Disney's robots use rockets to stick the landing

That video was awesome, thank you!

That is an impressive Lightsaber but holy, those tiles look super fun!!!

With the power of imagination

I have several friends who are or were imagineers.

The question you ask is very wide unfortunately because it is such a wide job.

Imagineers cover everything from software engineers working on robotics, to machine learning, computer vision, or data management. There’s hardware engineers, rendering engineers, people responsible for traditional costume design with fabric etc, animators, civil engineers etc…

Like any other job, there’s no real secret to getting in though. You just need to know what roles are there and see what fits you. Coming from an entertainment background certainly helps (games, feature animation, visual effects) but isn’t a hard requirement either.

There are Imagineering documentaries and behind the scenes on YouTube and Disney+ that give you an insight into what goes into it.

One would think visiting their career page is a good start: https://sites.disney.com/waltdisneyimagineering/careers/

In my domain I am known as a bit of a problem solver/out of the box thinker. So when people get into a scenario they don't have a ready answer to, they reach out to me. In this case, a contact of mine works closely with Disney, and other theme parks, and when they ask his company for something unusual he typically calls me up (it also helps that I'm in Tampa, not too far away).

IOW, I guess the answer, as it often is, is "networking".

With a good deal of luck, they seem to hardly ever have any openings in that dept, and when they do its for senior roles.

There’s also the fact that (a) the line experience is usually an entertainment in itself and (2) the rides last longer than typical theme park rides (on this last, I remember being at Magic Mountain chaperoning a youth field trip and I started timing the ride experiences and the big rides (rollercoasters, etc.) lasted around 60 seconds. I never timed any of the equivalent rides at Disneyland,¹ but I’m pretty sure they lasted longer.

⸻

1. I took my kids to Disney World last year and found the Magic Kingdom to be disappointing compared to Disneyland. With the exception of Space Mountain, the ride experience of the equivalent Disneyland ride was better at Disneyland. Pirates of the Caribbean in the Magic Kingdom is actually only half the ride that it is in Disneyland.

when I made my drivers license, you were still taught that if all your breaks fail and there's no way to stop car, you should use "body braking" - i.e. use the friction of scraping your car's side against something, preferably a wall - to get to a stop

Spontaneous Proximate Lithobrake Acceleration Termination.

Only if they come in large numbers. Which will probably not be the case initially.

Sure, but if they’re cute and fluffy we may just accept them as our overlords without a fight.

Being cute and fluffy is always a bonus

What are the main issues with it's assessment of the discussed page?

that sounds really sad

Every bug needs fixing. Some are just more profitable to fix.

Hopefully its not wasted on someone replacing Google Talk, Hangouts, Allo and whatever else is left.

Apparently Disney is playing the long game.

And it looks small, but it's 1.6 meters long (over 5 feet) and fully fueled would weigh ~200kg/~500 lbs!!!

Note that in an actual intercept, this thing is in space and going like 10km/s. It's job is to slam directly into an incoming Ballistic Missile re-entry craft before it can deploy nukes and decoys.

The giant nozzle pointed downwards is simulating 0-gravity, and probably does not exist on live fired craft.

Those thrusters must be extremely precision controlled too. At that flight profile, having a nozzle open an extra millisecond means missing the intercept by hundreds of feet.

And a Nuke hitting DC