If you’ve seen it, then you won’t forget it, a lightsaber that ignites in real time, right in front of your eyes, that looks like….well, like a lightsaber igniting. No plastic, just that familiar beam of light and the creator of this incredible piece of tech , the fabulously named Lanny Smoot is being inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame, only the second Imagineer to be so honoured.
Join us as we stop by to congratulate Lanny Smoot, the Disney Research Fellow and Imagineer behind mind-blowing special effects like making Madame Leota float inside the Haunted Mansion and our state-of-the art Star Wars lightsabers, is being inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame!
Lanny is the first Disney Imagineer to receive this prestigious recognition and only the second individual from The Walt Disney Company to be inducted — the first being Walt Disney, honored posthumously for the multiplane camera.
