It's Christmas Eve and Dinky is pissed. After returning home from his last adventure, Dinky discovers that his family have (once again) been kidnapped by the forces of evil. A mysterious trail of toys, tinsel, and wrapping paper leads into the night. Enraged and with nothing to lose, Dinky heads out to save his family from a grizzly (yet seasonal) demise... Coming Christmas 2007!
Mark really loved the idea of the Santa in Futurama being a killer robot; so we took the idea, and decided to take it a step further, by making him a robotic _toy_ santa! Fear our creative prowess! Okay, so maybe it wasn't that original, but we still liked the idea. One concept that got thrown around was the idea of having the Santa be constructed and controlled by the Penguins. Another idea was to actually have a Penguin inside of Santa, controlling him (you could see it through a glass panel in his gut). In the end, we settled on this simple look -- loosely inspired by the fat commander things in Duke Nukem3d.
Concept art by Wei Wang.
futurama refrence