Former Walt Disney Imagineer Joe Rohde to be honored as a Disney Legend at D23 2024
Former Walt Disney Imagineer Joe Rohde to be honored as a Disney Legend at D23 2024
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Disney Analyst
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Former Walt Disney Imagineer Joe Rohde to be honored as a Disney Legend at D23 2024
Former Walt Disney Imagineer Joe Rohde to be honored as a Disney Legend at D23 2024
Very intriguing timing.
SplashJacket
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One of the greatest to ever do it.
Yeah, this has all the hallmarks of repairing burnt bridges. If it seems like the guy with the hammer and nails shares a cardigan collection with the arsonist, that's just coincidence.
Epcot81Fan
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cjkeating
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He deserves it just for this.
Epcot81Fan
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JustInTime
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I really do think they are priming him to return. I’ve heard rumors that Animal Kingdom is getting more than just the Dinoland redo and it would be great to have him back to oversee this.
Part of me wonders if Disneyland is getting an all new Avatar experience and that will also come to Pandora as a land expansion. Pure speculation on my part.
Part of me wonders if Disneyland is getting an all new Avatar experience and that will also come to Pandora as a land expansion. Pure speculation on my part.
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Henry Mystic
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About time. A pure innovator and artistic genius. He deserves this and more!Former Walt Disney Imagineer Joe Rohde to be honored as a Disney Legend at D23 2024
Former Walt Disney Imagineer Joe Rohde to be honored as a Disney Legend at D23 2024
wannabeBelle
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Love his comments, and all of the people he thanked, and of course Walt for being the original inspiration. Marie
JohnD
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I panicked for a half-a-second when I saw Joe Rohde surrounded by a gold border inside a black box. Then I read the story. Whew!Former Walt Disney Imagineer Joe Rohde to be honored as a Disney Legend at D23 2024
Former Walt Disney Imagineer Joe Rohde to be honored as a Disney Legend at D23 2024
MrPromey
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We get it; you don't like the dude.*
How about you show us some examples of your worst work so we can all have a fair comparison?
*enough that this time you posted the same two pictures you've already posted to these forums (I have no idea how many times now) separately with no commentary a half hour apart from each other.
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MrPromey
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Same!
JohnD
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I haven't been on it yet and frankly don't know when I will ever make it out to the west coast. But he wasn't the one who decided to retheme the west coast TOT to GOTG. At least he was on the design team to limit the damage.
Smiley/OCD
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FWIW, it doesn’t look any worse that those people with half dollar holes in their ears with a bathtub drain plug closing it up…Well deserved, as long as I don't have to look at his ear..I watch a lot of Imagineering documentaries and always have to look away or skip it when he comes on and it's in clear vi
Not a big fan of many of the choices over the last 10 years or so, especially once they started to branch out to give it to actors the prize who aren't at Kurt Russel (or Robin Williams) level of contribution to the company's film history, but Rhode does deserve it.
Personally, Blanding, Curtis, Miley, all stretch the category a bit. All of them don't really fit in with the other Legends, in terms of how legendary their contribution to Disney actually was. Mily's shunned Disney for years, especially after her show was over. Curtis had like 3 roles in shows distributed/produced by Disney. With Blanding I'm not sure she's done enough to hold her in the company of the parks & resorts execs who have gotten it over the years (and especially when you consider those who haven't gotten the honour yet). The rest, yes, even Ripa, I actually don't mind.
Incomudro
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And unlike most of them - Joe has real talent, has been all over the world, and has made amazing contributions to a place millions of people love.
AndyS2992
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On another note, why haven't Verna Felton (Mrs Jumbo, Fairy Godmother, Flora, Aunt Sarah, Mrs Hathi) and Eleanor Audley (Lady Tremaine, Maleficent, Madame Leota) been made Disney Legends? Yes they're dead but they voiced many iconic characters. Other people have been made Disney Legends and haven't really contributed much of anything to the company.