Imagination! Pavilion

**The Imagination! Pavilion** also known as the **IMAGINATION Pavilion** or **Imagination Pavilion** is a building in EPCOT featured in the *Journey Into Imagination* franchise.

## Description

The Imagination! Pavilion is a base of innovation and studying imagination based in EPCOT, the Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow. Originally it was based in the western section of the area known as *Future World*, but this was later changed to *World Celebration*. The building was distinguished by holding large glass pyramids while the inside held laboratories and offices.

### Features

#### Exterior

* **Upside-down waterfall**: This was a water-feature outside of the pavilion that comprised of a fountain projecting a flow of water *up* a ledge.

#### Interior

* **Computer Room**:
* **Dimensions Hall**:

* **Dream Port**: The Dream Port was what the Dreamfinder used to launch his Dream Mobile and other vehicles into the Realms of Imagination. Their fate as of the Imagination Institute's dominance in the pavilion is unknown.
* **Flubber Storage**:
* **Hall**: The entry-hall of the Imagination Institute held photographs of previous *Inventor of the Year* Award recipricantt and notable inventions of their ranks throughout history. Additionally, it connected to the offices of several members of staff within the institute.
* **Image-Works**:
* **Magic Eye Theater**:
* **Sensory Labs**: These were five labs used by Imagination Institute chairman Dr. Nigel Channing to experiment with the five human senses and their effects on the neurology of imagination.
	+ **Sight Lab**:
	+ **Smell Lab**:
	+ **Sound Lab**:
	+ **Taste Lab**:
	+ **Touch Lab**:

## History

In the Pavilion's earlier days it was used by the Dreamfinder to hold his, "Dream Port". Here, Dreamfinder used the pavilion to hold his Dream Mobile which accessed the *Realms of Imagination* and his laboratories. He would later use the pavilion to bring in guests who he would give tours of the realms of imagination and enlighten them on the nature of imagination.

At some point in time, Dreamfinder's operations in the pavilion seemingly stopped and the main operations of the building was taken over by the science enlightenment organization known as the Imagination Institute. The pavilion held the institute's labs and offices while being run by one Dr. Nigel Channing though he would be repeatedly terrorized by the Dreamfinder's creation Figment who was still inhabiting the pavilion.

## Appearances and allusions

### Disney Springs

An advertisement for the, "Dreamport" can be found along the Christmas Tree Trail of Disney Springs, advertising access to it via the Rainbow Corridor.

### Star Tours: The Adventures Continue

The logo for the ***Imagination! Pavilion*** is on the sticker of a camera belonging to one, "Quinn" in the baggage section of the queue. A plush Figment also appears within a different piece of luggage.

### In other media

#### Printed-materials

##### Disney Kingdoms

In these comics, the *Imagination Institute* is reimagined as the Academy Scientifica-Lucida which Dreamfinder attended as a young man. The pavilion here is the Florida base of the Academy which Dreamfinder travels to decades later in his Dream Mobile where he finds he was commemorated with a giant statue. The institute here was also being contacted by a giant geodescent orb of unknown origin where they extracted their energy.

## Connections

### Other

* **Disney Comedy films**: Many of the members and affiliates of the Institute based within the pavilion come from science-fiction oriented comedy films made by Disney. These films including: *Honey I Shrink the Kids, The Absent Minded Professor, Flubber, and The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes*.

## References

1. ↑ https://magicallydigital.com/gallery/theme-parks/journey-into-imagination/
2. ↑ https://allears.net/2019/11/09/check-out-the-2019-christmas-tree-trail-posters/
3. ↑ https://d23.com/9-out-of-this-world-facts-about-star-tours-30-years-of-continued-adventures/