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Last Imagineer Hired by Walt Disney, George McGinnis, Passes Away at Age 87
George McGinnis, the last Imagineer hired by Walt Disney himself, has passed away. He was 87. McGinnis held the role of show designer on a conglomeration of projects while at Walt Disney Imagineering including Space Mountain at both Disneyland and Walt Disney World. The project that caught Disney’s eye while McGinnis was attending the Art … Last Imagineer Hired by Walt Disney, George McGinnis, Passes Away at Age 87
Clarification on Disney “Outsourcing” Imagineering
I need to make a clarification. On November 30th, 2016 an article I wrote titled Outsourcing Magic: Where have the Disney Imagineers gone? I failed to clarify my point and I wanted to apologize. In the article I stated that Disney has started to outsource their work to third party companies. Where I created a … Clarification on Disney “Outsourcing” Imagineering
Outsourcing Magic: Where have the Disney Imagineers gone?
The creative brilliance that is the Disney theme parks was born from the minds of men and women like Marc Davis, Marty Sklar, Mary Blair, X Atencio, and the list can go on and on. Without them Disney may have never created the Haunted Mansion, Pirates of the Caribbean, “it’s a small world”, Big Thunder … Outsourcing Magic: Where have the Disney Imagineers gone?
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