Inside the weirdly popular world of animatronics — and the fascination behind Kelly Clarkson’s bizarre bird bot drama

Inside the weirdly popular world of animatronics — and the fascination behind Kelly Clarkson’s bizarre bird bot drama

Kelly Clarkson’s got the world singing puppets’ praises.   Thanks to the American Idol alum’s viral fascination with “Molly,” a now $15 million singing robo-bird at the Art of Play shop in Brooklyn, wannabe tastemakers from coast to coast are going cuckoo for animatronics and automatons, with some spending upwards of $5,000 for the mechanical must-haves.  Clarkson, 44, … Read more