" He added, devastatingly, "The animatronics became a side show.
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Pirates of the Caribbean animatronics were altered inside the ride.
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Splash Mountain uses recycled animatronics from an old Disney attraction.
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Did I sleep on 50 years of progress in animatronics?
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It was partly puppeted, and there were a lot of animatronics.
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This reignites public interest in retro animatronics, and has spawned four sequels.
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Q: Tell me about the mix of animatronics and live-action walkers.
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Some of the animatronics from the original ride are also still intact.
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But Hasbro's adorable animatronics aren't the only pet robots on the market.
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He has two rooms in his house devoted solely to Gemmy animatronics.
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But a new breed of animatronics are pushing the limits of robot engineering.
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Holt says that most animatronics move at a rate of 32 frames per second.
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Disney Imagineering animatronics wizard Dr. Martin Buehler is a legend in the robotics world.
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"Animatronics was cutting edge when Chuck E. Cheese started," Bushnell told Gizmodo last week.
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If you have an engineer's degree, for instance, you might work in audio animatronics.
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Webber collects early 20143s items from Gemmy Industries, a Texas company that creates toy animatronics.
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Great Moments With Mr. Lincoln had one of the most advanced animatronics ever in 1964.
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There, to music that stirs the soul of patriots, presidential audio-animatronics are recognized individually.
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So Disney's animatronics tend to be heavy, complex machines that are firmly bolted to the ground.
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Tormented by trickster sounds, images, and animatronics, Bond manages to work Scaramanga's own illusions against him.
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But today, ever-sophisticated robots are graduating from Disneyland-style animatronics into increasingly realistic, intelligent beings.
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When the boats cruised into a grotto, Depp was there among the animatronics ... in full character.
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But up close, it's clear that they're actually just animatronics — some of which have no legs.
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No, it's ... a robot Disney has taken audio-animatronics to a new level: just look up.
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But the over-the-top theatrics and slightly unsettling life-sized cartoonish animatronics feels, well, vaguely dystopian.
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Westley Geairn, who is in junior high, told me he has spent thousands of dollars on animatronics.
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The film combined animatronics and puppetry with computer-generated effects that had to be added in postproduction.
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It's since been replaced with Frozen Ever After, an animatronics ride based on the hit film "Frozen."
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The "Hall of Presidents" features all of the U.S. presidents as animatronics giving speeches about the presidency.
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So he went looking for people who could build realistic-looking animatronics and found John Nolan in London.
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Since the 53's, the hydraulics-based animatronics in Disney parks were based on the A-25 chassis.
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A new report from TechCrunch lays out the advances the company has made in the field of animatronics.
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"The kids stopped looking at the animatronics years and years ago," CEC Chief Executive Tom Leverton told CBS.
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Age of Resistance is committed to maintaining that legacy by minimizing CGI in favor of puppets and animatronics.
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The show is the brainchild of an Australian animatronics company, and its only previous production was in Melbourne.
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The animatronics can't capture an explosive boat fight, but 40 years later, they still make for good photo-ops.
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Created by Melbourne-based Creature Technology Company, the animatronics company produced all the dinosaurs for Jurassic World: The Exhibition.
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By chance, Brock then meets Fechter and the Wolf Pack 5 and recognizes the potential of full-bodied animatronics.
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John Nolan is an animatronics visionary, known for having created the terrifying baby Voldemort for the Harry Potter films.
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The animatronics continue once you get on the ride, at which point a catchy Google Assistant-themed jingle starts.
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Some have the Gemmy Industries logo as their Facebook profile, and some of their favorite animatronics as their cover photo.
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To these tours filled with bloodsuckers, murderers, and creaky animatronics that are undoubtedly fire hazards, all I can say is: Yawn.
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The company installed animatronics to control the complicated head and arms, which required a puppeteer with a remote control to operate.
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CEC Entertainment Chief Executive Tom Leverton told CBS that they're making major changes because kids prefer people in animal costumes over animatronics.
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After watching a TED Talk LaChappelle gave about 2100D printing in animatronics (aka, life-like robots) the self-made millionaire reached out.
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"Whatever's best to serve that experience, whether it's a 100-year-old magic trick like Pepper's Ghost, or advanced animatronics," she says.
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Each of the eleven scenes includes figures brought to life through a combination of modern animatronics and ancient Indian clay-working techniques.
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Examples of current Alexa Gadgets include the Echo Wall Clock and Gemmy Industries' connected Big Mouth Billy Bass and Dancing Plush Animatronics.
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Ms. Pavlovic agreed to run the company on one condition: in addition to the animatronics business, she wanted to produce traditional theater.
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To get your head around the ride, I recommend supplementing that video with a handful of reviews and deep-dives into its animatronics.
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The connection will allow users to interact with the fish as a vessel for Alexa, and the AI will control the animatronics, too.
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"Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom" used animatronics and state-of-the-art CGI to let Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard act alongside dinosaurs.
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At times, its overall effect, and that of its sisters, is of a human-sized puppet—like the animatronics in a Disney World display.
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Animatronics at a theme park have to be sturdy and reliable enough to run through their routines over and over, all day, for years.
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Employing media from ink painting to animatronics, they conceive of China more as a concept than as an identity, eschewing easy associations and symbols.
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Animals and creatures in the Star Wars films are a mix of practical -- relying on puppets, animatronics or people in suits -- or digital recreations.
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When "The Terminator" came out in 1984, the only way to make a robot come to life on screen was through animatronics and models.
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The end of the ride features an animatronic Na'vi (Avatar's blue humanoid species), and it's easily one of the finest examples of animatronics ever built.
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YouTube's MommyandGracieShow got an exclusive demo of the new Teddy Ruxpin, which actually won't be available until 2017, showing the improved animatronics of the toy.
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The animatronics designer, Mark Setrakian, was working with me most of the time, [and] I was kind of acting with him and cuing off him.
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For relatively static shots, hero animatronics like the Shaman or new figures Imagineering is constantly working on could provide nuanced performances of face and figure.
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These were singing animatronics of popular entertainers like Louis Armstrong, James Brown, and Dean Martin created between 2001 and 2004, and sold by Spencer Gifts.
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The make-up, animatronics and puppetry are so much more convincing than most modern-day CGI that you will be terrified about what happens next.
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Anima-lectric As you'd imagine with any high profile Disney Parks property, Batuu will be home to a variety of animated robots, Animatronics, in Imagineering parlance.
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Bischoff's now functions mainly as a rental house and special effects custom shop, fabricating animals for use as props, animatronics, and lifelike substitutes for real animals.
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It features animatronics of the dwarves and a realistic tipping feature of the train cars that will make riders feel like they're really in mining carts.
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Filled with puppetry, animations, animatronics, lighting effects and digital flourishes, the show is like a high-tech "Sleep No More" for 2212- to 212-year-olds.
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One performer can now do what it sometimes took four to do in the 1980s, operating animatronics not with mechanical linkages but with a Wii controller.
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Bad guys such as Kylo Ren and General Hux appear as both projections and animatronics, but it may be hard to decipher which form is which.
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Fly Has potential, but disappointed by how it's been used: The hacker doesn't have a superhero cape, or any B-movie animatronics to complete the look. 33.
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Much of the film relied on CGI effects, but the theme park version uses audio-animatronics (mechanical objects you can touch), to bring the franchise to life.
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I wrote recently about the new tack Disney was taking with self-contained characters that felt more flexible, interactive and, well, alive than "static," pre-programmed animatronics.
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But Leverton (who was not available for a comment to Gizmodo) told CBS he has a "strong hypothesis" that the entire company will soon pivot away from animatronics.
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The Soshee Kickstarter page boasts that the toy dogs were designed by John Nolan Studio, which has done animatronics work for blockbuster movies like the Harry Potter franchise.
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This isn't too far off the mark for Shin Godzilla, either, as the film reportedly uses a mixture of computers graphics, puppets, and animatronics to render Godzilla onscreen.
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Between these character sightings, the ride takes guests through the hangar bay of a Star Destroyer where they'll find 50 First Order Stormtroopers, some of which are animatronics.
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Though most of the effects were done with animatronics, there are only four minutes of CGI in the whole movie, and the computer-generated parts still hold up.
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The animatronics were always Fechter's department, and Fechter's active YouTube channel continues to release Rock-afire Explosion themed videos from Creative Engineering headquarters as recently as four days ago.
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His hands and feet are operated, in minutest detail, by a small, dancerly army in black suits, and his face moves via uncannily precise—and, I'll admit, touching—animatronics.
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For example, Imagineers are using some of the same tools and mechanics to create audio-animatronics at the Disney parks that FIRST students rely on when constructing their robots.
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Most recently, the studio has taken charge of Disney's audio-animatronics and its now showing off the most realistic Abraham Lincoln since Daniel Day-Lewis took home his third Oscar.
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In the past, he's created looks that changed shape with the use microchips and animatronics, made dresses embedded with LEDs, and once created a coffee table that turned into a skirt.
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Animatronics at the first location were singing portraits of Chuck E. and the gang called "The Pizza Players," which would banter for the parents' entertainment while the kids played Atari games.
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"We're on a trajectory that's exactly the opposite of how most people get into the movie business," Woodruff Jr. said, joking about their journey from Oscar-winning animatronics to flying penises.
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Mr. Redmayne worked with animal handlers to prepare for the role, and the inventive creatures in the movie were brought to life by a combination of computer graphics, animatronics and puppeteering.
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Although some things—such as the movement of those gills—were built into the costume and manipulated by remote-controlled animatronics, other touches—blinking eyes, for example—were added in post-production.
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The other recipients included Lee collaborator and comics great Jack Kirby, director Garry Marshall, musical director Julie Taymor, animation director Clyde Geronimi, Disney comics artist Manuel Gonzales, and animatronics expert Wayne Jackson.
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But it wasn't until she began decorating her own home in Los Angeles with elaborate animatronics and giant snow globes that she realized she might be able to turn her passion into profit.
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"I'm told Hollywood FX stuff, like with animatronics and more, can add at least a zero onto the highest fursuit prices," said O'Furr, which means some may hit six-figures after full modding.
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The show proved to be a huge success, but a managerial headache, and that's why Mr. Ryan, who was busy running his caravan company, Jayco Australia, recruited Ms. Pavlovic to oversee the animatronics.
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A common method is to hand-crochet a body and attach the face of a plastic Furby McDonald's toy or a Furby Buddy — Beanie Baby-like Furbys without the animatronics, released in 1999.
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The people who handle Walt Disney World's Animatronics have built an all new, slightly frightening Lincoln that makes the perfect facial expressions for reacting to the upcoming talking Trump in the Hall of Presidents.
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"The kids stopped looking at the animatronics years and years ago, and they would wait for the live Chuck E. to come out," Leverton said about the decision to break up the animatronic band.
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And if you look at things like dark rides or Hall of Presidents or audio-animatronics, you could see that part of it is you form deep connections with the stories and these characters.
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The animatronics on Batuu are all based on a new A-21 series chassis, which can be configured in a variety of ways at a variety of sizes — with one major difference: electric motors.
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During the makeup process, one piece of animatronics that was actually fit into the suit was a servo system that was able to perform the gill covers on set a lot of the time.
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Click here to view original GIFGIF: YouTubeThanks to Jonathan Odom, a clever designer and builder who's created everything from animatronics for films to museum exhibits, the fidget spinner has just taken a giant leap forward.
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Yes, the animatronics will be replaced with a more prudent dance floor for kids, and the costumed Chuck E., whose current incarnation is a rockstar mouse, will step out to take on a larger role.
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Zendaya also shared some closeup videos of animatronics that helped bring non-human characters to life in the movies, in particular Lord Voldemort, played by Ralph Fiennes, and Nearly Headless Nick, played by John Cleese.
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It took about a half hour or 40 minutes total, depending on whether or not we were using the full animatronics, [and] the animatronic head, or the stunt head, which was just closed all the time.
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The Creature Shop's animatronics are usually designed to function for brief performances on set, or in a theme park setting where power cables, pneumatics, and other support structures can be easily hidden from cameras or audiences.
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This focus on creating scenarios where animatronics feel more 'real' and dynamic is at work in other areas of Imagineering as well, with autonomous rolling robots and — some day — the holy grail of bipedal walking robots.
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"Our animatronics are certainly legendary and they bring up fond childhood memories for millions of adults and fans across the country," CEC's Entertainment chief executive Tom Leverton told CBS in 2017 when the change was announced.
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The musical is being produced by Carmen Pavlovic of Global Creatures, an Australian company best known for animatronics shows that is planning to make its Broadway debut next fall with a musical adaptation of "King Kong."
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Brock meets Bushnell and takes an immediate interest in the venture, signing on to franchise Chuck E. Cheese in over 200 locations in 16 states, and expresses a wish to take its animatronics to the next level.
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" "In 2014, I think I started getting out of Gemmy animatronics a bit mainly because I had a lot of dancing Santas in my room and it's a problem because I didn't wanted to bring friends over.
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Walt Disney originally wanted the presidents at his exhibit to appear as wax figures, but he didn't feel they were quite right, so developed "audio-animatronics" instead and in 1971 Abraham Lincoln made his debut on Disney's stage.
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Jenna, a fan in the Midwest, tells me she used a white-and-black 1998 Furby Buddy — a Beanie Baby-like Furby without the animatronics, released in 1999 — to make her Long Furby named Weston Mortimer Mayhem Moondoggie.
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Disney can create audio-animatronics from a photograph Walt Disney Imagineering has been using advanced digital scanning technology since 2005 to make figures for its rides, including Johnny Depp's likeness within Pirates of the Caribbean attractions around the world.
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The reality star, 35, shared several adorable videos of her 1-year-old looking at the festive decorations around the house on Tuesday, capturing a sweet moment between True and one of the ornamental animal animatronics in her home.
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When Disney Imagineering revealed in 2018 that it was working on "Stuntronics", its own brand of stunt-double animatronics designed to perform aerial tricks, demo videos of its prototype robots conjured up images of superheroes flying through the air.
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The attraction packs dozens of audio-animatronics — and a couple of giant AT-ATs — holograms, lasers, and the most complex ride system Disney's Imagineers had ever designed: a trackless vehicle that moves laterally, vertically, and at all times unpredictably.
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In the last decade, he has unveiled outfits that changed shape thanks to microchips and animatronics, gowns embedded with more than 15,000 LEDs to recreate a pixelated screen, and overcoats that dissolved into dresses when showered with water on a runway.
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TechCrunch reports that Disney's Imagineering R&D department started considering that fact in recent years as the theme park animatronics its known for began struggling to keep pace with what audiences expect from the growing roster of characters under the Disney umbrella.
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Zendaya shared photos and videos of her excursion of the Hogwarts Express, drinking some Butterbeer and showing some of the animatronics that helped bring non-human characters to life in the films such as Nearly Headless Nick, a ghost played by John Cleese.
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It now is essentially a tech, media, and telecom conglomerate — it owns more than 80 percent of Sprint, more than one-quarter of Alibaba, and 100 percent of the robotics company Boston Dynamics, whose nightmare-inducing animatronics might be familiar to you.
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According to a report from CBS News, Chuck E. Cheese plans to modernize several restaurants by toning down the wacky, colorful design, removing animatronics, and adding large dance floors where a human dressed as the eponymous rodent will come out and dance with children.
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Reading about all these fundraisers and endless debt-ceiling negotiations, you can find yourself imagining the congressional leadership as Disney animatronics, repeating the same gestures over and over again — no matter what's happening outside — as we all complete another smooth turn around the sun.
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Bushnell keeps on programmer Mike Hatcher as the animatronics staffer for Chuck E. Cheese, and neglects to inform Brock that he has not only met Fechter and Creative Engineering's superior product, but has also made a rejected attempt to buy a stake in the company.
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"As has been the tradition with every new president since the attraction debuted, an audio-animatronics figure of President Donald J. Trump has been added to the show and features the latest advances in technology that enable smoother and more lifelike movements," Smith added.
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When ridiculously successful Dallas restaurateur Shannon Wynne opened his first Flying Fish location, in Little Rock, Arkansas, the restaurant included a wall dedicated to those godawful animatronics, offering a free basket of fried catfish and a wall plaque to anyone who handed their Billy Bass over.
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But when the titular two-ton ape of "King Kong" — a marvel of puppetry, animatronics and some not exactly subtle sound, projection and lighting — blasted onto the Broadway stage, looking like he meant to eat the front mezzanine, it was a first impression for the ages.
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Showbiz Pizza banked on kids and parents wanting the animatronics front and center instead of the framed afterthoughts of Chuck E. Cheese, and so flanked the stage with full-sized characters Fatz Geronimo, Duke Larue, Mitzi Mozarella, Rowlf Dewolfe, and Billy Bob Brockali (a nod to Robert Brock).
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The Hall of Presidents in the Magic Kingdom Park shows animatronics of all 44 U.S. leaders appearing on stage in a 700-seat theater, with a film showing the history of the country, and Trump recorded a speech delivered by a model version that looks somewhat like him.
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"If you get the sublime realism right, they forgive you seeing things that aren't really part of it," said Mr. Tilders, who is the creative director of Creature Technology Co., an animatronics business, spun off from Global Creatures in 2015, that manufactured Kong and the arena show creatures.
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An effective way to illustrate an animatronic character's scripted intentions or whether they are friendly or hostile is through changing the figure's facial expression—in this case, our figures could scowl or raise their eyebrows and smile or frown, all accomplished by mechanical means beneath the animatronics' silicone face masks.
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Fechter openly admits to Popular Mechanics in 2016 that he had ripped the concept from a group of Japanese inventors at the International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions (IAAPA) by the request of a client, but in making the game developed the same pneumatic tubing system that would make his animatronics so successful.
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This expansive nape was created by John Nolan, a director and animatronics effects specialist who's created robots, prosthetic make-up, animals, props and other practical effect for films like Where The Wild Things Are, Harry Potter, Hellboy, War Horse, and The Brothers Grimm, and worked on animatronic projects for Lady Gaga, as well as Björk's "Mouth Mantra" music video.
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Highlights of the complex include the 197-foot-tall Enchanted Storybook Castle (the largest castle at any Disney park), a high-speed roller coaster inspired by the movie "Tron," and "Pirates of the Caribbean: Battle for the Sunken Treasure," a high-tech attraction that brings the world of Captain Jack Sparrow to life with projection screens, realistic animatronics, and giant pirate ships.
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Leverton told CBS that kids "stopped looking at the animatronics years and years ago," though it's hard to imagine anyone would want to look away from a set like this: Though the company doesn't have definitive plans to eliminate the band from all its locations, Leverton said he's got a "strong hypothesis" that Munch's Make-Believe Band will eventually get canned completely.
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"I think that a lot of this was coming out of this desire to start thinking about animatronics as actors, so being able to say we want these characters to be shy, we want them to be outgoing ‑‑ trying to define them in terms of personality ‑‑ and then translating all of that into the technical tools that we need to bring the characters to life," says Evans.
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When it's all sealed up, the Na'vi Shaman looks like this: But pull back the mask, and an incredible, beautifully complex array of robotics lays beneath: Disney has been paving new ground with animatronics for decades now (The Tiki Room's birds and Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln namesake robo-president date back to 1963 and 1964, respectively), but the Na'vi Shaman takes things to a whole new level in terms of expressiveness, fluidity of motion and the ability to blow your mind.
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