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Part 103 of WDW Vacation Countdown Series , Part 29 of The EPCOT Chronicles , Part 66 of Stories from the Disney Parks
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2022-09-12
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Malfunction

Summary:

SMRT-1 malfunctions in the Contemporary Resort

Notes:

(See the end of the work for notes.)

Work Text:

SMRT-1 was one of the lucky ones. He knew that.

After the closure of CommuniCore, characters from Computer Central had gone for good. All the little figures from the Einsel Theater were in storage now with no hope of them ever getting out. GYRO, GERO, and Tiger were gone. All in storage too. And nobody knew what happened with Julie and I/O - they’d probably been left backstage with Earlie the Pearlie. 

So SMRT-1 was lucky to have been taken out and moved to the Contemporary Resort. 

But he didn’t feel all that lucky. 

Some days, he couldn’t get his words right. On others, his movements were jerky - if he could even move at all. The rest of the time, he was completely silent, motionless. Only lighting up.

Without any maintenance and repairs, he’d begun to malfunction. And because he was no longer in a Disney Park, the magic couldn’t protect him.

Gradually, he became less and less aware of who he was. What he was. Where he was. To the point he was unable to move or speak or do anything. 

He became normal. A normal robot. But a shell of himself. 

To sit in storage - unmoving, unfeeling, lifeless.

Notes:

This happened!
After the closure of CommuniCore in 1994, SMRT-1 was moved to the Contemporary Resort’s Concourse Steakhouse, renamed X1846, wasn’t maintained properly (it *was* the Paul Pressler years after all), and ended up malfunctioning in the year 2000. After that, he went into storage. Never to be seen again, except on Epcot merch. I have a pin of the little guy despite me being only 5 months old when he vanished.
If you’re wondering why SMRT-1 malfunctioned when Dreamfinder didn’t (if you’ve red my other stories), Dreamfinder had the articulation to maintain himself. All SMRT-1 could do was lift his arms.