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SifuJustin
07-04-2007, 08:39 AM
Does WDI place certain imagineers "in charge" of each Disney park? Tony Baxter seems to be the top dog at Disneyland in California. Joe Rohde seems to be the boss Imagineer at Disney's Animal Kingdom. If so, who is in charge of the other parks? Anyone? Anyone?

Mr.Abominable
07-17-2007, 06:05 PM
This is a quote from today's Al Lutz article on Miceage; As it currently stands, Lasseter has set up a system where a key WDI executive is in charge of each Anaheim park; Tony Baxter is now in charge of Disneyland, and Bob Weis is in charge of DCA.

Of course Tony Baxter is already well known. But Bob Weis may not be a familiar name to most West Coast Disney fans. Bob is a veteran Imagineer who was responsible for much of the initial design work on MGM Studios and the scuttled Disney's America park in Virginia (from which some concepts were borrowed and then stripped way down in quality for DCA).

It should be noted here that this single creative guru for each Anaheim park is a unique setup. As it currently stands, WDW has been assigned Tom Fitzgerald to oversee the Magic Kingdom, Epcot and the Studios park combined (look for even more exciting tile murals in Orlando folks), while Joe Rohde continues to oversee Animal Kingdom. Only in Anaheim do you have a celebrity heavy hitter overseeing each park

I cannot verify that this is 100% accurate, but it is according to Lutz.


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