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The terrifying insides of an animatronic Predator head

And you thought the face was scary…

posted 14 November, 2012
by cranberryzero
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A look inside Jim Henson’s animatronics workshop

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Cutting edge Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle robotics from 1992

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The magic of Stan Winston’s animatronic Jurassic Park dinosaurs

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If you’ve got $350,000 just burning a hole in your pocket, I couldn’t possibly imagine a better buy than a 20 foot animatronic triceratops. So it’s not fully stomping-around-your-neighborhood animatronic, but what kind of triceratops do you have now? None? There ya go. YOU NEED THIS. No… I need this and you need to buy it for me. Where’s all the multi-millionaire IHCers at?

The amazing animatronics of John Nolan

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Creepy animatronic human eye is creepy

This animatronic human eye mechanism built by Dan Thompson of the special effects company Visionary Effects is so creepy it should have its own cheesy B horror movie based around it.

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