Cranium Command by Leo Matsuda, the short "is the story of the internal struggle between a man’s Brain—a pragmatic protector who calculates his every move, and his Heart—a free-spirited adventurer who wants to let loose." "Cranium Command", along with "Reason and Emotion" is cited as one of the main inspirations for the short. In July 2018, it was reported that the Audio-Animatronic Stars of Cranium Command, Captain Buzzy and the Hypothalamus, would be removed from the show building as an additional part of some routine maintenance sweeping over the entire pavilion. However, urban explorers discovered that Buzzy was still in the pavilion
Gawis cranium of the Gona Paleoanthropological Research Project; he found the recently resurfaced fossil in a small erosion gully that empties into the Gawis river drainage basin in the Afar Region, some 300 miles northeast of Addis Ababa. The skull is a nearly complete cranium of what is believed to be a Middle Pleistocene human ancestor. While different from a modern human, the braincase, upper face and jaw of the cranium have unmistakable anatomical evidence that belong to human ancestry. The discovery was reported by Sileshi Semaw, director of the Gona Project at the Stone Age Institute. Semaw noted the skull fossil