Earlier this week, America’s most popular rat-fronted pizza restaurant and entertainment venue announced a plan to phase out some of its animatronic performers, and admirers of Chuck E. Cheese’s ...

Taking old scraps of metal, one artist had made some amazing Star Wars animatronics that know how to play a jaunty tune. Animatronics go hand-in-hand with the Star Wars saga. Many of the droids and ...

So long Mr. Much, arrivederci Pasqually, the pizza and ball pit chain will mothball the group at all but two locations by year's end. By Gil Kaufman To the likely delight of parents everywhere — as ...

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Walt Disney, is that really you? I know it's not. And yet, inside "Walt Disney – A Magical Life" at Disneyland, I can't help but suspend my disbelief as I watch the first-ever audio-animatronic figure ...