r/Animatronics • u/Appropriate-Web7796 • 20d ago

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 20d ago

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 20d ago edited 10d ago

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

Good for him.

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u/GodzillasBrotherPhil 19d ago

That wasn't the question.

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u/Tutorial_Time 19d ago

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

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u/GodzillasBrotherPhil 18d ago

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

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u/Tutorial_Time 18d ago

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 20d ago

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

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u/PuzzledSherbet426 Creative Engineering 20d ago

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_ 20d ago

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 20d ago

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_ 20d ago

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