![The new Hall of Presidents, featuring a Trump vs. Biden Animatronic Cage Fight. Photo by elisfkc [CC BY-SA 2.0] via Wikimedia.](https://unclewalts.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/hall-of-presidents-cage-match-768x403.jpg)
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…
![The Trump animatronic; Inset photo: Boris Johnson. Photo by Foreign and Commonwealth Office [CC BY 2.0] via Flickr.](https://unclewalts.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/boris-johnson-with-trump-animatronic-768x403.jpg)
“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…
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…
![Pictured (front, L-R) Mr. Mistoffelees, Munkustrap, Macavity, Skimbleshanks (back, L-R) Jennyanydots, Grizabella, Rum Tum Tugger. Photo [CC0] via Pxhere.](https://unclewalts.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/disneynature-live-action-cats-768x432.jpg)
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…
![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.](https://unclewalts.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/lin-manuel-miranda-dedicates-hall-of-treasury-secretaries-768x432.jpg)
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…