1.   And children, according to a General Accounting Office report, were simply too frightened by the misshapen animated figures to even try to figure them out.

2.   And the animated figures are adorable.

3.   As the actors move past the flat-looking backdrops, they truly seem to be animated figures coming to life.

4.   A mechanical facade celebrates the storming of the Bastille in the French Revolution and animated figures of Victor Hugo and Toulouse-Lautrec appear.

5.   Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble first pelted us with rock puns as animated figures on TV a trio of decades back.

6.   If so, the animated figure -- complete with facial expressions to match the scripted speech -- greets the person and begins providing information.

7.   Instead, an animated figure begins speaking once it detects a human, and instructs users to select information by pressing on the computer screen.

8.   Or perhaps he does not always rely on computer-generated animated figures for his choreography.

9.   The animated figures are still fairly rare, and stores that have them said they are hard to keep in stock.

10.   There are six simultaneous duets, and at the end the animated figures are banished, leaving the live dancers onstage in clusters.