Muppet Mobile Lab

The Muppet Mobile Laboratory is in in-development theme park exhibit for Disney's Califonia Adventure. Part of Disney's "Living Characters Initiative" project, Dr. Bunsen Honeydew and Beaker will be "brought to life" through the use of advance animantronic remote-control-puppeteering techology.

Planned to start in January 2007, Bunsen and Beaker will be rolling through Disney's Califonia Adventure's Hollywood Pictures Backlot section aboard the Muppet Mobile Laboratory. Where two automatonic puppets will attempt to recruit guests to come take part in their experiments and antics.

Imagineers have already written the possible script options for the show. A show controller would secretly run the show by select from many pre-planned responces and actions for the characters from the pre-programed and recorded show that would make it seem spontanious, audience involving and semi-improvised.

The illusion is to make it appear that there are really Muppets interacting right in front of the guests asking questions and directly responding to them (rather than a one-sided animantronic show). Another feature of the Muppet Mobile Laboratory unit will be a shape and size that would make it impossible that any full-sized human being could be inside puppeteering the characters.

If the Muppet Mobile Laboratory tests well at Disneyland, the Imagineers are hoping to clone the attraction for Walt Disney World in Orlando.