#zappomatic

[lindseynicole1999]

[kosmicpowers]

Zappomatic the robot- Chessington World of Adventure, UK

Oh my God oh my God I love hiiim. I really like the classical aviator vibes they designed him after, and while I prefer his original programming, the animated short for the retool is adorable! Shame he's no longer in operation. It's actually rumored Douglas Adams helped design him and his ride!

[ingramjinkins]

APPRECIATING ANIMATRONICS! zine preview

Here’s a little preview of a new zine for FLUKE! I will be putting copies in my online shop as well next month. I wanted to share some of my favorite non-Disney/Universal animatronics and put together a little guide of drawings to hopefully inspire people to go down web search rabbit holes of their own! The finished zine will be 12 pages of black and white illustrations and text.

My main inspiration for this was reading through the backlog of @animatronicappreciation as well as using the Dark Ride Database website and YT and Sally Dark Rides’ site. Thank you especially to the mods at Animatronic Appreciation, as you can tell I was highly inspired by y’all’s work!!!!!

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p1 Greyscale cover with the title “Appreciating Animatronics!” in front of a carved rock lion prowling facing the viewer with a sun-like mane around its head and scales going down its body nearly to its feet. The subtitle below it reads “a picture book & guide to some of my favorite lesser known bots”. Below that it says “by ingram”.

p2 This page is dominated by the curved dark arch of a bridge, with water underneath it that a mostly obscured swamp thing type creature is slowly rising out of. The text above it reads “Bertha has a long history - based on a Ngarrindjeri nation story of the mulyawonk, she was installed in 1972 by Dennis Newell, transitioned, had a kid, and survived countless instances of vandalism. I love her new model but the old, scarier one is also wonderful. <3″ Below that in the darkness above her head text reads “Bertha the Bunyip, created by DH Newell Plastics, Murray Bridge, South Australia”. Below her in the water between her emerging claws text reads “rising sloooooowly out of her murky waters......”

p3 This page has a cartoon of the robot Zappomatic on the left and text on the right. Zappomatic looks confused and has a gloved hand up to his head, his wide grin stretched wide as he looks on. He wears a pilot helmet, fluffy scarf, suspenders to hold up chap pants, a holster with a gun, and roller skates on his feet. The text reads “Zappomatic from The Fifth Dimension @ Chessington World of Adventures, Surrey, UK. The short lived version of this ride written by Douglas Adams is the superior version. Zapp is glitchy and quirky and the plot is strange and fascinating.” Below that is an an arrow with text pointing to Zappomatic which reads “baby boy”. On his left is text that reads “RIP :(”

[clippy]

hiiiiiiiiiiii *makes you all care about Zappomatic, who sadly left this world for another dimension* ⚡🤖📺⚡

[lindseynicole1999]

[lindseynicole1999]

[lindseynicole1999]

[cartoonenthus1ast]

When I say I like robots that is NOT an exaggeration

I literally just found out about a robot from a dark ride called 5th Dimension named Zappomatic and I already love him

There was an animated section before you got on the ride explaining the story and his voice in it is so adorable 😭