food IS a theme park
It’s no secret that Disney Imagineers are pretty skilled at making some crazy bots.
Hondo Ohnaka audio-animatronic ©Disney
As the years go by, more and more animatronics are popping up in Disney parks that make us question if they just might be real people. Seriously, Hondo Ohnaka on Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run looks like a guy in some really good FX makeup! Now, Disney has come up with TWO more wild bots; take a look!
Y’all want to see something WILD?
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Sorry, sorry, maybe we should have given you a little more warning before we showed you pure nightmare fuel on a plain old Friday morning. But honestly, we gotta talk about Disney’s new robot.
Disney is pretty well known for pushing the envelope when it comes to technical advancements, and that includes when it comes to outfitting a guest’s theme park experience.
Disney Genie Concept Art
Disney has revealed some big upcoming changes to mobile technology. In addition to the upcoming release of the Disney Genie vacation planning application, Disney also plans to discontinue free MagicBands in favor of mobile expansion.
Now, we’ve spotted a few recent Disney patents that may have something to do with this innovation on the mobile front. Imagineers have been working on developing an artificially intelligent virtual agent and we’re wondering: Could this be what we can expect with Disney Genie?
Walt Disney Imagineering is often at the forefront of advancing technology. These Imagineers are the reason we have marvels like Rise of the Resistance and Flight of Passage. They’re also the reason we have moderately frightening images like this:
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We’ll explain in a little. 🙂 The point is, Imagineers spend their days figuring out how to make high-tech experiences accessible to Disney consumers worldwide. Today, five new patents have popped up that might give us an idea of the sort of tech we could see in the not-so-distant future of Disney parks and products — and they could mean immersion like never before.
Though the Disney water parks remain closed, that hasn’t stopped Disney from working behind the scenes to enhance the experience at a water park!
Typhoon Lagoon
Blizzard Beach and Typhoon Lagoon both have some awesome tube slides, and the lines can get pretty long. Well, Disney’s new water slide BRAKE technology could mean shorter lines in the long run!
The Epcot Transformation has been underway for a while now.
PLAY! Pavilion Concept Art ©Disney
Honestly, we’re not sure what to look forward to the most. Is it perhaps the upcoming nighttime spectacular, Harmonious? Or maybe it’s World Celebration and Dreamers Point? Well, we certainly can’t discount the innovative and mysterious Play Pavilion. And it IS mysterious — but we might have just figured out even MORE of what will be inside!
With the Disney parks closed, it can be weird to think about upcoming expansions and updates.
Disney World
But, as Walt Disney would say, we’ve got to “keep moving forward!” And that’s exactly what teams of innovators and Imagineers are doing behind the scenes right now.
The last couple of months have shown us a whole slew of new cutting-edge inventions that Disney has been working on. We’re taking a look at the Disney patents to see what could be coming to Disney parks in the future!
Disney technology is definitely something to marvel at; that’s one of our favorite things about going to the parks!
Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG
We’re always curious about what’s in the cards when it comes to Disney innovations. With the crazy technology we’ve spotted them working on and the intricate advancements for Rise of the Resistance in Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge, Disney’s set the bar high for future tech pretty. That’s why we keep an eye on the patents that Disney files to see if anything interesting crops up. And boy, did we spot something INTERESTING. Disney seems to be working on a new autonomous robot for the parks!
Part of the reason why Disney World is such a special experience compared to other theme parks is their attractions’ cutting edge technology. Just look at Rise of the Resistance!
Lieutenant Beck on Rise of the Resistance
Well, the past few years have brought us some pretty neat Disney technologies! We’re taking a look at some of the newer, more interesting technological advancements to give you some insight into how that awe-inspiring “Disney magic” comes to be.
We’re always curious about the future of the Disney parks, and that means looking into what kind of inventions and innovations Disney has come up with!
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The Walt Disney Company files patents ALL THE TIME. They’re constantly doing work with digital platforms, augmented reality, drones, and robots (the future is here people). Most of their inventions are for use outside of the theme parks, but we can usually dig up a few inventions that could have in-park applications.
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