WDW Radio # 767 - Inventing the Impossible: Imagineer Lanny Smoot
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Lou Mongello - Disney Expert
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🗓️ 30 January 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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WDW Radio # 767 - Inventing the Impossible: Imagineer Lanny Smoot
This week, I invite you to sit down with me and Imagineer Lanny Smoot, a visionary who has helped revolutionize the Disney Parks and Cruise Line with his groundbreaking technologies and inventions. Join me as we delve into stories behind and from the creative genius whose "one little spark" of inspiration led to him holding more than 100 patents that have transformed the way we experience the magic of the Disney Parks - from the Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser Lightsaber to the Haunted Mansion, and his latest creation which is set to profoundly transform industries beyond Disney, the OmniDirectional Floor!
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| 0:41.0 | Hello my friend and welcome to the W.W. Radio show, your passport to the Disney Parks, |
| 0:48.0 | experiences, movies and more. I am your host Lou Manjello and this is show number 767 and since 2004 when I wrote my first Disney trivia book |
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| 1:20.0 | I'm very excited about this week's show because I want to invite you to sit down with me and |
| 1:24.5 | Imagineer Lani Smoot, a visionary who has literally helped revolutionize the Disney Parks |
| 1:30.3 | and Cruise Line with his groundbreaking technologies and inventions. |
| 1:34.0 | So join me as we delve into stories behind and from the creative genius whose one little spark of inspiration led him to holding more than 100 patents that have transformed the way we experience the magic of the Disney parks |
| 1:49.0 | from the Star Wars Galactic Star Cruiser lightsaber to the Haunted Mansion and his latest creation, which is set to profoundly transform industries even beyond Disney, the Omni Directional Floor. |
| 2:01.0 | Then see if you can answer our Disney trivia question of the week and enter for a chance to win a Disney prize package |
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