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does any1 know or has any1 here ever been a Disney Imagineer? i've been curious how cool it is to work 4 Disney in that capacity? does any1 know what it takes 2 become an imagineer?

It almost sounds like you are saying they are mythical creatures from another world. Just kidding, I have seen a few floating around the WDW parks.

lol...sorry...i guess i meant, does any1 know anything about how a person becomes an imagineer? i was also trying to get an idea of whether or not, overall, there's a lot of job satisfaction. it would seem like it to me....

Well, they all have, in varying degrees I'm sure, education and experience in robotics, mechatronics, physics, engineering, etc... some move from the studio/story-type-stuff to Imagineering, others are engineers at heart with good imaginations.

They're all lovable geeks, I'm sure.

Now, to prove me completely wrong... Joe Rohde, Executive Designer and Vice President, Creative at WDI, and Lead Designer of Animal Kingdom, has a bachelor's degree in Fine Arts from Occidental College. He joined WDI when it was still WED Enterprises in 1980, and has been responsible for, among other things, at least in part, Captain EO and the early-80s Fantasyland redesign, plus most of AK and especially Expedition Everest.

He joined WED as a model designer and scenic painter for Epcot's Mexico pavilion. He went on to be a major design force behind both the Norway pavilion (including Maelstrom) and the Adventurer's Club at Pleasure Island.

How he got from a BFA at Occidental (a smaller private university in Los Angeles) to "model designer and scenic painter" for Epcot I cannot find. He apparently graduated in 1977 from Occidental. In three years he found himself working for WED. You'd have to ask him what happened in those three years.

My husband is interested in pursuing a career with Disney as an engineer. I had to correct him and tell him it's Imagineer.