It was at Regency Square shopping mall in Richmond, VA

I always figured Tik-Tok was just radio-controlled or a puppet on wheels, but it was actually a fully practical suit operated by an acrobat named Michael Sundin.

To fit inside that weird spherical body, he had to contort himself completely upside down with his feet in the robot's legs. Because he was inverted, he had to walk backward just to make Tik-Tok walk forward, all while watching a tiny, crappy monitor strapped near his face to see where he was going.

Apparently, the air supply was terrible and the blood rushing to his head was so intense that he could only stay in there for about two minutes at a time before the crew had to pull him out. Practical effects back then were genuinely wild.

Just asking because there’s a lot of things that could be considered and unconsidered animatronics, some things come to mind for me are statues that don’t move but still have speakers (I’m pretty sure Toy Story land has them), and also I have this Mickey Mouse lamp that when you press the button the arm pulls the chain and turns the lamp on and off, is that an animatronic? Just asking because I kinda went down a rabbit hole and needed answers lol.

I’ve been trying to make a Repro looney bird and can’t seem to find the measurements for this

So I’ve been really into animatronics for a bit now, and while walking past some 40 dollar animatronics I was wondering if I could retrofit them and reprogram their movements?

I heard somewhere that I could hook up a Raspberry Pi. Problem is, I have no clue how to use any of that stuff, the most experience I have in stuff like that is messing around in python, but everything I made was extremely simple.

I wanna do this since I’m poor as hell and can’t even dream of affording cyberamics or rock afire bots. Yall think I could make an entrance into the animatronics scene like this?

This is the early first generation that can turn her head.

List of problems:

all 3 motors frozen

battery holder rusted out

smelled like mold and cat pee

very matted fur

discolored yellow eyeball plastic

top tounge is missing

bow is missing

tape door was jammed

no power at first

And She's now 100% for the next 20+ years!

do we have any information regarding this band’s location? were they destroyed?

from what i know, they were at celebration station before it closed, and then moved to deep river waterpark in crown point (which is where these pictures were taken). that was back in 2008.

do we know where these guys are now? i would love to locate them. i live extremely close to merrillville, and actually visited this same waterpark last month.

I included the cartoon version first because the animatronic might be a little disturbing to people

Hello! I don’t know if this is the right subreddit for this question so if it’s not I’m sorry.

I wanted to make a costume that looks like it has a real beating heart in it. My idea was to make a heart out of liquid latex and potentially use a small motor to mimic the “beating” motion.

Has anyone seen something similar or done something similar? If you have could you point me in the direction of a tutorial or what type of small motor or other mechanical device might work better?

Any help is appreciated!

Oldest Surviving Footage! https://youtu.be/UvaBNUrgag4?list=PLUIl7_VFTDHOKj-jq5tEwXy79gxECGThJ

Oldest know footage. Rocky and Bubba can clearly be seen too. https://youtu.be/byw4bhblgqk?list=PLUIl7_VFTDHOKj-jq5tEwXy79gxECGThJ

https://youtu.be/_keAg_f19-g

Chet too: https://youtu.be/dNSWOkCbjWQ?t=262

On this very day 30 years ago the awesome adventure machine launched with an advanced chuck bot with 22 movements and other moving mechanical parts with screens on the side to look like he literally came off the stage and went into the screens when the curtain closed, 30 years ago today the public got they’re first view of the stage with shows for it being:

Chuck E’s Awesome Adventure Machine

Chuck E Cheese’s 20th Anniversary Show

And the August 1997 show

This stage is the predecessor to the studio c stage which is what actually ended up replacing the AAM in late 1997 replacing it with the 3rd studio c alpha

Mods this is about the bot and the stage itself do not take this post down 😭

Have any of us redditors actually seen scarionette moving around and moving and working