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Don't know if anyone will spend the time and effort this entails----with 
fairly consistent effort it would take a year to do the sculpting, make 
molds, develop cable-controls or pneumatic-controls to move features 
such as eyes, eyebrows, ears, install a voice system, and for a 
dinosaur, eject smoke from nostrils.

However, this has enormous income potential, and if I were younger, I 
would certainly incorporate articulated masks in a home business---more 
commonly described as animatronics.  You could accellerate the sculpting 
by enlisting the help of most any College art class, and devising the 
control mechanisms by students in various College courses such as 
industrial engineering, mechanical engineering etc.




http://www.m5industries.com/html/VFXclasses.htm
 (special effects, animatronic cable-controlled masks)

http://www.bpesolutions.com/animatronic.html
 (Blue Point Engineering on animatronic, cable-controlled masks)

http://rds.yahoo.com/S=2766679/K=animatronics+cable+control+mask/v=2/SID=w/l=WS1/R=5/H=0/IPC=us/SHE=0/SIG=112mif9u1/*-http%3A//members.aol.com/c40179  
(Chris Hillman animatronics, huge number of links)

http://rds.yahoo.com/S=2766679/K=animatronics+cable+control+mask/v=2/SID=w/l=WS1/R=6/H=0/IPC=us/SHE=0/SIG=1215pb6f4/*-http%3A//members.tripod.com/labyrnth/animatronics/gallery.html  
(Budweiser lizards, dinosaur)

http://members.aol.com/c40179/faq.html
 (bi-i-g FAQ on animatronics)


http://rds.yahoo.com/S=2766679/K=animatronics+cable+control+mask/v=2/SID=w/l=WS1/R=8/H=0/IPC=us/SHE=0/SIG=12545h5bd/*-http%3A//www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Lot/9373/SCREAM/atrnschl.html  
(animatronics workshop---expensive and some pre-training required)

http://66.218.71.225/search/cache?p=animatronics+cable+control+mask&ei=UTF-8&fl=0&u=www21.brinkster.com/robot44/linx.htm&w=animatronics+cable+control+mask&d=451E85C1AE&icp=1&.intl=us
 (DJ Mech cache---many links)

http://rds.yahoo.com/S=2766679/K=animatronics+cable+control+mask/v=2/SID=e/l=WS1/R=15/H=0/IPC=us/SHE=0/SIG=124hsitv8/*-http%3A//www.wildrice.com/Halloween-L/Arc/1999/05/HA19990513.tarc  
(ping pong ball eyes, recordable sound chip from Radio Shack---and some 
other cheap, proprietary sound systems sold on this website)

http://www.textile.tailus.com/manual/faq/fursuit/07-fur/
 (laying on fur by various means)

http://rds.yahoo.com/S=2766679/K=animatronics+cable+control+mask/v=2/SID=w/l=WS1/R=40/H=0/IPC=us/SHE=0/SIG=11ffanp29/*-http%3A//www.sagecraft.com/puppetry/builders  
(puppets from small to lifesize and means of controlling their 
features---sources from all around the world)


http://rds.yahoo.com/S=2766679/K=animatronics+cable+control+mask/v=2/SID=w/l=WS1/R=44/H=0/IPC=us/SHE=0/SIG=118l9r90n/*-http%3A//www.fursuit.info/34refnc.htm  
(many books on animatronics)

http://rds.yahoo.com/S=2766679/K=animatronics+cable+control+mask/v=2/SID=e/l=WS1/R=55/H=0/IPC=us/SHE=0/SIG=121jivnqp/*-http%3A//www.reapermadness.net/Double-secretreapertechpage.htm  
(big Grim Reaper figure with voicebox, spring-loaded fingers and 
toggle-bolt, using Bondo for forming components---fine, imformative website)

http://www.minionsweb.com/linkspage2.htm
 (thousands of links on everything Halloween-type figures, animation, 
topics---a must-see)