There may be no address on the face of the Earth with more geniuses in it than 1401 Flower St. in Glendale, California, the home of Walt Disney Imagineering. The people who bring to life all of the incredible attractions at the Disney Parks that we love are clearly brilliant. There's always something new at Disney World to blow us away. but Imagineer Lanny Smoot is in a class by himself. Last week he became the first Imagineer since the organization’s founding to be inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. However, he is actually the second person at the Walt Disney Company to receive this honor, something he admits he was, very briefly, disappointed about... until he learned who beat him in.
I had the chance to speak with Lanny Smoot recently about his induction into the National Inventor’s Hall of Fame and the different things he has invented for Disney Parks over the years. He revealed that it was only after he was made aware of his own induction that he was told that somebody else at Disney had received the honor first. This made Smoot a little disappointed. He told me…
