 By: Gavin Haubelt Web Site: www.MickeyNews.com |
| In 1949, a mechanical bird in a New Orleans antiques shop sparked Walt Disney’s imagination to create 3-D animated figures. More than a dozen years later, Disney artists and engineers perfected Audio-Animatronics technology. In 1963, the public saw this new art form for the first time in Disneyland’s Enchanted Tiki Room, featuring 225 singing and joke-telling birds, flowers, and tiki gods.
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