Is there a Wall-E in the parks?

zurgandfriend

zurgandfriend

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Saturday for the first time in a long time I watched the History Channel Modern Marvel episode on Walt Disney World which was made circa 2005. Towards the end of the show where they used to end with Lucky the Dinosaur they now have a very short segment on how they are constructing a life size Wall-E unit. In the segment they showed what appeared to be a working version. I haven’t been to Walt Disney World since 2009 so my question is; Is there a working Wall-E out in the parks or is it still on the drawing board and the show segment all smoke and mirrors?

Thank You
 
NewfieFan

NewfieFan

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Oh Wall E is real you just won't find him in the parks! :cry:

I heard something about he wasn't built to withstand theme park abuse... have no idea if that's true or not!?!
 
Jerm

Jerm

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As you can see Wall-E was indeed real, if I remember correctly he never really spent much time in any of the parks. I know Lucky

and the Muppet Mobile Lab

spent some time in a few of the parks around the world, but Wall-E not so much.

Last time I head from Wall-E or Lucky were at D23 Expo 2 years ago.
 
Tiggerish

Tiggerish

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I remember Wall-E's appearance on Good Morning America. It didn't turn out so well, he stopped working about a minute into the piece, and they quickly had to go to a commercial. :eek:

He sure was cute, though!
 
Master Gracey 5

Master Gracey 5

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The WALL-E was definitely a great idea and its a pity he's not in the parks more. I'm holding out hope that we're about 2-3 years into development for some WALL-E and UP rides in WDW.
 
pumpkin7

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do they still have the talking bin? i looked everywhere for him during my last trip, even asked a CM about it. he said not many people know about the talking bin, but told me i could find him around tomorrowland. unfortunately, i never did. i'm guessing he works on the same principle as WALL-E. that would have been awesome if they had got him working properly.
 
Kamikaze

Kamikaze

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Jerm said:
That video is not in Disneyland, not sure where but it is either at the GCH or at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, but not inside the park.
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Its actually from DTD-Anaheim, if you really want to be specific. I figured that it would be less confusing the OP if I just kept it simple.

pumpkin7 said:
do they still have the talking bin? i looked everywhere for him during my last trip, even asked a CM about it. he said not many people know about the talking bin, but told me i could find him around tomorrowland. unfortunately, i never did. i'm guessing he works on the same principle as WALL-E. that would have been awesome if they had got him working properly.
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Push is much, much, much less advanced than the LCI characters.
 
muse1983

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I remember reading that he was pulled from the parks due to legal reasons regarding how dangerous the tracks on his feet could be if he accidentally ran over someones foot.
 
Kamikaze

Kamikaze

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muse1983 said:
I remember reading that he was pulled from the parks due to legal reasons regarding how dangerous the tracks on his feet could be if he accidentally ran over someones foot.
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No. These characters weigh hundreds of pounds. If it ran over your foot, it wouldn't be the tracks, but the crushing. Lucky weighed much, much more and had a long park run, and the MML still appears from time to time. Wall-E was the smallest and least dangerous of the set - besides Remy, of course.
 
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Diane Hughess

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We had our photo taken with a Wall-E cardboard cut out at HS. It was in the Art of Animation area. Where the Incredible Family and the characters from Up were.
 
DisneyparkFreak

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pumpkin7 said:
do they still have the talking bin? i looked everywhere for him during my last trip, even asked a CM about it. he said not many people know about the talking bin, but told me i could find him around tomorrowland. unfortunately, i never did. i'm guessing he works on the same principle as WALL-E. that would have been awesome if they had got him working properly.
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Yeah its still there as well as the talking palm tree in AK. However all they are, are just remote controlled objects where the operator is speaking into a mic. if you look around you can see them, usually wearing a baseball cap, sunglasses and a duffel bag. My 3 yr old figured it out pretty quick when she asked me why that guy always had 1 hand in his bad and looked like he was s__________g his thumb. needless to say I was a bad dad and ruined the magic for her that day. The operators dont even look like tourists. Trust me you can spot them in a second.
 
Mikester71

Mikester71

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Wall-E in ANY form seems hard to find!! My daughter is a huge Wall-E fan and was looking for some merchandise a couple of weeks ago when we were at WDW and she finally found a little Wall-E stuffed animal the day before we were leaving. Of course she had spent all of her money the day before. :brick:So when we got home last week, my wife and I were at a nearby mall with a Disney Store in it and decided we would pop in and see if they carried any Wall-E merchandise to surprise her with. We were told by the store clerk that Wall-E hadn't been in the stores for at least a couple of years and she said she figured it was due to the movie not being that popular. I haven't seen the movie myself, but people I know who have seem to think it is pretty good. :shrug:
 
Jerm

Jerm

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roadtripper

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Perhaps with the unbelievable disaster unfolding in Japan, Walle could become a symbol of recovery, since that's pretty much what he was designed to do in the movie... clean up after the mess we made. Seems like a good oppurtunity to pull him out of the closet to teach about some of the destruction we have caused the planet, since it's now shown that the nuke plant operators did not plan for the "worst case scenario" and instead opted to go with the "best worst case scenario" that saved them much money and is now costing Disney a ton of money.
 

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