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the idea for walking with dinosaurs came
about from the BBC show walking with
dinosaurs it then got developed in
Australia by a company called creature
technologies company who got the money
together to build these magnificent
dinosaurs and take it on the road
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up here in the Voodoo Lounge we have two
parts for controlling a one single
dinosaur we have the lead rig here which
I'm controlling and with this hand up
here in my left hand I have the head
control so I can look to the right or to
the left and then the sniff next access
controls the neck of the dinosaur and so
forth and it goes down translate them to
the body down here that I'm holding with
my right hand so I can push down on the
body and pull up twist it tilt it and
then I'm actually with my hand this
black grip controller will swing the
tail Olivia is the auxiliary station and
she controls the mouth and all the
sounds of the keyboard there and on the
top toggle there she has the blink and
then the eye is looking left and right
and she also will help us throughout the
show select on the box which creature it
is that we're controlling when we
communicate backstage
the tail is kind of just strapped on I
mean if we want to move our tail around
we'll just kind of kind of move our
whole body so we're strapped in pretty
good through the waist and through the
shoulders but we operate we can
manipulate the jaw and the neck course
and the eyes and the sounds that all
comes from us on the inside so nothing
is from the Voodoo Lounge everything is
controlled from inside the suit
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well yeah we train really hard we train
up our bodies just to be able to deal
with the expectations of performing in a
heavy bodysuit for at least you know
three times a day as well as press
events like this so it is a lot of work
but it's a lot of work we enjoy doing
staying in shape you know having a good
healthy diet and working out a lot you
know we do a lot of yoga not just
weights a lot of cardio so it's all part
of the job it's all a lot of fun
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there has been there's a whole buffet of
amazing and very interesting reactions
that I've experienced doing this show
you yeah it's surprising and how how
realistic it can come across and yeah
you can scare it obviously if the kids
would be either they'll be fascinated or
living they might be a bit terrified and
adults it still surprises me how
unnerving one of these can be even
though you know it's a lot of fun
they're playful they're nothing to be
afraid of there you go
but yeah some people will get very how
about uncomfortable they want to say
scared but they don't bite
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yes there are there are some controls in
there as well which we used to
manipulate the seasons and with those
controls yeah we can operate the loop
there we go
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