WALT Disney’s granddaughter has slammed the entertainment giant for turning its late founder into a “robotic grampa”.

Disney is unveiling an animatronic Walt Disney for Disneyland’s 70th anniversary celebration this July - despite repeated protests from his granddaughter Joanna Miller.

Joanna Miller told the Los Angeles Times on Tuesday that her beloved grandfather, who passed away in 1966, would have hated being turned into a talking mechanical replica.

“I think I started crying,” she said, recalling the moment she first saw the figure. “It didn’t look like him to me.”

Miller said she voiced her concerns early on, sending a letter to Disney CEO Bob Iger when the idea was first proposed.

She said she later met with Iger and the team responsible for creating the attraction, telling

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