Frozen Ever After

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Frozen Ever After Audio-Animatronics to Ditch Rear Projected Faces at EPCOT, Update Coming Soon

Walt Disney World has announced that it will be updating the Frozen Ever After Audio-Animatronics to remove the rear projected faces at EPCOT

blogmickey.com

I'm shocked.

I wonder if Tokyo funding the R&D for the sculpted heads might have aided in them doing this, either way the fact they're replacing the rear projected heads is a pretty good sign they're moving on from that. (Especially with the Clawhauser AA in the upcoming Zootopia show being a fully sculpted figure and not having the projected eyes that the AA's in the Shanghai ride have.)

And honestly? Good. The rear projected faces never really worked for me for both 7DMT and FEA*, they don't look good in photos or videos, and in person they weren't that impressive to me either. Nothing that would justify having over a regular fully sculpted face. The only time they're noteworthy is when they glitch, and that's not the best sign if something has to be busted in order to look neat.

* = There are some applications where I'm fine with them, notably MMRR.