The finished Queen animatronic had some 47 points of articulation (far more than the animatronic used in Aliens (1986)), powered by hydraulics, and was controlled by 5-6 puppeteers, their inputs fed via a pair of motion control computers, one external, the other housed within the Queen's body. The hydraulic and motion control systems used to animate the Queen date back to Amalgamated Dynamics, Inc.'s work on Starship Troopers. As in Aliens, the full-size Queen was supported by a crane during shooting that was either kept out of shot or digitally removed from the footage subsequently. For several scenes during the final conflict between the Queen and the film's heroes, including full-body shots that showed the creature charging, the Queen was portrayed by a CGI model. A third-scale cable-controlled puppet was also built for shots of the Queen in captivity.

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