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I think, just like you're showing there,
having that prominent Avengers "A"

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is gonna be, like, the focal point, right?

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So growing up in California,
I was always the one that was drawing

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and trying to create new bikes
or build things.

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With Marvel,
they have very iconic vehicles.

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So getting to invent a new Quinjet
that could be exclusively for the parks,

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that was amazing.

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I'm currently the creative executive
for the Marvel Global Portfolio

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here at Walt Disney Imagineering.

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We are creating experiences where guests
get to go interact, participate,

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be inspired by these
extraordinary characters.

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These superheroes that inspire us
on screens and in comics,

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now we get to join with them
and go on these amazing adventures.

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I consider it one of the most
complicated products to design.

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It not only has to be entertaining,

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it's gotta be fun,
it's gotta be efficient,

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and those challenges just become fuel
for a design team to feed on

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and try to make the best rides

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and attractions and experiences
and stages and events.

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It's a whole new format.

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It's not just sitting
and watching this happen on-screen,

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but now you're immersed
in these experiences, these adventures.

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So I grew up in Southern California.
I grew up going to Disneyland.

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My first job was actually at a theme park.

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So I was just fascinated by the airbrush
artists, and I said, "I wanna do that."

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So, on my fifteenth birthday, went up

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and ended up getting a job
airbrushing T-shirts.

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It was most stressful
when someone would give you,

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like, the jacket off their back to make.

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And that's when the pressure was on.
You could not mess that up.

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So, I learned at a early age
about pressure and creativity

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and how those could blend.

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So I grew up with a family
full of race car drivers,

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and that rolled right into where I studied

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in ArtCenter College of Design
in transportation design.

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It started opening up a new track
called entertainment design.

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That was designing movies and creatures
and games and all this really fun stuff.

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It turned out that I got an opportunity
to come to Disney and to do an internship.

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That's where I found out that this place
works just like a campus,

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full of talented people that come together

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to try to grow
and build on each other's work,

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inspire each other,
and you never stop learning here.

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And that's when I was instantly hooked
on this industry.

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The best part of my job
is I get to do what I love doing

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with amazing people
that inspire me every day.

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Do we have a name or a call sign or a...

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-[woman] It depends if we're--
-...secret, hidden message?

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We get to tell stories
to audiences around the world.

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When we started the development
of Shanghai Disneyland's Tomorrowland,

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it was a blank sheet of paper.

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And it was a brand-new audience
for Disney.

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And that optimism
that Walt tapped into in the '50s

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of what could be the future is alive
and flourishing in China right now.

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That really allowed the Chinese audience
to ask the question of, "What if?",

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and celebrate those possibilities
of tomorrow.

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I was living in China
while we were building it

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to really, you know, surround ourselves
with the culture and grow as designers.

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"Authentically Disney,
distinctly Chinese."

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And that was something
that was a mantra to us.

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So, me and my wife and my two daughters,
that were three and six at the time,

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we moved to China, and it really was
something that we all grew because of it.

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The biggest growth
was the growth of our family.

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While we were there, we adopted our son,

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which was an amazing experience,
and he brings out the best in all of us.

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He's amazing, he's flourishing here,
and we couldn't be happier

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that we had this entire project
to bring us together like that.

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When I came back
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our palette had grown significantly.

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I became head creative executive

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for the Marvel Global Portfolio
of projects around the world.

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We're currently designing and building
a whole superhero universe,

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and one of the first attractions
to come out of that

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was Ant-Man and the Wasp Nano Battle,
and that opened in Hong Kong.

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And it's an interactive attraction
that allows you to ride alongside

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and join the battle
with Ant-Man and the Wasp.

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Another opportunity we had, Guardians
of the Galaxy - Mission: Breakout,

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is a great example of that flexibility and
repeatability 'cause every time you go,

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you don't know which profile you're gonna
get, which song you're gonna get.

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So it really makes it
a dynamic medium for us

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to put our guests
right in the middle of action.

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Growing up and going to theme parks,

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the best feeling was walking around
the corner and the amazement

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of what could be around that corner and
the experiences that were gonna happen.

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It's now my role
to make sure we fill the park

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with as much experience,
as much immersion.

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We want our guests to get lost in them,

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and every time they come,
there's something new.

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We wanna make people happy, excited,
bring families closer together.

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The possibilities are endless.