Restoring Showbiz Pizza's Animatronic Robots!

Does anyone else think that the instance open and instance close was not the normal operation of these devices? I am thinking that should have been a bleeder valve that could at least give you a different rate of opening and closing the air value to give a much movement compare to the jerky movement saw in the video.

I thought a player piano brain just didn't just bang "on" the keys. I recall the old 8 track player piano system that Yamaha bought out. I recall it was suppose to imitate the keys of the famous people who played the piano...

Just something odd. I wonder if the resident chuckie cheese expert can chim in. Maybe chuckie runs on servos and not air.
 
Does anyone else think that the instance open and instance close was not the normal operation of these devices? I am thinking that should have been a bleeder valve that could at least give you a different rate of opening and closing the air value to give a much movement compare to the jerky movement saw in the video.

I thought a player piano brain just didn't just bang "on" the keys. I recall the old 8 track player piano system that Yamaha bought out. I recall it was suppose to imitate the keys of the famous people who played the piano...

Just something odd. I wonder if the resident chuckie cheese expert can chim in. Maybe chuckie runs on servos and not air.

I believe pneumatics was and still is the norm for animatronic character movement. There are a few interesting tech documents online from companies that carry out the bulk of the anmatronic design and fabrication work for Disney attractions. They all utilize compressed air and pneumatic cylinders.
 
Former CEC tech here. It's all air. Most of the "modern" ones do 16 or 32 movements.
 
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