Bob Weiss Announces His Retirement from Imagineering at the End of the Year
Bob Weis, Global Imagineering Ambassador and former President of Walt Disney Imagineering, announced today that he will be retiring from Walt Disney Imagineering at the end of the year, after 42 years.
“I will always be proud to have led Imagineering from 2016-2021, and to be your Global Ambassador in 2022,” he wrote in an email shared to fellow Imagineers. “I am proud to have been an Imagineer, a collaborator, and someone who loves to do impossible things with impossibly talented people.”
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In his Instagram post he shared:
You may have heard I announced today I will be retiring from Walt Disney Imagineering the end of this year.
I’m very proud of the years I spent as an Imagineer, as president of WDI, and the past year that I have served as Global Imagineering Ambassador.
For me this is a very exciting next chapter. I’ll continue writing my book for Disney Publishing on the Marty Sklar Archives, and I am developing a screenplay for Walt Disney Studios. But I am also excited to take my experience and use it for worthy projects that have the potential to improve our world. These are exciting times, let’s stay connected.
Weis has worked at Disneyland Paris as a cast member selling popcorn and ice cream, then onto Imagineering, then after graduating college relocated to Tokyo Disneyland. Some of his assignments inlcuded creating Disney’s Hollywood Studios (at the time, Disney-MGM Studios), Tokyo DisneySea, and the reimagining of Disney California Adventure.
In 2016, Weis was named president of WDI. For a period of six years, more than 200 distinct projects were delivered, despite the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“It’s been great to have the confidence of the company behind us,” Weis says. “When I was leading Imagineering, we delivered hundreds of projects that brought new experiences, new stories, new innovations to our guests around the world. And D23 fans who attended the Expo had a chance to see so many more that we have well under way. It’s truly an exciting time.”
In 2022, Weis followed in the footsteps of one of his mentors, Disney Legend and former WDI president Marty Sklar. Weis shared “When I retire, I am relishing the opportunity to write a book for the Marty Sklar Archives and I’m in the process of developing a screenplay for Walt Disney Studios. I may even find some time to just go down and walk around Disneyland once in a while.”
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Source: D23