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! colspan="2" | Source metadata
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| colspan="2" style="text-align:center;" | [[File:Willie The Rabbit thing.avif|frameless|300px]]
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! style="text-align:left; vertical-align:top; width:35%;" | Type
| Animatronics
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! style="text-align:left; vertical-align:top; width:35%;" | Start date
| 1976-08-09
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! style="text-align:left; vertical-align:top; width:35%;" | Tags
| Creative Engineering, Willie Wabbit, Willie Rabbit (Animatronic), Willie Wabbit (Animatronic), Tom Williams, Aaron Fechter
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! style="text-align:left; vertical-align:top; width:35%;" | Contributors
| PTT1977fan, Tobsters ;-;, Anonymous, sudo-trans-pony, Newbie editor, PizzaEntertainment, TutorialTimeYt
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'''''Willie Wabbit''''' was the first animatronic character built by [[Creative Engineering]] in 1976 to advertise ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_Fun_House Mystery Fun House]'' in Orlando, Florida. The Bot was placed in a small glass kiosk at the Orlando Fashion Square near the Sears and Roebuck & Co(Orlando Fashion Square near the Sears and Roebuck & Co) and later at the Orlando Interantional Airport.The exact fate of the bot is unknown,though it was most likely trashed by the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_Fun_House Mystery Fun House].

== History ==

In 1976 [[Creative Engineering]] would be commissioned to create an animatronic to advertise The Mystery Fun House in Orlando Florida. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Fechter Aaron Fechter] would enlist the help of [https://www.instagram.com/p/DbzoD-GgM63 Tom Williams],a former employee of The Main Street Design & Development Company who Aaron had previously worked with,building a control system for a shooting gallery,and initially was supposed to do more,notably a replacement control system for the Colonel Vernon (Animatronic) figure,however this was never completed as Aaron and The Main street group had payment struggles,so Aaron stopped working with them.Shortly after this Main Street went out of business.This led Tom Williams to team up with Aaron which led to the creation of Willie Wabbit.Tom built the actual figure and mech of the rabbit while Aaron built the control system.

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Willie was revealed to the public at the entrance of the Orlando Fashion Square on august 9th 1976 at 11:30 AM with his reveal being [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-p7_qs1ZIMk filmed and later brodcasted] by
WKMG-TV(at the time called WDBO-TV).He was installed in a glass kiosk with black edges,and topper with the Mystery Fun House name and branding near the Sears and Roebuck & Co.

At an unknown point Willie was moved to the Orlando International Airport for his "permanent" display.The Bot was apparently programmed to multiple audio tracks that would play at random, unlike most CEI bots which used full showtapes. The bot also had a coin slot that made Willie move. The bot remained most likely until the early 80's when it was removed.

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There's no concrete info on what happened to the bot after he was removed but there's [https://www.reddit.com/r/Animatronics/s/tS5CcTdqDh reports]that at some point he was stored in a warehouse owned by Mystery Funhouse,however he is not there anymore,meaning he was likely taken out of that warehouse and probably trashed

== Design ==

The bot was a rabbit that wore a red tuxedo with a white patterned undershirt, a black bowtie, a flower and glasses.He had gray fur with lighter eyebrows and a buck-tooth.

== Movements ==

Judging by the available footage the bot had 9 movements

{| class="wikitable"
! Movements
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| Mouth
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| Eyebrow Wiggle
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| Ear Wiggle
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| Head Turn Left
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| Head Turn Right
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| Body Turn Left
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| Right Arm Twist
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| Left Arm Twist
|-
| Feet Wiggle
|}

== Additional source metadata ==
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! Field !! Value
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| <code>manufacturer</code> || <nowiki>Creative Engineering</nowiki>
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| <code>unitsProduced</code> || <nowiki>1</nowiki>
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== Import provenance ==
Imported from [https://github.com/The64thGamer/cheeseepedia/tree/274f085c7132d784f81b7a4cbd96e7a0922db854 Cheese-E-Pedia] at source revision <code>274f085c7132d784f81b7a4cbd96e7a0922db854</code>. Source material is provided under [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ CC BY-SA 4.0].

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