Walt Disney World Reveals Major Audio-Animatronics Updates and Opening Window for Rock 'n' Roller Coaster Starring The Muppets

Walt Disney World has revealed immoderate large Audio-Animatronics updates, including unveiling Zootopia: Better Zoogether!'s Clawhauser fig and announcing that Frozen Ever After's Elsa, Anna, and Kristoff volition beryllium updated to diagnostic much realistic faces and nary longer usage the projection mapping they presently do. Oh, and Disney besides shared a Summer 2026 opening model for Rock 'n' Roller Coaster Starring The Muppets!

All the details were revealed connected Disney Parks Blog, and we'll footwear things disconnected with Benjamin Clawhauser himself. He volition beryllium successful the theatre with america erstwhile Zootopia: Better Zoogether! opens connected November 7 successful Animal Kingdom, but this clip helium volition ditch his ZPD azygous and alternatively beryllium "decked retired from caput to process with a brand-new look: glow necklaces and his favorite, gliterry Gazelle tee shirt."

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He volition person precocious hopes successful being picked arsenic the V.I.Z., oregon the Very Important Zootopian, arsenic the fortunate victor gets "special entree to the Zoogether Day performers." Sadly, erstwhile helium doesn't win, helium decides to "take matters into his ain paws."

Over astatine EPCOT, immoderate of the biggest characters successful Frozen Ever After volition person a large update successful aboriginal 2026, and these upgrades are each taking inspiration from World of Frozen successful Hong Kong Disneyland.

Frozen Ever After debuted successful 2016 and featured the archetypal attraction to person each electrical Audio-Animatronics figures and to harvester electrical motors and 3D printing. However, the faces of immoderate characters person been a constituent of contention arsenic they utilize projection mapping to bring them to life.

Soon, Elsa, Anna, and Kristoff volition person a "more true-to-film look," and you tin get an thought of what they mightiness look similar from the representation beneath from Hong Kong Disneyland.

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Here is what they presently look similar astatine EPCOT.

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As for Rock 'n' Roller Coaster Starring The Muppets, which volition regenerate the existent attraction starring Aerosmith successful Summer 2026 astatine Hollywood Studios, it volition diagnostic the first-ever Scooter Audio-Animatronics figure. While Disney isn't acceptable to uncover more, they did notation helium "might not beryllium the lone Muppet Audio-Animatronics fig joining the attraction."

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These are lone a fewer of the ways Disney World and Walt Disney Imagineering are readying to proceed to germinate and delight guests with Audio Animatronics figures, arsenic they are besides hard astatine enactment bringing Walt Disney to Carousel of Progress pursuing his summation to Disneyland successful Walt Disney - A Magical Life.

For more, cheque retired each the details connected the terms increases that precocious deed some Walt Disney World and Disneyland and however determination are inactive ways to prevention wealth oregon not walk much than before.

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