![]() ![]() And when Barney’s mouth is closed, I can’t see anything. I can only see a certain amount, because of the peripheral of Barney’s mouth. There’s no facial expressions that can be made. It’s a T-rex, so you’re basically just up to your elbows in being able to move. Now Barney is about 70 pounds, and it can get over 120 degrees inside. David Joyner, the puppeteer who braved the dark abyss inside the Barney costume for a decade, described what being Barney was really like to Business Insider:īeing inside this costume is pretty cool. ![]() The company is now betting that the world is ready for a return of the friendly T-rex - and yes, you heard that right.īarney was really a Tyrannosaurus rex, a carnivorous predator hiding his true nature behind a mask of benign child’s play. “We can’t wait to get ‘I love you, you love me’ stuck in heads everywhere, yet again,” David Carrico, Valparaiso’s founder, said in a press statement, in what has to be one of the most sadistic promises ever foisted upon an innocent populace.įollowing the success of other toy-based feature films like The LEGO Movie, Mattel has already committed to developing films for some of its own properties, like Barbie and Hot Wheels. It spawned a 1998 theatrical movie, Barney’s Great Adventure, which - alas - was panned by everyone. Although the show, whose concept was “kids dance and sing with a large purple dinosaur,” was frequently the subject of widespread popular bafflement and ridicule, it was also a huge hit, running from 1992 to 2009. The team will adapt Barney & Friends, the iconic kids show starring the oversized puppet dinosaur. ![]() Mattel Films, the cinematic division of the toy company, has announced a partnership with Get Out star Daniel Kaluuya’s production company, as well as development firm Valparaiso Pictures, to bring the character to the big screen. Barney the Dinosaur, the giant purple nightmare from our childhoods, has found his way into our current hellscape - because if there’s anything we as a species deserve right now, it’s remixes of “ I Love You, You Love Me” earwormed in our heads as the world burns. ![]()
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