Self-Walking Olaf Animatronic Replaced with Puppet During Disney Adventure World Previews

Even though it’s still only in passholder previews, the highly publicized self-walking Olaf animatronic in the new World of Frozen at Disneyland Paris has already been replaced with a puppet. Olaf Animatronic Replaced with Puppet The Olaf animatronic is supposed to appear during the Celebration in Arendelle show, a boat show which takes place in Adventure Bay. Much has been made recently of Imagineering’s use of deep reinforcement learning simulations that helped the Frozen snowman “earn his sea legs” in a matter of hours. However, it looks like Olaf may have yet to conquer seasickness, as two different Instagram accounts captured footage of Olaf’s understudy, a puppet, performing in the show on March 20....