Changes

By mid 2001, Disney and Kodak decided that they needed to fix Following the failure of Journey Into Your Imagination attraction and on October 8th, 2001 it was decided that once again the attraction closedneeded to be significantly changed. Kodak This time however, the budget for the refurbishment was extremely limited. Sponsor Kodak was unwilling to provide put more funds for a new attraction, after money into the disappointment of the previous renovation. Due to thisattraction, and the crippling economic effects of tourism industry as a whole had been devastated by the 9/11 attackson September 11, the 2001. Working with these constraints, Imagineering was given a budget for the new of less than 8 million dollars, and tasked with turning Journey Into Your Imagination was extremely lowinto a respectable attraction. In factBased on guest feedback, Imagineering knew that the needed to reinstate Figment back into the attraction. To do this, Figment Audio Animatronics which had been stored in various offices on Disney property, Imagineers were only given 8 million dollars recollected and returned to renovate the rideattraction. The main goal Furthermore, many of the new attractionshow scenes were reshot, was to reinsert so that Dr. Nigel Channing now interacted with Figment .  Besides just adding the purple dragon back into the attraction, Disney also changed the tone of the ridesignificantly. Guests complaints had made it clear that Figment still had Instead of being a strong followingscientific tour, and his presence was missed on the new version of Journey Into Your Imaginationwas a comical journey through the Institute’s Sense Labs. Due to both time and budge complaints, Dr. Nigel Channing still ran the attraction was not replacedtour, but simply updatedhe was now interrupted by a significantly more troublesome Figment, who argued with the Dr. The plot about the value of Imagination. Although the attraction track remained essentially the same, the show scenes were all significantly changed. More importantly perhaps, the ride still focused on guests getting vehicles now came to a tour stop in most of the Imagination Institutedifferent rooms, however now Figment intervened causing havoc allowing Imagineers to focus guest’s attention on the doctors toura specific scene, and create a more linear story. The original attractions theme Also of note, Disney added the song "One Little Spark" was also returned, although it had to be slightly rearranged and given new verses, to fit back into the attraction, albeit with mostly new attractionlyrics. The renovation was complete in only 236 days and on June 2, 2002Sherman Brothers were once again hired to write the lyrics, with the attraction song being performed by Dr. Nigel Channing and Figment.Journey Into Your Imagination reopened as Journey Into Your Imagination with With Figmenton June 2, 2002, a mere 236 days after it closed.