Today is the 23rd anniversary of Lake Placid, a Steve Miner film about the search for a man-eating, thirty-foot crocodile in a lake in Maine. 🐊 Stan Winston and his crew realized Lake Placid’s crocodile as a full-size animatronic puppet — complete with moving head and tail and snapping jaws — that would function underwater. The crocodile was mechanized through hydraulics, which, as had been learned on previous projects, worked fairly well in a water environment, as long as they were protected i