Free Willy was my favorite movie growing up, and once I was old enough to realize that no, they weren’t loading up a 7,000 lb whale onto a truck to make their movie, I got hooked on animatronics. I tried to do my own research a while back on what happened to the whale animatronics, watched all the behind the scenes footage, even emailed Walt Conti to ask what happened to them, but never heard back. Does anyone know what happened to them?
I realize that this doesn’t pertain to the workings of the animatronic, so feel free to delete if mods feel this doesn’t belong here.
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That whale animatronic would’ve been powered by a 100HP Hydraulic power system,
but I’m afraid Warner wasn’t able to save the bot due to it’s colossal size, so chances are the animatronic whale was dismantled.
Yeah, that’s what I figured. Always holding out hope though. I know in the second movie they made mini ones for the open ocean scenes and filmed in a pool, I hope those ones still exist
Idk
It appears you haven’t learned your lesson of “if you don’t have anything helpful to say, don’t bother”, like your 3 previous dead accounts.