As annual passholders to Disney, my family and I spend many weekends there getting more than our money’s worth of fun–as well as deep inspiration. While I lumber in the familiar heat, carrying our well-worn family backpack that weighs as much as a baby Chewbacca, I am peppered with lively, enthusiastic questions and comments from my mini-entrepreneurs and wannabe inventors as to how they do all that stuff.
My family often surmises as to what Disney would think if he could come back today and see how we’ve progressed–with the subject, not surprisingly, often turning to the amazing innovations we see now thanks to digital design and 3D printing. The general consensus is that even Disney would be incredulous.
The reality though is that while much of this may be new and exciting to us, it’s already well established on the famous Disney radar, behind the scenes in Disney Research where all sorts of secret magic happens long before we have an inkling.
Now, in a recent project at Disney Research, a small and innovative team is certainly continuing in Walt’s footsteps, but these are a little different as they will be 3D printed and robotic, with the idea of bringing some of those fun and crazy, animated characters to life.
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