An army of life-size animatronic figures at Garner Holt Production stand in varying states of completeness - from the headless Terminator-like steel skeletons to gun-metal gray fiberglass bodies to fully dressed characters with realistic silicone faces and hands. (Brady MacDonald / Los Angeles Times)
In a 3-D printing lab at Garner Holt Productions, a high-tech copying machine rapidly “grows” plastic fish that will be added to an early section of the Calico Mine Ride at Knott’s Berry Farm. (Brady MacDonald / Los Angeles Times)
