Walt Disney

Walt Disney
Species:	Human
Place of origin:	Earth
First mentioned in:	Cat's Cradle: Warhead
Appearance:	The Web of Time

Walt Disney was the once-leader of the Disney company. He was known as the "future of cartooning". However, after his death, he was cryogenically frozen and became murderous. (PROSE: Cat's Cradle: Warhead, AUDIO: The Web of Time)

Biography

Walt Disney was cryogenically frozen (PROSE: Cat's Cradle: Warhead) after his death; however, he later "wiped out" thirty animators, leaving his company no other choice than to leave him sedated. His frozen head was later stored in the Relic Room. (AUDIO: The Web of Time)

By the time of the London Event, (PROSE: Downtime) whose date fluctuated from 1966 to 1975 between accounts, (PROSE: Who Killed Kennedy, The Enfolded Time, et al.) River Song visited the Relic Room with Mx Neon, where they encountered his frozen head. They talked about the events surrounding his freezing. (AUDIO: The Web of Time)

Legacy

The Disney (in-universe) company falsely claimed that the rumours that Walt Disney was frozen after death were merely "urban myths". (AUDIO: The Web of Time) Ace later referenced Walt Disney being cryogenically frozen to the Seventh Doctor when he asked if she knew what the process was. (PROSE: Cat's Cradle: Warhead)

The Toymaker later likened himself to a "pan-dimensional Walt Disney, Charles Darrow and Hiroshi Yamauchi" to Sir Henry Rugglesthorpe. (PROSE: Divided Loyalties)

Behind the scenes

• The character of Walton Winkle, as played by Sylvester McCoy in AUDIO: Zagreus, was a pastiche of Walt Disney and the Disney company.
• In the unproduced novel Minalopa by Callum Phillpott, Gruber Minalopa would've been a sort of "outer-space Walt Disney".