Theme Park Tribune has a not-so-unique annual tradition of publishing a list of the coming year’s biggest and most-anticipated new theme park rides. For 2026, however, that tradition has to change — ...

Defunctland's Kevin Perjurer is the Ken Burns of theme park documentarians, one of the most thrillingly unpredictable and refreshingly forthright filmmakers working. His dives into Walt Disney ...

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 ...

It’s beautifully hypnotic: the quiet whirrs of every arm raised and the mechanical fluttering of an eyelid. They match the beat of an original, self-esteem–boosting song performed by five towering ...

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,” ...

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 ...