by Jim Smith | Jul 25, 2024 | Best of the Best - Disney and Beyond, Disney Parks & Resorts, Lists
(A version of this article was shared with Laughing Place and published on August 4, 2024.) America is filled with amusement parks – dirty places filled with blinking lights and clunky rides of questionable safety. But Walt Disney redefined the concept of an...
by Jim Smith | Jun 28, 2022 | Disney Trivia, Lists and Trivia
Walt Disney Imagineering finds design inspiration from all aspects of life: not just engineering education, but personal experience as well. One excellent example of this is Imagineer Mark Sumner, who saved an iconic Disney Parks attraction from certain doom using a...
by Jim Smith | Jun 28, 2022 | Hidden
What iconic Disney Parks attraction mechanism did Disney Imagineer Mark Sumner design using his childhood Erector set? Image: Disney Answer: Soarin’ (Over California) When designing this fan favorite attraction, Imagineers wanted three levels of seating to match up...
