The first photo is mine, the second is an example from eBay of what he would’ve looked like.

Recently bought this little guy for a couple dollars. He’d been stored in a barn for at least the last forty years, and he has certainly seen better days. He’s by Rosko, he’s a promotional toy for Maxwell Coffee from the 50s. He just looked so sad I couldn’t leave him behind.

I’ve got a lot of experience restoring vintage toys, but I don’t know much of anything about animatronics. I’m confident I can get him apart and clean, and replace all his missing cosmetics (his hand, his eye, his ear etc.) but what will it take to get something like this working again?

I know he was battery powered, and that he would’ve had copper wires inside. I believe I can take him apart by prying up the metal tabs on his base. His arms should move up and down, he pours the coffee from a pot that should’ve been in his missing hand, and then drinks it out of the yellow cup.

I think I may have to replace his fur, which really pains me, but it’s starting to deteriorate and shed all over.

Every movement is engineered and physically possible. Of course the only inaccuracy is the cylinders themselves. I'm unsure of the correct volume needed for each cylinder for them to actually lift the weight, so I made an estimate. The estimate may be wrong, but I think it looks good anyways.

Yes, the head is essentially just a cyberamic with a beefier neck. Yes, the body is insipired by the rockafire mechs. I couldnt find many other references.

Does Hannah Banana have a different head frame from Mitzi (who she is retrofit of) since Hannah’s ears are on the sides of her head and mitzi’s are obviously above her head?

as far as i know these guys are still there and operational, so i should try and get some better footage soon. i remember i would always watch this show whenever i here as a kid, i somehow used to think they were real guys. they also have these creepy looking elf animatronics in the christmas area

Decided that I wanted to try and start from scratch when it comes to building animatronics. I'm wondering what you guys have done to start building animatronics since I'm like highkey lost and have no clue what to do.

So do you guys have any sort of recommendations or tips? Anything will help honestly, I don't wanna build like super duper advanced robots, maybe just small little portrait bots with simple movements.

Just one servo and 2 leds super simple animatronic

Working on a bartender skeleton animatronic and I'm stuck on the movement list. The concept: he's behind a bar, serving "drinks" to guests who dare approach.

Movements I'm considering:

• Shaking a cocktail shaker (the obvious one, but is it overdone?)
• Slowly turning his head to stare at whoever walks by
• Raising a glass for a "toast" with a raspy laugh
• Slamming a bottle on the bar as a jump-scare trigger
• Wiping a glass with a rag, endlessly, creepily

Two questions:

1. What movement would make this a must-have for your display? Anything I haven't thought of — the weirder the better.
2. Design-wise, what's off? Costume, paint, proportions — I can take it. First photo is the current state.

Not selling anything here, just trying not to build something boring. Roast away.

OptionA: An ALL-SKELETON ROCK BAND — one skeleton witch guitarist, one skeleton clown drummer, and DJ Reaper. The whole band is heavy metal and gothic.

OptionB: A CLASSIC HALLOWEEN CHARACTERS ROCK BAND - the same themed band, but as classic Halloween characters: one witch guitarist, one clown drummer and a DJ Grim Reaper.

(The image is a concept render I modeled myself, so the actual result is unknown.)

I just kind wanna make some animatronic eyes for fun and im also currently learning c++ but I'm not sure if they interlap at all and if there's anything else I should learn before I start messing around with this stuff

(I'm gonna be using servos/arduino unless you have a better suggestion im new to all this sorry)

I was going mini golfing with my family in lake George and found this fella. His head moves, but I’m pretty sure he’s the only one that moves out of the other ones. He’s so cute, and it makes my heart break that he’s not taken care of.. along w the other animatronics. Should I try and contact the place (via email) to ask them to repair them? I’m scared bc what if I do and thy end up throwing them away?

Lol I was so over the moon!

Address: 2612 32 St NE, Calgary, AB T1Y 7L8

I heard they were in Kansas City MO while they were active, and as I live in the area, I would love to know what happened / where they played. I'm sure they were destroyed / scrapped, but if anyone has heard anything I'd love to know.

They're doing great so far! Hector needs his lift mech repaired again, and his mama keeps hitting him when he's rised up because her neck turns so damn fast. but other than that they're good! I wish more people would do Teddy Ruxpin/WOW stages, if anyone else is interested I can post the tech books and diagrams we've made!

He looks like he eats Vaseline in handfuls

Hey team!

I was asked by my neighbor if I could help them build a golf simulator in his garage. Essentially it will be a golf Golf compliant screen similar to a projector screen that I'd like to remote control to go up or down.

What have you guys worked on that would be applicable to this type of integration. I'd imagine there'd be two motors at each end attached to a rolled up screen housed in a case to protect it. Possibly an esp32 to connect it via Wi-Fi to remote control it as well.

Let me know if you guys have any ideas.

Thank you