As a result, when the audio-animatronic Disney surveys the crowd, it feels like he's really looking at you. When Kirsten Komoroske, executive director of The Walt Disney Family Museum, saw it for the first time, she said she "felt the impulse to smile back at him."

Review: Walt Disney Imagineering vowed to create the ‘most life-like animatronic ever’ and succeeds with the world’s first robotic figure of Walt Disney.