Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln, Audio-Animatronic stage show in Anaheim, United States
Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln is a stage show in the Main Street Opera House at Disneyland, where an Audio-Animatronic figure of Abraham Lincoln sits in an armchair and delivers excerpts from his speeches. The theater facade is cream-colored with gold and red trim, a red sign with gold lettering reading "Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln" and "The Disneyland Story presenting" above it, and a canopy edged with pine garlands and red and green ornaments.
Walt Disney originally developed the robotic figure for the Illinois Pavilion at the 1964 New York World's Fair and brought it to California after the fair ended. The attraction opened at the park in 1965 and was technically revised and equipped with new program text multiple times in the following decades.
The performance preserves the words of the 16th president of the United States and brings them to life for visitors through a seated mechanical figure dressed in period clothing. Guests experience a kind of time travel to the 19th century while sitting in theater seats inside the opera house listening to the speeches.
The theater is the Main Street Opera House, a 500-seat venue at the entrance to Disneyland on the left side of Main Street, U.S.A. Since July 17, 2025, the Lincoln show alternates with Walt Disney—A Magical Life, so check the day's rotation before queuing. The auditorium is air-conditioned and offers seating for guests who want to rest.
The robotic figure was one of the first of its kind worldwide and is considered a milestone in the development of movable artificial humans for entertainment purposes. Engineers had to invent entirely new control systems at the time because there were no computer chips yet that could coordinate complex movement sequences.
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