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[Davie] So when I walk on this site,

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it's a sense of joy and pride
and accomplishment.

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It's been years of our lives

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and then just to see it
come out of the ground, literally,

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and every day to see it change
and evolve into what we created on paper

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is an amazing experience.

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I'm Mike Davie
with Walt Disney Imagineering,

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and I'm responsible for delivering
magical experiences to our guests.

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[Davie] So, I'm a project manager.

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And what I do is,
I'm responsible for the entire project

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from its inception
all the way to its completion.

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So, that involves
from the Blue Sky time period

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when we're working with our design teams,

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our architects and our creative teams

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to come up with an idea,
and then taking it from that idea

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into schedules and budgets
and making sure we can execute

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on the creative vision that we're trying
to create for our guests.

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Imagineering. That's the right word
to describe what we do.

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We imagine things,
then we have to engineer it.

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Early on in my career,
or early on in my life,

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I knew nothing
about Walt Disney Imagineering.

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I knew what Disney was,

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a magical place that everybody
wanted to go to and be a part of.

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Then I got the opportunity
to come and work for the company.

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As soon as I interviewed,
I knew this was a place for me.

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So, what you're seeing here is the form.
It's starting to take shape,

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is the exterior facade for the entry
into the Ratatouille attraction.

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The Ratatouille attraction
and why it's special to me is that

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we're bringing something to Epcot
and the World Showcase pavilion

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that families can enjoy together.

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I've sat in rooms where we just had
a napkin, literally, a napkin.

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We're at dinner, and there's a napkin
sketch, and this idea has been taken

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and come to Blue Sky phase
where we sit and we talk about it,

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and we think of it
from a design perspective.

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And then, from there,
we go into schematic design.

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And as that starts to evolve,
we'll move into our next phase,

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which is live design development.
And we really start to get into the detail

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and really start to infuse it
with the storytelling.

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Then, from there, we go into construction,

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and that's where we really execute
on those ideas that we've drawn,

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many years ago, back on a napkin sketch.

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This is a huge projection screen.

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So, right directly above us,
there's a projection room

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which projects an image onto the screen

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that's choreographed with the ride
experience that we're creating.

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And they can actually live inside
the world that they've seen on the screen.

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[machines grinding]

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So this theme park wall that you see here
is actually blown up to rat scale.

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So, you're a human,
you've been shrunk to rat scale,

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and you see this brick wall that's been
all hand carved by our artisans, right.

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The challenges with doing this to scale

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is that you can't get far enough
away from it,

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so you have to have
some really talented artisans

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who are able to stand this close to it,

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but still create something
that's the right scale,

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as what it would be
from a point of view of a rat.

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The amount of detail that it takes
to execute and deliver

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on an attraction like Ratatouille
is pretty intense.

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We labor over drawings
for hours and hours and hours

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and so the level of detail
is second to none.

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Well, we created these wood planks
out of theme park plaster.

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And you can see the mortar joints

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that we created to look
like they're oozing out of the planks.

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It's an exciting part of the project

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'cause you get to see everything
that we've worked so hard for

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really come to life.

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So we work with our partners at Pixar
to develop the story

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and make sure we're staying true
to the overall idea and story and richness

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that's been created by Pixar.

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Every day I stop and say,
"Wow. What we do is pretty amazing."

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I mean, Imagineers have something in them,

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it's creativity,
it's passion and commitment.

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'Cause every time I deliver a project
and at the end, and I see my family,

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or I see guests experience it
the way that we intended

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and the richness we created
within the environment,

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um, it really just gives me goose bumps
and a feeling of pride and accomplishment,

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um, with our team and what we've been able
to deliver for our guests.