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May 23, 2009

Audio-Animatronic Obama To Debut At Disney World July 4

We have a new President, so the the Magic Kingdom's Hall of Presidents is is getting an update:

The Obama figure is the result of attention to minute details by Disney sculptors, animators, engineers and even anatomists who pored over presidential photographs and video of him and then drew on the latest advances in robotic technology.

Thus the audio-animatronic Obama purses its lips to pronounce its b's and p's in a way frighteningly evocative of the real one, and raises its hands, open-palmed, while shrugging its shoulders, in a way that can only be described as Obamaesque. Even the president's wedding ring, with its braided design, has been recreated.

I have to say, this sounds pretty cool. The Johnny Depp-inspired Jack Sparrow inside Pirates of the Caribbean is shockingly lifelike; "Robobama" is supposedly the same generation. I don't have any plans to attend WDW any time soon, but this would likely be worth seeing.

Posted by Gavin Shearer at May 23, 2009 10:32 PM. Posted to Disney.

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