Figment

**Figment** is a theme park character with connections to the S.E.A. mythos.

## History

### Background

Figment (short for, "Figment of Imagination") is a creature created from dreams and imagination by the Dream-finder. He is a small purple dragon described as Dreamfinder as having, "*Two tiny wings, eyes big and yellow, horns of a steer*". He would accompany Dreamfinder in his operations from the Dreamport in EPCOT, serving as the Dreamfinder's assistant. When Figment was created is unknown though it seemingly occurred prior to the year 1938.

Following the Dreamfinder's absence, Figment would frequent the *Imagination! Pavilion* and its Imagination Institute. He came to be a recurring nuisance for Institute chairman Dr. Nigel Channing, a pompous, stuffy and thoroughly unfunny man who sought to control the powers of imagination. For unknown reasons, Figment would become much more of a trickster around this point which lead to him using his powers to terrorize Channing.

Around the 2010s, Figment was captured and came into the possession of the alien Taneleer Tivan, AKA The Collector. Figment would be locked away in a tank within the Collector's fortress, presumably created by the alien corporation X-S Tech. Figment might have escaped the facility when the mercenary/vigilante group the Guardians of the Galaxy arranged a mass breakout following their own incarceration in the fortress and display in the Avengers Campus of Orange, California.

#### Alternate versions

##### Disney Kingdoms

In these comics, Figment was the childhood best-friend of Blarion Mercuriel AKA the Dreamfinder. When Dreamfinder was an adult at the *Academy Scientifica-Lucida* in the Victorian era, he created a spark-converter which would create electricity from brain-waves. This device inadvertently created Figment who subsequently became the Dreamfinder's accomplice.

While trying to develop a spark-converter which would create electricity from brain-waves he accidentally created a portal to the realms of imagination. The story revolves around this young Dreamfinder and Figment journeying through the psionic realm and saving it from controlling villains. In Figment 2 they would come from the realm to modern day at the academy's base in the jungles of Florida (the Imagination! Institute). After failing to properly study the giant monolith of Spaceship Earth, Dreamfinder would transform into his villainous counterpart **The Doubtfinder** with Figment needing to team up with his descendent to save him and the academy.

## Appearances

### Guardians of the Galaxy - Mission: BREAKOUT!

Figment makes a cameo in the queue for this attraction set within the Collector's Fortress of intergalactic artifacts. One of his containers hanging from the ceiling can be seen holding Figment within it.

### Journey Into Imagination

Figment was the deuteragonist of this attraction where he explored the realms of imagination with guests as guided by the Dreamfinder.

#### Journey into your Imagination with Figment

In this attraction, Figment is a trickster who terrorizes the host Nigel Channing as he guides guests through the Imagination Institute's outpost in EPCoT.

### Liberty Square Ticket Office

In this building is an illustration of the Dreamfinder and Figment riding the Dreammobile overhead the Tree of Life, Cinderella's Castle, Spaceship Earth and the Hollywood Tower Hotel. The function of this poster is to advertise annual passes to Walt Disney World Resort.

### Skipper Canteen

Figment is supposedly heard accompanying Dreamfinder on his visit to the Skipper Canteen where he is referred to as a, "small purple crocodile thing".

### Star Tours: The Adventures Continue

A stuffed-animal version of Stitch appears in baggage within the queue for this attraction. Alternative versions of this gag feature a stuffy of Stitch from *Lilo & Stitch*.

### In other media

#### Film

##### Inside Out

Figment makes a cameo in the Disney-Pixar film *Inside Out* within a world personifying imagination, being visible on a portrait decorating the realm.

#### Printed-materials

##### Disney Kingdoms

Figment is the deuteragonist and titular character of Figment 1 and Figment 2, non-cannon comics set within a larger Disney Parks mythology. Here he was created by Blarion "Dreamfinder" Mercurial in the Victorian era after having been Blarion's childhood imaginary-friend.

## Connections

### Discovery Bay

Figment was originally created for Discovery Bay for the proposed attraction, "Professor Marvel**'**s Gallery of Illusion" with Professor Marvel being an early form of the Dreamfinder. It should be noted that at this point in time, Figment was had yet to be named.

### ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter

In Mission: Breakout!, Figment's security tech is inferred to likely come from X-S Tech from the defunct attraction ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter.

## References

1. ↑ https://www.flickr.com/photos/theverynk/31353284637/in/photostream/
2. ↑ https://twitter.com/Livelyland/status/1371536866470555648
3. ↑ http://ultimateorlando.blogspot.com/2012/09/all-71-luggage-x-ray-tributes-and.html