Whoah! Thats awesome! My older brother got to go see that before it was released with the director & cast. My Grandfather worked on the animatronics for Disney (both in features, and at the theme parks). Heck, he may have done the animatronics for Max!
some of you might remember a mostly silly Disney movie called The Black Hole, which was kind of a shameless cash-in on Star Wars mania. It's fairly rubbish, but there's a very strange and completely inappropriate for a PG movie end sequence, that features the rust red robot Maximilian prominently. He's always been a great…