Ray Harryhausen

Okay, think about it.

Starting in 2027, we will at least get the Monsters, Inc. land that has Harryhausen's, that has the show in the Globe Theater, that has shopping opportunities, meet and greets in the street, and then...

You know, at some point in the future, you know, 2028 or thereabouts, we're getting the door coaster.

Yeah, and

And my mom was a big...

Or is a big, like, Harryhausen fan.

So, like, I got into that with her.

And a babysitter introduced me to Godzilla.

So, I mean, I kind of was always interested in fantasy and creatures and dinosaurs.

And I was, first of all, it was Ray Harryhausen.

So I was always into like stop motion.

And I did a little bit of stop motion work, you know, when I was about, God, 12, 13.

Now let's go and make the film.

And at the end of the day, for myself personally, I always treat someone the same way I treat anybody.

I don't kind of... bow down to people you know the only people I'd ever bow down to was Rick Baker Ray Harryhausen who I met and Dick Smith you know to me meeting people who I would growing up you know absolutely in awe of

And

But this technology keeps evolving into the 60s through the 80s.

Did you watch the video about Ray Harryhausen by chance?

Was that the 16-minute long one?

That was the pretty long one.

I was like, look, you don't have to watch all these, but let's see what we got.

So...

This guy, his name was Ray Harryhausen, and he worked as a special effects guy in, I think he actually started in the 50s, but he had a really long career and his whole thing was creating monsters out of these claymation type things.

And getting them to move.

Yeah, yeah, definitely, definitely.

Because he said that he was inspired by old school stop motion style of Ray Harryhausen.

So we imagine this is where we're talking about Return to Us.

Absolutely.

flesh suits.

The flesh suits.

Like Ray Harryhausen-esque looking...

So it's not hyper-realistic.

And with the likes of...

Right, Harryhausen.

Yes.

And Morph.

Well, you can do that

scene from Ray Harryhausen's...

I can do it anyways because about a week or two ago, I was at the grocery store and they had like a skeleton and I left it downstairs.

I should have brought it up and I bought it.