How to Use animatronics in a Sentence
animatronics
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But, then, what about the stars of the show, which are the animatronics?
— Clark Collis, EW.com, 18 Feb. 2021 -
The animatronics were simple, but there were a lot of them.
— Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2021 -
More animatronics can be found inside the show buildings of the land’s two rides.
— Arthur Levine, USA TODAY, 17 Mar. 2021 -
Gearheads with time on their hands came and, free of charge, restored animatronics that hadn’t moved in 40 years.
— Margy Rochlin, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2022 -
After 30 minutes of the ride being stopped, Rokos said the lights were turned on and the animatronics and audio were mostly turned off.
— Ann W. Schmidt, Fox News, 3 Nov. 2021 -
In another area of the room some of the animatronics continued to move.
— Ann W. Schmidt, Fox News, 3 Nov. 2021 -
Some people go to theme parks to see animals (or animatronics) like these behind a fence, or glass tank or berm.
— Mark Gauert, sun-sentinel.com, 28 Apr. 2021 -
For more ways to spookify your space this Halloween, check out our picks for the best Halloween animatronics and fog machines.
— Kevin Cortez, Popular Mechanics, 15 Sep. 2022 -
Within 20 minutes of the animatronics coming to life, a small group had gathered to take pictures with and of the prehistoric creatures.
— Sylvia Goodman, The Courier-Journal, 26 June 2021 -
The massive animatronics of the Dino & Dragon Stroll allow children to get up close to baby and adult dinosaurs.
— Liliana Webb, Detroit Free Press, 24 May 2022 -
Between the outdated animatronics and the slightly scary visuals, Snow White's ride has been due for an upgrade for some time.
— Andrea Towers, EW.com, 3 May 2021 -
The rest was all done with miniatures, rear-screen projection, guys in Larry the Scary Rex costumes, motion-control animatronics.
— Rob Turbovsky, Vulture, 26 July 2021 -
The life-size animatronics are designed to be exhibited in museums, zoos and theme parks, The News reported in 2020.
— Alyssa Fernandez, Dallas News, 24 June 2020 -
In the podcast, Valiquette said some selections around music and animatronics had been made.
— Dewayne Bevil, orlandosentinel.com, 19 Aug. 2021 -
For the first time in the show’s history, animatronics have been integrated into a Masked Singer costume.
— Selena Barrientos, Good Housekeeping, 30 Sep. 2020 -
Jurassic Park was also your first time working with any type of special effects or animatronics.
— Keaton Bell, Vogue, 10 June 2022 -
In total, the production has 24 life-size beasts controlled by animatronics and performers.
— Patrick Connolly, Orlando Sentinel, 12 Oct. 2022 -
For others, the holiday offers up a chance to finally unleash their spooky sides and embrace the macabre and deck their pads out with everything from terror-inducing animatronics to fake cobwebs and so much more.
— Shayna Murphy, USA TODAY, 29 Aug. 2020 -
But the cost would have been exorbitant, so the director instead settled on a mix of animatronics and stop-motion technology.
— CNN, 16 July 2021 -
Death by animatronics will hit the big-screen as Blumhouse’s adaptation of popular horror video game Five Nights at Freddy’s has landed its director.
— Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Oct. 2022 -
The North Texas city is also the home of Billings Production, a premier dinosaur animatronics manufacturer.
— Alyssa Fernandez, Dallas News, 24 June 2020 -
The walkthrough, which encompasses both indoor and outdoor spaces, has animatronics, flesh-rotting scent diffusers and volunteer actors dressed up and ready to scare.
— Samantha Hendrickson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 Sep. 2021 -
The attraction features a blend of animatronics and projections to immerse guests in a make-believe world fraught with cartoonish dangers, from getting caught in a tornado to going over a waterfall.
— Scott Craven, USA TODAY, 18 Mar. 2021 -
Ahmad said his crew will construct sets and photo ops with cages, animatronics and interactive elements.
— Hannah Kirby, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 June 2020 -
Manipulated by a combination of puppetry, animatronics and direct handling, the chimp proves to be quite a handful for the patriarch and his family.
— Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 3 Oct. 2022 -
Sarkar, the engineering professor, is partnering with Ohio State to study the benefits of animatronics compared with humanoids.
— Matt Fuchs, Fortune, 12 July 2022 -
The work involves the installation of animatronics, multiroom trains, outdoor lighting, and indoor snow.
— Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 17 Dec. 2021 -
Nonetheless, the technology to venture into the human facial response and animatronics space is daring and ground-breaking.
— Forbes, 30 May 2021 -
Kardashian shared in an Instagram post that her costume also glowed, while West's included animatronics.
— Ariana Quihuiz, Peoplemag, 12 Oct. 2022 -
Initially the director tried out animatronics solutions but wasn’t happy with them.
— Martin Dale, Variety, 23 Jan. 2022
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