Imaginarium (Empath stories)
The Imaginarium in Vic George's series of Smurfs fanfiction stories is a Smurf Village-based variant of the one featured in Homnibus' hovel. However, where his version only allowed its participants to see whatever they can imagine, the Smurf Village version creates actual realistic environments from whatever the participants can imagine. So far, the Imaginarium has created:
- a beach front
- the Smurf Village based on events in "King Smurf", with Brainy as King Smurf
- a world of toys
- a place where Clumsy mud-wrestles with a Wartmonger
- the S.S. Smurf II sailing ship
- the planet of the Swoofs as it appeared in "The Astro Smurf"
Entering a fantasy world required only one to imagine the type of environment he or she wanted to be in. To leave the fantasy world, the participant only needed to think about the exit, which is the Imaginarium's actual location in the Smurf Village. Sometimes a vocal command can be given to the Imaginarium crystals which will either bring the person into the desired fantasy world or bring that person out of it.
When it was first created, the Imaginarium's crystals overloaded when too many Smurfs went off into their own fantasy settings at the same time, requiring Empath and his mindlinking ability to get them out of there before the crystals shattered. Eventually, Handy had installed buffer crystals that prevented more than one fantasy to be active at the same time when the Imaginarium is being used.
