My Pal Mickey -- Interactive Theme Park Doll

Dan Howland writes "Big Ruxpin is Watching You: Once again, The Firesign Theatre's I Think We're All Bozos on this Bus proves itself to be the science-fiction story where the most stuff came true. If you recall, a hacker named Clem traveled through the Future Fair, followed by computer generated Holy-Grams who popped up and said things like, 'Why not try [WALL OF SCIENCE], 'cause it's my favorite!' Leave it to Disney to perfect that spooky technology with My Pal Mickey, an interactive talking plush doll that knows where it is inside Walt Disney World, and tells you trivia as you move through the park. Ah ha, but even better (at least from Disney's standpoint) is that, just like the Holy-Grams, My Pal Mickey feeds the info back into the central computer system, so Doctor Memory can track people's movements through the park in realtime. (Of course, these data will be skewed because they only track people who buy the dolls...) Here is another link, with the interesting, Asimov-like sentence: 'He has a strong sense of self-preservation, and reminds you to put him some place safe when you get near water play areas, or on wet rides.'"

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Holly is my favorite computer TV character

[SuperBanana]

followed by computer generated Holy-Grams who popped up and said things like, 'Why not try [WALL OF SCIENCE], 'cause it's my favorite!'

Sorry for the OT, but Holly(of Red Dwarf) is by far the "most awesomest"(in his/her own words) ship's computer. That stuck up bitch of a computer on Enterprise never said to Picard, "Look, I'm a tenth-generation AI hologrammic computer. I'm not your mum."

Then again, it also never dropped to an IQ of 30 accidentally, never had a sex change operation(or two), never developed multiple-personality-disorder(its other personality tried to kill it) etc :-)