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Realistic Animal Costumes for Film, TV & Events

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Our Realistic Animal Costumes page includes a variety of photo-realistic costumes, Animatronic Costumes and Puppets suitable for Film, Commercial Television, Reality TV, Live Shows and Events.

All our costumes come with experienced suit actors ensuring perfect fit and performance.

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Frostbite – Realistic Polar Bear Costume

“Frostbite”, our original realistic polar bear has mechanical animation – cable-controlled mouth open/close. 

Frostbite is accompanied by a trained professional ensuring the very best performance for your project.

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Bongo – Realistic SFX Gorilla Costume

Styled after the African mountain gorilla, Bongo has 2 head options.  The non-animatronic “Stunt” head suitable for higher impact or distant shots has basic jaw movement.  The animatronic “Closeup” head has 8 servos which move the eyes L/R, blink, eyebrows, mouth open/close and 4 way lip snarl.  There are 2 arm options- Gloved hands allow grasping objects while arm extensions allow walking on all-fours.
 
 
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Bronson – Realistic Black Bear Costume

“Bronson” is our jet black colored black bear. With excellent body flexibility, good paw dexterity and very good mouth open/close range, Bronson is recommended for most applications. This suit is non-animatronic but has internal mechanical mouth action. 

Bronson is accompanied by a trained professional ensuring the very best performance for your project.

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 Bowen – Realistic Black Bear Costume

“Bowen” is our realistic Asiatic black bear suit. With excellent body flexibility, good paw dexterity. Bowen is recommended for most applications. This suit is non-animatronic and has a fixed-open mouth (no animation).

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Bartram – Realistic Black Bear

“Bart” is our newest realistic synthetic black bear. He has excellent body and paw dexterity and very good mouth open/close range, with long shag and minimally painted deep brown fur. Bart is recommended for all applications. This suit is non-animatronic but has internal mechanical mouth action. 

Bartram is accompanied by a trained professional ensuring the very best performance for your project.

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Beringar – Realistic Quad Walking Bear Costume

“Beringar” is a black bear costume that walks on all fours. With internal cable controlled mouth open/close, Beringar is ideal for recreating nature footage. 

Beringar is accompanied by a trained professional ensuring the very best performance for your project.

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Berwynn – Realistic Black Bear Costume

Our Black Bear, “Berwynn” has similar functionality to “Bronson” above, but with a slightly different look and slimmer body which allows excellent upper body flexibility. The lighter eyes photograph well against high contrasting black fur.

Berwynn is accompanied by a trained professional ensuring the very best performance for your project.

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Karluk – Realistic Kodiak Grizzly Bear Costume

“Karluk” Is available with 2 head options: one animatronic and one cable mech. Both have mouth open/close mouth action.

Animatronic head option adds lip, nose & ear movement controlled by external R/C puppeteer.

Karluk is accompanied by a trained professional ensuring the very best performance for your project.

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Chinook – Realistic Quadrupedal Grizzly Bear Costume

“Chinook” Is the bigger brother to Karluk. This bear walks on all-fours with good flexibility and has a realistic profile. 

Chinook is accompanied by a trained professional ensuring the very best performance for your project.

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Boz – Realistic Black Bear Costume

Boz is the perfect choice for any event that requires a black bear that’s a little rough around the edges…

Whether your shoot is in the woods – or a little closer to home!

    • Stands at 5’75 – 6’3 feet (175 – 190cm) 
    • Excellent Flexibility
    • Realistically Detailed Claws and Paw Pads
    • Animated Facial Movements Controlled by External Puppeteer:
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Bruno – Full Facial Animatronic Brown Bear Costume

His ears & nose wiggle, lips curl, eyes move & blink, mouth opens & closes via R/C. For the best performance since there are two transmitters, two puppeteers are suggested. 

Bruno is accompanied by experienced professionals ensuring the very best performance for your project.

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Genghis – Realistic Panda Bear Costume

Our Panda “Genghis” has excellent full-body flexibility and performer controlled jaw action to deliver a convincing performance whether upright or seated.

Genghis is accompanied by a experienced professional ensuring the very best performance for your project.

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Nanuq – Realistic Polar Bear Costume

Our Polar Bear “Nanuq” has excellent full-body flexibility with a performer controlled jaw mechanism to simulate biting, growling, etc. His ears are manually positionable to allow a change of expression.

Nanuq is operated by an experienced professional ensuring the very best performance for your project.

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Realistic Baby Polar Bear Puppets

Polar Bear puppets

Coming Soon

 

 

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Manchu – Semi-Realistic Panda Bear Costume

“Manchu” is a very expressive costume with mouth, ear and eye blink animation. 

This stylised costume with paw and foot details requires one external R/C Puppeteer.

Manchu is accompanied by a trained professional ensuring the very best performance for your project.

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Klondike – Quadrupedal Polar Bear Costume

“Klondike” is a realistic body puppet with internally controlled eye blink and mouth movements.

This fan inflated costume was primarily designed to walk on all fours but can stand upright as required.

This costume is approximately the size of a 1 year old Polar Bear cub.

Klondike is accompanied by a trained professional ensuring the very best performance for your project.

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Shane – Realistic SFX Wolf Costume

This highly expressive wolf suit uses the performers eyes for heightened level of realism and can be matched with contact lenses for a customizable look. This wolf has good paw dexterity, and the mouth is fixed closed.  About 5’8” tall

Suitable for close-up or background in TV ads, films and commercials. With postproduction FX enhancement the face can appear as 100% real. 

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Gorby – Stylized SFX Panda Costume

Gorby is a stylized panda quad puppet / suit with mouth animation.  Hand & knee  quad suit and can only walk on 4 legs.  Gorby is about 2 feet tall.

Gorby is a giant puppet suitable for youth TV ads, films and commercials.

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Koji – Inflatable Panda Costume

“Koji” is semi-realistic giant Panda full body puppet with performer controlled mouth movement. 

This fan inflated costume was primarily designed to walk on all fours but can stand upright as required.

Koji is the size of an adult male panda and is accompanied by a trained professional to ensure the very best performance for your project.

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