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The Secrets to Disney’s Mountains Revealed in a New Imagineer That! Episode
The latest episode of Imagineer That! features special guest Michelle Khare, the popular host of the YouTube series Challenge Accepted. A self-described huge fan of Walt Disney Imagineering, Khare gets her long-awaited question answered by Tom Morrow 2.0: “How do Imagineers make mountains?”
Turns out, building a Disney Mountain is more complicated than you might think. Tammy, a Rockwork Engineer, explains the long process that begins with story.
Disney Mountains come in all shapes and sizes. Some are based on real mountains like the Matterhorn at Disneyland or Expedition Everest at Walt Disney World. Others are more fantastical like the floating mountains in Pandora – The World of Avatar.
Once Imagineers develop the story they want to tell, they make models that are scanned into digital structures. Tammy’s team designs the steel structures that are eventually covered in bent rebar, lath, and concrete.
An important part of this step is rockwork integration – the process of incorporating lights, speakers, foliage and technology seamlessly into the mountains and rocks. Finally, artisans make the mountains look real by carving and painting fine details into the concrete plaster.
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