-
Welcome to the WDWMAGIC.COM Forums!
Please take a look around, and feel free to sign up and join the community.
High ranking Imagineers Joe Rohde and Bob Weis expand their roles with Walt Disney Imagineering
- Thread starter wdwmagic
- Start date
ToTBellHop
Well-Known Member
Not much direct benefit to us (Trowbridge is), but congrats to them nonetheless! Good to see Rohde will be around much longer.
doctornick
Well-Known Member
Rohde taking over Marvel seems odd considering he is based in Florida. He is based in Florida, right?
ToTBellHop
Well-Known Member
Not for long, it would seem. AVATAR is all designed so there's no reason he can't head out west and fly back to the swamps as necessary for AVATAR.
Last edited:
ToTBellHop
Well-Known Member
Will he and his earring be accepted in SoCal?
Joe Rohde is based in Glendale.
BJones82
Well-Known Member
Sadly I am in the same boat, I don't necessarily like what Uni is doing with Marvel and would love to see WDW have the ability to add it to the parks
BrianLo
Well-Known Member
Rohde's two projects are Village Natures and Avatar (he is based in Glendale). It seems natural that he would shift to overseeing Marvel in DCA and the rumoured Marvel in WDS as a result. Although I do hope they continue to have him heavily involved in anything Animal Kingdom.
Bob Weis is just further confirmation that Hong Kong is getting a second park in short order.
Bob Weis is just further confirmation that Hong Kong is getting a second park in short order.
GiveMeTheMusic
Well-Known Member
Bob Weis was involved with Disneyland's Tomorrowland redo? I thought that was a Tony Baxter production? I know Bob was in charge of the DCA reboot, which would seem to be a more impressive credit than the disaster site that is DL's Tomorrowland.
Disneyhead'71
Well-Known Member
What is it that Uni is doing with Marvel that you don't like?Sadly I am in the same boat, I don't necessarily like what Uni is doing with Marvel and would love to see WDW have the ability to add it to the parks
dumboflyer
Well-Known Member
No. His earring will have to get much larger and much weirder before he is accepted.
BJones82
Well-Known Member
I Just don't like the Spiderman type rides that they are doing, never been a huge fan of them, Doesn't mean I wont like things they do in the future just don't like them... And I'm not an armchair imagineer so I don't have ideas for what they should do. I like some things Uni is doing like the new King Kong ride and both HP areas, but the marvel area just doesn't do it for me.... There obviously is no guarantee that WDW would do it better or differently but just how I feel, not meant to start a fight about who is better or anything just an opinion.
PhotoDave219
Well-Known Member
I view this as a positive thing.
PhotoDave219
Well-Known Member
Okay let's get this out in the open.
First: *IF* marvel ends up in DHS, it will be GotG and it will be a one-off.
Second: *IF* they actually go forth with it, it won't be decided until after the release of the Second GotG movie.
articos
Well-Known Member
No, Joe's Glendale.
MrPromey
Well-Known Member
I think it's a fair statement to say you prefer Disney's style over Unversal's or vice versa. In the earlier days, Universal was clearly trying to copy Disney's approach to things but over time has developed their own distinct style and sensibility when it comes to ride types and theme. Personally, I think that's a good thing (that the two are different).
That said, I thought what they were doing with Marvel these days was pretty much nothing. I could easily be mistaken but I don't think they can develop anything new without Marvel approval. I'm sure someone on here knows more about that than me, though.
BJones82
Well-Known Member
If that is true then that explains that, I am not well versed on the contract agreements other than they get Marvel East of the Mississippi.
MrPromey
Well-Known Member
I noticed that while this is a Marvel Property, they've worked hard at featuring it as just GotG and not Marvel's GotG in a lot of their materials which would make a lot of sense if when they were launching this franchise, they were considering the possibility of developing anything with this for all of their theme park locations someday.