We're now getting a First Look at a new Disneyland attraction — "Walt Disney – A Magical Life." I'm sure the museum parts of the exhibit are wonderful but all anyone's going to talk about is the audio-animatronic figure of Mr. Disney. It took the tech guys a long time to build this and it probably would have been a lot cheaper to find a few good actors who looked enough like Walt that a make-up team could make them look more like him. But the technology is the star here.
It's an amazing creature they made but based on what's been released so far, I'm surprised it doesn't look or even sound more like Walt. That's supposedly Walt's own voice but it doesn't sound that much like him to me.
What a creation like this makes me think about is all the TV shows, movies and comic books I've experienced in which someone turned out to be a robot and no one knew that until the robot busted or caught fire or something. If the Disney experts spending years and oodles of Disney dough couldn't make a robot that could pass for human even for a few seconds, maybe we're a lot farther from that day than anybody thought. And they weren't even trying to build one that could walk around and interact with humans.