Disney s The Three Caballeros Return to Epcot
May 19, 2021, 12:38 PM ·
The Three Caballeros have returned to the Gran Fiesta Tour ride in Epcot s Mexico pavilion at the Walt Disney World Resort.
The animatronic figures for Donald Duck, Panchito Pistoles, and José Carioca gave up their ghosts earlier this year, ultimately being replaced on the ride by flats (a.k.a. The Three Cardboard-eros) while Imagineers rebuilt the figures. Today, Walt Disney Imagineering s Zach Riddley shared the results of that work on his Instagram feed.
Photo courtesy Disney A shout-out to our [Walt Disney Imagineering] team who lovingly restored these historic Audio-Animatronic figures from the ground up using the latest technology, he wrote.
I went to Disney World in July of 2020, on the day the parks officially reopened after months of closure. As my first big pandemic-era trip back in the summer of 2020, I was a bit scared and nervous as I walked through the gates of the Magic Kingdom even though it’s a place …
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When you have a place like Walt Disney World, each with dozens of attractions, most of them incredibly complex, stuff is going to break. It simply can t be helped. Attractions frequently go down for scheduled maintenance, which can often prevent unscheduled breakdowns. But either way you end up with an attraction that s either not fully operational or entirely shutdown. Such was the case with Gran Fiesta Tour Starring the Three Caballeros. The boat ride attraction, fount in Epcot s Mexico Pavilion, has been down one caballero, as the Donald Duck animatronic broke down three weeks ago and had been MIA ever since. Well, Donald s back now, sort of. And it s a little hilarious.
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