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In 1979, David L. Brown obtained licensing rights to use intellectual properties from the Jay Ward Productions and Total Television catalog. Brown's first project involving IPs from these two studios came in the form of Bullwinkle's Call of the Wild Show, a live stage production featuring the characters of Bullwinkle J. Moose, Rocky the Flying Squirrel, Snidley Whiplash, Underdog, and Moonbeam ...
Chuck E. Cheese (formerly known as Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza Time Theatre, Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza, and simply Chuck E. Cheese's) is an American entertainment restaurant chain founded on May 17, 1977, by Atari, Inc.'s co-founder Nolan Bushnell. [1]
Trader Sam's uses animatronics, lighting, sound effects, and employee interaction when certain drinks are ordered.They include; tiki carvings with moving eyes that slowly move back and forth, an animated shipwreck in a bottle, erupting volcanoes, and bar stools that sink slowly into the floor. [6]
CEI produced the chain's animatronics show, The Rock-afire Explosion. [4] The first ShowBiz Pizza Place location opened to the public in Kansas City, Missouri, on March 3, 1980. [2] By September 1981, there were 48 company-owned outlets and 42 franchises. [5] The company's headquarters was moved the following year to Irving, Texas. [6] [7]
Amalgamated Dynamics, Inc. (ADI) is an American visual effects company specializing in animatronics and prosthetic make-up, headquartered in Chatsworth, California.It was founded in 1988 by Stan Winston alumni Tom Woodruff Jr. and Alec Gillis, who hails from Phoenix, Arizona.
An animatronic is a mechatronic puppet controlled electronically by machine to move in a fluent way. [1] They are a modern variant of the automaton and are often used for the portrayal of characters in films, video games and in theme park attractions. Animatronics are a multidisciplinary field integrating puppetry, anatomy and mechatronics.
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Don Kingsborough had been inspired to start a company when Ken Forsse's company, Alchemy II, solicited him to promote an electronic talking teddy bear invented by its animatronics design team who had worked on The Hall of Presidents at Walt Disney World. [4] He said, "The minute I saw it I knew it was going to be successful". [3]