I had to ask this, the dragon figure going on top of the front of Gringotts- is it going to be an animatronic or just a still statue. I'm asking because some people on Orlando United are saying it doesn't move. I'd be a bit sad if it didn't move.
I had to ask this, the dragon figure going on top of the front of Gringotts- is it going to be an animatronic or just a still statue. I'm asking because some people on Orlando United are saying it doesn't move. I'd be a bit sad if it didn't move.
I assumed it would be static as well- I can imaging it's hard enough to keep animatronics in proper working condition when they're not constantly exposed to the brutal FL heat and humidity, driving seasonal rains, etc- plus being mounted on top of a building poses more challenges. I'm surprised the dinosaurs in JP work so well.
Neither universal or Disney makes animatronics anymore.I was always under the impression it was supposed to be animatronic but now I think of it - Universal isn't terribly great with animatronics. Probably makes more sense to be static or limited motion
Neither universal or Disney makes animatronics anymore.
It pretty much is accurate now. Disney shut down their in-house animatronics department in 2012 and it was absorbed into Garner Holt I gather. So Disney doesn't make their own AA's anymore, they now outsource to Garner Holt (the Mine Train figures for example I gather are Garner Holt ones).While that's not entirely accurate (Yes I know Garner Holt does a good deal of the work - but for instance Lumiere was an in-house imagineering R&D project), even if it is - there still aren't many examples of decent animatronics at Universal.
That had a fair chance of actually being true at least originally. Early on the ride apparently was going to use more physical show scenes and even animatronics than now. I don't know whether there are still any in the current version of the ride (I actually heard people mentioning an "impressive" Voldemort animatronic some while back early in the ride's development), but whylightbulb has stated the ride version they went with is 85% screen based. And that many in Universal Creative aren't happy about the company's overuse of projections instead of physical sets and AA's. I don't know what that remaining 15% entails, whether it's going to just be some physical sets and props or whether we'll be seeing some AA figures in parts. I'm hoping there's a few AA's in the actual ride though...I remember reading a long time ago that there was going to be a Dragon animatronic in the ride itself (at least that's the impression I got anyway). I'm guessing that was never true, was it?
Pictures?They are attempting to lift the dragon into place right now.
Doesn't look like he has his wings yet. Thanks for the pic, can't wait for this to openHere is a better pic.
Here is a better pic.
Imagine that with a 30' flame coming out it's mouth!
Imagine that with a 30' flame coming out it's mouth!
Oh my! So much for family friendly. Haha.
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