This is the only podcast that makes me happy when an ad pops up LOL

@JimHarvey-yg3re

4 ай бұрын

Same. Love to get ads with this pod.

@erinmallard

4 ай бұрын

Same 😂

@shannonp888

4 ай бұрын

right?? i got legit excited 😂

@princssleah

4 ай бұрын

Same hahaha

@jamesbissell5060

4 ай бұрын

was literally about to comment this lol

Shoutout to the people who put together the studio. I feel like too many podcasts have a generic background but this ones got a lot of personality.

I’m sure it’ll never happen since they’re already joking about this podcast being financially unviable, but it would be cool if there was a main Watcher channel show where they went to smaller regional parks looking for world class rides. Then maybe some rides outside of the big parks could be covered on this pod.

@candistarbuckle

4 ай бұрын

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Ok yall. We gotta boost this podcast. Its too good to be at risk for cancellation🤣

As long as this episode ends with them acknowledging that Figment is a World Class Dragon then that’s all I care about tbh. Love my little dragon buddy 💜🧡

I have the deepest respect to you two for riding this ride during Ryan’s bachelor party.

Saying Dave Goelz is known for "voicing" Gonzo and Honeydew is really selling him short lol, he's their PUPPETEER TOO

@LillianWard-mw4qe

Ай бұрын

And I think he’s still going!

This episode brings up an interesting problem with the Premature Detrackulation question. "Does it finish too soon?" doesn't work when the ride is either (a) so fantastic that you want it to last forever or (b) so horrible that you want it over as fast as possible.

One thing they didn't mention is that you can sing "One Little Spark" as a countermelody to "It's a Small World."

How is magic candle not sponsoring this yet

"did you know his middle name is 'Deman'" HARD CUT TO TURBO TAX AD idk why that took me out LMAO

The scent isn't normal coffee, it's specifically burnt coffee

I’ve ridden this exactly once when I was pretty young and the only thing I remember was thinking “wow that was Bad.” I will forever mourn the original version of the ride that I never got to experience. I love Tony Baxter’s work and it’s kind of disappointing how often his vision seems to get sacrificed through budget cuts and refurbishments :(

I was in Epcot the day of the Figment popcorn bucket, it was absolutely insane. And I think the fact that people would wait 5 hours for that popcorn bucket should really be a message to Disney that they should move heaven and earth to restore the original version (or something closer to it). The people DEMANd Figment!

I’m a Spotify listener but just came over here to say don’t ever stop making this podcast ❤. It’s so good!

“The most Figment thing you can possibly do” is in my repertoire now.

1:04:30 How it happened was that for some reason, the original contract with Kodak specified that it needed an update after a certain number of years, but it didn't specify that Kodak had to pony up additional money for it. By the time the mandated renovation rolled around, Kodak was doing badly and declined to volunteer any finds. So they did the cheapest possible "update" they could think of.

SURELY this attraction couldn't possibly fail the world class test

ok but it's funny that the scent is actually coffee, because every time I go into a Starbucks, I feel like the coffee smells like skunky weed. Also my dad bought a brand of coffee once that smelled like straight skunk to me every time he made it. So maybe there are some coffee beans that smell skunkier than others lol. Great episode btw! So awesome to see John on here!! This is easily my favorite podcast.

@JimHarvey-yg3re

4 ай бұрын

This is interesting and I think very accurate.

@endless_del

4 ай бұрын

starbucks' pike place smells like that to me

@darkstrifequeen1458

2 ай бұрын

Figment, why are you smoking weed on this ride anyway? It’ll do weird things to you lol

25:40 i have been in this bathroom and can confirm it is a great bathroom! it’s clean and has almost no on in there ever.. 26:36 also YES START IN MEXICO

my favorite parts of this ride are actually the flubber references in the queue, with weebo and the flubbers dancing behind the door lol

No matter what the outcome is, Journey into Imagination will live on in our hearts as a World Class Attraction.

“Take a knee at the alter of Figment” He’s not wrong 🤣

Byron's ad reads are always so good

i dont give a shit about theme parks really, but i love this podcast😂 my brain is a sponge

@JimHarvey-yg3re

4 ай бұрын

Same 😂😂😂

saying that “the bang room” isn’t what you think it is and then explaining that it’s figment dropping an atomic bomb gave me such insane whiplash

I never go to theme parks im to old now to go anyway, but this podcast takes me there and i love the banter .👍

This ride might be chaotic and bonkers, but I love it so freaking much. Figment is an icon for Epcot now and I just love the little purple dragon so freaking much.

I’ll never stop watching this show!

I feel like you ought to be drinking crazy tiki drinks.

Just found this podcast about two weeks ago and i have been bingeing about one episode a day. Ive almost seen them all. Love this podcast so much! Its my absolute favorite.

The original figment ride and horizons are my Roman Empire. Thankful to have ridden both as a kid. Can’t wait til you guys do episodes on defunct attractions~

I get hyped when this pops up on my recommended each week!💐💐💐

Tbh this ride is a very comfort ride to me, because when I went to WDW with my family as a child, whenever my parents were tired from walking around under the Florida heat, they`d take us to Journey Into Imagination to sit down and chill under the AC for a while. On the drive home we`d all be humming this catchy asf song

All of Canada weeps when Ryan Bergara calls us boring

Okay so I stopped this to watch the original version ride through (I've ridden the new version), and I am so angry. That was phenomenal....just...we lost something special.

yessss my week doesnt feel complete until both watcher podcasts are out - im atp where im crossing my fingers and praying theres an ad 😹💖

I was also a kid who only wanted to go to Epcot. And you're right, if Figment was at Disneyland, I don't think it would have become the huge thing he is for Epcot. And I love Figment now because he is a relic of classic Epcot, and I cling to every bit of the original park.

@jeskuo

4 ай бұрын

On a tangent, it would be interesting for them to discuss Tokyo Disneyland's Duffy love that elevated it from a failed Epcot marketing gimmick to a full fledged franchise for Asia Disney parks. Its not an attraction exactly but they could discuss it the same way they discussed the Epic Universe news

The meows always kill me. 😂 This was one of the funniest episodes yet. 😂

I have never been so excited to see sponsors on a podcast!

Figment is the love of my life. He stole my heart decades ago and it still belongs to him. I have yet to do the new Figment meet & greet but that is probably for the best - I don’t want to end up in jail for attempted Figment dragon napping.

funniest thing in the world to me is that years after dreamfinder left the yard they made a two run comic with him and nothing referencing the second two versions of the ride. no one gaf

I never realized that Journey Into The Imagination is the product of a man who asked his son what his ideal Disneyland ride would be and ended up making Star Tours. It all makes sense now and I'm more grateful they added Figment back to the ride.

You all are literally the best and every guest you have is the best and the entire show is the best. That is all.

This version of the ride has appreciated a little for the part at the end. And I think that my youngest kid loves the character because of my love for the character but I enjoy the ride more now than I did without kids.

Bro, the computer who wore tennis shoes was one of my childhood films, was not expecting it to show up in a figment ride review

Plus I LOVE GTP!! I’m such an avid followerr of both of yall so I love this

The first time I got to ride Figment was 4 years ago. Knowing nothing what had come before, only knowing the purple little dragon is an Ecot symbol. I geniunly loved the ride, it covered lots of kid sci-fy like flubber and shunk the kids that I always loved. I could see that it was more of edutainment ride for kids, and from that perspective it was great! Then I discovered the original, I can no longer suspend my disbelief and love the ride. I am excited to get to ride it with my daughter when it comes time and to see her reactions. If it gets refurbished before that though, it wont hurt my feelings. Figment NEEDS a re-vamp, bring back dreamfinder, bring back the whole track, BRING BACK THE RAINBOW TUNNEL!

This ride will always have a special place in my heart. When we were kids it was one of my little sisters favorite rides and when my daughter was 3 and we had passes she loved it. The fact that there was barely a wait like ever was nice too.

As soon as the Eric Idle story hit, I knew this was gonna be an excellent and cheeky episode.

Carousel of progress next!

Justice for Mr. Toad i demand a recount! Great episode guys, this was a really really fun one.

The original song is so John Denver-coded 😭😭 I love it so much

Clicked on this so fast! Been marathoning this show the last week and so happy for a new episode (especially about my favorite lil purple dude)

I freaking loved the movie The computer wore tennis shoes! And the original Flubber, for that matter. Loving the podcast, guys!

wait i fw the music during the world class test

I use to work on that ride back in 2010! My name is on a small stack of papers on a clipboard just before facing figment heading into the touch/taste labs. CM’s who worked that ride would leave their signature on this clipboard during a track walk. It’s still there today!

The day has come! I have no idea what the outcome will be but it will always be World Class in my heart :)

Yay! So glad it’s Tuesday! My favorite show ever 🤗

I road this for the first time a month ago. I knew about the love people had for Figment but didn’t really know the history of the ride. So I was definitely confused after the ride trying to piece together why people loved Figment so much.

Fun little fact, especially since you guys mentioned Guardians, Figment is actually in the queue of Mission break out in CA. If you look up to the left of the screen when you are in the collectors room, he is one of the cases hanging from the ceiling. That case is very opaque, and you can only see the shape of him from certain angles, but he is there! Ask a cast member to point him out! As a diehard Figment Fan, I was so excited to see him when I traveled out west. It was like having a little bit of Epcot there with me.

tHANK YOU FOR MENTIONING STARTING IN FRANCE. It's the best. Breakfast there, get a frose, you get to mexico by dinner and sober up for future world, fireworks at the pub!

I'm so excited for this episode!!! I love getting ads on this podcast and this one alone. I always NEARLY buy from Microdose esp but I have so many gummies still that I can't yet

HAPPY TUESDAY!! my favorite show! so excited as an Epcot girly!

I can’t believe this ride ranked higher than Snow White mine cart!! 😂 I personally would have those two swapped for the magical gem section alone and better pacing. My first time on the Figment ride was with my husband and his parents in 2015 and all throughout the queue his mom was telling me about this magical ride that my husband loooved when he was a little kid. They had no idea about the changes from the original so when we got to the fart section the horrified look on her face was priceless. No one enjoyed that part at all, not even our 5 year old son. I have no desire to ride that version ever again. So glad there’s a video of the original, it put my mother in law’s mind at ease that she wasn’t horribly misremembering the ride 😂

And now I’ll have that song in my head for days

Absolutely love this podcast, gonna go back and like every episodes to show my love! Appreciate you guys

Eric also liked one of my tweets in that conversation as well. "You are likely looking at a dude with an oven mitt on while running lines, not actual Roger Rabbit."

Figment was the character I latched onto my first visit to Disney World when I was 3 in like 1994. I. LOVED. HIM. The last time I visited in 2012, many years after, I felt myself questioning hard why I thought this ride was so special to me as a tiny human. It was weird and just not what I remembered. Then I learned how drastically it changed. My mom was also confused and disappointed. I hope they eventually rework the ride to mirror the wonderful origins.

If I could reverse time... I'd ride on the original Journey infinite times til I die. The best memory of 80's me is this ride.

You guys have no idea how much I love this podcast. Highlight of my day every Tuesday!

I look forward to this podcast every week!

I have and will probably never visit a theme park, but this podcast pretty much eliminate my anxiety. I just love it.

Lmao!!! This was great! We just took my sons GF to WDW for her first trip, we go frequently, so wanted to share the hype. This was her first ride...EVER. I felt so bad, I didn't think of it at the time, we just wanted to get on a ride fast, and obv this one didn't have a line. So I failed her lmao she was like it was, uh, cute????

Hooray for sponsors!

YES ANOTHER TUESDAY 🙏🙏🙏🙏

hope you guys have an episode on TDS at some point! sinbad storybook voyage at tokyo disney sea is definitely world class attraction imo

This podcast is a World Showcase in my heart

Discovery bay expansion actually looked cool

"Flubber" (1997) was also not the first remake of "The Absent-Minded Professor." (1961.) There was also a made-for-TV remake/soft reboot in 1988 starring Harry Anderson, which even got its own sequel!

Say what you will, but I remember riding this as a kid at Disney world. And it was my favorite and most memorable ride of my childhood. Love the show.

Fun fact; Eric Idle used to shop at the WFM on Coldwater & Riverside when it was a normal grocery store.

I love this podcast so much, it always makes my day ❤ Thank you!

Wild to me that they said nobody looks stoked after figment/leaves with a bounce in their step because both me and my mother quite literally bounce down the hallway singing “one little spark”

Love the series!! Keep it up guys!!!

Country bear jamboree mentioned !!!!

I LOVE FIGMENT ALL MY HOMIES LOVE FIGMENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I had a little figment when I was a small child and have a vague memory of seeing this at Epcot and I never feared and/or loved anything more than that little guy 😂❤ Edit: I was 5 and Epcot is my second favorite park 🥰

If Ryan Bergara in the Philippines ever goes missing you're gonna have a hell of a time not being a suspect 😂

I think of the og ride thank God I got to experience it in its original full glory...I dunno wth they were thinking..." Let's make a great ride over into complete garbage."probably.🎉 Well they can definitely ✔️ that box.

My standard trip to Epcot: I go to the Land. I go to visit Figment. I drink. I eat. If any of those four things don't happen, it was not a successful trip.

7:52 I got a popcorn bucket the second year the released them 😅

Thanks to you both for making this podcast!

I’m worried about Ryan’s fury. Have you talked to your therapist about how figment betrayed you?

Fun fact; i have been to disney with my family 15 times and our last trip was the first time that my family had experienced this ride.

IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS ONE

THE COMPUTER WORE TENNIS SHOES MENTIONED 🎉

glad to know I share the same opinions on this figment ride as Tony Baxter 😭 I’ve been scared by the fart scene ever since I rode it for the first time in like 2012 and haven’t rode it since; as someone that’s only rode the current version I absolutely can’t stand that purple dragon and his ride

I love this podcast so much that when they joke about no one listening it makes me so nervous 😳

The computer wore tennis shoes is a classic!