This page is to help you quickly jump through this picture set. Below you will see a listing of the pages and the captions on that page.

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  How I spent several hours... sitting/standing in rooms line this in line. You cannot see but in each aisle there are people camped out to get into the presentation.
  The line stretched outside, many of these folks did not make it into the presentation. We were in the back third of the theater.
  Same stage as the Buena Vista Street presentation. Actually we walked right out of that one around 4:00pm and got in line for this one that started at 6:30pm.
  

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  Show time.
  Marty Sklar was the MC for the event. He introduced each Imagineer and gave a brief overview of their history and some current projects.
  First up Josh Gorin, Senior Tech Staff in Walt Disney Imagineering Research & Development. Some of the presentation backgrounds did not like to be photographed.
  

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  Josh was the youngest presenter
  How he got to Imagineering.
  

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  Some of the work they do.
  How the work is organized.
  

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  I think most of these speak for themselves...
  

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  Next up Scot Drake who is a principal concept designer.
  

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  A self portrait he did while in school
  

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  One of the few pieces of artwork he has done that has made it into the parks, most is conceptual for the Imagineers and not actually for the park.
  He was the lead designer for the new Disneyland Monorails
  

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  He also did the attraction poster for Star Tours
  And some concept art for it.
  

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  One of the storyboards for the new Star Tours
  

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  Jodi McLaughlin, Sr. Producer, Director at Walt Disney Imagineering
  

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  Some of her projects. Tokyo DisneySea Nautilus
  Dinoland at Animal Kingdom
  

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  Indiana Jones
  

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  The storyboard for Monsters Inc at DCA
  Hong Kongs Small World
  

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  The Hong Kong expansion (the three areas on the left outside the train track)
  

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  The track layout for the Grizzly Mountain attraction. Sounds similiar to Everest in the way it backs up at one point.
  Their version of the Haunted Mansion
  

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  Next up Owen Yoshino who is a Principal Concept Designer / Artist
  He talked extensively about the Fairy Tale Hall in Tokyo and had several videos that did not photograph well.. so I do not have that many pictures.
  

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  Next up was Mark Sumner, senior technical director and project/ride engineer. I could relate to him. He started off talking about how he was the neering in Imagineering.
  

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  He spent much of his early career outside Disney.
  

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  But eventually did consulting then joined WDI
  Some of the attractions in his portfolio.
  The point of this was engineers see the world one way and the creatives see it another. Part of his job is to figure out a way to achieve what they want/need.
  

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  For example on Soarin. His original plan was for a support in the front of the ride system. But due to clearances and sight lines they instead constructed this huge truss to suspend it from above vs columns in the middle.
  He also spent quite a bit of time showing how he does mock ups to explain the engineering to those who are not engineers.
  Next up Susan Dain, Production Designer (paint/color expert).
  

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  Her painting in the land.
  The exterior of Chicagos DisneyQuest
  Oustide the Living Seas
  

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  Her work to find a solution for the sub lagoon, as most Disneygeeks know it is colored/crushed glass.
  The challenge of painting planets.
  

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  Dex Tanksley - Principal Facility Designer, Architecture
  

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  He came to Imagineering through the Imaginations contest which is held annually for college students.
  His teams winning design.
  

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  Some of the attractions he has worked on.
  

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  Next up is Kim Irvine, she is the lead Imagineer at Disneyland responsible for updating the park. Her team has 25 members.
  She has had the luxury of growing up Disney and knowing as well as working with many of the legends.
  A look at some of the Small World plans
  

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  Talked about the Rivers of America additions a bit. Here is an example of scene they added that was from the original plans but never implemented.
  

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  John Hench.. one of her mentors
  As many of you know he was the color expert for the Disney.
  

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  The Dream Suite. She said how she wished they could open it so more can see.
  A brief look at some samples for the upcoming Jolly Holiday bakery
  Last up Kevin Rafferty who is a Senior Concept Writer
  

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  Him working at the park. Started as a dish washer.
  Showing Marty Sklar around the Cars Land site. (Yeah he had to borrow someone else hard hat)
  Another of his recent projects, Finding Nemo
  

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  On the research trip for Cars Land, an illustration of how things are done at Imagineering. As a team... it took three of them to get this giant rocker rocking.
  To close with they took a couple questions from the audience, but we were so late already they really did not have that much time.