{"id":39382,"date":"2013-10-28T15:37:37","date_gmt":"2013-10-28T21:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/28\/disney-outsources-its-audio-animatronics.html"},"modified":"2014-11-07T10:16:51","modified_gmt":"2014-11-07T17:16:51","slug":"disney-outsources-its-audio-animatronics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/28\/disney-outsources-its-audio-animatronics.html","title":{"rendered":"Disney outsources its audio-animatronics"},"content":{"rendered":"
Actually, they've been doing a lot of outsourcing of it for a while, but this marks a formal close-down of their own internal AA works in favor of long-term partner Garner Holt.<\/p>\n

While there's a bit of wistfulness there, this doesn't bother me too, too much. Disney still seems to be doing audio-animatronics, and I don't see CG replacing it any time soon for most purposes in its parks. \u00a0As long as Disney maintains the iron grip on its subs that it's known for, I have no big worries here.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Disney Exits Audio Animatronics Business<\/a>
\n Sources report Disney has outsourced all animatronic work to third party Garner Holt\n <\/p>\n

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Actually, they've been doing a lot of outsourcing of it for a while, but this marks a formal close-down of their own internal AA works in favor of long-term partner Garner Holt. While there's a bit of wistfulness there, this doesn't bother me too, too much. Disney still seems to be doing audio-animatronics, and I … Continue reading “Disney outsources its audio-animatronics”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,35,263,20,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-big-business","category-disney","category-hi-tech","category-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":51669,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/04\/dont-poke-the-guy-with-the-big-gun.html","url_meta":{"origin":39382,"position":0},"title":"Don't poke the guy with the big gun","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 4-Jul-15 8:14am","format":false,"excerpt":"Really, folk. 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