From Six Flags to Marriott, Chuck E. Cheese’s Pizza Time Theatre, Carowinds, Hershey, MGM and beyond. Learn about Gene Patrick’s animatronic productions!
Gene certainly had an interesting career, however the work he actually did was often a mixed bag. He was noted multiple times stating that he disliked the art form of animatronics, and that comes off in his shows with bare bones character work, average-poor animatronic construction, scripts that leave a lot to be desired, and the constant recycling of mediocre material from other productions of his. This isn’t to say his whole career was poor, but he had quite a few duds along the way. He also produced and or scripted many adaptations of cartoons into costumed character stage shows. These often make me question if he ever saw the shows he was adapting into stage shows, as he tries to emulate his own style more than the style of the original work. For instance, he produced a show with Bullwinkle Moose battling Snidely Whiplash for the love of a female moose, with Underdog saving the day at the end and Bullwinkle getting the girl. Even still, he also designed many famous theme parks, such as being one of the original designers of Six Flags and Marriott’s Great America. In all, like you displayed, he certainly had an interesting career.
@@FilmmakeroftheFuture Cool. Thank you for telling me about them being there, I don’t think I’ve ever seen pictures of them there. I did just find some people on Facebook talking about it, and someone also mentioned that the mall had a talking reindeer as well.
Very interesting find! Any way that you might be able to upload those floppy disks do archive? I know that they don't contain the soundtrack, but I've always been interested in learning more about the old school ra gray control systems.
@PasqAnimatronics I'm really trying to find the article I saw and I'm not having luck. But it was a few years back, and I remember seeing some sort of an early promotional photo for Sally Industries, showing John Wood standing in front of the R.A. Gray headquarters.
@@MajortheMoose I don’t actually have the audio, which I implied in the video. You could find some of the songs that they reused if you look up Country Helen and Hit Parade.
The Emporium later became Nathan's Fun House around 1989 and removed the Cyberamics around 1996 and replaced it with a new animatronic show which was there until Nathan's closed in 2004. The Cyberamics were most likely auctioned off along with the rest of the games when they remodeled in 96.
@@papachillothezappey4050I did see an article from 1991 that called both the Levittown and Commack locations “Nathan’s At The Emporium” but where did you get the 1989 date?
@@PasqAnimatronics I remember reading an article from around 1989 calling a Nathan's. Could be misremembering the year of the article, but I remember it being dated 1989. I think I still have the article on my computer or phone.
I was wrong. The article was from 96, but it said that Nathan's acquired them (The Emporium) 6 years before. Meaning that Nathan's acquired both Emporium stores in 1990. So I was almost right.
Genuinely good and well explained video. Straight to the point and everything explained quickly and well. I see improvement.
@@atechchuck Thanks, I definitely tried to improve compared to my older ones.
Gene certainly had an interesting career, however the work he actually did was often a mixed bag.
He was noted multiple times stating that he disliked the art form of animatronics, and that comes off in his shows with bare bones character work, average-poor animatronic construction, scripts that leave a lot to be desired, and the constant recycling of mediocre material from other productions of his. This isn’t to say his whole career was poor, but he had quite a few duds along the way.
He also produced and or scripted many adaptations of cartoons into costumed character stage shows. These often make me question if he ever saw the shows he was adapting into stage shows, as he tries to emulate his own style more than the style of the original work. For instance, he produced a show with Bullwinkle Moose battling Snidely Whiplash for the love of a female moose, with Underdog saving the day at the end and Bullwinkle getting the girl.
Even still, he also designed many famous theme parks, such as being one of the original designers of Six Flags and Marriott’s Great America.
In all, like you displayed, he certainly had an interesting career.
Jorge loves the Jhithorn Revue!
I cannot believe that the voice actor of Chuck E. and Mr. Munch created "Bubba and the Happy Holiday bears"
@@gorbaghdasaryan1369 Well, the person who hired him did.
@@PasqAnimatronics Oh okay!
The 4 piece holiday bear show used to perform every Christmas season at Cross Creek Mall.
@@FilmmakeroftheFuture Cool. Thank you for telling me about them being there, I don’t think I’ve ever seen pictures of them there. I did just find some people on Facebook talking about it, and someone also mentioned that the mall had a talking reindeer as well.
this is interesting stuff
@@goofygoober4901 Thanks!
I’ve seen some stuff about these guys recently, so thanks for making a video so easy to understand.
@@animatronicentertainmentdude Thanks for your compliments.
jay hubbard
Awesome again Pasq! Many thanks for posting.
@@mr.dan7144 Of course!
Thanks for this information.
@@UtahJohn777 My pleasure!
0:36 the first non creepy pizzaa time theater costume?
Very interesting find! Any way that you might be able to upload those floppy disks do archive? I know that they don't contain the soundtrack, but I've always been interested in learning more about the old school ra gray control systems.
@@animagic9615 I’m sure there’s a way.
I heard somewhere that the Sally ACS proprietary controllers are actually made by ra gray. you know if that's true?
@@animagic9615 I don’t think so, where’d you hear that though?
@PasqAnimatronics I'm really trying to find the article I saw and I'm not having luck. But it was a few years back, and I remember seeing some sort of an early promotional photo for Sally Industries, showing John Wood standing in front of the R.A. Gray headquarters.
@@animagic9615 R.A. Gray building as in Robert Andrew Gray, they installed an animatronic there. No relation to RA Gray the show control company.
So are you going to dump the floppy discs? Or if you are not what are you going to do with them?
@@kossimotofamily3418 I may. I’d say that there’s a little over 50 of them, so it would take a while to do that for them all.
Was he involved in the Leonard Bearstein show at Regency Square Mall? 😂
@@RanHam The big question! Lol. I’m not completely sure, maybe.
hey im actually searching for info about emporium could you upload the showtapes if you have them
@@MajortheMoose I don’t actually have the audio, which I implied in the video. You could find some of the songs that they reused if you look up Country Helen and Hit Parade.
very cool!!! keep it up!
@@animatronicsshowtapes Thank you so much!
@@PasqAnimatronics your welcome!
WOAH
and do you know what happened to the animatronics from emporium?
The Emporium later became Nathan's Fun House around 1989 and removed the Cyberamics around 1996 and replaced it with a new animatronic show which was there until Nathan's closed in 2004. The Cyberamics were most likely auctioned off along with the rest of the games when they remodeled in 96.
@@papachillothezappey4050I did see an article from 1991 that called both the Levittown and Commack locations “Nathan’s At The Emporium” but where did you get the 1989 date?
@@PasqAnimatronics I remember reading an article from around 1989 calling a Nathan's. Could be misremembering the year of the article, but I remember it being dated 1989. I think I still have the article on my computer or phone.
I was wrong. The article was from 96, but it said that Nathan's acquired them (The Emporium) 6 years before. Meaning that Nathan's acquired both Emporium stores in 1990. So I was almost right.
do you have the link to the original video of the retrofit ptt bots at the emporium?
@@henryhoover5869 th-cam.com/video/8e89WQq36V4/w-d-xo.htmlsi=W1oD9RSFf_Bjsm9M
@@PasqAnimatronics thank you so much!
@@henryhoover5869 No problem!