TONY BAXTER (IMAGINEER)

'Tony Baxter' is currently Senior Vice President, Creative Development, Walt Disney Imagineering, and has overall creative direction for the Disneyland Resort.
Growing up in Southern California, he started his career at Disneyland at age 16. He scooped ice cream on Main Street, U.S.A.. After several years of odd jobs at the park, he moved to WED Enterprises (now known was Walt Disney Imagineering) and has been with the division for more than thirty years.
His work includes Disney attractions such as Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, which debuted at Disneyland in 1979, and the Euro Disneyland theme park which opened in France in 1992, now known as Disneyland Resort Paris. Several projects that Tony personally supervised, but never got off the drawing boards,were a dark ride based on The Little Mermaid, a re-design for Disneyland's Tomorrowland called Tomorrowland 2055, and a new theme land for Disneyland called Discovery Bay (which was part of the inspiration for Discoveryland in Disneyland Paris, that parks version of tomorrowland).
Projects that Baxter was responsible for include:

★ The 1982 re-design of Disneyland's Fantasyland

★ The Disney Gallery

★ Big Thunder Mountain Railroad

★ Splash Mountain

★ Star Tours

★ Indiana Jones Adventure

★ The Original Journey Into Imagination Pavilion

★ Disneyland Paris

★ 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea attraction in the Magic Kingdom

★ Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage at Disneyland