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The later model with the LED displays, and touch buttons were in most every coffee shop in my area. Denny's had them. Disneyland was one of the amusement parks which had them as well. I owned one which I bought from the area Computer Salvage yard in Gardena, California. Cleaned it up, repaired the PC board. The voltage/current padding resistors for the 7-segment LED displays were mounted too close to the PC board and the epoxy/glass board would become burned, then causing the copper traces to peel. I found and knew the gentleman who owned the Bio-Rhythm business here in California. He had a warehouse space which was part of the post office where he lived. I wish I could remember which city that was in. This in the mid to late 1990s. The print out cards were a bit different in that they had a few more colors printed on the card stock as a background. I seem to remember it was cyan and yellow. The cards were no longer on a roll, but fan folded into a cardboard box of several thousand, which saved on the cardboard rolls, packing etc. The peak points were written with a ball point pen filler. I remember he explained, there was some extensive research done to find a ball point pen filler which would operate until the ink ran out and didn't fail prematurely. The pinned printer with the solenoids (dot matrix) print the day/date you select and and your birthdate on outer edge of the card (long side). It was still a 25 or possibly 50 cents to create/print a Bio-Rhythm card. I do not remember exactly. I installed the one I had in a new Irish/British restaurant/bar dance club in West Los Angeles named "Scruffy O'Shea's". I worked for a pro-sound and lighting company at the time (Sound Unlimited Systems in North Hollywood, CA). Placing it in the establishment at the time was easy as I knew the owners. The first week it was plugged in and turned on it made something in the neighborhood of $35-50 gross. After a few weeks though it's novelty wore off and it was then making about $10 a week. The approaching problem though was the software and calendar EPROM on the main control PC board. The calendar data ended in 1999 and would no longer be accurate beginning in the year 2000. The owner of the business was searching for someone to write a new calendar. The bids he received (from my foggy memory) started at $2500 or more.

I’ve never done the Country Bear Jamboree in WDW, but I did do the one on Morey’s Pier in the 80s. I loved Chuck E. Cheese but these animatronics are awesome!

I hope you can get those tapes spooled on a reel to reel & captured digitally soon. Even that one which looks broken may just be where the splice originally was.

This is amazing. I’m an audio engineer/producer, and as much as I love just hearing about it, my wife is a librarian at Rice University. I’ve suggested the topic to her, because she does a lot of material on aging media.

Nice Rack !!

Wow, fascinating stuff! Always wondered how big amusement parks did the repeating sounds at all the attractions, never thought about it being centrally located like that. Amazing that you were able to save the equipment and tapes, thank you for showing us!

China and Russia could do this better than America

Please more Chinese communist content

That's really cool preserving Asbury Park history. I still have an original cassette with the music used on the merry go round. It was given to me many years ago by the gentleman who was the ride operator for years.

Last month i saw the drum and oboe for sale on ebay

I remember when some radio stations used Mackenzie carts for commercials. Boy that sure dates me.

Please continue God's work!!!! Let the imagination be free to find a new home.

Hi! I want to help you archive those tapes. All it would take is to get a few of those decks running, and some time with Audacity :)

We have a zamperla boxer in our garage and i cant imagine how many other people hurt their hands wailing on that bag

My friends!!! I was filled with so much sorrow when Major Magics closed down. A lot of my childhood had been robbed from me, and hearing that an old place of comfort I used to frequent was also gone really hit me hard. I had always wanted to know what happened to the animatronics, and felt so awful thinking about what may have happened. Seeing them again has brought me a joy I have not felt in a long long time. Thank you for being so kind to them! You have no idea how happy that makes me, and I know that it was no easy task! Thank you so much for giving them life again and allowing folks to see them in video form! Might have to make a trek out to NJ one day to see them. (:

I absolutely loved the dark rides and shooting galleries back in the day. Thanks for sharing Randy.

a hungarian fortune teller, spooky!

i would absolutely love to see those big tanks perform! so cool that you own your own set of them

I wonder if those could be opened up and transferred to a reel tape guide and played on a reel-to-reel player/recorder and archived that way. Then a sound tech could clean it up.

Would be great to be able to get it working, even if you did not use it. Did you trace the wiring out and label everything before removing it. Did any have remote trigger? A couple of raspberry pies should do the trick.

Cats are soooo pretty!

I think it might be cool if you digitized all those tapes, and restored the audio with an audio editor to get it clean. You might partner with someone who does audio remastering, and then created an a digital audio library with some sort of controller for replaying those sounds. I think the reason it was done inside a central room, was because the equipment was at the time very bulky, and it was cheaper to run a speaker cable out to where the sound effect was played and the central room made it easier for technicians to change or update the audio effects by swapping the tapes.

u can hang me randy<3

I remember the Palace well. Amazing to see some of this equipment which powered some of the sounds of my childhood! Thank you for preserving these important artifacts!!

The museum idea actually happening would be amazing.

What a disgrace. What happened to guests cum first? I think you really should've reported this to a coordinator. Ten-four!

Another look at amusement history. Thanks!

I'm glad to hear you're still at least a little optimistic about Randyland opening in the future. You may have said this elsewhere, but what is the current roadblock to getting started? Still stuck in red tape hell, so to speak?

This is very interesting. Thank you for sharing!

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Be careful with that band 16 error it's one of my favorites especially with the Billy Bob❤

ridiculous, back in the day they had 30 minute parades,,,,, two minutes of run time,,,, and then people walking.... ridiculous.

Do you have any of Hunt’s Keystone Kops? I was a kid in the late 70s, early 80s and I absolutely loved them. Also loved The Skua and the sliding cook.

It’d be cool if you backed up the reel to reel tapes to digital for preservation of their audio.

What area are you in?

Thanks for the 3 part story. It's a tale I'll remember for life.

Hello, I am a huge mechanical music fan. I saw in a few of your videos you focused on your Wurlitzer 153 band organ “Merry Ann”. I tried looking for it last year, but did not find it when visiting the Wildwood boardwalk. Do you have it out displayed for the public to see in your arcade? I would love to know more about it. Also, the organ playing near the outside of your arcade, what type of band organ is it? I am genuinely curious. I would really love to know more about both your band organs. And are there more organs you have at that arcade? I would love to go see them this year.

holy smokes im in paradise!!

Gob dless you Randy

Nice looking clean house!! I imagined it way worse with cluttered rooms full of old machines and parts ! lol

does this still exist in disney world, im headin down tomorrow

remember when arcade

This is amazing!! Thank you for preserving it, and subscribed. Looking forward to the show! Would you be able to dump the reel audio on the Internet Archive when you get the shows working, too? Tape is so volatile...

I miss Major Magic's!

So precious! I have two black cats.

Why not male the animatronics like a jukebox. You put some money in, choose the show show you want to play and enjoy. It brings customers in and makes the robots can pay for themselves.

This is wonderful to see! You have such an impressive collection. I own an animatronic band from Circus Playhouse who are similarly huge and built like tanks.

Please find someone to archive and digitally restore and digitize those show tapes that very well may be the last of its kind this was a chain F.E.C similar to chuck e cheese and showbiz back in the day they rebooted it back in 2018 or so but it shutdown due to COVID this very well may be the show from the reboot as it was in Michigan and there is very little out there on these guys as far as media goes it would be a absolute godsend to archive those showtapes I know there are some other animatronics from this show out there but afaik none are complete or in operating condition i think theres only like one other full show and it was in a fire so they're burnt and were eventually sold to a haunted house or something

Congrats, Rand! You've got some very special pieces there. I'd love to come out and see them perform. I'd absolutely kill for an animatronic of my own, I'd have to get a rock-afire beach bear or a fatz geronimo given the choice.

I remember there being a Major Magic's near Toledo. Temperance Michigan methinks.