With their characters in place, it took Disney nearly six months to come up with an idea for the Journey Into Imagination attraction. To help them with their understanding of imagination, Disney brought in various scientist and artists. Eventually they came to the conclusion that while everybody’s imagination was different, how people get their imagination is the same. Thus they decided to focus on how we gather, store and recombine ideas.
Despite originally scheduled as an opening day attraction, Journey Into Imagination opened on March 5, 1983, five months after EPCOT Center’s opening day. Although the rest of the pavilion opened with the rest of EPCOT Center, technical issues with Journey Into Imagination’s turntable, loading and unloading mechanisms caused the attraction to be delayed. According to Tony Baxter: {{Quotation| “ready to gohowever, everything the attraction was up an running , yet Disney executives did not think would be reliable and they made the call that the show thus it was not perfected enough to guarantee the reliability they wanted,” |Tony Baxter}}delayed. After opening, Journey Into Imagination remained essentially the same until 1998, when it was closed for refurbishment.
[[Image:Dreamfindermodel.jpg|thumb|The original model of the Dreamfinder.]]