In 1954, Walt Disney visited the park. He was supposed to take a quick tour, sort of drive by, but he spent hours here and was fascinated by our no straight lines and a surprise around every corner mentality and the way the park was built.
"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."