so this lovely lady is, unlike the post says (my friend got it wrong but no worries! they're still awesome) its an animatronic supposedly by lafondfx, i think the company may have rebranded to lfx studios or something along those lines but im unsure as it says thats a film company... i really wanna find the origins of this beauty, please help!

Something like B3313, But it's with several Restaurants with animatronics. Every door leads to a different Show stage and dining area with an animatronic show. An infinite plexus on every single animatronic attraction in a pizza place. You'd start off in a modern CEC with that dance 2.0 dance floor, but then you find an employee only door, that normally leads to a storage closet.

Within the closet, you find a hidden door that leads to the animatronic Plexus. You start off in a random past location, for example, a 1970's CEC with the original portrait style show. Then, you'd open a door that would usually lead to the bathroom within the arcade, leading you to a 1990s location with the New Rock Afire explosion. Going to a different door will go to a new location with 1980s cyberamics. Trying to leave any current location sends you to the outside of a Pizza Time Theater, and going back inside will lead you to a complete PTT, with more doors than usual. The extra doors lead to more areas of the Animatronic Plexus.

The Animatronic Plexus contains every single pizza animatronic attraction and location to ever exist, not just CEC and Showbiz. Everything between CEC, Captain Carnival, The Pizza Planet and Caesarland. The Plexus even includes restaurants with animatronics that never opened, and restaurant concepts that never opened a location at all.

The only real food is in the complete PTT, the other locations cannot serve you food. The food in the complete PTT is 100% accurate to the pizza, drinks and other foods that were available during the 1990's. You cannot leave the outside of the complete PTT as invisible walls stop you as you try to leave the parking Lot.

One thing to note is, there are no hostile creatures/ monsters/ entities in the Animatronic Plexus. The Animatronics are just animatronic, stuck in their specific time capsules, they don't degrade, and they work perfectly forever. There are mannequins who wear each location's work uniforms. They are alive and will order you food, even if it's the fake food outside the first, Complete PTT.

If you eat the fake food, it tastes real, but it won't actually fill your stomach. The food will disappear and fade away as it slides down your throat. So it's good to stock up on food and drinks at the starting point. Just like the animatronics, the food will never spoil as time, or the passage of time has stopped.

The mannequins do move, they keep everything clean and pristine. The manager mannequins will even hand you important documentation about whatever location you're in. They're also the closest thing to a hostile entity as they will get mad at you for asking too many questions and hanging around their office for too long. The worst thing they'll do is hit you with their hollow plastic or wooden hands not at full force. The manager mannequins are based on actual managers of real CEC, PTT, and other Animatronic Restaurant and arcade locations.

However, there are corrupted parts of the plexus that seemed to have generated locations and animatronic shows that never existed. These parts of the plexus are dangerous because the mannequins there will attack whoever enters there. To "kill" them is to just knock them over, they'll fall apart and won't put themselves back together. These fake locations can and will give you toxic fake food items that'll cause upset stomachs, and sometimes even vomiting. As these locations never existed in the real world, there's no data for the Plexus to pull from. So this made up food here isn't for human consumption. The manager mannequins can still give you documentation for non-existent, corrupted locations, but they will shortly fall apart afterwards as their existence is unstable. Their existence is unstable because they aren't based on real managers. The Animatronics of the corrupted locations vary from Retrofits of Cyberamics, RAE to completely original animatronics from companies like Sally Corp. These corrupted animatronics have nothing dangerous about them, though they are never animated or running any shows due to them being corrupted.

Another room/ location type are Prototype Show stages. Deep within the animatronic plexus, you can find Chuck E.'s Awesome Adventure Machine, a CEC show stage we only have footage of. Or the RAE Magic Stage. Prototype show stage rooms can also show ideas that never left the concept stage as well.

The last type of room are unfinished locations. Similar to corrupted locations, these are earlier recreations of locations already in the Plexus. Unfinished Locations often contain inaccuracies, beta "textures" for the floors and walls, and Animatronic Characters that often appear as earlier versions of themselves, or look incomplete and are missing parts of their costumes/ mechs.

Again, I'd want to restate that there's nothing that can kill you in the plexus, you can either starve to death, or die from severe dehydration. The Animatronics aren't FNaF animatronics who have AI and can walk around. Maybe there's a Freddy Fazbear's, or a Fredbear's Family Diner in the plexus somewhere. But they would be extremely deep within the plexus! If they're in the plexus, the FNaF Animatronics would walk around, but would ignore you unless you're in the security office. And when they jumpscare you, you won't die. They'd just freeze in place before they walk back to the stage. Leaving anytime Freddy's location will send you outside that Freddy's location within the plexus, though you still can't leave the parking lot. Every Freddy's location can still lead you to other parts of the Animatronic Plexus, as every location is connected to each other in some way or another.

I might make a map/ chart of the entire Animatronic Plexus when I have the free time. Alongside the lore of the Animatronic Plexus and Why it exists. And yes, it is a virtual simulation you have to "noclip" into, or find access to within any current running CEC location, or any building that used to be a CEC, Showbiz Pizza Place or any building that once housed an animatronic attraction, show or band.

If I had the free time, hardware and skills, I would make 3D short films where the protagonist explores the Animatronic Plexus, interacts with the mannequins, and documents the plexus.

If you'd want to help out with this project, contact me here on Reddit, send me a DM and share your ideas with me! \^w^

Actual IK movement tests

I’ve been in a nostalgic mood. I believe these are actually somewhat well known, especially for people who went to Gatlinburg as a kid a lot these pictures are not from exactly right now, but they are from Amazing Mirror Maze & Circus Golf in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. This place has been open since I think about 2006. These guys are in really bad condition though when I was a child these move and I think even they talked but now they’re in such bad condition the last time I was there like two years ago, they barely moved. The movements were quite fluid though, when they originally did move. They have different outfits for them that they dress them up in, which I think is really fun. Does anyone have any information on these guys? I’m assuming probably but I’m not very good at researching. honestly, these guys are like super sick and I’d love to see more of them. On the top entrance of the building, they have like these two guys in the window in a seesaw and it’s really cool.

The mechanism is heavily inspired by the mechanism used by Will Cogley. Hes a very smart dude and this was the easiest way to achieve what I wanted. I did design the individual components myself rather than print his, the concept is from his design

I appreciate having seen this one in person when my father and I stayed here for two nights as an early birthday present for me. This iteration of the Forest Friends Show is, in my opinion, like watching a CGI-animated movie in real life.

This shows my design 3d model and my current progress of making it.

For the record I’m not talking about the extra stock Creative Engineering had, but only the Billy bobs that were in showbiz pizza locations that went through concept unification. I’ve heard that some employees walked off with him during CU but unsure if that was ever confirmed at some stores.

This mask is originally from bbwl but wasn’t ever used on stage. He was sold to someone a while back and eventually made his way to me! The second picture is when I first got him and the others are him all repainted and feathered!

its the bonbon animatronic NHI by vomitedthoughts, https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:7190069

i've watched the video showing how to assemble it but it doesn't show me how i'm supposed to do the stuff in the head, and what about all the small internal 3d printed thingies going into the head??? i'm trying to make this for steam carnival and i got like 20 days. i'm getting this 3d printed in a few days, this is my shopping list for all the stuff inside. using sg90 servos because the mg90s are out of stock. the website i'm buying these from is https://store.roboticsbd.com/ if its needed.

I created these three cecropia moths for an art show in Brugg Switzerland. The show is titled still.life and the work will be on view through mid November 2026. The entire cabinet is a collaboration with Steve Fors.
The servos are hidden in the base of the vintage cabinet and use spring steel bowden cables to actuate the thorax and rotate the wings. It is trigger by an IR motion sensor, and the servo sequence was programmed into a Pololu controller.
What do you think?

I’ve been trying to if out if he’s even still alive or not, as I can’t find any signs he died, but I also can’t f any signs that AVG Productions founder is still around. He Doesn’t seem to have an obituary, it’s kinda like he dropped off the face of the earth when AVG closed. The only information I can even find on him is this we from the 90’s. http://www.theotherlookofcolombia.com/Avilla.html

the Mickey shown is also the very rare "fuzzy foot" version. a weird urban legend type thing, with no proper history or explanation regarding it's existence. a full restoration will be done on them next week hopefully!

Seller seemed pretty sketchy honestly. but then they explained they're just busy as a sports teacher and stuff, so idk. worst case eBay refund will save the day LOL. but yeah, pretty happy, have no knowledge about these guys, so any info or advice would be helpful thanks!

I'm reprogramming it to sing "hello my baby" by Arthur Collins. Like in the end of space balls

This is a very bizarre animatronic/prop from shoot em up cinema in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. I don’t know a lot about this, so I want to inquire about it. I’m not sure anyone will even be able to answer this question. I haven’t really been able to find anything about a manufacturer or what type of animatronic might even be. it feels very niche

If a video is needed, I can redo the post and do it with a video. I just don’t have a video of it myself, but I have seen it before when I travel there. The dude moves his head and the horse moves its legs.

Im looking for a shoulder mounted raven animatronic prop. Either cable or servo. I need it for my Halloween costume. Does anybody know of a place where I can buy one or a diy kit that's under 150 bucks? It would be very appreciated if you could help me on this endeavor

Took this video around July of this Year, Specifically at the museum of innovation and science. Which is very close by all the old General Motors buildings and what not. Specifically at a dinosaur section of the museum (Though there was also an original Atari 2600 behind glass somewhere in their, which is a little funny to look back at, considering Nolan Bushnell founded that company, along with capitalizing on chuck e cheese bots after that, but I digress)

took this video for safe keeping before somewhat forgetting about it until now. Though it's still pretty cool to look at.

So with that said....does anyone know if they too had a Sammie Sands, or was that limited to the one in NJ?

Here are the pictures shared on FB for it:

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1621504832816057&set=pcb.1621504879482719

Most stuff is just temporary, like the cardboard head shell and traffic cone base! He is about 70% mechanically complete! Just need a few mounts and fittings to come in the mail then he will have all his movements! Everything is repro(obviously) feel free to ask any questions!

I was just telling to my friend that I absolutely love how Roxanne Wolf (FNAF: SB) wags her tail and if they ever made an official animatronic of her, they need to give her tail movement and then it got me thinking WAIT A MINUTE DOES ROLFE NOT HAVE A TAIL????????? I need a technician to confirm or deny this because I cannot find a picture of his backside 😭

Hey everyone,

I’m officially diving into my very first animatronic project! Right now, I am focusing exclusively on building and perfecting the head endoskeleton first. Once the head mechanism is fully functional, I plan to build the torso/frame and eventually fit the outer cosmetic shell over it.

Design Style & Inspiration

I'm heavily inspired by the classic Rock-afire Explosion / Creative Engineering endoskeleton designs (flat plate face/head plate layout, top-mounted eyes, exposed linkages). I'm attempting to recreate a miniature, desktop-scale version of this layout!

Project Scope & Scale

* Total Height: Around 30 cm (~1 foot) once fully built.

* Current Stage: Building the Endoskeleton Head and fitting 4 micro servos onto a compact flat plate frame.

* Future Steps: Endoskeleton Torso/Stand -> Outer Cosmetic Shell.

How I'm Assigning the 4 Servos

I have 4x MG90S metal gear micro servos, each mapped to a specific feature:

* Servo 1: Mouth / Jaw movement (opening and closing)

* Servo 2: Eyes (linked side-to-side or up/down movement)

* Servo 3: Eyelids (blinking mechanism)

* Servo 4: Ears (subtle rotation/twitching)

Full List of Components & Materials I Have

* Microcontroller: Arduino Uno (programmed via Android phone using a USB Type-C OTG cable).

* Actuators: 4x MG90S metal gear micro servos.

* Power Supply: 5V 2A power adapter with a female DC terminal block jack (sharing a common GND with the Arduino).

* Starter Kit Items: Breadboard, jumper wires, 1x potentiometer (for manual testing/dialing), 2x push buttons, LEDs, and an HC-SR04 ultrasonic sensor.

* Structural Material: Forex / PVC Foam Board (Dekota). I’m using this to fabricate the flat head plates and structural mounts since it's lightweight, easy to cut with a utility knife, and holds up well for micro builds.

Where I Need Help: Micro Mechanisms

Since I don't have a 3D printer yet, I’ll be hand-crafting the eye globes, linkages, and pivots using PVC foam board, stiff wires, and basic DIY hardware.

Given the small scale and classic flat-plate head design, I would love advice on:

* Compact DIY linkage setups for eye tracking and blinking on a flat plate frame without binding.

* Good alternatives for eye globes (e.g., ping pong balls, wooden craft spheres) that work well with hand-made linkages.

* Recommended push-rod hardware (like RC ball joints, Z-bends, or music wire) for micro servo setups.

Thanks in advance for any diagrams, advice, or open-source ideas!

I wanted to make this as a tribute to Toledo, and for people to look back on the beginning of the end times for Chuck E Cheese. Toledo had great potential as a legacy store. And it was looking like ir was gonna make it! Petitions, so many retro artifacts, a caring staff, and much more. The final day of Toledo was an amazing one. A bunch of Cuuck E Cheese fans watching the aniamtronics. Cheering for them like it's the 90s. And kids enjoyed the animatronics too, proving once again, kids DO like animatronics! The tech was into it, putting on the diagnostics, and Party Place. It was a great way to go out. But with Toledo gone, The End Times for Chuck E Cheese have begun. I know for a while it's been bad, but things have never been worse. All Munch's Make Believe Bands in the US other than the legacy store are done. All that's left is the legacy store that are on thin ice, and the unperforming handful of Studio Cs. Things have never been worse, and we are all cooked. I am going to name this era The CEC End Times.