So here’s everything I know: according to [AAP source], this year the first-years who traditionally build the dragon have been working on what [source] calls ‘animatronics,’ or mechanized creations that mimic the movements of animals. Some projects mentioned: a praying mantis arm, an elephant’s trunk that could actually pick a stick up off the ground, and an octopus that crawled out of a box, looked around, and slunk back in. These aren’t robots–they’re basically really intricate puppets. So [he] was hinting that this year’s dragon should be able to move more and be more puppet-like than any of the previous dragons.

Our source even cooked up some ridiculous speculations about what the dragon might do:

Some ridiculous speculations about what the dragon might do: fly away on leathery wings? break free of the architects and start humping Ezra Cornell’s leg? crawl up the side of Uris and disappear into the ventilation system?

Publicity for Dragon Day came today in the form of bare-chested architects slathered in green paint, wearing exercise clothes. As they ran around campus looking very, very cold, they yelled at to anyone with a grin, “DRAGON DAY!”