San José’s Christmas in the Park just got a little more animated, thanks to a squad of San José State University mechanical engineering students who brought a long-retired penguin display out of ...

Mechanical birds, bears and princesses have chirped, growled and sung in Orlando’s theme parks for more than 50 years. The animatronic trend shows no signs of fading, as new figures arrive in new ...

Halloween may be behind us, but that didn’t stop Blumhouse and Universal Pictures from dropping the second trailer for Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 in the middle of the night for the rest of us to wake ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Halloween is on the horizon — the scariest day of the year — and with it comes plenty of ghosts and goblins, and spooky, scary, skeletons and creepy characters. And what about ...

When it comes to building the practical nightmares of Five Nights at Freddy's 2, director Emma Tammi says one animatronic in particular pushed the team further than ever before. “More puppeteers,” ...

The 2,000-pound Walt Disney animatronic at Disneyland weighs 10 times as much as the average American man and a thousand pounds more than the 9-foot-tall Frankenstein’s monster animatronic that just ...

Over the last several years, Christmas and Halloween decorations have gone from inflatable Santas and ghosts to giant animatronics of pop culture characters. One can usually find these at certain ...

Earlier this summer, Disneyland introduced the first-ever Walt Disney Audio-Animatronics figure as part of the 70th Disneyland anniversary celebration. "Walt Disney – A Magical Life," featuring Walt ...

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An animatronic version of Walt Disney will be incorporated into the Carousel of Progress attraction at Magic Kingdom theme park, Imagineer Chris Beatty announced Saturday at the Destination D23 event ...