animatronics & motionettes

blog for sharing my motionette collection & stuff about animatronics! used to be @motionettes

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Hello, welcome to my blog!

My name is LuChina and I have been collecting holiday animatronics and motionettes since 2017. I post about them on instagram as well (anihcul) but I wanted to have a more organized place solely dedicated to showing my collection and reblogging other posts about motionettes. I’ll also post about larger animatronics that I’ve seen occasionally. 

I used to be @motionettes​ but I lost access to the account. I wanted to restart my blog anyway though.

To start off, here’s a picture of my collection from 2 years ago! (I realize it looks kind of crowded and that’s because I tried to fit them all on the same table, now they’re more spread out.)

Also, I’m going to start out by posting some old photos and videos because majority of my collection is in a different state than me right now. So sorry if the quality of some of them isn’t the greatest. When I go back to Michigan I’m going to take better ones.

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Animal Krakers from Huckleberry Junction

Photos that aren't from newspapers belong to North Family on Flickr

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Some old Telco newspaper ads for motionettes

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Robinson's Barnyard Follies was an animatronic musical comedy show featuring a cow named Milky Pearl, a donkey named Donkey Gritts, and a pig named Sergeant Sausage. They were used at fairs in a bunch of states in the early 90s. The idea for them came from Carlotta Robinson and they were built by the Creegen Company. Apparently each character had 15 movements and the pig could be controlled to have live conversations with the audience with someone voicing him

I really hope there's footage of these guys out somewhere and I also want to know what happened to them

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A Santa motionette I saw at an antique store

Probably telco but idk I didn't check

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Telco Small Fry Christmas Motionette from 1994. She plays part of 18 Christmas songs

Glad to have another Small Fry in my collection, they're so cute

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Recently (august 2024) acquired this Telco Easter bunny motionette (1992), here is a video of him

And some pictures of the art on the box

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Brand: Funny Toys

Date i got it: July 14, 2023

I posted about how I saw a slightly different one of these and didn't get it, but this time I did buy it. It was the same price too. But I think I like this version slightly better. (I think the other one was also missing his hand?)

When I got it I had to clean out the inside and glue the cape back in place but besides that it was in good condition.

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Brand: Telco

Date I got it: November 29, 2018

Second singing/talking tree I got, Pinecone Kid by Telco! He's very cute.

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Brand: Way Out Toys

Date I got it: December 22, 2022

Here is the 1997 Talking Singing Christmas Wreath by Way Out Toys. The mouth on mine doesn’t move for half the words so I may try to fix that at some point.

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Brand: Funny Toys

I didn’t get this one bc I wanted to save money (but honestly I wish I would’ve gotten it anyways)

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Here’s my most recent motionette, one that I was lucky enough to find irl since these can be pretty expensive online! His name is Frank E Post

Brand: Telco

Date I got it: December 27, 2022

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some christmas motionettes I saw in an antique store last year

they were way too expensive for me tho

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Another Halloween “Small Fry” motionette. At just 12" tall, these figures were short compared to the average Telco motionette.  I think these figures were made to be used for Halloween or Christmas. How many kids want to dress up like Angels anyway?

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The spooky version of Billy Bass, Big Mouth Billy “Bones”. Made by Gemmy in 1999. Takes 4-C batteries.

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Daniel and the Dixie Diggers at Huckleberry Junction

The video is from July 2022 and the photos are from December 2021

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Telco 1996 Christmas Catalog

source: blow-molded.com