Disney’s life-size fully animatronic WALL-E (which was spotted in LA last month) has now made an appearance at the Philadelphia Science Museum. /Film Reader Peetah sent over the following:
The audio-animatronic Wall-E is apparently making the rounds to science museums and he did a stopover here in Philadelphia yesterday (publicity around these events is oddly absent there’s nothing on the web to my knowledge, although I did find out the next stop was the Newseum in Washington DC). There’s about a 7-10 minute scripted “show” with a host that interacts with Wall-E, asking questions such as “what do you like to collect” and “where have you been” and “you love Eve don’t you” giving a brief overview of the plot of the film. To be honest our host was far from impressive reading from a clipboard and in general very awkward in his interactions, and Wall-E seemed slow to react as if the timing was off. But nonetheless the detail and fluidity of the Wall-E animatronic is impressive and honestly he’s just so damn cute it doesn’t matter. One side note, it does appear as though Wall-E only has a few pre-programed sounds and pre-programed positions to convey emotion so seeing him may get old after a few viewings.
May 29th, 2008 at 1:58 pm
That is damn cool! Is there a better quality of the video somewhere?
May 29th, 2008 at 1:58 pm
yeah, that presentation was a joke, but that wall-e robot is pretty cool man.
May 29th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
He sucks at his job and should be fired.
May 29th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
Ah. poor clipboard man. I bet he’s an engineer. But what’s really a testament to Pixar’s design is that everyone has embraced the character regardless of the movie.
May 30th, 2008 at 8:14 am
That presenter was PAINFUL to watch.
Seriously… who was the crackhead that allowed him to run this presentation.
Thank god Wall-E was great on his own.
May 30th, 2008 at 9:58 am
I picked up Short Circuit at Target last night for $5. I handed it to my nine-year-old and she quickly said, “That robot looks like Wall-E”.
May 30th, 2008 at 10:29 am
We are building one at The Wall-E Builder’s Group…everyone is welcome to join! http://www.Wall-EBuilders.com
May 30th, 2008 at 10:04 pm
slow to respond wallE. Terrible questions. Some detail in the animatronic was cool but thats it