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(crowd cheering)

Last year we took a giant robot to Comic-Con,

the ultimate walk around cosplay robot

and he became one of the big hits of Comic-Con.

[Robot] Your name?

Joey.

May I destroy you?

No.

The idea obviously is to be bigger and better

and more innovative and kick last year's butt.

(muffled robot speaking)

So let's jump into creative build discussions now.

Following on the heels of last year's,

we wanna be bigger in presentation.

The expectations are gonna be high, it's gotta be mobiles,

portability, mobility, you gotta be able to get it in

around easily throughout the event.

And lots of fun, tech, wow.

We always have to remember this is wired.

What we love has less tech, so.

[Matt] And another key member of the team this year

is Stratasys, a world leader in 3D printing.

Stan Winston School of Character Arts and us,

that's what we do is create characters,

so that's gotta be kinda paramount.

[Matt] Now comes the fun part.

All the Legacy Effects artists

are gonna pitch their creature concepts.

And so we do this really ferocious, imposing thing

but then his chest would open up

and it would reveal cat chick pilot.

[Alan] How were you seeing it moving around?

[Peter] I was just imagining it

built on a frame of bicycle wheels

so they could have a couple guys pushing it around inside.

In between bionic and mechanic style.

[Matt] So Chrome Insectobot.

My original profile was sort of monkeyish,

then it went sort of beakish as I was sketching it.

If it was more monkeyish then you could actually include

articulation and if you wanted to stay away

from some of it, like Jim says,

the some of the problems you get with the articulation.

Exterior, deep space.

(laughing)

We fly through a vast star field.

Support vehicle could be dressed up to part of

the performance so that you can get

the performer around the Con easily enough.

You can see from the side here we got two puppeteers,

the guy on top does the arms, the guy on the bottom

can either drive the cart or he can manipulate the head.

All the portholes and windows in there,

we can have as a double paned glass or Plexi

and have little bubbles coming up through it.

Trying to make tech and organic work at once.

This one's more of a mechanical bunny.

It had lots of lights and whirring things

and spinning things, 'cause he's a big popper

so I was thinking this thing here could open up,

cannon, (mimicking gun firing).

Tony (speaking quickly), we have a maquette or two.

(crowd groaning)

[Man] What?

[Alan] He's clad in some sort of armor,

he's not all fur, he's hinged inside of a dome,

so he can (mimicking ratcheting), reveals him,

so he's the barker, he's the guy at King Kong

who's like, come see the monster, come see the show.

His legs are articulated,

they could potentially be three to four feet tall.

Retro Victorian steampunk robot that's a war machine.

The thing he's pushing right there would be a vortex cannon.

[Scott] Dave had done some concepts for a dragon,

armored or fully metallic.

Each one, innovative, different,

some have wheels, some can fly,

some had stories and scripts.

There was one design that stood above the rest.

Bigger, badder, better, Alan Scott, ladies and gentlemen.

(men applauding)

Bodin?

Yes? So we won.

They love our stuff, they like it.

That's awesome, virtually.

That's what really blew everyone away

was just getting the scale and having that,

like how the hell is that working?

You're never gonna imagine there's three people in there.

It is the how is this happening?

Yeah. Make sure that

this will actually work or we're back to the drawing board.

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[Narrator] Want to see more?

Go to Wired.com for the entire Giant Creature series.

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