Animatronic WALL•E in Philadelphia

Upcoming Pixar reader Peetah writes in today to tell us that the animatronic WALL•E we have seen on the internet lately, has stopped over at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia.

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.

Peetah also mentioned that WALL•E’s next stop is the Newseum in Washington D.C on Saturday 31st of May. Check out the attached video too.





Thanks Peetah.