Hi Pat! It's me, Eddie the So-Cal Reporter and (right now proclaiming Disney Correspondent) for the Indy-Cast! I just wanted to try my hand at stumping the brotherhood. Please read the question as accuratly as I wrote it, I know it's vague but let's see what the Brotherhood can do! Love the trivia section by the way. If you need any Disney/Indy, I'm your guy!
Here goes: Tony Baxter is the Senior Vice President of Creative Development for Walt Disney Imagineering and, of Course, close to us Indy-Fans as the creator of Indiana Jones Adventure and the Temple of the Forbidden Eye which opened in 1995, but this wasn't the first time Mr. Baxter was part of the Indy Franchise. When and for what was this?
Answer: Tony Baxter's roles on his first projects were relatively minor, but he was eventually given extensive creative control of the replacement for The Mine Train through Nature's Wonderland called Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, which debuted at Disneyland in 1979, at Walt Disney World in 1980, and later at Disneyland Paris in 1992. After this, he continued to be assigned high-level roles in Imagineering projects such as Journey into Imagination, Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage, Star Tours, and later Indiana Jones Adventure. What, other than the ride, does he have to do with Indy? Well around what I would guess would be 1983, a certain sound effects artist named Ben Burtt was looking for the sounds for a little film called Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, primarily a action oriented scene about a mine car chase. Well as you know from bonus features he took his sound equipment down to Disneyland and recorded all the rollercoasters and since Big Thunder Mountain Railroad was in the park after 1979 and it's self was an illusion of a runaway train, it would be one of the rollercoasters now in Temple of Doom.
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