Professor Wu

Professor J.T. Wu is the main villain of the former Hong Kong Disneyland attraction The Nightmare Experiment and its 2017 follow-up attraction Maze of Madness: The Nightmare Experiment Continues.
==Background==
Professor Wu is a cyborg clanking with steampunk parts and an artificial arm. Thanks to his personality, he prides himself using dangerous and dark research for sending guests to other realms - mostly in scenes themed after villains. In spite of observing guests' journeys to other realms, he actually does nothing to the guests during their encounters with various inhabitants of other dimensions.
===Development===
The Professor Wu character was created for the former Hong Kong Disneyland walkthrough attraction The Nightmare Experiment, a walkthrough attraction created for the park's 2016 Halloween season, which lasted from September 15 to October 31 of the same year. The attraction was then rethemed into a modified version of the attraction called "Maze of Madness: The Nightmare Experiment Continues" on September 14, 2017, adding a new storyline about Wu and more realms matching the attraction's scary theme - albeit the attraction itself located within the "Black Box" space of Main Street, U.S.A..
Maze of Madness had its final operation on October 31, 2017 and was replaced by another walkthrough attraction titled "Journey to the Halloween Town" (an attraction themed after Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas) for the park's 2018 Halloween season, resulting in Professor Wu to be discontinued.
==Appearances==
===The Nightmare Experiment===
In the loading area of the Royal Laboratory, guests encountered Wu who welcomed guests inside his lab. He then announced that he found a portal into an unknown dreamscape that would transport guests into some of Disney's most nightmarish realms. He then monitored the guests' progress throughout the journey and then activating a console resulting a door to swing open and white fog filling the room while laughing ominously, leading them to guide dreamers out of the nightmare dimension.
As guests entered the final room of the attraction via metal catwalk, guests could see the villains that Wu observed such as the Evil Queen in her hag form preparing to roll a boulder down on the Seven Dwarfs, Chernabog wreathed in flames, Lady Tremaine marching down a hallway, Maleficent in her dragon form, Shere Khan furiously battling and nearly killing Baloo, the Horned King using his cauldron, Ursula magically altering herself to become gigantic, Jafar transforming into his genie form, and Shan Yu armed with his sword (through archived footage). Before the guests could see more, the door swung open and Wu's assistant rushed in, advising the guests to exit quickly as a fire broke out due to the machinery overheating. As the guests hurried back into his laboratory, Wu quickly thanked them as he worked on his console, trying to cool down the machinery as the guests exited the attraction.
===Maze of Madness: The Nightmare Experiment Continues===
In the Maze of Madness incarnation of the attraction, it was revealed that Wu was arrested by the police for his involvement in the Nightmare Experiment project, although he remained missing after escaping into another unknown dreamscape. Wu's attendant ordered the guests to wait outside of Wu's lab before opening the door and letting them enter, wondering if the Professor is really a devil in disguise.
After escaping a series of rooms with the last one set in the Underworld, Hades appeared and revealed that he was the one who caught Professor Wu, revealing that he was guilty for his actions. As a result, Wu transformed into a demon and Hades restrained the professor to keep him from escaping. After Wu was imprisoned, guests managed to leave the last room in time.
==Trivia==
*Professor Wu is one of the few Disney Parks characters featured in Main Street, U.S.A.. Other examples being the Dapper Dans, Esmeralda from the Penny Arcade, and the audio-animatronic Abraham Lincoln.
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