Mechanical birds, bears and princesses have chirped, growled and sung in Orlando’s theme parks for more than 50 years. The ...

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ORLANDO, Fla. — Not everything is shiny and new in Universal Orlando Resort’s new Epic Universe theme park. Some things are dark and twisty and rooted in Universal’s legacy of classic horror films.

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 ...

After 'Frankenstein', Guillermo del Toro wants to reimagine another Universal Monster with a different take on 'The Phantom of the Opera.' ...

Two new contenders vying to become the best dark ride in the world sit 1,000 feet apart from each other at Universal Epic Universe with the winner set to be determined by millions of eager fans when ...

The ‘Frankenstein’ author never actually lived in Edinburgh. But as this trip reveals, the city—with its crooked surgeons and sinister grave robbers—might have inspired one of literature’s scariest ...

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 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. One cool thing about opening a theme park is there’s going to be a lot of firsts. For example, ...