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When original designs for EPCOT Center were being drawn up, an Imagination pavilion was nowhere to be found. In fact, the Imagination pavilion was the last pavilion designed for Future World <ref name= "Martin"> http://www.martinsvids.net/?p=95 </ref>. The structure that would eventually become the Imagination pavilion took inspiration from an idea that Imagineer Tony Baxter had for the Mineral and Ecology pavilion that was originally planned for EPCOT Center but never constructed <ref name= "wedway"> Parish, Matt, Nate Parish, and Michael Crawford. "5:3 The Original Land Pavilion." Audio blog post. WedWay Radio. N.p., 20 May 2013. Web. </ref>. Imagineer Tony Although Baxter had worked on early plans gotten fairly far in his designs for that the Mineral pavilion, however after it was decided that the theme pavilion should go in a different direction (due to the fact that Kraft had assumed sponsorship) he turned his attention to the Kodak pavilion <ref name= "E82"/>. Although Despite the fact that Kodak had originally signed on as an EPCOT Center sponsor in 1977 <ref name= "Martin"/>, the company still did not have a firm idea of what they wanted their pavilion to focus on <ref name= "E82">http://www.epcotlegacy.com/historical-expositions/2010/6/30/gather-store-re-combine-a-history-of-imagination-part-1.html </ref> . According to Tony Baxter:

With a theme now in place, Tony Baxter and his Imagineers began fine tuning their plans for the pavilion. Baxter had initially impressed representatives from Kodak with his models for Captain Marvel and his pet dragon. These characters had initially been designed for an expansion of Disneyland called Discovery Bay <ref name= "wedway"/>. Although the expansion was never constructed, Baxter continued to rework the characters for his other projects. In fact, at one time Captain Marvel was going to be renamed Landkeepr Landkeeper and used in Tony Baxter's one of his early version of the land [[The Land]] pavilion <ref name= "wedway"/>. With his attention now focused on Imaginationhowever, Baxter (as well as Steve Kirk and X Atencio) was able to rework Captain Marvel and his dragon into Dreamfinder and Figment, the stars of the Journey Into Imagination pavilion <ref name= "E82"/>.

Construction on the Journey Into Imagination pavilion began in July 1981, only 15 months before the park was set to open <ref name= "Martin"/>. When completed, the pavilion would feature the dark ride attraction that was also titled [[Journey into Imagination]], the Magic Eye Theater which showed the film Magic Journeys, and the interactive [[ImageWorks ]] area on the pavilion’s second floor.

Although the Journey Into Imagination pavilion was completed in Epcot time for EPCOT Center’s opening day, inside the pavilion only Magic Journeys was open to guests. Five days later on October 6, 1982 the ImageWorks area opened to guests<ref name= "E82"/>. Lastly, followed by the Journey Into Imagination attraction on March 5, 1983 the Journey Into Imagination attraction finally opened to guests. Although the attraction had been more or less ready to go since the pavilion opened, Disney executives felt that Imagineers needed more time to work the kinks out. According to Tony Baxter: