Animatronic Obama Is Coming

9:28 pm EST May 21st, 2009 | News | 5 Comments

Fourth of July weekend…

In that Hollywood building here, the life-size, three-dimensional figure was being put through its final tune-up, its chin rising and hands gesturing in response to technicians, in preparation for shipment to the Hall of Presidents exhibit at Disney World in Orlando, Fla.

Disney officials declined to say how much it cost to build an Obama. They have cloaked the project with a blanket of secrecy befitting the Secret Service, permitting this reporter to be the only journalist thus far to view the figure up close but allowing only a Disney photographer to take its picture.

Mr. Obama has seen renderings of the figure, telling a Disney employee, Pamela Fisher, “that we had made him better-looking than he was.”

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5 Responses to “Animatronic Obama Is Coming”

  1. bryan says:
    May 22, 2009 at 3:55 am

    I bet Walt wouldn’t have had him built!

  2. william says:
    May 22, 2009 at 7:54 am

    I wonder if the Obamatronic will wave and hand out billion dollar bills…it would be fitting and friggin’ funny too.

  3. Viceroy Matt says:
    May 22, 2009 at 11:12 am

    Hopefully it won’t short-circuit and run amok like the other POTUSes in that Simpsons episode.

  4. Sean D. Martin says:
    May 22, 2009 at 1:14 pm

    Disney officials declined to say how much it cost to build an Obama.

    OK, I light of right-wing claims that he’s a phony and how much he raised during the election, I had to smile at this sentence.

  5. Duros62 says:
    May 22, 2009 at 1:27 pm

    I bet Walt wouldn’t have had him built!

    I bet Walt wouldn’t have let him in the park.