you we'd feel like we ran into an old friend 
There now I feel better lol
