Trivia

Was responsible for creating sculptures from which animatronic figures were made for Disney theme parks, aswell as the sculptures of every American President which feature at Walt Disney World.

Because of his contributions as a Imagineer, Blaine Gibson was inducted as a Disney Legend in 1993.

The same year he was named a Disney Legend, Gibson was commissioned to construct a life-size bronze statue of Walt Disney and Mickey Mouse standing hand-in-hand called "Partners". The statue is located at the Central Hub in Disneyland.

Walt Disney Studios hired him as an assistant animator in 1939 on the basis of an illustration test conducted through the mail. He worked in film animation until 1961, when he transferred full-time to Walt Disney Imagineering.

He attended Western State College (now Western State Colorado University) and the University of Colorado, but he dropped out before graduating because of a lack of funds.

He began drawing, whittling, and making small sculptures in childhood. He used clay from a nearby riverbed that his mother fired in the kitchen stove. When he was 12, an elephant he carved from a bar of Ivory soap won a $10 prize in a contest sponsored by Procter & Gamble.