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2025
Featured Arc · 1 chapter
Figment Merchandise Expansion
Jan 2025

ImageWorks gradually transformed into a Figment-focused shop, launching new merchandise collections and meet-and-greets.
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  Jan 2025Changed
  
  ImageWorks' identity continued shifting toward a Figment hub: a wave of new Figment merchandise (including a $79.99 Figment hoodie) landed in January 2025 alongside the shop's Figment meet-and-greet, with a handful of the classic interactive stations still operating.
  Tracked byTheme Park Patch Notes
2016
Featured Arc · 3 chapters
ImageWorks Upstairs Gallery
Oct 1 – Jun 2016 · ~34 yr

The original second-floor ImageWorks opened with EPCOT and closed permanently in 1998, later converted to a DVC lounge.
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  Oct 1, 1982New
  
  The original ImageWorks — 'The Image Works: Creative Playground of the Future' — opened with EPCOT Center on the upper level of the Imagination pavilion, a hands-on gallery of creative experiments including the Rainbow Corridor, Magic Palette, and Stepping Tones.
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  Oct 10, 1998Refurbishment
  
  The upstairs ImageWorks closed on October 10, 1998 when the pavilion shut down for the Journey Into Your Imagination retheme; the second-floor gallery never reopened to the public.
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  Jun 2016Area Update
  
  The long-shuttered upstairs ImageWorks space reopened in June 2016 as a lounge exclusively for Disney Vacation Club members, ending any prospect of the original second-floor gallery returning.
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2010
Featured Arc · 2 chapters
Kodak What If Labs Era
Oct 1 – Aug 2010 · ~11 yr

ImageWorks relocated to the ground floor as a Kodak-sponsored venue in 1999, operating under that partnership until 2010.
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  Oct 1, 1999Back Online
  
  ImageWorks returned on October 1, 1999 as the Kodak-sponsored 'ImageWorks — The What If Labs,' relocated to the pavilion's ground floor at the ride exit with a new slate of interactive stations.
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  Aug 2010Changed
  
  Kodak ended its sponsorship of the Imagination pavilion in August 2010 after nearly 28 years, and the Kodak branding was subsequently removed from the What If Labs.
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That's every change on the record at ImageWorks since 1982.

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Questions & answers

When did ImageWorks open?

Per the documented record, ImageWorks at EPCOT opened on Oct 1, 1982.

When did ImageWorks last close for refurbishment?

The most recent closure/refurbishment documented for ImageWorks is dated Oct 10, 1998: The upstairs ImageWorks closed on October 10, 1998 when the pavilion shut down for the Journey Into Your Imagination retheme; the second-floor gallery never reopened to the public.

What changed recently on ImageWorks?

The latest documented change (documented Jan 2025): ImageWorks' identity continued shifting toward a Figment hub: a wave of new Figment merchandise (including a $79.99 Figment hoodie) landed in January 2025 alongside the shop's Figment meet-and-greet, with a handful of the classic interactive stations still operating.

How many changes are on record for ImageWorks?

6 documented changes, dating back to 1982 — the fan-kept shop changelog nobody else keeps.

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