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Walt Disney Imagineering, was formed by entertainment mogul , 1965 , was merged into Walt Disney Productions . It is currently known as Walt Disney Imagineering ('''WDI'''), '''Disney Imagineering''', or simply '''Imagineering'''. Walt Disney Imagineering is much better known today for designing and building the world-famous Walt Disney Parks And Resorts all over the world;
The term "Imagineering" is a Portmanteau word that combines "imagination" and "engineering." The term was coined by Richard F. Sailer in an in-house article written for the National Carbon Company Management Magazine, and reprinted by the Union Carbide Company. The article "BRAINSTORMING IS IMAGINation enginEERING" was published and copyrighted in 1957, and gravitated to Disney by unknown means. WED Enterprises applied for a trademark for the term in 1967, claiming first use in 1962. The company was formed separately from Walt Disney Productions to keep the affairs separate. Although when WED was required to design and build sets for Walt Disney 's live-action television shows, WED and the Walt Disney Studios got closer together. In 1952 when WED were asked to design and build Disneyland, Walt and his brother Roy O. Disney formed Disneyland, Inc. to build, design, and manage Disneyland and produce the ''Disneyland'' television show. Disneyland, Inc was absorbed into WED Enterprises and WED Enterprises became a division of Walt Disney Studios - itself a division of Walt Disney Productions, now named The Walt Disney Company . Walt Disney Imagineering is now the Research And Development arm of Walt Disney Parks And Resorts , no longer a division of Walt Disney Productions. Imagineering also includes Walt Disney Creative Entertainment , the company which utilizes Imagineering techniques among others to create shows, fireworks displays and parades at the Disney theme parks which are significant enough not to be developed by the entertainment studios at that theme park. WDI is not such a prominent part of The Walt Disney Company as it once was but is much better recognized in the R&D and theme park communities. CURRENT WORKS Known projects
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WDI are also playing a major part in the 2005/2006 Happiest Homecoming On Earth party celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of Disneyland - which would not have been built without the Imagineers. The Imagineers have also restored Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room and have rebuilt much of Space Mountain for the celebration. HISTORY The legacy and the history of the Imagineers is a very rich and complicated one. Ever since the founding of WED Enterprises, when Walt Disney's favorites at the Walt Disney Studios were handpicked to design an immersive themed experience now known as Disneyland, the company has been shrouded in mystery and its secrets are proudly guarded by Disney executives as senior as former CEO Michael Eisner , who had regular meetings with the Imagineers up until a few years before his departure. LOCATIONS The corporate headquarters of Walt Disney Imagineering are in, and have been since the 1950s, Glendale, California . It is for this reason that there is no WDI field office at the Disneyland Resort, which is thirty-six miles away. There are two field offices at the Walt Disney World Resort, required for the sheer size of the resort. Both are relatively close to each other. There are field offices located at;
NON-THEME PARK PROJECTS The Imagineers have been called on by many other divisions of the Walt Disney Company as well as being contracted by outside firms to design and build structures outside of the theme parks.
IMAGINEERS An Imagineer (officially known as a Walt Disney Imagineer), is an employee of Walt Disney Imagineering, or any other employee of The Walt Disney Company given that title. Nearly all Imagineers work at the corporate headquarters in Glendale, California constantly developing ideas and attractions for worldwide Disney parks. During the construction of a new major project, Imagineers are sometimes deployed to work on-site at a park for periods of six months to a year. Imagineers come in all forms; artists, writers, architects, landscape architects, engineers, model builders, construction managers, technicians, designers and a whole range of others. Past Imagineers include .'' Walt Disney Imagineering
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