WAIT. This looks like one of those early animatronics they had at Disneyland. In fact it reminds me of one of the cave man ones they had. The stance and shape of the figure looks right for that, it's just unclothed so they can work on the inside mechanisms. So yeah, this image is very strange at first, but I do believe it might be something like what I guessed. If anyone knows for sure let me know, but this is what it looks like (I used to watch documentaries about Disneyland/World and how they were built, and they always showed how the animatronics were built.)
I was kind of interested in theme parks for a while and watched a lot of stuff about how they were built, their history, etc. The craziest one to deep dive into would be Action Park, where people dying was like a regular thing. They had concrete slides, a looping water slide in which people always got stuck or broke their teeth, and only had 16 year olds running the rides. Yeah, glad it's closed (though there are rumors it's coming back, oh boy...)
WAIT. This looks like one of those early animatronics they had at Disneyland. In fact it reminds me of one of the cave man ones they had. The stance and shape of the figure looks right for that, it's just unclothed so they can work on the inside mechanisms. So yeah, this image is very strange at first, but I do believe it might be something like what I guessed. If anyone knows for sure let me know, but this is what it looks like (I used to watch documentaries about Disneyland/World and how they were built, and they always showed how the animatronics were built.)
Exactly right, damn good eye.
https://funnelme.wordpress.com/2011/12/06/funnel-automated-caveman/
edit: This particular one was at the World's Fair.
Wow! I got it right, and just from memory! But I'd seen so many documentaries about the animatronics that it immediately looked like that to me.
That's some kind of really narrowly specific form of nerd-dom right there. Best kind.
I was kind of interested in theme parks for a while and watched a lot of stuff about how they were built, their history, etc. The craziest one to deep dive into would be Action Park, where people dying was like a regular thing. They had concrete slides, a looping water slide in which people always got stuck or broke their teeth, and only had 16 year olds running the rides. Yeah, glad it's closed (though there are rumors it's coming back, oh boy...)