Walt Disney—A Magical Life finally joins the Disneyland 70 anniversary festivities at the Disneyland Resort. The long-anticipated docu-style attraction featuring Walt Disney himself in audio-animatronic form is set to become a permanent feature at the Opera House on Main Street, USA, at the park’s entrance. io9 was on hand for the media preview of the […]
Walt Disney Returns as a Surreal Animatronic for Disneyland’s 70th Anniversary
As of this week, Walt Disney returns to his original Magic Kingdom, with a little help from the magic-makers at Imagineering. Through the audio-animatronics technology Walt Disney introduced when he opened Disneyland 70 years ago, the evolution of the show robots has gone from static positioning with some movements, as first seen on the singing […]
Disney Just Announced a Brand New Theme Park: Disneyland Abu Dhabi
Even though we hear about them all the time, Disney only has theme parks in six locations: Anaheim, Orlando, Paris, Tokyo, Shanghai, and Hong Kong. They don’t pop up everywhere or without some very careful thought. So anytime a new one is announced, it’s pretty big news, and Disney just announced a new theme park […]
Disney Says It Made Its Walt Disney Robot to Remind Fans He Was an Actual Person
When Disneyland turns 70 this July, Main Street’s Opera House will play host to the return of Walt Disney, who will sit down with audiences to tell his story in robot form. The response to the announcement at D23 Expo 2024 that Walt Disney Imagineering was working on a way to bring an animatronic, lifelike […]