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Disney experiences have a peculiar power. They summon millions from every corner of the globe, drawing them into worlds that feel at once impossible and inevitable. But how do these dreams, so weightless in the imagination, become steel, story, stone, light, music, and motion?
In Dream Chasing, Bob Weis takes readers on a vivid, fast-moving journey through four decades of bringing ambitious Disney projects to life. From the confidential, high-tech halls of Walt Disney Imagineering to the highest levels of The Walt Disney Company, Weis recounts a career that carried him from Anaheim to the wetlands of Central Florida, from Paris and Washington, D.C., to Russia, Tokyo, Shanghai, and the immense shipyards of Papenburg, Germany.
As a former president of Imagineering and part of its second generation, Weis offers the perspective of someone who not only witnessed Disney history being made, but helped shape it. His story follows the winding road of bold ideas, demanding designs, new technologies, cultural challenges, political obstacles, and the constant push to transform extraordinary concepts into real experiences for guests around the world.
At the heart of it all is a belief inspired by Walt Disney’s own words: “It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.” For Weis, dreams come from “a place of infinite possibilities,” from the part of us that refuses to recognize limits.
Dreams can be thrilling. They can be maddening. At times, they may seem as elusive as pixie dust slipping through your fingers. Some are meant to happen, and do. Others are meant to happen, and somehow do not. But every dream is an adventure, carried forward by the vision, persistence, and passion of teams who believe that any dream worth doing is worth chasing.
