Imagineer

English Alternative forms en imagineer Etymology en imagine engineer. Noun An engineer at The Walt Disney Company responsible for designing and implementing innovative concepts or technologies, often found in theme parks, installation art, or fireworks. en 2000 Andrew Lainsbury University Press of Kansas 9780700609895 Once Upon an American Dream: The Story of Euro Disneyland 62 https://books.google.com/books?id=Hv7fAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA62&dq=%22Imagineers%22&hl=&cd=2&source=gbs_api#v=onepage&q=%22Imagineers%22&f=false In all, the Fronierland that Disney Imagineers designed for France was new and strangely sophisticated. Combining elements of New and Old Worlds, it resonated with themes that were at once past and present, ultra-American and worldly. en 2006 Keally D. McBride Penn State University Press 978-0271026893 Collective Dreams: Political Imagination and Community Disney Imagineers are offering us fantasy as real life. We can buy it and move in permanently. en https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2009/10/disney-making-its-stores-magical/28275/ Disney Making Its Stores Magical The Atlantic 2009-10-13 Daniel Indiviglio As I'm sure Disney would put it, its "imagineers" want to make visiting their stores a magical experience. They don't want kids to just visit when they want a new Mickey shirt or the latest Disney movie on DVD. They want them to visit these stores for their own sake. https://web.archive.org/web/20230329041646/https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2009/10/disney-making-its-stores-magical/28275/ 29 March 2023 en https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/07/taco-bell-workers-champions/375352/ Why Taco Bell Likes to Call Its Workers 'Champions' The Atlantic 2014-07-31 Joe Pinsker on Taco Bell isn’t alone in putting a positive spin on their job titles. Disney refers to its employees as “cast members,” and some are even “imagineers.” Apple has its “geniuses.” (In a similar vein, Subway has taken to calling its customers "fans.") https://web.archive.org/web/20250613022231/https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/07/taco-bell-workers-champions/375352/ 13 June 2025 en 2023 Alex Shakar The Savage Girl Harper Collins 9780061863462 15 https://books.google.com/books?id=xjNB5KQEvcoC&pg=PA15&dq=%22Imagineers%22&hl=&cd=3&source=gbs_api#v=onepage&q=%22Imagineers%22&f=false As far as Ursula can make out, these are not the actual Imagineers—the writers and theme park conceptualizers employed by Disney—but rather some kind of cabal of evil businessmen from the future. Related terms en fungineer en Imagineering Further reading Imagineering Anagrams en aeegiimnr gaminerie reimagine en Occupations