The Head of Mr. Johnson / Morrow

[Castle Cake Apologist]

Haha, this is actually kinda creepy, but I wandered into our maintenance office at Stitch's Great Escape! today to report a cannon down in Chamber B and noticed (as I had before) the human head mounted on their wall.

Finally, curiosity got the better of me and I asked the engineers what it was all about.

Turns out it's the head of the Mr. Johnson / Tom Morrow animatronic from the original Flight To the Moon and Mission To Mars shows.

They also told me that the basic structure of Sarge is the same animatronic body.

Disney seriously cannot throw ANYTHING away!

I wish I could take pictures of the head, but I'd probably get fired...

Just thought it was interesting, lol.

 

[echoscot]

Haha, this is actually kinda creepy, but I wandered into our maintenance office at Stitch's Great Escape! today to report a cannon down in Chamber B and noticed (as I had before) the human head mounted on their wall.

Finally, curiosity got the better of me and I asked the engineers what it was all about.

Turns out it's the head of the Mr. Johnson / Tom Morrow animatronic from the original Flight To the Moon and Mission To Mars shows.

They also told me that the basic structure of Sarge is the same animatronic body.

Disney seriously cannot throw ANYTHING away!

I wish I could take pictures of the head, but I'd probably get fired...

Just thought it was interesting, lol.

That is very cool! Thanks for sharing

 

[TheDisneyMagic]

Thats right, Sarge has gone through a good few costume changes over the year hasn't he

 

[WDITrent]

Thats right, Sarge has gone through a good few costume changes over the year hasn't he

I don't think he really knows who he is- here's who he's been over the years:
-Mr. Morrow
-Mr. Johnson
-TOM
-SIR
-Sarge
Poor Mr. Morrow/Johnson/TOM/SIR/Sarge.

 

[coolz]

I want pictures! hehe but the idea is very cool!

 

[TheDisneyMagic]

SIR is definately my favourite incarnation of that animatronic, the personality was great, infact that section of preshow was my favourite part of Alien Encounter.

 

[Disney-Nautifan]

Disney-Nautifan

Very interesting! I always wondered what happened to Mr Tom Morrow / Johnson after the attraction closed in October 1993. I have actually been on Alien Encounter (Really scary!!!) , when I went to WDW for the second time in 2002. SIR I remember was a evil orange-coloured robot wearing what was a bicycle helmet! :ROFLOL:

However, I am curious as to why the preshow for Alien Encounter was really small in size, while Mission Control from the former attraction was very large! Is the preshow for Stitch's Great Escape (Alien Encounter's replacement) where Mission Control for Mission to Mars was, or was it in a different part of the bulding? Any information will be great!

I have heard rumours that the animatronic Timekeeper from the show of the same name is currently stored in the former skyway station! But I may be wrong...

 

[X-Ser]

Is the preshow for Stitch's Great Escape (Alien Encounter's replacement) where Mission Control for Mission to Mars was, or was it in a different part of the bulding? Any information will be great!

SGE is essentially a re-dress of Alien Encounter. All the show rooms are the same and, other than the animatronics and signage, are largely still the same.

Sadly, I don't remember Tom much. Anyone have a good pic of him?

 

[Rob562]

They may have decided that a more "intimate" pre-show was better for the overall AE show, to go along with the "personally intimate" nature of the AE main show, so they only used the space they needed to for the AE pre-show. A more spacious pre-show room may have felt too "airy".

-Rob

 

[EPCOTPluto]

SGE is essentially a re-dress of Alien Encounter. All the show rooms are the same and, other than the animatronics and signage, are largely still the same.

Sadly, I don't remember Tom much. Anyone have a good pic of him?

Kind of hard to find it, but a CM blog has a somewhat good quality pic

And just for the heck...