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fromOpen Culture
1 week ago

Inside Disney's Long, Frustrated Quest to Create Artificial Human Beings: A Six-Hour Documentary

Walt Disney envisioned replacing costumed park characters with reliable, lifelike robots, culminating in the audio-animatronic Abraham Lincoln at the 1964 World's Fair.
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fromwww.ocregister.com
2 months ago
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Disneyland's larger than life' Walt Disney animatronic weighs 2,000 pounds

A new 2,000-pound Walt Disney Audio-Animatronic at Disneyland is the world's first life-like robotic figure of Walt Disney and features stepping and rising motion.
fromLos Angeles Times
4 months ago
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Walt Disney is now an animatronic. 5 things to know about the new Disneyland attraction

Disneyland celebrates 70 years with the unveiling of 'Walt Disney - A Magical Life,' featuring the first lifelike audio-animatronic of Walt Disney.
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fromSFGATE
5 months ago

'As the public remembers him': Disney family on Walt as a Disneyland attraction

"Disney has had plenty of lifelike Audio-Animatronics before, but almost always of characters and not real people. The stakes would be high with a depiction of any human; they're astronomical with Walt Disney himself."
San Francisco
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