Animatronic stuffed animals stripped bare
posted Jun 18th 2008 3:20pm by Juan Aguilarfiled under: misc hacks
For those who have ever wondered what Chicken-Dancing Elmo’s mechanical parts look like without the fur and the chicken costume (and who among us hasn’t?), [Matt Kirkland] posted the photos above, along with several other animatronic, walking, talking and other mechanical stuffed toys stripped of all their fur and stuffing. These before and after shots were ostensibly taken for unspecified “research purposes,” but if you ask us, any research that takes a knife to Elmo is the most valid kind.
[via Kottke]
reminds me of my childhood, opening up every toy and electronic device I could get my hands on “just to see what it looked like inside”.
The stubborn ones that did not have screws or other easy-opening procedures came to an unfortunate demise: back then “cracking” had a completely different meaning and usually involved the device becoming a high-speed projectile into the side of a brick wall, or finding itself at the brute end of a sledge hammer.
Unsurprisingly, I always managed to open everything up, revealing the internal electronic and mechanical components inside… albeit not always in one piece.
Posted at 4:26 pm on Jun 18th, 2008 by califrag