How Walt Disney Imagineering (Including Retired Splash Mountain Animatronics) Inspired ‘Hoppers’

Walt Disney Imagineering shared a video about how their work with Audio-Animatronics inspired the technology Pixar’s new film Hoppers. Walt Disney Imagineering and Hoppers The video features Reona of Show Mechanical Engineering highlighting some of the technological details in the Hoppers trailer that are directly inspired by Walt Disney Imagineering. She notes that the trailer shows eyeballs and other (fake) animal parts falling out of a crate, something that’s “definitely happened here” at the Imagineering lab. The robotic beaver in Hoppers is crafted with a 3D printer and Walt Disney Imagineering has several 3D printers of their own, including the large “Itchy” and “Scratchy....