Walt Disney Imagineering: A Behind the Dreams Look At Making the Magic Real

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Summary: Great Book!
Review: A great "coffee table" book on what Disney does when Imagineering takes over. Great pictures of concepts and ideas over the history of Disney.

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Summary: Great coffee table book
Review: A great "coffee table" book on what Disney does when Imagineering takes over. Great pictures of concepts and ideas over the history of Disney.

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Summary: Everything you wanted to know...
Review: A phenomenal book giving you a peek about how Disney approaches imagineering in their parks, hotels, and other venues. It's an easy read - great for flipping through - but it does an excellent job of giving you a sense of how the imagineering team came to be, what they do, how they do it, and what lies ahead. This is not a "business how-to book" but it will be a great source of information for anyone fascinated with Disney.

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Summary: Great book
Review: Anyone interested in the behind the scenes of Disney magic will love this. I enjoy all the theme parks and found this book engaging from beginning to end.

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Summary: Great book
Review: Anyone interested in the behind the scenes of Disney magic will love this. I enjoy all the theme parks and found this book engaging from beginning to end.

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Summary: An inside look at the Disney Dream Factory
Review: As a former Disney Imagineer, I was curious to see how the old gang at Disney Imagineering would tell "our" story. Not Bad. A visual feast filled with the stories behind designing the world's grandest theme parks. They were less generous than they could have been when naming key players on several projects--especially if those Imagineers had moved on before the book was compiled. All-in-all a fun, fascinating and accurate look backstage at the Disney Dream factory. Unless you go to work there, this is the closest you'll get to seeing concept paintings, models, mock-ups and images of great ideas that never got built. As our boss, Marty Sklar, once said, "Dead projects tell no tales" Now, they do in this big, heavily illustrated book. Congrats to Bruce Gordon, Kevin Rafferty, Dave Mumford, Mel, Pam, and all the delightful "pinheads" who pulled this together. It was worth getting one more memo (inside the book) from Marty (in an in-house mail, manila envelope) with his now-famous red felt pen notes scribbled accross the page.

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Summary: An inside look at the Disney Dream Factory
Review: As a former Disney Imagineer, I was curious to see how the old gang at Disney Imagineering would tell "our" story. Not Bad. A visual feast filled with the stories behind designing the world's grandest theme parks. They were less generous than they could have been when naming key players on several projects--especially if those Imagineers had moved on before the book was compiled. All-in-all a fun, fascinating and accurate look backstage at the Disney Dream factory. Unless you go to work there, this is the closest you'll get to seeing concept paintings, models, mock-ups and images of great ideas that never got built. As our boss, Marty Sklar, once said, "Dead projects tell no tales" Now, they do in this big, heavily illustrated book. Congrats to Bruce Gordon, Kevin Rafferty, Dave Mumford, Mel, Pam, and all the delightful "pinheads" who pulled this together. It was worth getting one more memo (inside the book) from Marty (in an in-house mail, manila envelope) with his now-famous red felt pen notes scribbled accross the page.

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Summary: Awesome!
Review: Definately buy this book if you have any interest in Disney theme parks whatsoever. Heaps of never before seen drawings, models and heaps more. Worth every cent!

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Summary: it was a good behind the scenes preview of disney
Review: disneys imagineering book is exellent filled w/ pictures quotes articles and more though the price is steep it is well wrth the price

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Summary: This Book is Every Disney Fan's Dream
Review: For Disney fans that are as fascinated by how as much as what, this is your book. (I've been waiting a long time...) Recommendation: absorb this book, its text and texture, slowly over a month. Resist the temptation to overindulge or read ahead! A well thought out peek inside (I knew this book was a work of quality when I saw Eisner's pawprint in the forward). Enjoy!