Hannah Pilkes

So yeah, he did a lot of the work at Disney in Abu Dhabi and in Hong Kong and had a lot to do with building the Star Wars ride for Disneyland.

A lot of what his company does is like things to scale.

So if you look from far away and you think something's massive and you get up close and that's just forced perspective and also building materials.

So rock that of course isn't real rock.

He's,

He's like the kind of guy where you come over and he's like whittling a walking stick for his son while making a souffle.

You're like...

Some people are just wired different.

Yeah, it's crazy.

You're also like, he must come up with the concepts like, he's got a good imagination, and he's an architect, and you have to do physics, and you have to do chemistry because there's the safety.

the building, the aesthetic, the lighting.

And of course, there's a bunch of people working together.

But when I went into his office, I expected it to be all these tchotchkes.

And it's just blueprints, many, many blueprints.

There's just, like you were saying, there's so many technical aspects that we take for granted.

Like if it's a log flume ride, it can't sink.

They were doing a bunch of testing for a Pirates of the Caribbean ride and figuring out, wow, what is the capacity for people?

How do we make this beautiful, illustrious ship not sink?

And so I'm so fascinated by it, too.

Yes, yes.