A HUGE crocodile at Stan Winston Studio 🐊 - LAKE PLACID - BUILDING THE 30-FOOT ANIMATRONIC CROCODILE Lake Placid is 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. Video: Nick Marra Studios - NMS & Mark Jurinko paint the 30-foot full-size animatronic crocodile at Stan