[image title=”wallewonders1″ size=”medium” id=”406″ align=”left” linkto=”[site_url]/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/wallewonders1.jpg” ] Thanks to our friends at Pixar we got to go to the Sydney opening of WallE today. With Director Andrew Stanton and Sound Guru Ben Burtt, … oh and WallE himself. Thanks to a team of 6 Disney imagineers, a fully robotic WallE greeted guests and posed for photos.

While introducing the film, Ben Burtt explained how it was actually his voice that is processed for the famous voice of Wall E and how he used vacuum cleaners and house hold items to produce the sounds of the robots. Burtt joked that he knew of no other artists who did his rather specialized job of designing robot sounds. Stanton remarked that he grew up inspired by ScFi films – many of which Ben Burtt had worked on: Star Wars, Indiana Jones, ET etc.