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.