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WED stands for Walter Elias Disney. In the 1980s WED Enterprises was renamed to Walt Disney Imagineering (WDI).
The company was formed separately from Walt Disney's main company 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 WDS got closer together. In 1952 when WED were asked to design and build Disneyland, Walt and his brother Roy Disney formed Disneyland, Inc to build, design, and manage Disneyland. WED Enterprises was absorbed into Disneyland, Inc and Disneyland, Inc became a division of Walt Disney Studios which was renamed to Disney Enterprises, Inc.
Employees of WED, or now WDI, are known as Imagineers. A term coined by Walt himself, it obviously comes from imagination. To this day Walt Disney Imagineering employees about 1,000 Imagineers around the globe at their resorts in Anaheim, Orlando, Paris, Tokyo and Hong Kong. They mainly design new attractions for the many Disney parks and resorts, but at the moment WDI is building Hong Kong Disneyland.
Walt Disney Imagineering (WDI) is the research and development arm of The Walt Disney Company. The people who work at Disney Imagineering are called Imagineers.
Not such a prominent part of the Walt Disney Company as what it was, but much more famous now, although WDI is headquartered in Burbank where it was founded, it has offices in Orlando, Tokyo, Paris and Hong Kong. They are usually within Disney's resorts there, although in Hong Kong their office is in the main city as Hong Kong Disneyland Resort has not been completed. Also, in Disney's original resort, Disneyland Anaheim, there is no office as it is in the same state as Burbank.
At the moment WDI are designing and building Hong Kong Disneyland Resort, which included Disneyland Hong Kong Park, three hotels and a shopping complex.
WDI are also playing a major part in next year's 'Happiest Celebration on Earth' party celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the original Disneyland in Anaheim. This involves various resorts trading attractions, and a 50-hour party at Disneyland in October - the month Disneyland was opened. The Sleeping Beauty Castle, the symbol of Disneyland, is being decorated by the Imagineers.
An Imagineer (officially known as a Walt Disney Imagineer), is an employee of the Walt Disney Imagineering (WDI) division of The Walt Disney Company. WDI's head office is located in Burbank, CaliforniaCalifornia is a state located in the western United States, bordering the Pacific Ocean. The most populous and third largest state in the U. California is both physically and demographically diverse. The state's official nickname is "The Golden State", wh. Imagineers create what people know as the magic of Disney in all the Disney theme parks and resorts.
Imagineers come in all forms: artists, writers, architects, engineers, model builders, construction managers, and more. Past Imagineers include Alan KayAlan Kay is an American computer scientist. He joined Xerox Corporation's Palo Alto Research Center ( PARC) in 1970. In the seventies he was one of the key members there to develop prototypes of networked workstations using the programming language Smallt, Bran Ferren , and Danny Hillis.