Disneyland tries to replicate founder Walt in Animatronic that some family members called “dehumanizing”

• From this July, Disneyland’s famous Animatronics will include a founder Walt robot Disney He himself, it Los Angeles Times Reports. The plans have divided the Disney family, with a granddaughter calling the “dehumanizing” movement and loading, “did not want this.”

Entertainment Juggernaut Disney is about to open a new attraction to Disneyland, the California Theme Park, where the founder Walt Disney maintained an apartment.

And the attraction will resurrect the founder itself, in a way.

A new show, “Walt Disney, a magical life”, will open in July and will have an animatronic version of Walt Disney that has been seven years in the realization, the Los Angeles Times reported. The company aims to “give life to Walt so you could only experiment in the park,” said Tom Fitzgerald, an engineer who has worked on Disney’s popular attractions, Moments. “We felt that technology had arrived there,” he said.

However, the passage to reanimate the founder has not opposed the Disney family.

Joanna Miller, Walt’s granddaughter, published a statement on social networks, excluding the plan to bring to life Walt.

“It would be an imposter,” Miller said Facebook. “They dehumanize it.”

“(H) didn’t want it,” he added.

However, at least some of the Disney family are on board the plan. When the company first unveiled the intent of a Walt Disney Animatronic to its fan convention Last AugustThe great Nephew of Walt Roy P. Disney was present.

The Walt Disney Co. did not respond immediately to FortuneThe request for comments.

Disney animated robots have been used more normally for fictional characters, such as robots of the Pirates of the Caribbean or Haunted mansion Walking, or national figures like Abraham Lincoln, who stars in the long -term program Great moments with Mr. Lincoln.

Lincoln’s resemblance was the first to experience animatronic treatment: when a robotic Abe Lincoln made his debut at the 1964 New York World Fair, National Geographic called his “alarming” realism, according to Disneyland Resort Website. The show moved to Disneyland the following year.

Recreating Disney’s founder has put a new focus on technology, which is under additional pressure in a world where everyone is armed with a smartphone. The company went long to make the life of resusimated life, including the hand of the robot from a bronze casting of the real hands of Walt, the shoes of its size and a dress made in Walt, IGN, IGN informed. The Figure Practice a hand embroidered tie with the logo of the Ranch Smoke Tree of Palm Springs, which Walt loved, the Moments reported.

The project engineers even worked very carefully to recreate the founder’s “blinking profile”, ensuring that he aligned himself with film recordings.

“One of the things I discovered to see the pictures, it does not blink when he speaks,” Fitzgerald said in the start -up.

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