That satisfying click! Welcome to the Archer factory! 🏹 Stan Winston’s puppets definitely got to ‘do their stuff’ on Small Soldiers (1998), Joe Dante’s film about action figures that are brought to life through high-tech military ‘smart’ chips. The studio designed and built two categories of characters for the film — Commando Elite soldiers, and alien Gorgonites, all of which were realized as articulated puppets. The Winston crew began designing the toy characters, on paper and in sculptures, a