Changes

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, Captain Marvel was going to be renamed Landkeepr and used in Tony Baxter's early version of the land pavilion <ref name= "wedway"/>. With his attention now focused on Imagination, 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.

{{Quotation|“The show was ready to go, everything was running, and they made the call that the show was not perfected enough to guarantee the reliability they wanted,” <ref> Realityland: true-life adventures at Walt Disney World. David Koenig - Bonaventure Press – 2007 </ref>}}

===History Since Opening===

The Journey Into Imagination pavilion remained essentially the same until 1986, when Magic Journeys closed <ref name= "mouse"> https://www.mouseplanet.com/11109/The_Vacation_Kingdom_of_the_World_Its_a_3D_World_After_All </ref>. The attraction (which was eventually moved to [[Fantasyland]] in the [[Magic Kingdom]]) was replaced with a new 3D show [[Captain EO]] <ref name= "mouse"/>. Captain EO was created in partnership with Lucasfilms and stared pop icon Michael Jackson as the title character, a space captain charged with saving the universe. The new show featured technologically not present in its predecessor, including in-theater special effects such as laser and smoke to go along with traditional 3D effects <ref name= "E82Part2"> http://www.epcotlegacy.com/historical-expositions/2010/10/25/gather-store-re-combine-a-history-of-imagination-part-2.html </ref>.