Ep. 9: Being Dreamfinder and Figment

Defunctland

Kevin Perjurer

Society & Culture, History, Society & Culture:history

4.8 • 573 Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2017

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Kevin and Ron finish their discussion by touching on other parts of his career, such as his tenure as Figment and Dreamfinder at EPCOT, writing for Chuck E. Cheese, and his role in the new movie 'The Further Adventures of Walt's Frozen Head.' Thank Ron by checking out his book!https://www.amazon.com/Dreamer-Dreamfinder-Lessons-Learned-Behind/dp/0985470615

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0:00.0	When you wish upon a song.
0:05.0	Now we want you to share with us our latest and greatest dream.
0:09.0	Disneyland.
0:10.0	Just go to action parks with no other park like it.
0:17.0	Six Flags, great adventure. It's not a world away.
0:20.0	Paramounts Kings Island. We will officially Six Flags, great adventure. It's not a world away.
0:24.1	Paramount's Kings Island.
0:26.9	We will officially open Universal Studios, Florida.
0:28.8	Hello, I'm Michael Eisner.
0:37.6	Hi, here is your host. Hi, DefunctLand guests.
0:38.6	My name is Kevin Perger, and welcome back to the DefunctLand podcast.
0:41.7	Today, we will be finishing our discussion with Ron Schneider, and we will begin by discussing
0:45.3	his work as the original Walk Around Dreamfinder and Figment at Epcot.
0:49.1	So let's get to it.
0:50.5	So, just to begin with, what was your experience with Journey into Imagination, The Ride,
0:56.4	your experience creating the walk-around character of Dreamfinder and Figment?
1:03.0	I first heard about the ride when I was working at Disneyland at the Golden Horse Shoe Review.
1:08.8	Tony Baxter gave a presentation to the employees about his current project, and he told us all about imagination and showed us pictures of Dreamfinder Figment and mentioned they were going to be the only characters. At Epcot Center, there wouldn't be any Mickey Mouse or Goofy. And I decided that's what I wanted to do. I wanted to be that character. I just thought there was a very rich cause, the process of imagination and communicating
1:32.9	that to people.
1:34.9	I got to take a preview look at the ride and use that as my Bible.
1:41.2	And then they brought me out to Florida and I got to do the character and I was
1:46.2	the first person to do the Dreamfinder as nobody was there to train me there was no
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