Whatever Happened to Lucky the Dinosaur?

[drinksumpepsi]

Sea Lions in pacific wharf! or those animatronic dolphins that i saw on the site someone posted sumwhere here on mouseinfo.

[ismael flores]

I like the idea of animatronic sea lions but you could probably do that with any animatronic. Since lucky needed the cart for balance couldn't they just build a dinosaur that walks on all fours.

[Jspider]

I like the idea of animatronic sea lions but you could probably do that with any animatronic. Since lucky needed the cart for balance couldn't they just build a dinosaur that walks on all fours.

well if what's been posted before is true then no an animatronic that walks on all fours would be a completely different enginnering venture and it's cordiantion would take a long time to develope

I have seen wheeled balanced vehicals with the same concept as you described Lucky as having before in magazines like Popular Science so I can see how that'd work and how it would seriously simplify the enginnering envovled and yet still create an awsome illusion and experience

[cardboardroom]

How 'bout Teddy from AI? Now that would be cool...

That movie was freaky. Scared the hell out of me.

This is my 900th post!

[Coasterbuf]

This is my biggest concern about these free-roaming characters. Inevitably, they'll go "101" and how do you gracefuly wisk the sick character backstage? What you described, even though you found it technically interesting, sounds extremely awkward, especially for children to witness.

That is true. There really is no graceful way for a park to move something that is already in the middle of their midways. They did tell everyone it was time for Lucky to take a nap. And they did try to cover him up with this tarp thing they had. But the wind was blowing so much that you easily see under and there just wasn't enough tarp to go around. Even if there had been, it probably would have looked even more strange seeing a sheet wrapped dino gliding backwards down the street.

But then that was what these real world test were supposed to be for. To shake the bugs out and see what would be a problem. I am sure future revisions to this idea will be much more reliable and less prone to spoiling the magic. It's clear that they are on to something though. Lucky never failed to generate a crowd. And when he appeared with Jennifer Gardner it was hard to tell who was more popular! They were both signing autographs.

[disney rocker]

Its a pretty neat idea to have these animatronics walking around signing autographs and interacting with guest! Hopefully they can bring one to DLR thats not a dinosaur.