Walt Disney – A Magical Life

JohnD

JohnD

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One comparison on X. I have to be fair. It's out there.

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Captain Barbossa

Captain Barbossa

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Disone said:
It's not great for those of us who are expecting the actual Walt Disney.
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That’s part of the problem. I hate the fact I’m sorta defending Imagineering here, but no one should’ve been expecting “the actual Walt Disney” or anything close to that. I compare it to the HoP AAs. Those figures are designed to represent/resemble a particular U.S. President, which they do. This figure was designed to represent/resemble Walt Disney, and it does. Nothing more, nothing less. I understand those who are upset because yes it’s the man who founded the company and feel it should’ve gotten the best of the best. I’m not arguing that or saying they’re wrong for thinking that way. But, I do think some are overreacting for what it is. And this isn’t a personal attack on you or anyone specific. Just my thoughts based on what I’ve seen from various places today regarding this.
 
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Walt Disney to Be Brought to Life with Audio-Animatronics in 2025: 'Walt Disney – A Magical Life' Revealed

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As with a number of the responses posted nearly mentioning, "Whose voice is that?", it seems odd that since they have had years of Walt's voice in recordings, why couldn't they replicate it with the technology today? They have all of this at their fingertips. Along with wrong voice, his shirt doesn't move with the neck (looks like he is 'turtling' when he turns audience left), it doesn't give the figure a lifelike appearance when the neck looks like it is going to possibly fall out of the neck of the loose necked shirt. The shirt needs to move with the neck, not show a gap whenever it moves left to right. His eyebrows are not right. Too heavy. The suit material is too stiff, his tie is not placed correctly to the apex of the buttoned shirt (it's too low). The suit is buttoned and it looks like it wasn't tailored correctly. It appears Walt has grown out of this suit coat. His pants are not tailored to break of his shoe. I realize the motion going from a leaning position to the standing placement requires enough material to allow 'give.' But, the cuff area on both pant legs are not tailored. The photos online and at the park show that Walt had his suits tailored to fit him both coat to pants. The never were baggy. And just for the fun of it, could they program the left arm not to go back to the same placement (three times on the promo video) and make Walt look like a tea pot?
 
Charlie The Chatbox Ghost

Charlie The Chatbox Ghost

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CaptinEO said:
Disgusting to have Iger narrate, he has a god complex and thinks he is Walt, just look at the imagineering story documentary. He surrounds himself with yes men and corporate kiss ups who inflate his ego all day and he likely believes it.

Walt is a creative who believed in what he did and Iger is a multimillionaire creep who lays off front line workers while getting paid 25 million a year.
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I just saw the full animatronic portion (not sure if that footage is public yet).

Iger's voice immediately made me roll my eyes and view the whole thing through a more cynical lense- it's almost like this is a puff piece for Iger. Something for him to go "look, I brought him back to life, I'm just like him aren't I?"

That said, the animatronic is incredible but horrifying. It moves TOO realistically. He also looks a little fat in the neck and his mouth looks slightly too wide, maybe because of the mechanics, but the voice is spot on- given that it's all recordings of him, it should be. Not sure where the complaints about the voice are coming from. This is 100% a win for the advancement of AA technology- but again, kinda freaky to see a dead man brought back to life in a way that's just slightly off from how he looked in person... all to boost the ego of a man who wishes he was 1% as creative and positively impactful to this world as Walt was.

This plus the museum exhibit also makes me sad, because the WED/WDI that Walt started is not what we have today. Seeing all the concept art and vintage AAs for wholly original ideas and then all the modern art shown with it was for IP only stuff... it's not the same as what Walt did and it's silly to pretend Imagineering today is the same as it was in the 50s and 60s. (Also crazy to see FOUR pieces of concept art for Splash Mountain along with art of the Brers on a park map)
 
Charlie The Chatbox Ghost

Charlie The Chatbox Ghost

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DarkMetroid567 said:
I hate the “Walt would have” argument that always gets posted here but honestly find it hard to believe how Walt would not have seen this and thought it was sick-as-hell
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Yeah I think Walt would love the tech. No clue on how he'd feel about it being him, but he'd be overjoyed with seeing how far the tech his people pioneered has come. Not sure how he'd feel about the general state of the parks, though (mostly the price gouging)
 
BrianLo

BrianLo

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ᗩLᘿᑕ ֊ᗩζᗩᗰ said:
Huh? If it's "off model" it's bad. Or rather, not good.

If you mean, "OK", then yeah, I agree. It's OK. Standard. But as a celebration of the man, the Walt Disney Company perhaps best known for Audio-Animatronics and it's founder; Maybe, they could have done a little better. Maybe?

But yeah, let's not nitpick it. God forbid! lol
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Huh? You seem to have quoted the wrong person. I was merely sharing my own opinion, for the first time, not attacking anyone else’s. You’ll note that was my first and only reaction post. I have no problems if you deservedly want to nitpick it.

What I meant by good is that, personally, I don’t find it creepy. But it seems to be a rather good AA that doesn’t give me uncanny valley. Though off model.

Zero problem if you disagree, but I was frankly just saying the same thing as this.

ᗩLᘿᑕ ֊ᗩζᗩᗰ said:
It's not Trump 1.0 bad and it definitely surpassed the uncanny valley. Passing resemblance but is that adequate for WALT DISNEY? :shrugs:
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Disone

Disone

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Captain Barbossa said:
That’s part of the problem. I hate the fact I’m sorta defending Imagineering here, but no one should’ve been expecting “the actual Walt Disney” or anything close to that. I compare it to the HoP AAs. Those figures are designed to represent/resemble a particular U.S. President, which they do. This figure was designed to represent/resemble Walt Disney, and it does. Nothing more, nothing less. I understand those who are upset because yes it’s the man who founded the company and feel it should’ve gotten the best of the best. I’m not arguing that or saying they’re wrong for thinking that way. But, I do think some are overreacting for what it is. And this isn’t a personal attack on you or anyone specific. Just my thoughts based on what I’ve seen from various places today regarding this.
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Hummmmm.... I'm going to push back a little on that. I do not think it was out of line to expect a top-notch quality reproduction.

I don't think they implied come and see a marginally well done reproduction of Walt Disney. The attraction here is supposed to be a viable and excellently executed reproduction of Walt Disney. This isn't it.

I do think they have done better. Just based on the partner statue alone I was anticipating a better outcome. They have plenty of experience recreating real people because of the hollow presidents at Walt Disney World: George Bush ,Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, are all much better facsimiles of their inspiration, as is Jack Sparrow of Johnny Depp in pirates of the Caribbean , then this one is of Walt Disney.
 
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