Tony Baxter - Marceline Toonfest

[gtrist4life]

Just a post to give a big thumbs up to Tony Baxter, VP of Imagineering.
Our family was fortunate enough, and we live close enough to attend the Marceline, MO Toonfest this past weekend. Tony made a presentation reviewing his career, accomplishments ( Big Thunder Mountain, Imagination Pavillion at Epcot, Splash Mountain, Disneyland Paris Castle, Star Tours, and Indy Jones and the Forbidden Eye, to name the biggies), and his overall approach to applying story themes with attractions.

One story from the presentation, Figment was originally green, but when the Kodak sponsors saw him, they said, “uh- everythings great except the dragon’s color” Why?
Fuji! So that’s how Figment became purple.

Also with this being Walt’s boyhood home and having a profound influence on his development of Main Street, it was super cool to go through the museum there and see the memorabilla. We also went by Walt’s old home and walked down to the legendary “Dreaming Tree”.

This event is held the third weekend in September and they always have special guests.
If you’re a Disney nut, I’d highly recommend going sometime, although it is out of the way, probably around 2.5 hours from Kansas City.

Peace,
G4L