Here’s Our First Look on the Biden Bot in Disney’s Hall of Presidents

Florida is perhaps at the epicenter of a stunning spike in COVID-19 hospitalizations, however that isn’t stopping the state’s iconic Walt Disney World theme park from chugging together with business as usual. That additionally implies that the corporate’s been gearing as much as debut the newest addition to its Hall of Presidents: an animatronic Joe Biden.

The BidenBot is about to hitch its fellow robotic presidential figures—like LincolnBot, WashingtonBot, and KennedyBot—onstage subsequent month, the corporate mentioned. While it didn’t provide too many particulars concerning the eerily lifelike animatronic, Disney did provide some behind-the-scenes details in a weblog on Monday. We know that the desk subsequent to BidenBot’s fleshy outstretched hand, for instance, encompasses a reproduction pair of the president’s ubiquitous Ray-Bans. We additionally know the speech he’s going to present parkgoers after they stroll into the Hall: a “delivery of the presidential oath of office” that Disney says was recorded particularly for the attraction.

In different phrases, it’s all fairly by-the-book. That can’t actually be mentioned concerning the final denizen Disney launched—a RoboTrump that had a face like a geriatric Chucky doll. While Biden has a slightly quick roster of catchphrases to pick from, Trump’s debut into the Hall of Presidents had followers speculating what sort of family-friendly speech Disney might squeeze from the now ex-president. Four years later, there’s a very good likelihood that staffers, identical to the remainder of us, are respiratory a deep sigh of relief because the forty fifth PresiBot obtained carted off heart stage.

It’s price noting right here that identical to his real-world counterpart, Trump’s animitronic isn’t gone gone—it’s simply being positioned on stage “among those who have previously served,” Disney mentioned.

From what we will inform, that is the primary time Disney needed to make clear that one in every of these animatronics would truly stay on stage, slightly than being burned at some type of robotic stake. This might be because of the hundreds of Disneygoers which have repeatedly voiced considerations to the park about introducing a Trump-bot within the first place. The park didn’t find yourself pulling the Trump animatronic, but it surely did add some extremely pointy spikes to the stage’s edge to maintain folks from climbing into the attraction and taking a swing at Trump themselves. Considering how some sides of the Right reacted to Biden’s inauguration, it’s price assuming Disney received’t be taking down these spikes anytime quickly.

Disney didn’t provide an actual date for the Hall’s reopening, however mentioned on the weblog that the present “will debut to guests in August.”