To the editor: The critic against the Disney company for the Animatronic Disney Walt seems hard and empty (“” Keep Walt alive in the middle that was a pioneer “: the imaginators defend the new Walt Disney robot,” May 2). For thousands of years, civilizations have honored people when recreating their similarities, during and after their lives, through drawings, paintings, sculptures, etc. At the beginning of Walt Disney's career, he used animation (from the Latin word Animātiō meaning “A Granting of Life”) Recreate the similarities of others, such as Rudolph Valentino on the big screen and, near the end of his career, an animatronic Abraham Lincoln, partly to honor his favorite president.
In that noble tradition, Disney's company is not only honoring one of his own, but is also honoring one of our great Americans.
Brian Alters, Newport Beach
