The Imagineering Story: The Official Biography of Walt Disney Imagineering Hardcover – November 8, 2022

I received my copy of "The Imagineering Story" yesterday and spent the evening doing comparisons between the source material ( i.e. The Disney+ Docu-series The Imagineers. ) I'm pleased to tell you that you would not be purchasing a redundant (thingamabob) to just collect dust on your shelf! True to the advertising from the publisher "Disney Editions Deluxe", it will prove to be a fine reference book for many years to come. So for content; I give this official Imagineering tome 5 out of 5. In my opinion, there is no singular reference currently in print covering such a wide swath of essential Disney history and coming in at over 700+ pages. That is as it should be. Don't you agree? Well done Ms. Iwerks! Disney's team included personnel from Disney Archives among others. Now even at the cover price of $35.00 in the U.S., it's a bargain.Ok, allow me to weigh in with a few disappointments. If I say nothing then I only have myself to blame when Disney puts out a long-awaited "official" work, under the "Disney Editions Deluxe" moniker which I have come to expect near perfection At least as much as I do when Disney Parks opens a new Attraction, etc! Sorry, but that's what happens when you do extraordinary work for guests for such a long time! The fact that I have a few expectations that weren't met, shouldn't preclude you from sending the family off to the movies, picking up a copy after dropping them off, and settling down with a favorite beverage for some well-deserved respite. Right? fFrst a positive. The chosen typeface is elegant and easy on your eyes. The lovely cream-colored paper stock chosen is also a fine choice. On my first pass, I wasn't able to find a single typo although this is such a big book that likely won't hold. When I first picked up the new "Poster Art of the Disney Parks, Second Edition book, I was on one of the first pages when I noted that they must have spell-checked the book but no one proofed Mr. Spell Check! The paragraph should have used the word "Theme" as in "Theme Park" and ended up reading "Them Park" Perhaps it is my younger years proofing college papers for one of my professors that made me a fussy reader! Did you notice how I got that in here, and off my mind It's been eating at me for a couple of weeks now.Then there is the choice of using black paper board covers which although I am very careful (yes I remove my covers until I can mylar them), left a few oily prints on the paper. With Disney Deluxe IMHO a better choice would have either used one of the newer no fingerprint surfaces available or perhaps one of cloth. I will say it was well glued and shouldn't pull away from the binding with normal care. There is no design per se' save the raised lettering on the spine. With all of the world-class designers working on this and in particular those creating what carries the added weight of being THE "official" history of Imagineering. Someone dropped the ball and perhaps it's with the publishing arm who have released several titles recently for the Holiday period. But guys, if it's official I expect a bang-up job, and adding a few dollars to the bottom line is never a problem when you allow advance orders for at least a year and a half. And something else that I have noted recently. Some authors have published "super plussed" editions for limited distribution. Regrettably, I am not on those lists so in about a decade I hope I won't stumble across a copy on an online auction company and end up paying 10 times the value. Ok, I've made my peace, kindly don't correct my review as I am not publishing for posterity just an overly long message that ultimately will add to a discussion..., somewhere. If you read this far I thank you for your time.Now, I have to decide how many copies I need to purchase for Holiday gifts that my family and friends have come to expect each year. That is what matters to them! And in retirement, It is a tradition I have shared Disneyland content for over 12 years now and I adore doing it!I know you will enjoy this very important and long-overdue book...essentially a tribute to the very best part of the Disney family! It is a pleasure to hold it in your hands.Good reading

Several well-written, beautifully-illustrated coffee table books providing a behind-the-scenes look at Walt Disney Imagineering already exist. I have them. I treasure them. This book does something else entirely. Something no other book has done. It provides a comprehensive, vivid retelling of the seventy-year history and evolution of the Imagineering organization itself - and of the people who contributed their boundless energy, imagination, ingenuity, and grit to creating immersive storytelling experiences to delight Disney audiences around the world. Meticulously researched over the course of six years, Leslie Iwerks has brought her considerable documentary skills to crafting this monumental work and she’s a great story-teller. Perhaps her lineage as Ub Iwerks’ granddaughter, and Don Iwerks’ daughter, and her own experience as a documentary filmmaker has given her such a remarkable ability to describe so many of Imagineering’s technical achievement over the years with such ease that they become as much a part of the story as the Imagineers’ devotion to storytelling. In this book, you hear Imagineers, in their own words, describing the challenges (environmental, physical, cultural, technological, financial, political) they faced as they worked to create and deliver experiences that would bring joy to the hearts of people the world over…and the lessons they learned and re-learned along the way.

Like many, I was at first disappointed by the lack of photos. But then I realized that this book does what no picture can do, which is to provide the details behind the pictures. So watch the documentary and enjoy all the visuals, then read this book to get the details.

The Imagineering Story, in a subpar hardback sold as a hardcover.This book is actually a paperback glued together into a hardback. This isn't a real hardcover. This is not bound together by string like real hardcovers and premium quality paperbacks are. It's a overpriced paperback. The hardback isn't even designed all that great there's no embossing or gilded paint or anything textured. They didn't even have the cover art painted onto it.And because it's actually gluebound, good luck trying to read this with the book laying flat like you can do with real hardbacks that are string bound. With this edition from Disney, you can't do that.If any of that makes a difference to you, I suggest you wait until the paperback editions are available for half the cost if not cheaper than this overpriced edition is being sold for. It's not as advertised for a being hardcover, because it isn't hardcover it's a gluebound hardback and no that isn't the same thing don't let salesman lie to you. Maybe stick to the documentary series for now until the paperbacks are available.What is a hardback? It's a true paperback, but they're gluing it to a hardback and charging 2-5 times more for the cardboard when it's supposed to be string bound. It's been trending a lot since around 2015 that I've been seeing a lot of publishers do that to rip off their customers. Fact of the matter is, it's still cheap to do string bound...true hardcover printers in India and China and more than a few other places still do string bound true hardcovers and for sale at very reasonable prices MSRP. There's still publishers here in America that do that, the right way and what you expect to get for what you pay. Gluebound? That glue I'm about sure of it won't last centuries like stringbound can. I'd be surprised if the gluebound lasts 10 years! How many paperbacks do you see from the 80s or 90s, or earlier, still fully intact with no loose or lost pages and the binding in perfect condition like stringbound almost always is!? The answer is you don't see that many paperbacks. Maybe some occasionally, otherwise no... Definitely nothing older than those decades personally I've never seen any paperbacks older than the 1970s...that's because the glues deteriorate and disintegrate.There's books you can get at dollar stores, printed and bound in the United States of America, that are stringbound and that's better book binding and more permanent and reliable than gluebound. I'm referring to composition books, college and wide ruled. Many dollar stores and dollar sections in bigger stores have them. And that's MSRP pricing.I find it sad that Disney Books didn't have this edition be a real hardcover, stringbound, with maybe even deckle edge or gilded edging or even painted edging with any artwork. There's not even a embossment of the Disney Castle or of Mickey Mouse or the Disney Castle Logo, anything. Not even artwork of the symbol of Imagineering if they've got one otherwise that's missed opportunity to do that and show off that artwork.And yeah there's no photograph pages. There's barely any photographs and artwork if any in this book. Hopefully subsequent updated revised editions will have that and on glossy pages.I cannot recommend this edition as a collectible either. Yes I know these are first editions but the actual printing isn't that good. It's almost as if these were printed in a on demand machine that does hardback, versus a real hardcover printing press that would've done it string bound. I honestly recommend that until Disney Press corrects that, that if any readers can wait to do exactly that and wait for the paperback editions and hopefully those may be updated and revised and have photographs and artwork included. The Walt Disney biography paperback printed by Disney Press, for instance, is beautifully done for a gluebound paperback with a heavy duty matte photographic cover and premium archival quality paper. That has lots of great photographs of Walt and friends and family printed on glossy paper. This edition though? A "hardcover"? Is subpar to that paperback also from Disney Press.

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