Major Magic's All-Star Pizza Revue ANIMATRONIC SHOW 

Thank you so much for preserving these. They are fantastic pieces of artwork in themselves.

I'm glad to see one of the shows ended up in good hands 👍

As a Michigander it’s a real joy to see one of these shows in good hands. A guy previously tried to revive the brand recently but the animatronics never got proper care and he’s essentially hoarded them along with the showtapes after the fact.

Cool Randy I’ve been looking forward to this one

Names of the animatronics: Burly Hives - Brown bear on Banjo Singin' Sam - Black Bear on Washtub Bass Sgt Pepperoni - Walrus on Sax Flash the Lion - Lion on Drums Barbara Stringband - Fox on Guitar Rock the Croc - Crocodile on Keyboard Major Magic Ludwig von Drum - Bass Drum Marcello - Cello Nickelodeon - Organ Yoko Obo - Trombone Player

You are a legend Randy - I love your videos

Great episode. Thanks for sharing!

I just stumbled upon this great channel, keep up this content!

I’m gonna be watching and waiting to see the show for the first time!! 🥰

Was wondering whqt happend to these guys. Glad to see they still exist!

Major Magic was short lived,that's probably why they didn't have a copyright issue. The wolf is actually a fox called Foxy Love BTW.

Major Magic’s was an all time favorite for me as a kid in Michigan. I miss it dearly.

Randy you're a legend!!!

I went to the this place in Clinton township back in the day. It was Disney quality

That was an intense introduction to everything. So many cool things to look at and in pretty good condition too!

Gorgeous collection!! At 9:54 is that a CEI mijjin?

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

I hope more audio of these guys in general can be released soon

Holy moly! What an impressive collection! Not just of the band but stuff in general. I had no idea Disney even sold guns back then. It definitely makes sense to Frontierland, but would Disney own up to that part of their history? No waaaaay XD But on topic of the band, have you ever thought about digitally preserving those show tapes? I know there's a pretty big community dedicated to preserving show tapes from Chuck E Cheese's history, and while you may not be able to get the band going at the moment to show the performances, I'm sure people would love to hear the audio track from the show. :)

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!

Interesting, glad you got to get these beautiful pieces of history!

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...

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. (:

That’s really cool. I’d love to see it running.

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 loved the country bears, so sad when even the abridged show was taken away in favor for a modern update.

Goodness, the emotion I can hear in your voice after bringing up The Country Bears and CEC… You’ve got me crying, too. I grew up loving both of those so much and it is painful to know that I can’t go back again, that my last show was my last. But I did get very very lucky with the Bears. My last show was also the best anyone could have ever asked for as a goodbye. I had the entire theater to myself, the CM let me be an honorary Sun Bonnet when they came on (I got to go up and sing WITH them as a fourth and we got it all on camera)… I was allowed to approach and get a good detailed look at every Bear throughout the show. The CM didn’t even tell me I couldn’t sit with Henry (luckily though when I said that, I only meant sitting on the side of the theater he spent the most time on)… as the finale came up, the CM also snapped the very last photo there will ever be of my biological family together, with all the Bears out in full force. It was amazing. And then as if that wasn’t enough, a wish I made when I was a little girl came true after the show- I got to hug and take photos with all of the walk around Bears right outside. My mom says Walt was looking out for me that night- he knew my favorite show wasn’t gonna stick around and he knew that my family would split up in a week. My eyes are watering up… The Christmas hoedown got 10 year old me hooked on the CBJ in 2002 and they were a must-see every time we went back to WDW for me. I always sang along and clapped. I enjoyed the comedy with someone that meant a lot to me for a long time by my side and when that person left, I found comfort in singing along with Trixie and Teddi, nights when I couldn’t stand the pain. I loved that show so much. But I’m really glad I got to have such a personal goodbye with it that no one else I know had. And as for CEC, I remember being in love with Munch’s Make Believe Band but also terrified. 😂 In 1997, when I was five years old, some kid at a birthday party there told me the animatronics could come off the stage and eat kids and I bought it, so when my favorite character from the show, Jasper, came out to hug us, I screamed and ran like hell. 😂 My parents never took me to CEC again until maybe 2012-ish? It wasn’t the same- the party room and stage at our location were just gone and I was sad because I felt a lot of my childhood experience was lost. And now that they’re completely obliterating the animatronics, well, that’s even worse… We are losing so many great, emotional experiences. 💔

no way! awesome! see you at the boardwalk retro arcade Randy!

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.

Amazing !

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

Like Chuck E. Cheese when I was younger

I audibly said "oh beautiful"

i live east of st.louis never seen a major magics that far south ...and yes those were fabricated custom pieces ..and yes a compressor is messy ..is their a puter involved in any of that ..i wonder if some of those tapes are data tapes ..idk ..i dig it tho

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

Just out of curiosity, do you still have some of the original outfits that the characters had? Burley Hives (The big bear) was dressed in a Union hat and makeshift union soldier’s outfit with red sashes, Sing’n Sam (the other bear) had flag color overalls and a bow tie and dickie, and Flash the Lion had a Red Wings shirt (or any other Detroit sports team shirt like Tigers). Also, I noticed that some of the characters like Rock are missing their eyelids.

oh my what a wonderful channel

Love it

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

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

nice video

I heard there was a rockafire explosion show there at 1 point I'm curious if you have any of them

I don’t know how much this guy is paying for storage and rent for all of the stuff but it’s gotta be astronomical

We’d like to hear all the Major Magics Showtapes in HD, because the only showtape was available is this one: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-tYFDQqOKdq8.htmlsi=PieZynRS74IVnvzX

Nice video! I don't know if you knew this or not, but there are companies out there that still make animatronic controllers for an affordable price, and these controllers allow you to program and create brand new showtapes for the characters so you aren't restricted to the reel to reel system. I've used one of these controllers to program my animatronic to various 80s songs, it's nice to have such a wide variety of shows to play on it. A buddy of mine also let me program a song on his Major Magics animatronic, which can be seen here ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ByPJ88r-F7E.html . If you ever get to the point if the original controller somehow doesn't work anymore, let me know and I can help you out with finding a new one!

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?

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

Awesome video! Do you have any more animatronics in storage?

This is awesome just out of curiosity where did you get the major magics show

Pls release the audio

Where did. You mount the major magics character mac valves at

Will these be restored so they can play again?

Imagine breaking into this place looking for money and instead finding a truck load of still animatronics and nothing else

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.

What area are you in?

You should try to restore these rare animatronics, add respective backdrops to the stages and remove all the unnecessary stuff from the stages.

Would you be interested in talking price to purchase duplicates of the reel to reel tapes for the show you have? The audio contained on those tapes is absolute gold to the animatronic fan community, and it has been lost for years. I would be willing to pay a realistic price to obtain a copy

Randy are you going to buy the old Fascination games from Paragon Boardwalk in Hull,MA going up for action on July 31st?

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Whats up with all those creepy manequins.