The source noted that DeSantis’ recent trip to Europe presented “a nightmare” for the contestant’s servicing engineers. “Animatronics are usually designed to be bolted to the ground, using high boots or other false directions to hide any connecting pipes or electrical connections. Shipping one halfway around the world is a pretty sure way to break something.”
“Major repairs had to be made after DeSantis returned to Florida,” the source said, “but there’s not much chance those repairs will hold up despite the rigors of the campaign trail.”
A source within Disney’s Imagineering department confirmed the company’s concerns, but said a new “major mechanical failure” of DeSantis’ systems earlier this week was “the tipping point” as the company decided it could no longer maintain the featured animatronic device from the DeSantis campaign.
“You can see the exact moment the outage happened,” said the source to Imagineering, who requested anonymity due to the sensitive nature of the company’s technical designs. “One minute he’s talking, the next he’s backing away, with jaw subsystems and a failing hand at the same time.”
“It wasn’t just a broken hose, otherwise the two people next to him would have been sprayed with liquid. It was a complete failure of one of the main hydraulic units.”
Disney engineers were particularly concerned about the “disastrous” failure of the character’s right hand and arm. “These are very powerful mechanical systems. If someone had interfered with this, it could have resulted in very serious injuries.” The DeSantis campaign declined to comment, and Disney company sources said the campaign had yet to bring in their candidate for repairs before Disney executives made the decision to cancel the company’s maintenance contracts. DeSantis campaign.
While most of the company’s audio-animatronic figures use pneumatic systems for movement, the source said, a mix of pneumatic and hydraulic elements are used in other figures depending on the figure’s size and build. range and speed of movement required.
“The DeSantis project, it’s all hydraulic,” the Disney source said. “The campaign wanted it to be pneumatic, but we just couldn’t put as much hot air into this system as the DeSantis campaign insisted.”
Sources within DeSantis’ fledgling presidential campaign have described top campaign leaders as “freaked out” by Disney’s termination of maintenance contracts, and that the move will likely necessitate the cancellation of most of DeSantis’ upcoming scheduled appearances. . Campaign sources scoffed at Disney’s suggestion that the nominee was unsure of functioning in his current state, instead calling Disney’s decision “another attack on conservative free speech.”
Another source within Disney Imagineering called the claims “ridiculous” and warned that the DeSantis systems would only go “from bad to worse” if the contestant was not arrested for review.
“From the looks of the video, it looks like the hydraulic failure resulted in a cracked cylinder in his hips. DeSantis won’t be able to bend from the waist down until that’s fixed, and that’s not going to happen. is not a device that had a lot of leg or torso movement to begin with.”
As to whether the DeSantis campaign would be able to find another company to fix DeSantis’ damaged system, the source only shrugged. “Disney produces all of the most advanced animatronics in the world, and other companies don’t even come close. They are welcome to try Six Flags if they want to.”
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