Uploaded September 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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For Joe Dante’s 1998 film, Small Soldiers, Stan Winston Studio designed and built both the Commando Elite soldiers and the alien Gorgonites, all of which were realized as articulated puppets.

In total, #SmallSoldiers featured fourteen distinct characters: seven types of Gorgonite, six different Commandos, and there was also a parody of the Barbie and Sindy dolls (Sindy was Britian's rival to Barbie): a Gwendy fashion doll.

In this Small Soldiers behind the scenes video, mechanical designer Christian Colquhoun describes how he worked on a particular technique for The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) and used it for the Gwendy attack effect in Small Soldiers.

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