Originally Posted By disneynut771 A coworker and I were discussing the Carousel of Progress today. He went to WDW for the first time last summer, I've been numerous times but it's been about 2 years since my last visit. He made a comment about how "giant" the audio-animatronic people were that are in the show. I never noticed them to be any larger that what I would consider normal "life size". He insists they were huge and did quick internet search to try to prove it, but failed to turn up any info on the height/scale of the characters. Thought I'd ask here to see if anyone knew - just how big are the AA's in Carousel of Progress? Thanks.
Originally Posted By brotherdave I'm fairly certain that they are life-sized. I'll have to check the WWoC episode, "Disney Goes to the World's Fair". I'm fairly certain that they showed the Imagineers working on the AA figures during it's construction, and they all looked life-size.
Originally Posted By disneynut771 <Is your co-worker really really short?> Nope, average height. I did remember later that he's mentioned in the past that he has a wierd phobia about puppets so that could have played a part. I'm not sure why the COP characters would have stood out in his mind any more than any of the other hundreds of AA's at Disney, but phobias don't tend to be logical. In that context I'm not sure how he made it through WDW at all except he's got 3 kids and probably was willing to "suck it up" for them. The things people do for their kids. Thanks to everyone who replied and confirmed what I thought - they're just life size.