As a result, when the audio-animatronic Disney surveys the crowd, it feels like he's really looking at you. When Kirsten Komoroske, executive director of The Walt Disney Family Museum, saw it for the first time, she said she "felt the impulse to smile back at him."

Calif. Gov. Gavin Newsom criticized Vice President JD Vance for vacationing at Disneyland after the Trump administration targeted his state in ongoing immigration raids.