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Description:

Offered here is an original 1983 WED Enterprises internal technical manual: AUDIO-ANIMATRONICS® MAINTENANCE MANUAL, produced by WED/MAPO Technical Publications for Walt Disney Imagineering. This spiral-bound reference manual documents the systems used for Audio-Animatronics shows built for both EPCOT Center and Tokyo Disneyland.

The manual is organized into multiple sections covering system architecture, RTU (Remote Terminal Unit) cabinet configuration, and related maintenance topics — including detailed technical schematics and wiring diagrams for cards such as the Signal Conditioner Card, Serial-to-Parallel Converter Card, Monitor Interface Cards, Jumper Card, Single Channel Display Card, and Data Buffer/Monitor Card. See photos for full table of contents and interior detail.

Provenance: This manual comes from the personal archive of Monte Hoult, who served as Manager of Technical Publications for WED Enterprises and personally signed the preface page of this very document. This is a rare piece of directly-attributable Imagineering provenance — not just a manual that passed through WED, but one connected to the department head who oversaw its production.

Notable details:

• Front cover bears the WED Imagineering “Mickey with tools” Technical Publications logo, © Walt Disney Productions

• Marked proprietary — “shall not be duplicated in whole or in part, nor disclosed to others without the consent of WED Enterprises”

• Preface signed by Monte Hoult, Manager, Technical Publications

• Spiral (comb) bound, wire intact

• Approx. pocket-sized manual format

Condition: Vintage, used internal manual showing expected age and handling wear — light surface creasing and a small ink mark on front cover, rounded corner wear consistent with shelf/field use, spiral binding intact and functional, interior pages clean and legible. Sold as-is; see photos for full condition detail.