With another holiday season upon us, IPWatchdog is taking a stroll down the toy and gaming aisle to pick out this season's ...

WASHINGTON — Disney is known both for its lifelike animatronics and for the costumed characters roaming the company's theme parks. Their newest invention merges both, using everybody's favorite ...

While vampire movies are go-tos for horror fans, werewolf movies have been a staple of the genre for decades but don’t necessarily get the same kind of attention. Stories of monstrous transformation ...

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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 ...

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 ...

There have been hundreds of animatronic figures scattered across Walt Disney World over the past 54 years. Here are 10 notable ones that can be spied its theme parks in 2025. • Elsewhere in ...

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,” ...

Along with the vampire and Frankenstein’s monster, the werewolf has remained one of the most recognizable monsters in the movies. Of course, the idea of a creature that is human and a wolf has long ...

Whether as Stephanie Tanner from “Full House” or as Jane Da Silva in Hallmark‘s “The Jane Mysteries,” Jodie Sweetin is more known for humor than she is for frights. And, after starring in cheerful ...

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 ...