Join in, friends, with my friend Chilly here in the turntable poison quills that

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I live this.

Wayne, thank goodness you're alright. Is everything okay?

Honey, I shrunk the audience.

And no, as long as you're alright, standin', we have a wonderful magic trick for you.

Yeah, a wonderful trick. Everybody, face the door. And the trick is, we're gonna make you all disappear!

Hello my friend and welcome to the WDW Radio Show, your Walt Disney World Information Station.

I am your host, Lou Mangelo, and this is show number 661, and together we're gonna celebrate the magic of the Disney Parks, movies and more, here on the podcast, my weekly live video, community, blog, and more.

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So, former creative with Walt Disney Imagering, Tom K. Morris joins me this week to discuss his remarkable journey to and with Walt Disney Imagining.

Tom shares details of how and why he visited Walt Disney World on opening day in 1971 by himself at the age of 12, and what Disney did to make that day even more special.

We also talk about Tom's work at Disneyland and an Imagining, including working with Claude Coats, his work on World of Motion, working with Tony Baxter on Splashmown and much more.

I'll then have our Disney trivia question of the week and more updates at the end of the show, so sit back, relax, and enjoy this week's episode of the WDW Radio Show.

While we all know, and I think understand that it does, in fact, take people to make the dreams a reality, there are sometimes so many names behind the scenes who design and create the magic we know, love and appreciate.

And today, I'm joined by someone who very appropriately, and I think in many ways, fits the bill of being both a dreamer and a doer, and someone who never let anything get in his way of what he wanted, and literally and figuratively where he wanted to go, to tease for what is to come, and he is somebody filled with sparks of imagination, including some sparks of imagination that he brought to literal life.

He is a former Imagineer, Tom K. Morris, and Tom, I want to welcome you to the show.

Thank you very much, it's great being here.

I have been following you and your work for some time on social, and I guess unknowingly in the parks for many, many years.

And we had a chance to meet and chat a little bit during Walt Disney World's very hot, by the way, 50th anniversary, and I'll share a link to a video of that interview in the show note and in the group.

So I'm really excited to spend some time chatting with you today, especially because I love your story, and that's where I want to start.

I'm a sucker for origin stories, and you are is fascinating to me on a number of levels, but take me back, take us back to young Tom Morris, the kid who is a Disney fan, and even before you stepped foot into a Disney park, were a fan of what you saw on screen with animation.

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