On set? They were regular dogs in silly costumes. Since its a Star Wars movie, we're all impressed, but seriously, if your Nana did this, you'd put her in a home.

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Walt Disney Studios"Could we keep this photo between us? If the cat sees me like this, he'll never let me live it down."

You might even recognize two of the dogs. Not because all dogs look kind of the same, but because two of them, Saxon and Elsa, played direwolves on Game Of Thrones. This furthers our fan theory that Solo isn't canon, but rather all takes place in Jon Snow's coma nightmare.

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In reality, Blue was this dude, and their unspoken bond was likely the result of a shared passion for cargo shorts.

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Universal PicturesNo fooling, we'd buy a special Blu-ray solely for the Cargo Shorts Cut.

And the terrifying new Indoraptor, the genetic mash-up of velociraptor, Indominus Rex, and the sweat of a desperate screenwriter? Sometimes it was this guy wielding a giant claw.

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For other scenes, the Indoraptor was represented by a guy carrying a giant dinosaur head, followed by a guy with a giant dinosaur tail, like some kind of abstract prehistoric pantomime horse.

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Universal PicturesWe don't think the puppeteer really had to wear it as a hat, but how could you not?

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And the Thunderbird, the majestic creature which we'll one day learn from Rowling's Twitter feed transforms into a vintage muscle car at night? Nothing but a dude with a puppet head. Even the guy who played ALF put in more of an effort.

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Warner Bros. Pictures"We could have painted it, but our give-a-damn budget is already exhausted."

As for the glowing, tentacled Marmite (at this point, Rowling is seemingly Keyser Soze-ing kitchen items for names), it turns out to be a sad, glowing sack, presumably full of the regrets of every '90s rave kid.

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Warner Bros. Pictures"Could you try to look more wowed by that florescent light in a laundry bag? We're trying to make a movie here."

Still, you can't help but admire the work of the visual effects artists, especially the ones who had to painstakingly edit out the bangles that have permanently fused with Johnny Depp.

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Other times, they were grey blobs being unceremoniously shoved in Ewan MacGregor's face.

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And for the scenes where Pooh had to walk somewhere, the filmmakers opted to go for the decidedly less-magical "Dismembered blue torso on wheels Pooh."

Walt Disney StudiosThis is the kind of stuff Heffalumps have nightmares about.

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But as whimsical as it was, behind the scenes, things looked even wackier. For example, the sequence wherein Scott Lang is shrunk down to Hobbit size required filming with an appropriately proportioned double in a lime-colored hazmat suit.

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Walt Disney StudiosThat went from comedy to horror alarmingly fast.

Then they filmed Rudd separately being handed a giant knapsack by the world's least impressed crew guy.

Then they threw him in an oversized sweatshirt and had him run down a flight of pretend stairs.

Walt Disney StudiosNot enough superheroes wave their arms like a six-year-old skipping to school.

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Yeah, apparently he had to do this a bunch.

Sony Pictures Releasing"So are these motions choreographed, or will the CGI team work with what you're filming?"
"CGI? He just started doing this. We're only filming because it's funny."

Venom can hit people with tentacles of black goo, like some kind of a Play-Doh set for emo kids. In reality, Hardy had to mime the actions while his enemies acted as if they'd been physically attacked. The resulting footage looks a drunken Jedi frat party.

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Or like a telekinetic intern who got fed up with their entire I.T. department.

Sony Pictures Releasing"Now wait 15 seconds and turn it back on again."

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