Mitzi Mozzarella (Mijjin)
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| Type | Animatronics |
| Dates | 1993 – 2019-01 |
| Tags | Creative Engineering, New Rock-afire Explosion, Mitzi Mozzarella (Mijjin), Mitzi Mozzarella, Mijjins, New Rock Afire Explosion Stage, New Rock Afire Explosion, Billy Bob's Toyland Adventure Show |
| Contributors | TutorialTimeYt |
The Mitzi Mozzarella (Mijjin) was an animatronic produced by Creative Engineering for the New Rock-afire Explosion show in 1993 [1] She is a Mijjin style version of the Mitzi Mozzarella (Animatronic)
History
The Mitzi Mozzarella Mijjin would start development and be finished in 1993 [2] The bot is a Mijjin style version of the Mitzi Mozzarella (Animatronic) built 13 years earlier in 1980.Mitzi was given redesigned to give her an at the time,more modern and hip look,heavily inspired by Madonna.
The first 2 New Rock-afire Explosion shows built known as the "beta" shows had multiple minor cosmetic and scenic differences from later shows.Mitzi would only differ on the first show with her having a huge curly blonde wig that waved around while she performed on stage.This was only used while the first show acted as the programing stage,but when it was sold and shipped to Pleasure Island the wig was removed. [3]
The bot would continue to be installed at multiple Family Entertainment Centers and theme parks throughout the 90's with the last 2 installed publicly at the 2 Odyssey fun world locations being removed in January of 2019,and are now owned by private collectors. [4]
Design
This bot is a standard Mijjin mech with green eye pieces.It is a smaller Mijjin style version of the Mitzi Mozzarella (Animatronic) from the Rock-afire Explosion sporting a new,more glamorous outfit made up of a shiny pink satin shirt,a black leather strapless dress with a Sparkly Rainbow fabric skirt with Black dots,a neck ruffle made of the same fabric,black shorts and black heeled boots.
Outfit variants
First Show
On the first New Rock-afire Explosion stage while it was being used as the programing stage at Creative Engineering Mitzi had a large,high-volume,curly blonde wig [2]
Sports Plus
The bot wore a light pink shirt with wrist and neck ruffles,2 orange and pink buttons,a blue,red,green and yellow plaid dress with suspenders,white shorts with ruffled bottoms and black heeled boots. [5]
Odyssey Fun World Naperville Original Outfit
The bot wore a light pink shirt with wrist and neck ruffles,2 orange and green buttons,a blue,red,green and yellow plaid dress with suspenders,a neck tie made of the same fabric and black heeled boots. [6]
Toyland
The bot wore a light pink shirt with wrist and neck ruffles,2 orange and pink buttons,a blue,red,green and yellow plaid dress with suspenders,a bow headband made of the same fabric,white shorts with ruffled bottoms and black heeled boots. [7]
Mampato
The bot wore a pink,yellow and purple shiny plastic like dress with white patterned lace ends and and black heeled boots [8]
Edina, MN Circus Pizza
The bot had her standard outfit,except she was missing the black leather part of the dress. [9]
Odyssey Fun World Naperville second oufit
The bot wore a shiny pink satin shirt with a neck ruffle and skirt made out of a sliver and rainbow leopard print like fabric. [4]
Mechanical Structure
The Mijjins are mostly made up of casted resin parts,with a few square aluminium bars,steal rods,steal universal joints,and varios nuts,bolts and washers of various sizes.The head of the character also incluedes 2 custom eyes and a pair of Rock-afire Explosion eylids connected togheter from the back.On top of the mech goes over multiple vacuum formed transparent plastic shells that give the character shape.Then on top of those go the leather guards that protect the cosmetics from getting caught in the mech trough the gaps in the shells.The bot is mounted onto a circular wooden base with smiley face-esc cutouts on the top.The "eyes" are where the character's feet go while the mouth is a trapdoor which reveals the character's valves,on the bottom of the door is also put a chart with the character's movements and valve numbers [10]
The character like almost every other Creative Engineering bot runs on pneumatic cylinders produced by the companies Fabco-Air Inc and custom Creative Engineering.inc branded cylinders.These cylinders are than actuated with Mac valves stored in the character's circular base.The eye movements are controlled with servos,the brand of these servos is unknown.
Movements
The bot has 27 movements,21 pneumatic,6 servo controlled [11]
| Movement | Valve Number | Bit | Drawer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mouth | 1 | 1 | Top |
| Lip | 2 | 2 | Top |
| Head Up | 3 | 3 | Top |
| Head turn | 4 | 4 | Top |
| Head tilt left | 5 | 5 | Top |
| Right wrist | 6 | 6 | Top |
| Right elbow | 7 | 7 | Top |
| Right arm twist | 8 | 8 | Top |
| Right arm raise | 9 | 9 | Top |
| Right shoulder | 10 | 10 | Top |
| Left wrist | 11 | 11 | Top |
| Left elbow | 12 | 12 | Top |
| Left arm twist | 13 | 13 | Top |
| Left arm raise | 14 | 14 | Top |
| Left shoulder | 15 | 15 | Top |
| Head tilt right | 16 | 16 | Top |
| Body turn right | 17 | 17 | Top |
| Body tilt left | 18 | 18 | Top |
| Body tilt right | 19 | 19 | Top |
| Knee bend | 20 | 20 | Top |
| Ears | 21 | 105 | Top |
| Servo Movements | Bit | Drawer |
|---|---|---|
| Lids Open | 81 | Top |
| Eyes Left | 82 | Top |
| Eyes Right | 83 | Top |
| Eyes Up | 84 | Top |
| Eyes Down | 86 | Top |
| Lids Close | 86 | Top |
References
Import provenance
Imported from Cheese-E-Pedia at source revision 274f085c7132d784f81b7a4cbd96e7a0922db854. Source material is provided under CC BY-SA 4.0.