Animatronic Graveyard

[pager]

Just wondering if the animatronic that disney gets rid of and recycled or simply put on the island of misfit toys (r. the red nose raindeer).

 

[pager]

cool idea they can icorporate them into hm and have them pop out of coffins and such. How scary would it be to see the time keeper pop out of a coffin.

 

[brkgnews]

Many of them are probably farmed out for parts. You gotta figure, once you get all the skin and hair off of 'em, they're pretty much the same (unless they were made for a very specific type of character). Having been in the AA shop before, I can tell you that there are lenty of older ones sitting around back there, but no "graveyard" that I saw.

 

[rshell68]

I thought that was what Mouse Surplus was for :lol:

 

[Bravesfn1]

Maybe Time Keeper will show up at Mouse Surplus. I sure will miss the guy.

 

[Connor002]

There are a few warehouses that gather some old parts, but many things that a Disney fan would treasure are left to rot...

 

[Lee]

Poor Bonnie Apetite from Kitchen Kabaret is back in the AA shop as a demo for guests on tours. Looking kinda odd, too. :lol:

On the spooky side...one time when I was in the AA shop, they had some Small World dolls form Disneyland in there being refurbished. They were on a machine making them go through their little dance 24-7...naked.

 

[-SIR-]

what tour can you go on and see the animitronic shop?
id like to see that.

 

[Ghostbuster626]

yea me too. Is this also where they keep the unused America Sings AA's like the old grey mare, stork, and Uncle Sam?

 

[Lee]

yea me too. Is this also where they keep the unused America Sings AA's like the old grey mare, stork, and Uncle Sam?

I don't know if the America Sings AAs are still there or not. One or two might be.
The Backstage Magic tour goes back there...or at least it did.

 

[brkgnews]

Poor Bonnie Apetite from Kitchen Kabaret is back in the AA shop as a demo for guests on tours. Looking kinda odd, too. :lol:

On the spooky side...one time when I was in the AA shop, they had some Small World dolls form Disneyland in there being refurbished. They were on a machine making them go through their little dance 24-7...naked.

I was on Backstage magic around the same time. The IASW dolls were completely stripped down to their AA guts -- looked like white Mr. Potato head dolls with metal arms.

Bonnie also looks kind of odd because she has one regular arm, and they grafted an A100 arm onto her in order to show the difference between the technologies.

 

[Tom]

I was on Backstage magic around the same time. The IASW dolls were completely stripped down to their AA guts -- looked like white Mr. Potato head dolls with metal arms.

Bonnie also looks kind of odd because she has one regular arm, and they grafted an A100 arm onto her in order to show the difference between the technologies.

We saw Bonnie on the BSM tour - pretty cool. There was also a pretty crude AA mounted on a stand and all of "his" actuators were connected to some sort of pin board - where we could take a nail and touch it to each pin, causing a motion. That was fun. I remember there being some other AAs back in the corner - some with skin, some just frames and hoses....it would be a creepy place at night, in the dark! HA!

 

[CThaddeus]

Many of them are re-used in other attractions. A number of the animatronics from World of Motion ended up in Disneyland's Pirates of the Caribbean, Tony Baxter once told me that Tom Morrow in Disneyland's Innoventions is really just Alec Tronic with a new head (a copy of the Timekeeper's, I'm guessing), and saddest of all is the fate of the sea serpent from World of Motion - he sits as a "prop" out in the hot California sun in the Hollywood Pictures Backlot of California Adventure. In cases such as that, selling them on E-Bay sounds infinitely preferably to me. At least they'll probably go to someone who really cares about them.

 

[Chape19714]

I was on Backstage magic around the same time. The IASW dolls were completely stripped down to their AA guts -- looked like white Mr. Potato head dolls with metal arms.

Bonnie also looks kind of odd because she has one regular arm, and they grafted an A100 arm onto her in order to show the difference between the technologies.

And as of December Bonnie didn't work... It looked cool! They explained what it did, but she wouldn't move, because the guides kept forgetting to turn her off, and she just broke...I guess the AA workers just got tired of fixing it due to guide's forgetfullness. Hopefully she'll be back up soon.

 

[FigmentJedi]

Aren't Ham and Eggz from Kitchen Kaberet being kept in a storage in the Haunted Mansion?

 

[hayzer11]

Aren't Ham and Eggz from Kitchen Kaberet being kept in a storage in the Haunted Mansion?

I hadt heard that?

 

[animay]

Aren't Ham and Eggz from Kitchen Kaberet being kept in a storage in the Haunted Mansion?

Ham definitely is. Saw him with my own eyes when I worked there. It's just the shell though. No mechanical pieces are in it. He has no eyes. No sign of Eggz.

 

[brkgnews]

I figured that just the shell of Eggz would be there. Wocka Wocka Wocka!!!

 

[Rob562]

Ham definitely is. Saw him with my own eyes when I worked there. It's just the shell though. No mechanical pieces are in it. He has no eyes. No sign of Eggz.

I thought I read somewhere a few years back that Eggz had been built into one of the Eater Parade floats, though with his face hidden (or at least mostly so, unless you were looking from a certain angle)

-Rob

 

[raven]

A number of the animatronics from World of Motion ended up in Disneyland's Pirates of the Caribbean, Tony Baxter once told me that Tom Morrow in Disneyland's Innoventions is really just Alec Tronic with a new head (a copy of the Timekeeper's, I'm guessing)...

I niticed this last Monday when I was at Disneyland. Especially the Tom Morrow characters. You could see right though him kinda like the AA in Haunted Mansion (which was still closed ).