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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Entertainment
Richard Luscombe

Walt Disney’s granddaughter denounces animatronic tribute as ‘robotic grampa’

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Joanna Miller in Los Angeles on 7 December 2015. Photograph: Variety/Penske Media/Getty Images

Walt Disney’s granddaughter has condemned the entertainment giant he founded for re-creating the late entrepreneur as a soulless “robotic grampa” for the 70th anniversary celebration of California’s Disneyland theme park in July.

Disney, who died in 1966, will appear as an animatronic figure in a new attraction called Walt Disney – A Magical Life in the park’s Main Street Opera House that commemorates the resort’s 17 July 1955 opening.

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