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The Hall of Presidents at The Magic Kingdom, is being updated to include the 43rd president, George W. Bush.

Veteran Disney artisan Blaine Gibson came out of retirement to sculpt the figure of President George W. Bush for the Hall of Presidents.

President Bush has personally recorded the speech which was written especially for the the new version of the show which features Audio-Animatronics.  White House staffs of all the presidents since Lyndon Johnson have provided key input to accomplish this authenticity.

Located in Liberty Square in the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World Resort in Florida, The Hall of Presidents is a one-of-a-kind Disney classic originally envisioned by Walt Disney himself. In the moving and patriotic show, which features a film in which specially produced paintings are projected onto a huge screen, guests learn about the origins of the Constitution and the presidency, and the challenges both have faced since the founding of the Republic.

Then, in the most dramatic moment of the show, the screen parts to reveal America's presidents, brought to life by the magic of Disney's Audio-Animatronics technology, which electronically combines and synchronizes voices, music, sound effects, animation and other show elements to give life-like movement to three-dimensional figures. A patriotic and emotion-stirring finale finds the figure of our 16th president, Abraham Lincoln, rising from his chair to deliver words that still resonate with modern audiences, almost 140 years after they were first spoken.

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