{"id":272962,"date":"2025-06-04T15:19:39","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T15:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/uncategorized\/walt-disneys-granddaughter-slams-disneylands-dehumanising-way-of-honouring-her-grandpa\/"},"modified":"2025-06-04T15:19:39","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T15:19:39","slug":"walt-disneys-granddaughter-slams-disneylands-dehumanising-way-of-honouring-her-grandpa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=272962","title":{"rendered":"Walt Disney’s Granddaughter Slams Disneyland’s ‘Dehumanising’ Way Of Honouring Her Grandpa"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Joanna Miller, Walt Disney<\/a>\u2019s granddaughter, has doubled down on her criticism of Disneyland<\/a> as it plans to debut an audio-animatronic version of her grandfather at a new exhibit next month. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Miller has previously posted on Facebook<\/a>, accusing the California theme park of \u201cdehumanising\u201d the iconic filmmaker by using his likeness for what she described as its \u201crobotic grampa\u201d, a move she said made \u201cno sense\u201d and would come off as \u201cempty of a soul or essence of the man\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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She told the Los Angeles Times<\/a> that while its tough for her to knock the company so dear to her family, it\u2019s important that she speak out.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cHe\u2019s ours,\u201d Miller said. \u201cWe\u2019re his family.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Miller revealed that she met with Walt Disney Company CEO Bob Iger<\/a> and the Imagineering team behind its theme parks after her Facebook criticism last year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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While Iger was \u201ckind\u201d and let her do her \u201cspiel\u201d, she said she wasn\u2019t convinced by his vow to protect her grandfather\u2019s legacy through the robotic portrayal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThey\u2019re different people. He\u2019s a businessman, grampa was an artist,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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She revealed that she started \u201ccrying\u201d at the sight of the animatronic when she first saw it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cIt didn\u2019t look like him, to me,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Her comments on the exhibit notably conflict with those from other grandchildren and descendants<\/a> of Disney, including Chris Miller, Disney\u2019s grandson and director of the Walt Disney Family Museum, and Tamara Miller, Disney\u2019s great-granddaughter and vice president of the museum board, who said they were consulted and expressed confidence in the project.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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First announced last year, the Walt Disney \u2013 A Magical Life<\/a> attraction looks to pay tribute to the iconic animator and entrepreneur via a 17-minute presentation featuring a robot in his likeness to celebrate the 70th anniversary of Disneyland\u2019s opening in 1955.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The attraction is set to replace Great Moments With Mr. Lincoln \u2014 an endeavour that Disney championed in his lifetime and features an animatronic version of President Abraham Lincoln.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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After the first year of the new robot\u2019s operation, the company said, the Lincoln exhibit will return and share the theatre with the Walt Disney attraction on a rotating basis.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Lincoln robot, which was rolled out at the 1964 New York World\u2019s Fair, grew in popularity and found a home at Disneyland the next year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Disney, in a throwback clip<\/a> on the Lincoln attraction, stressed that his company exhaustively researched Lincoln to make a \u201cfaithful likeness of this honoured man\u201d that\u2019s \u201cso lifelike, you might find it hard to believe\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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About a year after Disneyland’s Walt Disney exhibit debuts, the park plans to rotate it with its Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln attraction (above).<\/figcaption>
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Joanna Miller has argued her grandfather did not want to be immortalised as a robot, telling the Times that her late mother, Diane Disney Miller, once dismissed featuring such an animatronic at San Francisco\u2019s Walt Disney Family Museum.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201c[She] wanted to show him as a real human,\u201d Miller said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Disneyland did not immediately respond to a HuffPost request for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n