{"id":1590,"date":"2026-04-01T18:46:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T18:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/1590\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T18:46:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T18:46:06","slug":"olaf-robot-malfunctions-collapses-at-disneyland-paris-per-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/1590\/","title":{"rendered":"Olaf Robot Malfunctions &#038; Collapses at Disneyland Paris, per Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tA free-ranging robotic <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/olaf\/\" id=\"auto-tag_olaf\" data-tag=\"olaf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Olaf<\/a>, the lovable snowman character from Walt Disney Animation Studios\u2019 \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/frozen\/\" id=\"auto-tag_frozen\" data-tag=\"frozen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Frozen<\/a>\u201d movie franchise, evidently suffered a\u2026 brain freeze this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tIn a video that has gone viral, the Olaf robot at <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/disneyland-paris\/\" id=\"auto-tag_disneyland-paris\" data-tag=\"disneyland-paris\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Disneyland Paris<\/a> is seen speaking to parkgoers before it freezes up \u2014 in midsentence \u2014 and then collapses backward, with its detachable carrot nose bouncing onto the ground. Two park employees quickly arrive to scoop up the malfunctioning animatronic device and carry it away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe video, shared by Belgian Disney fan site Magic Tour Club, has been viewed more than 4.6 million times on TikTok alone since it was uploaded Monday. (Watch the clip below.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cOlaf just melted\u2026 literally \ud83d\ude2d\u2600\ufe0f,\u201d the caption on the TikTok video says. \u201cWe didn\u2019t expect THIS to happen at Disneyland Paris. Someone get this snowman an ice bath ASAP \ud83e\uddca\ud83d\udc80\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tVariety has reached out to the Disney Experiences PR team for comment or additional information.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe World of Frozen, along with the roaming Olaf robot, officially <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/global\/news\/world-of-frozen-disneyland-paris-olaf-1236701490\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">debuted at Disneyland Paris on Sunday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tDisney provided a first look of the Olaf robot at Disneyland Paris in November 2025. The robot can articulate its mouth, eyes and carrot nose and arms, and is also able to speak and engage in conversations, the company said. \u201cFrom the way he moves to the way he looks, every gesture and detail is crafted to reflect the Olaf audiences have seen in the film \u2014 alive, curious and unmistakably himself,\u201d the company said at the time. Per Disney, the Olaf robot\u2019s snow-like shimmer \u201cthat catches the light just like fresh snow\u201d was enhanced by iridescent fibers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe company said Disney Imagineering collaborated closely with the film\u2019s original animators at Walt Disney Animation Studios to \u201censure every gesture\u201d of Olaf felt true to the character.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tWatch the video of Olaf\u2019s \u201cmeltdown\u201d at Disneyland Paris:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A free-ranging robotic Olaf, the lovable snowman character from Walt Disney Animation Studios\u2019 \u201cFrozen\u201d movie franchise, evidently suffered&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[160,39,1178,30],"class_list":{"0":"post-1590","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-paris","8":"tag-disneyland-paris","9":"tag-frozen","10":"tag-olaf","11":"tag-paris"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}