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Disneyland’s ‘larger than life’ Walt Disney animatronic weighs 2,000 pounds

The 2,000-pound animatronic weighs 10 times the average American man and marks Disneyland’s 70th anniversary with the most life-like Walt Disney figure ever created.

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The 2,000-pound Walt Disney animatronic at Disneyland weighs 10 times as much as the average American man and a thousand pounds more than the 9-foot-tall Frankenstein’s monster animatronic that just debuted at Florida’s Epic Universe theme park. “It’s a lot of machinery,” according to Walt Disney Imagineering’s Jeff Shaver-Moskowitz. “It’s 2,000 pounds of an Audio-Animatronic figure that steps and rises during its performance.” Shaver-Moskowitz …

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Disneyland’s ‘larger than life’ Walt Disney animatronic weighs 2,000 pounds

'It’s a lot of machinery,' Walt Disney Imagineering’s Jeff Shaver-Moskowitz says.

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OC Register broke the news in Orange County, United States on Wednesday, October 1, 2025.
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