Terrifying Animatronic Music Shows

Hey everyone, I'm currently on a busy two week trip and so I won't have much time to respond to comments. However, I'll try to respond to as many as I can. At the very least, I do read all of the comments you've made and I do enjoy scrolling through them!

Mac Tonight at Entertainment McDonalds in Florida DOES still work. I was there earlier this year, and he was still talking, playing music, and tapping his foot. If you're in the area, swing by and check him out!

i wish more animatronic shows still existed, especially in one-off chuck e cheese style locations. producing basic animatronics is so much cheaper now and a lot of the cost issues cec themselves went through were due to running old animatronics and never upgrading them to modern systems and instead choosing to struggle with the fact that replacement parts stopped being produced. i also just feel that it'd at least draw in a fun nostalgia crowd for animatronic-based dining (and with fnaf's popularity maybe if someone wanted to lean into an animatronic horror theme it could turn out really well). honestly i just wish themed dining past tiki bars still existed more, i miss experiences like the rainforest cafe as a kid even as tacky as it was.

One of the strangest animatronic shows I've ever seen is a Pigeon Forge breakfast restaurant called Frizzle Chicken Farmhouse Cafe, which features dozens of animatronic chickens clucking out parodies of pop songs while you eat. A fever dream of a restaurant.

I grew up going to Chuck E Cheese, which never bothered me (well, except the window frame animatronics), but i have vague memories of going to a Showbiz Pizza when I was 6 or 7 and being really unsettled by Rockafire Explosion. And for years, I thought the memories were bad dreams, until about 15 years ago when I started looking up creepy animatronics for fun.

5:24 I believe she's singing "Hopelessly Devoted to You" from "Grease" which makes sense because Olivia Newton-John herself (who originally sang this song) was Australian

Animatronics in restaurants can do a lot in bringing the places to life, especially if the restaurant has a theme to go along with the animatronics. The fad of animatronic dinner shows deserves another chance

I love when you cover more obscure topics like this. This channel has quickly caught up to Defunctland and Yesterworld in terms of being a top tier theme park history channel and also in terms of unique video topics.

And of course, the biggest irony is that Disney themselves have pretty much turned their backs on the whole AA 'revue' shows of late. (Even CBJ is about to get a 'refurb' that might not last very long).

The Tukwila, WA Bulwinkles still has their animatronics. They only perform on weekends, but they’re well cared for and the staff takes a lot of pride keeping them maintained.

Glad more channels are covering animatronics! Great job on this one! 👍

I’m legitimately shocked you didn’t mention Jungle Jim’s international market outside Cincinnati Ohio. There’s 2 locations, one in East Gate and the original in Fairfield on the Dixie Highway. The store has a fascinating history, a lot of insane theming and Animatronics. They have a giant log of cheese, a refurbished Chuck E Cheese king animatronic branded as Elvis in the candy section, sherwood forrest with an animatronic Robin Hood in the British food section, a monorail and a bathroom that’s themed to look like a porta potty from the outside but is an actual bathroom inside amongst other things. Also the store’s owner, Jungle Jim himself, will at times show up to check on operations, WEARING A WIZARD OUTFIT! Jungle Jim’s is nuts and you should look into it.

For context on the gold coast part- its a reigon, not a suburb, so its called the gold coast. the suburb the place is, is coomera

The Chuck E Cheese near our house as a kid had the usual main show room, but they also had two other rooms with animatronics. One was a Dolly Parton (hippo, I think?) sitting behind a bar. The other was a huge, full body Lion that performed Elvis songs. I was a big Elvis fan as a kid so I was excited at first but seeing it in motion was TERRIFYING as a small child!

There's an animatronic display in a Mollie Stone's grocery store in Palo Alto, California where a farmer, his animals, and anthropomorphic fruits and vegetables sing songs. The weird thing is that many of the songs have nothing to do with food. One of them is about staying away from drugs, for example.

Excellent Vlog as always, I have been to Florida 14 times since 95, am from Liverpool UK. I can remember going to International Drive and staying in the Quality inn international next to the McDonald’s and I remember the Full animatronics show back in 95 it was in the downstairs section of the McDonald’s before the character was move upstairs to its present location. I was 23 years old back then and I am sure I even had it on a old VHS video I took but lost in time. Keep up the great work 👍👍👍

I was actually in Orlando recently and I got to visit the Mac Tonight McDonald's, including sitting in a seat where he was staring me down. He wasn't moving while I was there, but there are speakers installed under his piano that still play classic rock & roll music every now and then. And it sounds like they're still using his old audio for the intros and outros because at least once he mentioned he was going to take a break for a bit. On a related note, some McDonald's locations had a small animatronic show installed consisting of Ronald McDonald and a talking burger, fries, and drink cup he was holding. Customers had to manually press a button to start the show. I don't think any of them still exist anymore though.

Animatronics in non Amusement Park/playplace locations is always a fascinating one. I remember as a kid going out to dinner at my local Bugaboo Creek Steakhouse and just being terrified of the talking trees right at the entrance right when you walked in. They had other various animatronic characters but those damn trees haunted my dreams like no other. Also there was a specialty store called the Christmas Loft in North Conway, NH that had talking animatronic animals and such throughout the store. Kind of a surreal thing to witness as a kid tbh.

I can’t lie, I clicked on this video solely bc of Mac Tonight😂 I became fascinated with him when I was 5, after my first ever Disney trip. I’d seen Sonny Eclipse for the first time, and I’d never seen anything like him. So to see this guy outside the park was mind blowing to my little self! The happy meal toy was Max on a red car that I still have to this day. The way I was absorbed into this deep dive was incredible, spectacular work!!!

I would absolutely LOVE to see you cover showbiz pizza in any capacity. Great video!!!