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Walking Animatronic Dinosaur At Disney Park

Posted by simoniker on Wednesday August 27, 2003 @10:36AM from the attendants-following-with-shovel-and-bucket dept.

Dan Howland writes "Shades of Jurassic Park: Disney's first walk-around, interactive animatronic character, Lucky the dinosaur, is now strolling around Disney's California Adventure, but will probably move to Disney's Animal Kingdom in the coming weeks. It kinda walks on two legs, just as the rumors promised, but actually pulls a cart for additional balance (and to hide the computers). Videos can be found on the link above. More photos, and a video of Lucky blowing his nose here."

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Re:I don't think it walks by NuShrike · 2003-08-27 11:00 · Score: 5, Insightful

I've seen it in the R&D lab. It really walks on its own two feet. The reason it has the cart behind it is the computers/electronics would add too much weight for the legs to carry.