Overview
- Eddie Sotto died on December 17, 2025 at age 67, according to obituaries published December 18, with no cause of death reported.
- He rose to senior vice president of concept design at Walt Disney Imagineering, focusing on early concept development, storytelling, and visual language across multiple parks.
- His credits include leading Main Street U.S.A. at Euro Disneyland (now Disneyland Paris) and work on Disneyland’s Space Mountain, EPCOT’s Mission: SPACE, and Tokyo’s Pooh’s Hunny Hunt.
- After leaving Disney in 1999, he founded SottoStudio/SottoStudios and produced projects for clients including Wynn Resorts, Paramount, Porsche, and Universal Studios.
- He remained a visible voice through social media and appeared in the 2019 Disney+ documentary The Imagineering Story, with colleagues and fans now posting remembrances.