Disney is working on bringing its animated characters to life – as robots

In 2008, Disney unleashed an animatronic Dinosaur – named Lucky – on to the streets of Disney California Adventure Park at Disneyland. Lucky was such a huge success with park goers that he started to tour other parks, such as Disney’s Animal Kingdom, Walt Disney World Resort, Hong Kong Disneyland Resort, and even The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles in an effort to test both the feasibility and the feedback of such a character. The success of Lucky – as well as the animatronic singing and dancing characters in the Pirates of the Caribbean attraction – has captured the attention of the…

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