Meet the Imagineers Who Made the Frozen Ever After Refurbishment a Reality
EPCOT got an infusion of new magic this week as Frozen Ever After has reopened with its upgraded Audio-Animatronics.
As a quick recap, when Frozen Ever After first opened in 2016, the attraction featured projected faces on the animatronics.
Frozen Ever After
While this method enabled Imagineers to animate characters’ faces, it also produced figures that looked unnatural and uncanny.
When Imagineers set out to recreate Frozen Ever After for Hong Kong Disneyland’s Fantasy Springs, they decided to use more traditional heads for the Audio-Animatronics.
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These figures looked infinitely better.
The Frozen Ever After Upgrades
Last month, EPCOT’s Frozen Ever After finally closed to undergo upgrades to its Audio-Animatronics.
When the attraction reopened early yesterday, we were able to see the new sculpted heads.
They look amazing!
Walt Disney Imagineering Celebrates
To celebrate the reopening of Frozen Ever After, Walt Disney Imagineering took to Instagram today to highlight the men and women who made the refurbishment a reality.
“For the first time in forever ❄️ experience Frozen Ever After at EPCOT with newly enhanced Audio-Animatronics figures! Huge congrats to the project team and our incredible partners who brought the magic together,” they captioned the post
Photo: Walt Disney Imagineering
Among those in the photo is Wyatt, who was the producer on the original version of the attraction.
Whitney, on the other hand, helped engineer the Fantasy Springs articulated heads.
Photo: Walt Disney Imagineering
It is great to see these Imagineers get a moment in the spotlight!
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