The Three Caballeros return to Gran Fiesta Tour in EPCOT’s Mexico pavilion
They might have needed a little time off to relax, but the band is back together. Donald, Panchito and Jose are back performing at The Gran Fiesta Tour Starring the Three Caballeros in the Mexico pavilion.
Three Audio-Animatronic figures were in dire need of some TLC and the Walt Disney Imagineering team restored them from the ground up with the latest technology, Walt Disney World Site Portfolio Executive Zach Riddley shared on social media.
The figures were part of Walt Disney World’s opening day attraction “Mickey Mouse Revue” at Magic Kingdom. “This show – filled with nearly 100 Disney characters singing iconic songs – closed in 1980 and the crew went on tour to Tokyo Disneyland as part of that park’s opening day attractions in 1983,” Riddley said.
Donald, Panchito and Jose performed abroad for 26 years until the Mickey Mouse Revue played its last show to make way for Mickey’s PhilharMagic. “It was then that our design teams hatched the plan to bring these figures back home to Florida where their tour started, joining the Gran Fiesta Tour in 2015,” he wrote.
The Gran Fiesta Tour is inspired by the 1944 Disney film “The Three Caballeros.” In the attraction, Dondald disappears south of the border, and it’s up to Panchito, the Mexican charro rooster, and José Carioca, the Brazilian parrot—to find him.
