Disneyland attempts to replicate founder Walt in animatronic form that one family member calls ‘dehumanizing’

Walt Disney (Credit: Raymond Kleboe—Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

• Starting this July, Disneyland’s famed array of animatronics characters will include a robot of founder Walt Disney himself, the Los Angeles Times reports. The plans have split Disney’s family, with one granddaughter calling the move “dehumanizing” and charging, “He did not want this.”

Entertainment juggernaut Disney is on the verge of opening a new attraction at Disneyland, the California theme park where founder Walt Disney once kept an apartment.