An animatronic version of Walt Disney will be incorporated into the Carousel of Progress attraction at Magic Kingdom theme park, Imagineer Chris Beatty announced Saturday at the Destination D23 event at the Coronado Springs Resort.

An overlay for the Tron Lightcycle / Run ride also was revealed at the event.

The figure will be placed in a new scene that precedes the traditional through-the-decades rotating story of an American family.

Carousel of Progress was one of Disney’s ideas included in the New York World’s Fair of 1964. That event also was in the development of animatronics with Disney’s “Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln” show.

The Magic Kingdom addition comes on the heels of the introduction of a Walt Disney animatronic at Disneyland . The figure is now seen in “Walt Di

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