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June 20, 2008

Disney Plans to Outsource Robotic Figures

SANTA ANA, Calif. _ The Walt Disney Co. will begin outsourcing the manufacturing of Audio-Animatronics because of too much demand on staff time, according to an Imagineering memo sent to The Orange County Register.

Audio-Animatronics figures are basically moving and talking (or singing) robotic figures that were started by Walt Disney's company. Today, Audio-Animatronics can be seen in several Disneyland attractions, including It's a Small World, Pirates of the Caribbean, Indiana Jones Adventure, Monsters, Inc. Mike & Sulley to the Rescue! and the upcoming Toy Story Mania!

The memo is dated June 12 and was sent to all Walt Disney Imagineering employees from Bruce Vaughn, chief creative executive; Craig Russell, chief development and delivery executive; and Kevin Eld, vice president of Disney Creative Production. Imagineers is Disney's word for designers and engineers.

The memo states that after review, manufacturing all Audio-Animatronics figures in-house is not feasible in terms of cost and staffing. Instead, Imagineering's Manufacturing and Prototype Operations group, based in North Hollywood, Calif., will "build some select, highly complex" figures in-house.

Imagineering spokeswoman Marilyn Waters confirmed that the manufacturing of some Audio-Animatronics will be given to outside vendors. She said that over the past years, Walt Disney Imagineering has begun to work with outside vendors on the figures.

In one example, Waters said Disney employees worked with Chinese vendors to make some of the figures for the Small World attraction at the Hong Kong Disneyland.

"Our industry has generated quite a few heavily skilled and proficient vendors who can supplement our teams with simple figures with significant oversight by our production team," Waters said. "This will allow us to focus on creating more sophisticated and advanced figures."

By Sonya Smith, The Orange County Register -- The Orange County Register (California), June 18, 2008 Wednesday

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