The Gran Fiesta Tour Starring The Three Caballeros in the Mexico pavilion is one of our favorite attractions, and today we were so glad to see the @waltdisneyimagineering team restored these Audio-Animatronic figures. Rebuilding them from the ground up according to the post, the figures should be working better than ever now!
These figures have a special place in @WaltDisneyWorld history – having been part of the original opening day attraction “Mickey Mouse Revue” at Magic Kingdom. This show – filled with nearly 100 Disney characters singing iconic songs – closed in 1980 and the crew went on tour to Tokyo Disneyland as part of that park’s opening day attractions in 1983. Donald, Panchito, and Jose performed abroad for 26 years until the Mickey Mouse Revue played its last show to make way for Mickey’s PhilharMagic. It was then that our design teams hatched the plan to bring these figures back home to Florida where their tour started, joining the Gran Fiesta Tour in 2015.
It looks like they are currently back now, so head on over to Epcot to visit Donald, Panchito and Jose!
Emily Ann has always loved the theme parks, and is now so happy she gets to create content around them for ThrillGeek! She considers herself a huge theme park foodie, as well as finding unique items across the parks. Would die for HHN.