Post #736419 by Joshua Bell on Sun, Feb 1, 2015 10:00 AM

We walked over to the Walt Disney Family Museum in San Francisco's Presidio yesterday to check out the "Walt's Trains" exhibit. Following that we did a quick walk through the main museum to ogle the scale model of (as my wife puts it) Platonic Ideal Disneyland, and discovered a new addition. Next to the skeleton of Terminator Lincoln, they've added an animatronic, interactive Tiki Room Barker Bird!

He sits on a pole in front of a monitor. When you press a button he comes to life and introduces you to audio animatronics, and the monitor shows a 2 minute loop including footage of Walt with an animatronic toucan. Eventually you get to take control of the bird with an attached joystick to record some movements - turn, lean, speak, puff chest, etc - which are then played back while the display shows the Enchanted Tiki Room and the bird sings along.

It's not one of the original Barker Birds (such as the one currently on display at the Disney Gallery at DLR), but newly built to the same specs.