122 kg269 lb
WALL-E weighs 122 kg (270 lb), the figure a Pixar publicist gave a fan over the phone in January 2009, along with a height of 3 ft 4 in. It is the closest thing to an official number, but it does not come from the film itself. Disney’s real animatronic WALL-E is far heavier, at about 700 lb.
| Disney Imagineering’s animatronic WALL-E (2008)700 lb, reported by Jim Hill Media; a real machine full of motors | 318 kg701 lb |
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| WALL-E in the film, Pixar’s figure270 lb, from a Pixar publicist by phone in 2009 | 122 kg269 lb |
| WALL-E in the film, a fan’s estimateAbout 100 lb, guessed from his size and how much of him could be solid steel | 45 kg99.2 lb |
In January 2009 a member of the walle_meta fan community on LiveJournal, who was building a full-size foamcore WALL-E, phoned Pixar to ask how big he would be in real life. A publicist looked it up and said he stands 3 ft 4 in (1.02 m) from the ground to the top of his eyes when standing normally.
She then added more: he weighs 270 lb (122 kg), averages 20 mph with a top speed of 35 mph, and has 7.8 horsepower. That phone call is the only source of the number we could find. It is not printed in the film, and we found no Pixar book or press kit that repeats it, so treat it as an informal studio answer rather than a published spec.
Fans in the same community were surprised by it. One worked it through: if WALL-E’s body is a box of roughly 17 in (0.43 m) per side, which is a fan measurement and not an official one, it holds about 0.08 m³. Filled with solid steel at 7,850 kg/m³, that box would weigh around 630 kg. So 122 kg means about a fifth of his body would have to be solid steel.
That fan argued WALL-E is mostly thin steel panels, motors, hydraulics and electronics, and guessed he is closer to 100 lb (45 kg). The same post suggested 270 lb might really describe the full-size promotional robot instead. That idea does not fit well, though, since Disney’s promotional robot was reported at 700 lb.
Walt Disney Imagineering built working animatronic WALL-Es to promote the film in 2008. They appeared at the Disneyland Resort, the Franklin Institute, the Miami Science Museum, the Seattle Center and the Tokyo International Film Festival. According to Jim Hill Media, this “Living Character Initiative” WALL-E weighs 700 lb (318 kg) because of all the machinery inside, and Disney kept it out of park meet-and-greets in case a tread rolled over a child’s foot.
Fans have built their own. Mike McMaster’s four-foot WALL-E, built over three years, looks like metal but is mostly MDF, with cast rubber treads, resin and plastic hands, and a head of foam and paper. Its weight was never published.
270 lb, according to a Pixar publicist who answered a fan’s phone call in 2009. That is about 122 kg.
Pixar gave his height as 3 ft 4 in (1.02 m), measured from the ground to the top of his eyes when he is standing normally. He can stretch his neck and treads or fold everything into his box, so his height changes.
The same Pixar answer put his average speed at 20 mph and his top speed at 35 mph, with a 7.8 horsepower output.
The animatronic WALL-E built by Walt Disney Imagineering weighs about 700 lb (318 kg), according to Jim Hill Media. That weight is one reason it was never sent out to meet guests in the parks.
Only loosely. It came from a Pixar publicist on the phone rather than from the film or a published Pixar source, and some fans think it is too heavy for a robot his size.
Last checked October 2, 2026.
