By the D23 Team
D23 Gold Member Mickey Mouse and Figment Magnet Set
They’re back! Our exclusive Mickey and Figment magnets, which first debuted during our Member Appreciation Month back in March, have returned so you can show off your fandom in style. If you missed your chance to get a magnet (or you already have one and want to continue covering your fridge in…
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By Jocelyn Buhlman
These fearsome firebreathers are classic characters in Disney stories—and now we’re putting them to the test against another set of rambunctious reptiles: Dragons! This year’s D23 March Hare Mania bracket asks you to vote for your favorite Disney dinos and dragons to see who will reign supreme. Is your voting decision-making process starting…
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By the D23 Team
Figment and the Dreamfinder are iconic original characters created for EPCOT at Walt Disney World Resort—but do you know how they started spreading imagination? We asked our friends at the Walt Disney Archives to share the story of these two fan-favorite characters.
Want more ways to celebrate 50 years of Walt Disney World? Check out the D23…
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By D23 Team
Ah, Figment—dreamer, icon, and the embodiment of childish delight. How could we celebrate 35 years of Epcot without acknowledging the beloved purple dragon? Star of Journey Into Imagination With Figment and (in our eyes) an unofficial mascot of Epcot, Figment’s been a part of Epcot’s history for as long as the park itself!
Join us on a visual…
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By Jonathan McMullen
As you can probably gather from our recent stories here and here, we absolutely love Disney dragons. So when our friends at Disney Editions gave us the opportunity to get a closer look at their new book, The Art of Disney’s Dragons, we jumped at the opportunity to share it with Disney fans!
Imagine if a single sketchbook had been passed…
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By Courtney Potter
Dragons. Mythological creatures that can inspire both terror and trust… part reptile, part serpent, part bird, all legendary. The word “dragon” first entered the English language in the 13th century, but the very idea of this creature has its roots in ancient civilizations like Mesopotamia—after which, it literally spread around the world….
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For your answer, I turned to Steven Vagnini in the Archives, who has long been an expert on the attraction: “The characters that would become Dreamfinder and Figment originated as Professor Marvel and his dragon friend for a proposed, but never realized, area of Disneyland known as Discovery Bay. When that project was canceled, the characters became the symbols of…
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The show, to be called Dreamfinders, was planned for Disney Channel and announced in the first issue of The Disney Channel Magazine, but no shows were ever completed. The show would have featured a cast of children in a “real world” setting, confronted with a perplexing dilemma. Then Dreamfinder would whisk them away on a magic journey to “The Realm of…
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The Walt Disney Parks and Resorts show floor pavilion will give D23 EXPO 2015 guests a look into the much-anticipated Shanghai Disney Resort
… as well as a preview of the Avatar project coming to Walt Disney World Resort’s Disney’s Animal Kingdom. Plus, in addition to the previously announced Hall D23 presentation on Saturday, August 15, guests will have the…
By author and historian Michael Crawford
When EPCOT Center opened in 1982, its most iconic denizens were the two whimsical hosts of the Imagination pavilion: Dreamfinder and Figment. Imagineer Tony Baxter and his team developed the beloved characters, but it took some time to figure out just how they would appear, act… and sound.
This rather remarkable casting…
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