Billy Bob Interactive Animation
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| Type | Animatronic Control Systems |
| Dates | 1984 – 1992 |
| Also known as | Brock Electronics INTERACTIVE ANIMATION SERIES XVI |
| Tags | ShowBiz Pizza Place |
| Contributors | sudo-trans-pony |
Billy Bob Interactive Animation (also just known as Interactive Animation) was a control system developed in 1984 by ShowBiz Pizza Place for the Billy Bob (Animatronic) that allowed an operator to control the character live to interact with guests.
History
Footage from January 23rd, 1987 at the Dallas, TX (13125 Montfort Dr) location, home to the initial training video, has a brief segment where the Fatz animatronic interrupts the middle of a birthday show (that continues to keep playing) and saying a few things before going back to being dormant. It is unclear if this used the Interactive Animation Series Controller, or another method. It is also unknown when this began and ended testing, and if it ever made it outside the Montfort store.
Known Locations
- Dallas, TX (13125 Montfort Dr), seen in 1984 and January 23rd, 1987 .[1]
- North Richland Hills, TX (7935 Grapevine Hwy), seen in January of 1985. [2]
- Darien, IL (7409 Cass Ave), seen in 1987.[3]
Additional source metadata
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manufacturer |
ShowBiz Pizza Place |
References
Import provenance
Imported from Cheese-E-Pedia at source revision 274f085c7132d784f81b7a4cbd96e7a0922db854. Source material is provided under CC BY-SA 4.0.