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The new Hall of Presidents, featuring a Trump vs. Biden Animatronic Cage Fight. Photo by elisfkc [CC BY-SA 2.0] via Wikimedia.

Hall of Presidents will now feature Trump and Biden animatronics in a cage fight

Perhaps this is how it should have been settled all along. WALT DISNEY WORLD, FL -- The Magic Kingdom's Hall of Presidents is in limbo. With the Hamilton Live: Featuring the Muppets! makeover on hold due to budgetary issues, and America's future on hold due to political wrangling, Disney Imagineers have been debating what to do with the presidential attraction. "At this point we're usually are preparing a new presidential animatronic," said Disney (the company) spokesperson Jun Disney (no relation). "In fact, we ...
November 11, 2020 by Marty in Florida
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The Trump animatronic; Inset photo: Boris Johnson. Photo by Foreign and Commonwealth Office [CC BY 2.0] via Flickr.

Epcot scraps Mary Poppins ride; adds “Prime Minister’s Questions Experience”

"How can we pass up the opportunity to create a Boris Johnson audio-animatronic?" WALT DISNEY WORLD, FL -- Disney fans have been excited about the coming Mary Poppins ride at Epcot's United Kingdom Pavilion. (It's apparently still there, even after Brexit!) Well, apparently the plans for that ride have been scrapped. Instead, the Pavilion will get a "Prime Minister's Questions Experience" animatronic show. "It's not that we don't like Mary Poppins," says Disney (the company) spokesperson Jun Disney (no relation). "It's just that, ...
August 8, 2020 by Marty in Florida
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Poster for "Hamilton Live! Featuring the Muppets." Image © 2020 Disney (perhaps modified. A bit).

Hall of Presidents to be replaced with “Hamilton Live! Featuring the Muppets”!

It combines two things everyone loves: Lin-Manuel Miranda, and Miss Piggy as Angelica (and maybe Eliza, too). BAY LAKE, FL -- The Walt Disney Company has announced yet another major change coming to the Magic Kingdom, this time in Liberty Square. The venerable Hall of Presidents is scheduled to be replaced with a puppet show about a Secretary of the Treasury. That's right. The Hall of Presidents is being replaced by Hamilton, as portrayed by the Muppets. Something about Corporate Synergy Josh D'Amaro, Chairman ...
July 8, 2020 by X in Florida
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Pictured (front, L-R) Mr. Mistoffelees, Munkustrap, Macavity, Skimbleshanks (back, L-R) Jennyanydots, Grizabella, Rum Tum Tugger. Photo [CC0] via Pxhere.

DisneyNature will make a live-action version of the Cats musical

No, not CGI, or humans in costumes. Actual cats. BR'ER BANK, CA -- DisneyNature, the division of Walt Disney Studios that makes those animal movies, has announced its next project: a live action remake of the Broadway musical Cats! Paul Baribault, president of DisneyNature, is excited about the project. He spoke to Uncle Walt's Insider by phone. Straight from the (lion?) king "This will be something we've never done before," Baribault says. What, make a movie someone will actually go see, we ask? "Well, that, yes," ...
May 1, 2020 by Marty in Other
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He has to holler just to be heard, but with every word he drops knowledge. Photos by Steve Wise & Ken Lund [CC BY-SA 2.0] & Steve Jurvetson [CC BY 2.0] via Flickr, all jumbled up and remixed by Marty.

Lin-Manuel Miranda dedicates Disney’s Hall of Treasury Secretaries

The "Hamilton" star took a break from shooting "Mary Poppins Returns Again: the Cash-in." WALT DISNEY WORLD, FL -- Tucked into a corner of Disney's Animal Kingdom Theme Park and Spa, between Africa and Pandora, is a new attraction: Disney's Hall of Treasury Secretaries. The new show features animatronics of every U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, from Alexander Hamilton all the way up to whoever holds that job today. Hamilton writer/composer/star/prop guy Lin-Manuel Miranda was on hand to dedicate the attraction. Manuel dazzled the ...
February 7, 2020 by Marty in Florida
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