Thinking of moral and ethical concerns are extremely important when working in this field. When designing characters, you need to understand equality and diversity and how your designs could affect people.

For example, Slash Mountain, previously located at Disney land California, opened in 1989. The attraction is a log flume with dark ride elements based on 1946 film, song of the south and is widely criticized for being racist. As it contains stereotypical racist imagery that from the film it based off.

Splash mountain closed in January of 2023, to make way for a new ride based off Princess and the frog (2009), featuring one of their POC Princesses, Tiana.



When designing the attraction, environmental concerns also must be considered, as animatronics consume a lot of resources and energy to power. As well as how costly they are to make and maintain.

It is important to consider any waste that might come from discarding them. An example is Chuck e cheese, from 2024 they are planning of removing all animatronics, having already made a start in some locations, they are calling for all the animatronics to be destroyed and dismantled, however some locations have not followed this and have just discarded the animatronics in bins and landfills.