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Contents BackgroundFigment is the dragon companion of the inventor Dreamfinder, created from ideas and sparks of imagination collected during his travels in the Realms of Imagination. These components include his large yellow eyes, the horns of a steer (or a dilemma), royal purple pigment, a crocodile's snout, and the childish delight found at a birthday party. Manifesting aboard Dreamfinder's airship, Figment enthusiastically begins listing all sorts of things to collect and make new things out of, filling the ship's idea bag and prompting a trip to the Dreamport. From there, Figment and Dreamfinder put their ideas to work through realms of Art, Literature, Theater, Science and Film.In the Imagination Institute incarnations of the attraction, Figment is described as having been brought into existence by the Institute's research, with describing him as coming out of the Imagination Scanner.
Figment (n.) early 15c., 'something invented or imagined, a myth or fable; deceitful practice; false doctrine,' from Latin figmentum 'something formed or fashioned, creation,' related to figura 'shape' (from PIE root.dheigh-'to form, build'). Related: Figmental; figmentary. Definition of Figment. Babylon English. Product of the imagination, notion; imaginary story Search Web Search Dictionary. Get Babylon's Dictionary & Translation Software Free Download Now! Figment Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries. Wordlovers Dictionaries. GLOSSARY OF ESOTERIC WORDS. A contrived idea.
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In, Figment finds himself at odds with the Institute's restrictive views on imagination and makes mischief there.PersonalityIn the original version of the ride, Figment acts like a young and curious student of the imagination to Dreamfinder.In the current version, he is well aware of what imagination is and is mostly a prankster, pulling tricks on until he is willing to listen to him and his lesson that imagination works best when set free.In the Disney Kingdoms comics, Figment is depicted somewhere in the middle of the two interpretations. He has the same wide-eyed child-like curiosity of the world around him as the original, but possesses a sharp wit similar to the current version.
Overall, Figment is a manifestation of Dreamfinder's optimism and actively supports and pushes him forward when his anxieties and fears get in his way, showing a great deal of wisdom one wouldn't expect of him.DevelopmentThe Journey Into Imagination pavilion was one of the last of the original Epcot pavilions to be designed. Looking for host characters, inspiration was taken from the mothballed project for. An attraction called 'Professor Marvel's House of Illusions' was to have been hosted by the titular eccentric scientist, who among his other endeavors, bred dragons as a hobby. The Professor and one of his smaller dragons would soon evolve into Dreamfinder and Figment.Figment was also inspired by a line in an episode of Magnum PI. In the episode, Higgins' garden was being destroyed by a goat Magnum hid in his backyard.
When Magnum tells Higgins it's only a Figment of his Imagination, he replies that 'Figments don't eat grass!' Realizing that a Figment of the imagination had never really been visualized, the dragon was given his name.During most of the development, Figment was green rather than his familiar purple pigment.
At the insistence of Kodak, who thought the green was too reminiscent of business rival FujiFilm, the color was changed to how he is seen today. Figment's red and yellow sweater was also meant to evoke the Kodak logo.Appearances Language Arts Through ImaginationFigment had his own series within the Epcot Educational Media line titled '. In these short films, Figment would invite children to his playhouse in an imaginary realm called, exploring different reading and writing concepts in adventures mixing live-action and animation and stock footage from the Disney library. Occasionally, Figment would interact with other Disney characters, with shorts starring, and (referred to as his Uncle Max).Other appearancesFigment has a cameo appearance in on one of 's computer screens.A portrait of Figment appears in the film nearby the Train of Thought. The same portrait also appears in as the marquee for the Dragon Zone carnival game.Imagineering occasionally treats Figment as one of their unofficial mascots. The commissary at Walt Disney Imagineering's Glendale offices was once named the Figment Cafe, with the character being put on signs, napkins and buttons. Figment was also used to illustrate many creative concepts and exercises in 2003's The Imagineering Way and 2005's The Imagineering Workout.
Printed mediaIn his Disney Kingdoms appearance, Figment is introduced as having been Blairion Mercurial's childhood imaginary friend. His testing of the Mesmonic Spark Convertor results in him being brought to life from those childhood memories.
However, with Blair's position at the academy being threatened by a lack of results in researching new energy sources and Figment not being an ideal thing to present, Blair decides to keep him a secret and the two keep working on the machine. Eventually, this results in the creation of a portal into an entire realm of Imagination, which the two are sucked into.After befriending a large beast known as the Chimera, being captured by the Sound Sprites and escaping with a misfit known as Fye the Flawed, the friends become trapped in a realm known as the.
After becoming separated, the Nightmare Nation hivemind breaks his optimistic spirit and disembodies him after declaring that Blair doesn't believe in anything anymore. Figment's spark survives and descends down to find Blair and gives him the boost to start believing in himself again, turning him into the.Dreamfinder uses his newfound courage to blast a path through the Nightmare Nation with the power of light and open a portal back to London and the academy.
However, they find that the city is overrun by the and its robot army, which was unleashed by Chairman Illocrant's attempts to stop the unstable portal with a demand for order.
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