Tony Baxter (imagineer)

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Tony Baxter is currently Senior Vice President, Creative Development, Walt Disney Imagineering, the division responsible for the design of Disney's iconic theme parks and resorts.

Growing up in Southern California, he started his career at Disneyland at age 16. He was scooping 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 has included 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.

Projects that Baxter was responsible for are include: