Knott’s Timber Mountain Log Ride: Updating Bud’s Masterpiece – Part 1
Greetings, and welcome to a new installment of This Animatronic Life…and you only had to wait a year to read it! As you may...
Everyone Loves a Parade
Howdy everybody, and welcome to the third installment of This Animatronic Life. Since my last column, the dynamic at the Disneyland Resort and Disney...
This Animatronic Life – GHP’s Been Working on the Railroad
Howdy everyone, and welcome aboard the GHP Scenic Railway, a short-runs-on-time-(almost)-all-the-time-fair-weather-route-railroad of a column. I’ve been thinking a lot about railroads and trains lately,...
Blurring the Mechanical Line: GHP’s New Animatronic Head Offers a Glimpse...
Howdy everyone—July was an exciting month for us at Garner Holt Productions, Inc. (GHP): in the middle of the month, GHP was on hand...
This Animatronic Life: Inspiring a New Generation of Dreamers and Doers
Howdy everyone and welcome to a (I hope) better-late-than-never new edition of This Animatronic Life. As many of you may know, the past year has...
This Animatronic Life: Finding Gold in the Calico Mine Ride Part...
Howdy—and welcome to the latest This Animatronic Life, the “not-as-frequent-as-I’d-like-but-genuinely-tries-to-be-semi-regular” column about the history of animatronics technology, themed entertainment, and Garner Holt Productions, Inc.’s...
Blaine Gibson: Master of Character
Howdy everyone—please pardon this column’s long absence. We’ve been wildly busy here at GHP, with diverse projects all over the world. Time just gets...