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David younger has distilled the theme park design and production process from a vast cloud of pixie dust into a thoroughly researched and incredibly detailed account of how dreams are made its the perfect balance of pull back the curtain magic and intelligent discussion of theme parks from concept to completion. Unlike david youngers theme park design the art of themed entertainment which really gives you a lot of information on how and why parks and rides are designed a certain way this book merely explains the roles of the various engineers ok that might work if you are in hr or upper corporate management but it falls flat. Probably the most comprehensive summation of themed design committed to print david younger has really pulled it all together in one very readable package joe lanzisero lead designer of the disney dream cruise ship 2010 theme park design is an amazing compendium of theme park and themed entertainment knowledge. David younger was born in durham england and was introduced to theme parks with the opening of disneyland paris in 1992. Theme park design the art of themed entertainment is written by david younger former creative designer at wdi and has a foreword by imagineer tony baxter and an afterword by imagineer joe rhode