#i know u didnt necessarily ask to be sold on them but i cant help myself lol

[chiimeramanticore]

Out of curiosity, how did you get into animatronic stuff? You're the first person I've seen that really does anything for it outside of like fnaf and I think it's cool!

thanks! i think for most people it boils down to either "the fnaf pipeline" lol or having an interest in it since childhood and i guess i kinda have both? i've always been equal parts fascinated and kinda scared by animatronics (much less so now that i actually like and understand them). one of my earliest memories related to animatronics was being at disney world when i was like 6 and eating at cosmic ray's and just STARING at sonny eclipse the whole time bc i thought he was fascinating but was too embarrassed to ask about him to my family lol

i only had 2 run-ins with the rockafire specifically when i was a kid and both of them left a negative/scary impression on me so i spent a good chunk of time just straight up hating them lol. it wasnt until like 2 halloweens ago that i decided i should like. idk go stir up some old childhood trauma for fun halloween reasons lol so i started looking up pics and videos of run down animatronics (mostly rae), and eventually i started getting recommended videos of them performing normally instead of the "scary animatronic" type content. it was this video that initially interested me, but it'd take me a little bit longer to intentionally look up anything rockafire related, and that's when i first saw guitarzan! and the way they banter in this skit just Immediately made me love them and want to see more

i genuinely didnt think there'd be any fanbase for the rockafire when i first showed up, but im happy (and kinda oddly proud) to say they basically haven't stopped having fans since the 80s! they def faded out of the public zeitgeist, but there are/were people in the fandom who've actually been to showbiz in the 80s and just kept that passion going for decades for a new generation to eventually find and i think thats pretty cool!

if you're ever curious about animatronics, the linked rae videos above are the ones i typically recommend to ppl! and if you want a more meatier introduction there's always that one video essay lol