Top 20 BEST Animatronics Ever - (Disney, Universal, & More)
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- čas přidán 2. 06. 2024
- When it comes to theme parks and attractions, there are a ton of notable animatronics. Bot only a few of them were ranked by the viewers as the best of the best.
0:00 Intro
0:37 The Alien
2:18 The Carnotaurus
3:58 Jack Sparrow
5:06 Hondo Ohnaka
6:20 Kylo Ren
7:20 King Kong (Skull Island)
8:35 Maleficent
9:46 King Kong (Kongfrontation)
11:01 T-Rex
12:27 Goblin Bankers
13:50 Davey Jones
14:51 Bert/Bertha The Bunyip
17:02 Cars Cast
18:13 Abraham Lincoln
19:45 Jaws
21:41 Sprookjesboom (Not Sprookesboom)
22:28 Indominus Rex
23:33 Yeti
25:18 Shaman of Songs
26:51 Spider-Man Stuntronic
28:33 Comment Shout-Out
29:19 Outro
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ORIGINAL Bunyip footage: • Pepe on drugs
Music:
Wine & Spirits (Instrumental Version) - Xavy Rusan
We've Got a Good Thing Going - Matt Large
See the Moon (Instrumental Version) - Gamma Skies
Thumbnail images by:
Loren Javier (the T-Rex)
Eliedion - (Sprookjesboom)
NOTE: I have spelled Sprookjesboom wrong and forgot the silent "j" because I am terrible at the Dutch language. No big difference in pronounciation though. Still, apologies to Dutch viewers.
it's a shame that Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind didn't get a animatronic because of Covid as well as the Budget going overboard.
I don't think anyone noticed lol
Oh i get it, its all good
As a Dutch person i'll kindly tell you the "j" is definitely NOT silent and there IS a difference in pronunciation, but i can definitely imagine how it would sound like there is no "'j" to a non Dutch speaker.
The j is definitely not silent but it is quieter that other letters, dutch is a pretty damn hard language to learn and almost impossible for a foreigner to master
Fun Fact: Grant Imahara, (RIP) of MythBusters fame, worked on the early stages of the Spider-Man animatronic. He was also a three times Battlebots champion with his bot Deadblow, which appeared in a few episodes of MythBusters, and he also worked on the Star Wars Prequels as one of the few people to drive R2-D2.
He was an amazing engineer. Mythbusters was one of my favorites as a kid.
I love battlebots
Grant was always my favorite Myth Buster!
My brother would like that fact. He loves Mythbusters ❤️!
Grant also designed and created Geoff Peterson. I think Late Late Show fans may know who he is.
I am SO grateful that I got to experience the Jaws ride twice before it closed down. I'll never forget the first time because it was raining hard and we were dressed in yellow ponchos getting drenched by the rain. It was only me and my grandmother that went on the ride. We were horror movie buddies and we loved Jaws. The heavy rain we were in really enhanced the experience, making it WAY more terrifying! And the fact that we were also in yellow ponchos was the subtle icing on the cake that made it even scarier because in one of the sequels at the very beginning of the movie, a guy gets eaten by Jaws and he's in a yellow poncho/raincoat. I got to experience the ride one other time in my life before it closed down. The weather was clear that day so I got to experience it the "normal" way but it wasn't the same for 2 reasons...1. The bad weather the first visit actually added to it and made it better. 2. and more importantly...my grandmother was no longer with us 😥 She was all I could think about during the ride and it just wasn't the same. She died May 1st 2014. In a strange way...experiencing that ride for the last time felt like a way to say goodbye to her. Because I never had the chance to in person. I miss you so much Glinda Gilreath! 🥲💓
Holy moly, that Spiderman animatronic is literally one of the most impressive things i've seen on earth! I need to get back to California to see that ASAP!
I know right!? I want to go back there sometime this year maybe!
I saw it when I went in august. Me being me, I didn’t tell the people I was with that it was an animatronic until after and they didn’t believe me, but I don’t blame them. I’m a Disneyland regular so I always know everything.
I'm not a superhero or Spiderman fan, but I was blown away seeing this animatronic! Such an impressive feat of technological engineering -- especially with having a robot that is not hooked up to anything like a support beam, hanging wires, or rotating base. To think that we have this right now in the 21st Century is breathtaking.
That Indominus Rex is so incredible. Seeing it chase the vehicles is unreal. The Davy Jones animatronic blew me away too. I hope Universal and Disney bring those rides to the states eventually.
While I never got to ride the ExtraTERRORresteral ride at Disney, I did ride its replacement in Stitch’s Great Escape and not to sound like a wimp, but that ride was genuinely terrifying.
I remember when Stitch was about to spit acid on us (for some reason it actually kind of burned) and my mom held on to my restraint and said “don’t move a muscle”. For the rest of the ride, I couldn’t move a muscle out of pure fear.
Also when we exited the ride, a MASSIVE chunk of the kids came out crying (I was on the verge of tears) and even some older teens were super paranoid.
Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
Yeah, I was already traumatized enough by It's Tough to be a Bug and the Jaws ride as a kid. That ride would have been the end of me haha.
I was an older kid and I was traumatized! I still remember that awful chili dog smell
I was 16 when I went on ExtraTERRORestrial and my brother was 13. Even with all the signs warning it was going to be scary, we were both shocked at how horrifying it was. Fun for us but the parents who had clearly ignored the warning signs bc "it's disney how bad could it be?" are probably still paying for therapy for their kids to this day. Someone brought their 5 year old and he ran out of the room when it was over and hid in the t-shirt stand in the attached merchandise shop. Parents couldn't get him out and he was just hiding and wailing in terror.
Fun Fact: With Mr. Lincoln, he looked so real that teens or people would throw coins at him to see if he would move during the world's fair and I think also in Disneyland.
Fun fact : the alien in ExtraTERRORextrialy heavily inspired the lava monster in Journey to the center of the earth at Tokyo Disney Sea
Wasn't there talks of originally being an Xenomorph ride!
@@ferewtrette ideed but I think it was changed due to copyright issues
8@@ferewtrette Disney had a contract with Steven Speilberg that he was to create 3 Disney rides. When he found out that Disney was working with the 20th Century, he was pissed and, I believe, threatened legal action, so Disney allowed him to create a new alien concept.
When I first saw a video of it I was so confused because I thought they called it the wrong name! 😂
I will never forget leaving the presidents show at Disney World and hearing my grandmother remark how amazed she was that they could find actors who looked so much like all the presidents.
Not a superhero fan at all, but I am completely mesmerized by the fact that the Spiderman animatronic is not only capable of self-correction while performing stunts, but it is not hooked up to anything for support in doing so. It's a showcase of android technology that made me shout at my computer, so I definitely want to see it up close!
Ever since I was a little kid at Chuck E. Cheese’s, I’ve been so fascinated by animatronics. It’s genuinely astonishing how far they have come since how they were at Chuck E. Cheese’s.
Without animatronics, Disney and Universal wouldn't have been possible.
Oh without a doubt! Animatronics are a huge part of the theme park industry and I love talking about them!
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Having grown up watching "Star Wars: The Clone Wars", I can easily say that Hondo Ohnaka was my favorite true neutral character in the series. The amount of talent that Jim Cummings put into voicing that character is incredible! Everytime Hondo showed up on screen, you were either in for a scene that was either incredibly hilarious or absolutely nail biting.
In my opinion we need to give the yeti a big chance because once its gets fixed who knows what Everest will be like
I'd love to see the Yeti get fixed, though I understand how hard that is. Still, fingers crossed!
The fact that all but two entries on this list are Disney/Universal proves just how innovative Disney (and, to a lesser extent, Universal) was, even back when Disney first pioneered the Audio Animatronic in the 1960s. It's for that reason alone that you have to thank Disney for even making this video possible!
They really did a lot for the theme park and robotics industries! A lot can be said about Disney as a company today, but the fact is that they have made some incredible things!
Yup there would be no theme parks as we know them today without WAD !!!
@@MikeR65 WED
I love that you included the Bunyip! I'd have no idea what that was if it wasn't for the movie The Quest (Frog Dreaming/The Go Kids) with Henry Thomas!
I’ll never forget going on Kongfrontation back in 1991. It was intense!
I went on it in 1998 and was blown away! I seriously thought it was a real gorilla (I was only five at the time).
@@ThemeParkCrazy that was some next level theming for the time!!
Weird you didn't mention the Dragon under Sleeping Beauty Castle (Disneyland Paris) and the Monster from journey to the center of the earth (Tokyo Disney Sea). Those two are really impressive!
Timekeeper was cool too!
I was surprised the dragon didn't get more votes. An amazing animatronic for sure.
@@ThemeParkCrazy pt 2 maybe???
@@ThemeParkCrazy prob because most people dont go there to find it because its not a main attraction + its kinda hidden (so yeah only the people that like animatronics or know about it wil go and see it)
Im so happy that the Efteling is getting some more recognition! As someone who lives not far from it and goes almost every year, it is amazing!
I love it and it is quite unknown outside of the Netherlands, which I find sad. Thank you for showing the Sprookjesboom, even though there are more impressive ones, I was absolutely amazed by it as a little child.
You did leave out some coole extra things, like that you can communicate with it a little bit and that there are animals popping up from holes in the tree from time to time!
For Spider-Man, you needed to show one of the times when he missed the jump and slid down the wall. Seeing a video of that had people who weren't aware it was an animatronic (myself included) thinking a stunt person was seriously hurt or worse.
Efteling groupie here ;) the Sprookjesboom tells not only any fairytale, but the ones the children yell at him through one of his roots. Also, the leaves, twigs and roots move while the boom is talking
All the more reason why the top five spot was deserved! A truly impressive animatronic!
Interesting that the Avengers Campus Spider-Man show is better than the Spider-Man ride, but they really went all out on the animatronic.
They really did! I'm not a fan of those Toy Story Mania style rides, but the stunttronic alone is worth visiting that area!
To be honest, it is looking like Disney and Universal have been offering bigger highlights with stuff that isn’t in the actual rides. Much of the highlights for my 2018 visit to Universal Orlando were with character meet-and-greets (mainly Blue and Donkey), since a lot of the really immersive rides like Jaws are no longer there.
Heck, I’d argue the goblins that were mentioned in this video were more exciting than Harry Potter and the Escape from Gringotts, but that’s probably just me being salty that a coaster dark ride hybrid with projection effects replaced a masterpiece of immersion like Jaws.
@@MushroomHedgehog Cmon saying Universal has no immersive rides is way too harsh. Hagrid's is the most immersive roller coaster I have ever been on.
@@shamrock6975 while the coaster is great it aint like the og universal rides look at the og king kong ride where he just grips the tram with his hands like wtf and yeah the jaws ride og or updated version it lets you come close to the animatronic and makes it feel real (no screen needed) and like Mushroom said the world created around the attractions seem way better now (befoe while great they cant compare to lets say the wizarding world)
I am so glad Hondo made it to the list but disappointed it scored so low. Seeing this animatronic in action in person is just something else. I am so glad you mentioned the fluidity of this animatronic; it really is such an innovation and super impressive. I also love seeing the carnotaurus n this list because I have fond memories of my first trip to Disney when thinking about this animatronic. I still remember how it blew my dad's baseball cap two rows behind him lol!
My favourite is everything on Wallace And Gromit Thrill O Matic, it’s got pretty much everything you’d want to see. My favourite ride in the park by a country mile.
I actually discussed that ride in my Dark Ride Jumpscares video back in October!
Hydrolic animitronics will always be better. You are able to get far more fluid motion with air than you can with motors. Not to mention you can get faster movement with less wear. A hydrolic arm can launch out change directions then come back just as fast while a mottor would get severely worn over time.
That's a very interesting perspective. I never knew all of that. Do you study robotics?
@@ThemeParkCrazy Well considering they misspelled "hydraulic" twice, there's a case to be made against it. Also, while I'm not an expert on hydraulics, I'm pretty sure they use hydraulic fluid, not air.
great to see some well deserved recognition for Efteling! I must say their Almar and Pardoes animatronics from the attraction Symbolica are also really impressive!
indeed but for some reason the efteling doesnt fix them fast when they are down see the dragon from the wooden coaster while its been fixed now after too many years they took out almost all special effects it had (they seem to blame those things for it being down) but yeah idk if its a money thing but its super shitty that they seem to have great animatronics but cant fix them when needed
I love animatronics and I hope I will be able to see some of these one day (especially since some are part of my favorite to see even just in video). I'm surprised that Belle from Enchanted Tale of Beauty and the Beast at Tokyo Disneyland is not in the list! All the animatronics made for this attraction look amazing, especially the last one with Belle and Prince Adam dancing!
Even though it would NEVER make this list, the animatronics on the second lift hill on Adventure Express at King's Island will always be #1 in my heart
That's a fun little family coaster! I'd love to go back to Kings Island!
i'm going to kings island in may! i'll be sure to check this out
May be misremembering but I recall seeing Fantasmic as a kid at MGM studios with the Disneyland model dragon, it did breathe fire and I remember being impressed by how tall it was.
The heads are very similar to be fair!
The Hondo figure was broken while we were there, I was so sad. Also then Rise of the Resistance broke the second time we were on it and we got to walk off! It was kind of boring though because it was just the screen part, but we just walked all the way to the unload station
Yeah, the first Carnatarous was broken during my last visit.
easily my favorite channel to binge before bed after a late shift, thanks for the great vids!
I LOVE Rexy, she's my favorite animatronic and she still holds up today.
Always a pleasure scrolling through the TL to see you've uploaded! Thanks for the great content!
Thanks for watching and stay tuned 😎!
Love this video. You really do a fantastic job talking about theme parks and roller coasters. Keep it up!
It's so crazy to see how these Animatronics have evolved. My favorite one is Jack Sparrow from Disney Lands Pirates Of The Caribbean
Yessss! We've been waiting for this one! Great job Peter!
Thank you so much!
Great video (obviously due my hard work of watching it early), and I’m glad that you changed the thumbnail!
Awesome video I found some new rides/ trains to go back to theme parks.
22:11 We have one of those trees here at a museum called EarlyWorks and it tells stories to kids.
I looked it up and it looks like a cool little animatronic! Would love to take my kids there (if I had any).
0:51 that shot of the audience is hilarious! Everyone has their twin sat next to them
Fantastic picks in this video, keep up the good work!
Thanks for watching!
Sprookjesboom actually originated from the tv series and not the other way around. The tv series started somewhere around 2006 and Sprookjesboom came to the Fairytale Forest in 2010.
I made a stealth edit and corrected that. Thanks!
I have actually been on Rise of The Resitance and have great memories of it
Awesome facts, thank you 😊!
Yay the video is finally there!
Always a pleasure sir very well done
Thank you so much!
The tree at Efteling has a little squirrel in one of the holes in the roots which appears to move as well from what I can see in this video. That's attention to detail.
It's branches also move, as do the mushrooms.
Everything in the tree, on the tree, or next to the tree moves. Love it.
3:03 😂. Also, for Hondo Ohnaka, they actually have a backup plan in case he breaks down. If he breaks down, he appears on a monitor and apologizes for appearing remotely before saying his lines. Finally, the Lightning McQueen animatronic from his Racing Academy is listworthy. They even replicated the body language of the cars for him.
i got stuck on the king kong ride right in front of the animatronic and it was so cool
I love this. Funny enough I am currently visiting Disney World In Florida and Universal Studios! I now know a lot about the rides here too because I research the places that I go to before I go there. I love you and your channel and I have been subscribed for many years. I check every day to see if you have uploaded a new video and I always check first to see if I'm in the comment shout-out program, then I watch the video. Keep making videos.
Thank you so much for the kind words! Stay tuned for more videos in the future!
21:41
Oh, so it’s the talking tree from Rainforest Cafe but somehow scarier?
That Spiderman Robot makes you think, if everything in the movies was actually CGI, Stuntperson or ... a robot.
Ok, probably CGI, but it would be soooo cool, if it was a robot :D
Disney seriously needs to make more stunttronics!
The old king kong animatronic at orlando (the one that knocks the trolley) is still one of the most impressive things I've ever seen. I almost forgot about the banana breath!
Fantastic stuff 😎
T-Rex from the Jurassic Park franchise is one of a greatest characters to be putting on a animatronic rides!
Oh, definitely well worthy of being an animatronic, considering how Spielberg heavily used animatronics for the original Jurassic Park!
Her name is Rexy, thank you very much. 😛
I love all your videos
Back during my 2021 visit to Universal Studios Islands of Adventure in Orlando, I did the Velociraptor Encounter and met with Blue the velociraptor. The way they made Blue work is that they have an actor in a costume with an animatronic head. It was really cool. Even though I knew it was an actor in a costume, I couldn't help but feel a tad bit intimidated. For a moment I thought I was gonna become raptor chow. Lol. But at the same time, I was awe-inspired. Truly amazing.
I honestly don't like the human worn costumes. It makes the dinosaurs too big (in the raptors' case) and move like people instead of like dinosaurs.
@@englishatheart well, they are 7 foot tall in the movie.
I am very shock that the revenge of the mummy anatronics at the universal parks didn’t make it
I was surprised too! It really was an impressive animatronic!
A moment of Silence for the Maleficent Dragon, although ive heard it should be up and running again soon
Waldorf and Statler should've received more votes. As a child I imagined sitting in Muppets Theatre and those 2 are exactly as I imagined.
Yay for the Universal Beijing Resort shout out! Current performer there 🥰
Omg I didn't know about the exisistence of the animatronic of spider man! I need to see him in person!
21:48 wise mystical tree
I really, REALLY hope they don't get rid of Countdown To Extinction, that one's my absolute favorite ride at WDW.
I've heard about the stunt robot aka Spider-man. Hollywood was trying to make androids that could do stunts in order to have less injuries/deaths for stunt doubles. What a concept....literally AND figuratively!!
Our technology has come a LOOOONG way to achieving the perfect human like animatronics. I remember as a kid going to Showbiz Pizza and thinking-"wow, these characters are very realistic!" I look back now and think-"not so much." But in the 80's that was pretty futuristic.
I am so sad I didn't get to see the Hondo animatronic when I went to Galaxy's Edge. Covid restrictions were still in place at the time so unfortunately most preshows were not running. I was watching through Star Wars: The Clone Wars at the time so it would have been amazing to see that character come to life in person.
Your videos are awesome and informative I always love seeing the footage from theme parks around the world kinda makes me wish I could visit them but I know that would be expensive I would have to be millionaire to achieve that dream
Disney's wild with those
Dinosaur has a hidden Carnotorus Animatronic hidden in the dark right before the Aladar Animatronic
Great picks! I need to go back to Disneyland to check out the Avengers campus.
here are my favorites:
Kongfrontation
ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter
Jaws Ride
Dinosaur (Animal Kingdom)
Too bad the Maleficent Dragon caught fire a while ago! It was an impressive animatronic!
Edit: Also loved the Spongebob reference for Davey Jones!
Pirates of the Caribbean Shanghai is a mind blowing ride and easily one of the best disneyland rides
1:26 Thank you for referencing my favorite SpongeBob episode!
FYI, Garner Holt Productions created the latest Abraham Lincoln animatronic and has been involved with disney for quite some time now. They are Animatronic rockstars!
Could you cover some more UK coasters, and their storylines? Possibly a video on the top 10 scariest coaster themes?
I would love to see more stunt tronics around the disney parks
The King Kong animatronic really made the ride in Orlando, i re-rode the ride just to get another look at it (my wife didn't understand why I really wanted to go back on it again so quickly.... she just didn't get it :)
I LOVE the Mummy coaster, though I do admit I miss Kongfrontation. It was so cool as a kid.
that first alien animatronic made me cry out of fear when i was little. My mom and grandma forced me on the ride because they knew it'd traumatize me and that was always funny to them and their friends.
RIP Murphy the dragon
Animatronics are an epic thing that the crews worked on in every year. IT would be possible if we get to see the Godzilla Animatronic. That would be huge like King Kong!!!
It would be amazing indeed! At the very least, it would be from the shoulders up since Godzilla is enormous.
I wouldn't say Jack Sparrow's addition to the OG Pirates of the Caribbean rides was uncontroversial, there were definitely people that complained
I admittedly wasn't in the theme park community back in 2006 since I was 13. I was too busy braving the Gamestop community.
@@ThemeParkCrazy honestly same except I was 9, but I still heard about the backlash
that’s exactly what I was thinking The Alien Encounter Alien looks very much like Megaguirus I was exactly thinking the same thing! =D
Im surprised that Disney hasn't just shut down Expedition Everest for like a week. Remove the Yeti and replace him with a limited motion animatronic. Heck they could even just put up a fake rock facade around the Yeti and replace him while the ride is open. Its been more than a decade. This makes me think that there is actually a ride safety issue.
Where’s hopper the grasshopper at it’s tough to be a bug, he was very advanced
Wow the indominus Rex is pretty cool
this video is dope
I love Rise of the Resistance and Smuggler's Run. I'm a huge Star Wars fan
I have a massive soft spot for the massive gorilla animatronic at Djurs Sommerland and the pirate band animatronics at the same park at the big pirate coaster i have many happy memories of those
That carnotaurus scared me badly as a child but yet again even 6 years later I was still scared of it at 12 even though I knew it was coming
Yippee! I made it into a shoutout!
I’m so sad the maleficent dragon also caught fire last week 😭
I had no idea Pirates or the Caribbean was based off the dark ride lol
There was also a Haunted Mansion movie starring Eddie Murphy, but we don't talk about that one haha. (Eddie Murphy is extremely talented, but he was admittedly in a lot of terrible live-action movies at the time)
@@ThemeParkCrazy And an even worse one based on Tower of Terror
Do the old king kong and the disaster subway set that both used to be at universal orlando count?
My List of Ideas for Animatronics for Theme Parks
- Godzilla Monsters
- Godzilla and Kong (a possible Godzilla vs Kong ride)
- Mechagodzilla
- Godzilla
- Mothra
- King Ghidorah
- The Lord of the Rings
- Gollum
- Shelob
- Wargs
- Balrog
- Smaug
- STAR WARS
- Darth Vader
- Boba Fett
- Chewbacca
- Adventure Time
- The Lich
- Monsters and Mythical Creatures
- Yeti (any Yeti for a specific Yeti themed ride)
- Kraken
- Chupacabra
- Jersey Devil
- Manticore
- Bunyip (for an impressive Australia themed ride)
- Chinese Dragon
I’ve done some backstage fixing on the dinosaurs at universal, and it looks odd with lights on, whenever I went out to clean it and make sure everything was fine with all the Dino’s, it would just scare me to see how real they looked. I don’t want to share too many details, in case I get in trouble with anyone
Note: I’ve only been to the California parks to help with animatronic things, I don’t know much about the other ones
Here’s an idea for a future video: rank your top RMC-revamped roller coasters
I love Dinsey Wolrd
For me personally the Navi shaman of songs we’ll always be number one no matter how many animatronics after her have improved emotions of animatronics Navi shamaness songs still represents a huge achievement in animatronic functions her body alone has 39 functions in her face has 42 separate functions and she moves with such fluidity of ease it’s like they literally brought the knobby shaman of songs from the avatar movie and brought her all the way to Disney World in real life and if you didn’t know she was an animatronic you would be convinced that it was an actual Navy like how crazy is that
It's too bad the rest of that ride is so absolutely lackluster with movie screens and projectors at various parts to show any motion.
Yeah I never realized that was an animatronic watching videos of it until I saw the comments
I think the ride is incredible and underrated. I have a soft spot for slow-moving boat rides!
@@ThemeParkCrazy people can’t appreciate the beauty in things these days . It’s a feast for the mind and ultra relaxing!!!
I was once ejected from Universal Studios Hollywood for standing up before the drop to smack the T-Rex animatronic in the face on the JP ride. I had been rather intoxicated from the 99 proof liquor that day, but I was impressed on how quickly the park responded to my antics. Security was literally waiting for me at the unloading station. Fun fact: the Rex’s teeth are actually hard as if they’re made of porcelain or something else that is very tooth like.