Another real life animatronic, Barbara is a fox guitarist and the leader of the Rock & Roll Rebellion, from the Major Magic's chain, a small restaurant chain with less than ten locations, all of which are now closed. She plays an electric guitar and is the only female member of the band.
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More of the Party Time Pizza Zone/Chuck E Cheese Sparks AU
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Harmony Howlette is Gene's cousin and is best friends with Sherry.
Similarly, Crusty is Clover's cousin. He KNOWS Clover has a crush and Bobby and vice versa so he tends to play Cupid, with help from Dolli Dimples.
The King, King Kat, The Beagles, and The Beach Bowsers still cover songs, but now also get their own original songs in the style of the musicians they parody.
You'd think Chuck and Fang wouldn't get along as they're both snarky leaders and therefore their egos would clash, but this couldn't be anywhere farther from the truth. Chuck actually gets along pretty well with Fang, though it helps that they have a shared annoyance with dog characters [Fang with Bobby, Chuck E with Jasper]. However, Chuck has noticed Fang and Sherry both have chemistry and tends to tease the two. Both Chuck and Fang are irritated with Lightning, his diva nature, and Lightning's tendency to try and undercut Chuck.
Pasqually felt a bit left out, as he is the only human, but he was pleasantly surprised when he found out that Johnny also loves telling bad jokes. Cue both Chuck and Fang getting doubly annoyed.
Confetti is like a big sister figure for Bella.
Denise teaches Helen Henny how to paint.
Bobby, for obvious reasons, is a huge fanboy of the Beach Bowsers. The Beach Bowsers are touched by this, but a bit annoyed by Bobby's clumsiness.
Gene and Jasper tend to have banjo playing contests.
Sally Sashay, Madame Oink, and Sherry love reading gossip papers for the sole reason of making fun of how dumb said gossip tends to be.
Foxy Colleen relates to Clover's annoyance of the whole "black cats are bad luck" thing, as being a fox, another animal that has a unfair bad reputation, Foxy knows what it's like. Thankfully, both of them have the support of their friends.
In the late 80s, both Chuck E Cheese and Party Time Pizza Zone would get remodels similar to both the 1986 real-live verse remodel and the Operation Thumb Chuck remodel.
The animatronics would improve over the years. Older ones would be auctioned off without cosmetics instead of being destroyed. In a similar vein, instead of removing animatronics completely, Sparks would instead focus more on them, and have the dance floor be right near the animatronics and only activate when the animatronics were playing.
Sparks would continue to innovate with animatronics and with both Party Time Pizza Zone and Chuck E Cheese.
Other pizza/animatronic combos would co-exist as friendly rivals to CEC and Party Time Pizza zone.
[ID: a drawing of barbara stringband from major magic's rock n roll rebellion. her white neck fur is stylized to look like a goatee. she's wearing a white long sleeved shirt and a long rainbow striped vest, along with blue jeans and boots. she has a black and white guitar with white stars. she's standing on a record, with a rainbow colored musical scale with various notes on it behind her. the drawing has a bright tone. /end ID]
based on this instagram user's barbara !! just with her old guitar. she is gorgeous!
Hiya! I did a little research on Major Magic's (which I think you've shared a couple times) mainly because of the lovely Barbara Stringband, whose design is one of my favorites.
these photos are mostly from this photo album, their youtube channel, and here's another good look at the whole band.
one of my fav pics of her, (cw for decay)
bonus vid of some time during her restoration
anyways, looking through said photo album, their youtube channel linked above (and your posts on the matter) showed that they were restoring the animatronics and preparing to reopen in 2020, which was pretty cool and I was excited to see they weren't just going to let them rot... However I then found this article from November 2020 that says that they have since closed for good. It also mentioned that all the animatronics were sold off, and unless anyone can find any more information, are currently MIA.
Just an update, since the last post about Major Magic's was about its reopening.
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Thank you so much for sharing! It's an absolute shame that Major Magic's didn't last very long. The pandemic sadly took its toll on them, as it did with many small businesses. Their Facebook page hasn't updated since before the closing, so I unfortunately can't tell you where the band ended up. This might be a good thing, sadly, since the restaurant animatronics fan community is full of people with very few boundaries who have been known to harass private collectors to the point of said collectors having to leave the fandom. Hopefully someday we'll get an update, though, and be able to experience the band in some form or another once again!
[ID: a drawing of barbara stringband from major magic's rock n roll rebellion. her white neck fur is stylized to look like a beard. she's wearing a yellow bandana and long sleeved orange shirt. both are shiny. she has yellow fabric wrapped around her waist and white pants. she's holding onto a microphone and grinning. /end ID]
