BURBANK, California — Is Disney secretly preparing to take over the world with an army of humanoid drones?

That's probably not the case. But consider: At the second annual Disney Accelerator demo night last week, powered by startup incubator Techstars, 10 companies pitched the products that are taking on Disney seed money and mentors.

They included an artificial intelligence platform that can mimic popular characters; a "bioinformatics" headset that tracks mental performance, emotions, and enables telekinetic control of objects; a distribution platform for virtual reality content; and a robotics company that 3D-prints working bionic body parts.

If those don't sound like the ingredients for the happiest global takeover on Earth ...

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The companies presented their ideas Wednesday afternoon at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, the culmination of the media giant's second annual startup incubator. The 15-week program, which offers up to $120,000 in seed money and mentor support from CEO Bob Iger and other Disney executives, zeroes in on entertainment and media entrepreneurs that can work with Disney in some way — and many already are.

Take Sphero, which last year presented its app-controlled rolling toys with little fanfare. At the time, the Sphero toys just looked like a remote-controlled Happy Fun Ball. But a few months later, Disney and Lucasfilm stuck a Star Wars "droid" head on top, and now we've got this guy:

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BB-8's breakout was astounding. Sphero CEO Paul Berberian was back in Burbank for the second Accelerator, telling the assembled investors and press that the company sold out of its global inventory of mini BB-8s in a matter of hours. It proved a couple of things: that Disney is serious about its partnerships with Accelerator participants, and that it's a short branding distance between Happy Fun Ball and the hottest toy of the decade.

Here's Berberian at the inaugural even in 2014, talking about Sphero before anyone had heard of BB-8:

If Sphero and BB-8 are the precedent, then looking ahead into the 2015 Accelerator class is, admittedly, a little spookier. While last year's crop was heavy on parent/kid interations and toys, this year's group has a grander scale of applications.

Mashable spoke with all 10 Disney Accelerator CEOs, each of whom gave us their 6-second Vine pitch. Check out their pitches and company descriptions, then vote for your favorite in the survey below.

And when your favorite Disney character shows up at your front door, walking, talking and promising to show you a good time, don't say we didn't warn you.

EMOTIV

EMOTIV is a bioinformatics company that uses an electroencephalography headset to track mental performance and emotions, and also allows the user to control virtual and physical objects with thoughts. It's probably Disney's attempt at making The Force real. Don't put it past them.

Open Bionics

Open Bionics is a robotics company that creates affordable 3D-printed bionic hands for amputees. Disney gave the company free licenses to make Avengers, Frozen and Star Wars-themed hands for kids; one recipient proudly displayed his at the event (though we weren't allowed to photograph the little fella, he looked pretty pleased with it).

Imperson

Imperson is an artificial intelligence platform that powers the personalities behind movie and TV characters online. Are you Facebook chatting with Miss Piggy, or are you Facebook chatting with Imperson? You'll never know.

HYP3R

HYP3R is a geolocation-based app that lets businesses and brands find "influential" customers near their locations, engaging them in real time. We suggest maybe turning it off when you're in Anaheim, California, or Orlando, Florida. Just in case.

Decisive

Decisive is a software program that predicts how well visual assets — photos and video, for starters — will resonate on social media. For instance, did you know that purple-hued images travel significantly further than red ones? Decisive did.

FEM

Fem has created Prizma, a neuroscience and psychology-based video engagement platform that recommends online video by, you know, reading your mind or something.

Littlstar

You've got your Oculus Rift headset, so now what do you do? Littlstar aims to be the foremost distribution channel for VR content — think Time Warner Cable for your fancy new goggles.

MakieLab

MakieLab lets kids design their own toys, which are 3D-printed and shipped within days. Now with partnerships with major Disney IP. Look out.

StatMuse

An artificial intelligence/social platform that lets fans use data to one-up each other. (There will be other applications, but you know this is already trash-talk central for sports stat nerds.)

Pundit

Pundit aims to do for podcasting what Twitter did for blogging — micronize it. The social platform lets creators host short-form audio AMA’s with their Twitter network, among other things.

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