WDW Radio # 712 - Interview with Former Imagineer Steve Kirk - From the WDW Radio Archives

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🗓️ 2 March 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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WDW Radio # 712 - Interview with Former Imagineer Steve Kirk - From the WDW Radio Archives

After visiting EPCOT this past week, and in thinking about the future of that park, specifically the Imagination pavilion, I went way back into the WDW Radio Archives to being you one of my earliest interviews. Let's go back to 2007 and Show # 30, when, as part of my Legends of Disney Imagineering feature, I shared my conversation with former Imagineer Steve Kirk. Steve helped come up with the initial concepts for Figment and the Dreamfinder, as well as the Journey Into Imagination attraction, and also helped develop some of Disney's most memorable characters, attractions, pavilions, and even complete theme parks, including being the creative leader of Tokyo DisneySea. We also talk about Epcot, the Studios and so much more. I would later come to interview his brother, Tim Kirk about his work at Imagineering, specifically at the Disney-MGM Studios, but that is another trip to the archives for another day. For now, sit back, relax, and enjoy my conversation (and forgive my voice), with the fascinating and talented Steve Kirk.

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0:00.0	What we gonna do right here is go back. Way back, back into time.
0:08.2	Hello my friend and welcome to another episode from the WWW Archives. I am Lume Manjello and this is
0:15.2	shown for 712 and each week on Thursdays we're gonna select an evergreen episode from the archives
0:22.5	to share with you that maybe you haven't heard before or maybe one that you haven't heard in a
0:26.9	long time from interviews to top tens reviews guides way back machines and more it's gonna be a great
0:34.2	way to visit and revisit some of our favorite episodes people and other ones maybe you've
0:40.7	suggested that I share from the vault and rather than upload the entire episode what I'm doing
0:45.4	is taking out the relevant portions and segments cutting out the intro and outro and and we're
0:50.9	applicable some out-of-date news and rumors if you want to hear the full episode I'll let you know
0:55.0	what the original show number is so you can go back into your podcast player or feed and find and
1:00.4	listen to the entire episode as I've said before I'm not taking anything away by adding these
1:05.9	episodes to the feed I'm not gatekeeping anything that you have to pay for instead I just want to
1:10.4	share some of my and your favorites that you may have missed or hadn't heard before.
1:16.6	So I'm going into the archives again this week and on last night's WWW Radio Live show what you do
1:24.0	every Wednesday on Facebook at 730 p.m. Eastern www.live.com I was inspired by some conversations that we
1:31.1	were having about the theming of Walt Disney World Resort rooms and possible theming and some arm
1:37.7	chair imagining ideas that those people who are watching live were suggesting some very very
1:43.1	interesting very creative directions it was going and by the way if you ever want to watch any of
1:47.6	the live videos that you may have missed you can find them on the ww. page on Facebook or at youtube.com
1:54.0	slash ww. And while that sparked an idea for an episode from the archives that I want to revisit
2:00.5	in the next week or so after visiting Epcot yesterday and thinking about what the future of that
2:07.5	park specifically the imagination pavilion might possibly be I went way back into the ww. archives
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