Tag Archives: animatronic

Life-like Ursula animatronic character at Disney California Adventure Park

December 29, 2011 @ 2:12 am

Just came across this video of Walt Disney Imagineering engineers and artists creating the moving Ursula character at Disney California Adventure Park. I’ve never been here, but this looks like a truly convincing animatronic character. It’s pretty amazing.

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Alien animatronic mask

December 21, 2011 @ 6:33 am

Human controlled.

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Animatronic war horse puppet

December 5, 2011 @ 6:30 am

Remember those animatronic dinosaurs I posted here before? It turns out that a similar technique was used to create this fake horse controlled by three people from The Handspring Puppet Company of South Africa. It moves so life-like! [via]

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Guardian of the Hole by U-Ram Choe

December 3, 2011 @ 5:22 pm

Check out this hauntingly beautiful video of U-Ram Choe’s animatronic breathing metal sculpture called “Guardian of the Hole”. It’s on display right now at the Asia Society Museum in NYC until December 31. I have to see this in person!

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$350,000 will buy you an animatronic triceratops

July 19, 2011 @ 3:15 pm

If I had enough money laying around, I might not ever have to visit the Dinosaur Hall after all! That’s because with $350,000 I can purchase my very own animatronic triceratops complete with motion-tracking technology and booming 1000-watt speakers for … Continue reading →

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Dinosaur scares school children

April 18, 2011 @ 1:38 am

Annnddd the animatronic dinosaurs are back! This time scaring schoolchildren into a screaming frenzy! FUN FUN FUN! [via] If you missed the previous posts about these dinosaurs, check here, here, and here.

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