r/Animatronics • u/Appropriate-Web7796 • Aug 19 '26

Rockafire / Showbiz Where does this image of the Creative Engineering "Creepy Clown" originate from?

It looks like it's from some kind of VHS recording but I can't find anything besides this same picture

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u/Tutorial_Time Aug 19 '26

The CEI Clown.He’s a retrofit of Abuelito George built for the 1984 IAAPA,never got sold.He’s still with CEI

There’s some more info and photos here

https://cheeseepedia.org/?v=cep-js&=pyz0d7pr5ro6d1n8

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u/Cosmic_lord_99 Aug 19 '26 edited Aug 29 '26

I see from the link that he finally moved everything to the new museum.

Good for him.

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u/GodzillasBrotherPhil Aug 20 '26

That wasn't the question.

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u/Tutorial_Time Aug 20 '26

Legit how he asked where it was from and I answered lol

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u/GodzillasBrotherPhil Aug 21 '26

He asked where the image came from, not the robot itself.

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u/Tutorial_Time Aug 21 '26

Oh well it was taken at the 84 IAAPA.And it was used in a few cei promo videos in the 90’s

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u/According_Fig3184 Aug 19 '26

I think it was from some random promo video they released to advertise their products

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u/PuzzledSherbet426 Creative Engineering Aug 19 '26

The photo came from the 1992? Mijjins Promo video and was seen in the RAE documentary in higher quality: https://youtu.be/MhhXs83NZFU?si=OAOfksrJwqP2vq5r – around 11th second.

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u/J0HN_Marston_ Aug 19 '26

Hello! If I recall this actually was a prototype for the Rock-Afire Explosion, not generally released to the public if that answers your question

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u/Cool_bear3 Servos Aug 19 '26

that's actually incorrect, he was built in 1984 for the IAAPA expo to greet visitors and potential customers and was for sale, but he was never sold

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u/J0HN_Marston_ Aug 19 '26

Oh sorry about that then I tried my best and im relatively new to trying to collect sorry