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Tuesday, September 09, 2025
New Imagineering YouTube series revives Disney Channel show
attractionsmagazine.com: Walt Disney Imagineering revived a defunct Disney Channel series for YouTube showing how theme park attractions are made: “Imagineer That!” hosted by Tom Morrow 2.0.
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Payton
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As someone who grew up glued to How It's Made, I can guarantee that little me would have been absolutely obsessed with this. I loved everything “behind the scenes” that felt like I was in on some big secret. I think that’s part of the beauty of working in entertainment; how little anyone else knows about what’s going on. They just see magic where you see months of work. Themed entertainment has always seemed interesting to me, but I’ve never known too much about it. I set up a single haunted house once and it was pretty cool to experience, but I have a lot of other friends more involved in haunted houses and interactive spaces and things adjacent which has always made me a bit jealous. I would love to take some time to see what Mr Tom Morrow has to say about some of the Disney attractions I’ve heard so much about!
I love this so so much! As a kid I always wanted to understand how things were made and how they worked (sorry mom and dad for taking apart the toaster like 4 times). Disney really does such an incredible job at making their parks seem magical and there were so many questions I had about how they did stuff when I was a kid and it’s really cool that they are bringing this series back. Even though this series is definitely geared towards I definitely will be giving it a watch if only because I think it gives cool insight into both how things are being done but also the questions kids ask. I think kids’ questions often get overlooked as dumb because they do not always have the vocabulary to explain what they are wondering when they actually have very unique perspectives on the world. Because they aren’t as aware of all the physical, technical, and monetary restrictions of the world, they are so creative and I think we can learn a lot from that. On another note, that robot freaks me the fuck out. Like I don’t know what it is about it, but it just feels so uncanny.
I used to love these Tom Morrow shorts. I think little clips like this are a really smart strategy for Disney to target younger audiences to be interested in theme park design and experience. Tom Morrow is a great character and I think talking through a robot is cute but also a product of his invention when robots being able to communicate and move seemed super futuristic. I think it’s crazy that as a kid I thought being able to work in themed entertainment or even professional theatre seemed very far out of reach. Looking back at little clips and docuseries that got me interested in live entertainment is fun and reminds me of why I love experience design. Hopefully Tom Morrow continues to inspire other people and also its accessibility via Youtube is a great upgrade. Maybe they should start a Mem Mory Robot that talks about older theme park wisdom and history.
The concept of the show Imagineering is super cool to me and I’m sure many other young adults and older, I love hearing about the engineering and ideas behind the rides featured at disney especially being such a disney kid, going to disney world was always my favorite family vacation as a kid being so in love with the magic of feeling like I stepped into the world of all my favorite characters. The thing about this show that is interesting to me is that if it is made for kids won’t that ruin the magic of Disney? Suspension of disbelief in at disney is one of the main reasons the parks work so well, all the kids feel like they're literally joining jasmine on the magic carpet or in the boats of the pirates of the Caribbean, if there's a show about the science and reality behind the parks, even if its told my a funny robot, will the kids still believe they're being transported into the movie?
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As someone who grew up glued to How It's Made, I can guarantee that little me would have been absolutely obsessed with this. I loved everything “behind the scenes” that felt like I was in on some big secret. I think that’s part of the beauty of working in entertainment; how little anyone else knows about what’s going on. They just see magic where you see months of work. Themed entertainment has always seemed interesting to me, but I’ve never known too much about it. I set up a single haunted house once and it was pretty cool to experience, but I have a lot of other friends more involved in haunted houses and interactive spaces and things adjacent which has always made me a bit jealous. I would love to take some time to see what Mr Tom Morrow has to say about some of the Disney attractions I’ve heard so much about!
I love this so so much! As a kid I always wanted to understand how things were made and how they worked (sorry mom and dad for taking apart the toaster like 4 times). Disney really does such an incredible job at making their parks seem magical and there were so many questions I had about how they did stuff when I was a kid and it’s really cool that they are bringing this series back. Even though this series is definitely geared towards I definitely will be giving it a watch if only because I think it gives cool insight into both how things are being done but also the questions kids ask. I think kids’ questions often get overlooked as dumb because they do not always have the vocabulary to explain what they are wondering when they actually have very unique perspectives on the world. Because they aren’t as aware of all the physical, technical, and monetary restrictions of the world, they are so creative and I think we can learn a lot from that. On another note, that robot freaks me the fuck out. Like I don’t know what it is about it, but it just feels so uncanny.
I used to love these Tom Morrow shorts. I think little clips like this are a really smart strategy for Disney to target younger audiences to be interested in theme park design and experience. Tom Morrow is a great character and I think talking through a robot is cute but also a product of his invention when robots being able to communicate and move seemed super futuristic. I think it’s crazy that as a kid I thought being able to work in themed entertainment or even professional theatre seemed very far out of reach. Looking back at little clips and docuseries that got me interested in live entertainment is fun and reminds me of why I love experience design. Hopefully Tom Morrow continues to inspire other people and also its accessibility via Youtube is a great upgrade. Maybe they should start a Mem Mory Robot that talks about older theme park wisdom and history.
The concept of the show Imagineering is super cool to me and I’m sure many other young adults and older, I love hearing about the engineering and ideas behind the rides featured at disney especially being such a disney kid, going to disney world was always my favorite family vacation as a kid being so in love with the magic of feeling like I stepped into the world of all my favorite characters. The thing about this show that is interesting to me is that if it is made for kids won’t that ruin the magic of Disney? Suspension of disbelief in at disney is one of the main reasons the parks work so well, all the kids feel like they're literally joining jasmine on the magic carpet or in the boats of the pirates of the Caribbean, if there's a show about the science and reality behind the parks, even if its told my a funny robot, will the kids still believe they're being transported into the movie?
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