
Anaheim, California
CNN
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For the first time since Walt Disney’s death in 1966, guests at Disneyland can get a lifelike glimpse of the man who started the first animation studios in California, planting the seed that would grow into an international media and entertainment empire.
Disney has recreated its founder in its most realistic Audio-Animatronics figure to date, as part of a theater attraction about the humble beginnings and sometimes challenging periods of Walt Disney’s life.
This marks the first-ever representation of Walt Disney in the medium that he helped pioneer. Disney was fascinated with the technology behind robotic puppets that move and talk in a…