MissM
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Pal Mickey is not activated by other Pal Mickeys.
Pal Mickey has all of his information pre-programmed.
Pal Mickey is triggered into saying things by sensors - upwards of 400 locations in the park - that give an identification of where he it triggers the correct pre-recorded saying.
The infrared is simply a trigger. Not a delivery system. It quite simply does not work that way. It's just a sensor that Pal Mickey passes by and triggers an activation. You know how if you walk in the beam on your garage door, it triggers not to close? Same thing.
-m
Pal Mickey has all of his information pre-programmed.
Pal Mickey is triggered into saying things by sensors - upwards of 400 locations in the park - that give an identification of where he it triggers the correct pre-recorded saying.
Tell me a little bit about the technology. It's infrared, right?
Poor: Yes, it is. It's our own kind of proprietary version of it. The underlying transmission is infrared light, but our engineering team have worked on a system that allows us to transmit the information to the toy. There are more than 400 locations in our parks where he'll respond, though most of them you can't see. Again, to keep the whole theme and look of our parks, they were very careful in how they painted the emitters and where they placed them. Kind of "keep the man behind the curtain." The script content was developed in-house and our character voice organization recorded the talent and edited the audio.
Vaughn: Also, you know, that's all pre-programmed stuff in there, and what it's waiting for is a signal from these emitters that says, "Play this joke. Play this sequence." We didn't want to have it say the same thing over and over again, so there's a small computer in there that's making decisions
HERE is the article location and it talks with Bruce Vaughn, vice president of research and development for Disney Imagineering, and Kyle Poor, product developer and a member of Pal Mickey's development team. He even mentions that in the future, they're working on ideas which would allow re-programability, but that it doesn't exist right now.Poor: Yes, it is. It's our own kind of proprietary version of it. The underlying transmission is infrared light, but our engineering team have worked on a system that allows us to transmit the information to the toy. There are more than 400 locations in our parks where he'll respond, though most of them you can't see. Again, to keep the whole theme and look of our parks, they were very careful in how they painted the emitters and where they placed them. Kind of "keep the man behind the curtain." The script content was developed in-house and our character voice organization recorded the talent and edited the audio.
Vaughn: Also, you know, that's all pre-programmed stuff in there, and what it's waiting for is a signal from these emitters that says, "Play this joke. Play this sequence." We didn't want to have it say the same thing over and over again, so there's a small computer in there that's making decisions
The infrared is simply a trigger. Not a delivery system. It quite simply does not work that way. It's just a sensor that Pal Mickey passes by and triggers an activation. You know how if you walk in the beam on your garage door, it triggers not to close? Same thing.
-m
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