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The Sun Animatronic (Also the Building Animatronic) is a figure created by Creative Engineering Inc. for Showbiz Pizza Place locations from 1980-1983. It is a very simple figure, as its only movements are raising from behind the backdrop and opening its mouth. During Concept Unification, Sun was retrofitted into Building.

Movements

The Sun features 2 movements, being its head raise, and mouth. The raise mechanism has a spring within the pole attaching the Sun to the raise block, this allows for a bouncing effect.


Movement
Mouth
Raise Up

It is notable that early Sun mechanisms used to have a body turn, however this was never programmed, and after the initial production batch the body turn was removed. This movement is mentioned on early movement lists and is installed on David Ferguson's Sun animatronic.

Gallery

Early Sun mechanism with body turn.
Sun with its finalized mechanism.
Gulliver's Kingdom Sun on 2023/09/24
Prototype Building mask.
Alternative paint Building prototype.
Building's usual appearance.
Standard Building mask.

Current Sun Animatronics

Place	Address	Availability	Condition
Billy Bob's Wonderland	5 Cracker Barrel Dr, Barboursville, WV 25504	Public	Operational.
Creative Engineering, Inc.	116 Shriners Club Rd, Pomona Park, FL 32112	Privately owned, need contact for viewing.	Operational.
Smitty's Super Service Station	1545 MS-48 E, Sandy Hook, MS 39478	Privately owned, need contact for viewing.	Operational.
Volo Museum	27582 Volo Village Rd, Volo, IL 60073	Public	Operational.
David Ferguson	Pendleton, IN	Privately owned	Operational.
John Zerwas	Minneapolis, MN	Privately owned	Operational.
Jack Turner	Independence, MO	Privately owned	Operational.
Andrew Lantka	Morris, IL	Privately owned	Operational.
"Mike"	Unknown, MO	Privately owned	Operational.
Chris Giffen	York, PA	Privately owned	Operational.
Brian Aiken	Orlando, FL	Privately owned	Operational.
Finn	Bellingham, WA	Privately owned	Operational.
DreamFactory	Weierwiesstrasse 8, 9113 Degersheim, Switzerland	Public	Operational.
Wolmi Theme Park	81 Wolmimunhwa-ro, Gaho-dong, Jung-gu, Incheon, South Korea	Public	Non-functioning.
Gulliver's Kingdom	Temple Walk, Matlock Bath DE4 3PG, United Kingdom	Public	Operational.
Gulliver's World	Shackleton Cl, Old Hall, Warrington WA5 9YZ, United Kingdom	Under Restoration.	Non-functioning.
Gulliver's Land	Livingstone Dr, Milton Keynes MK15 0DT, United Kingdom	Planned Restoration.

Current Building Animatronics


Place	Address
Chuck E. Cheese	Charlotte, NC (7701 Pineville-Matthews Rd)
Chuck E. Cheese	Billings, MT (100 24th St)

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-The '''Sun Animatronic''' is an animatronic figure created by Creative Engineering Inc. for Showbiz Pizza Place locations from 1980-1983. It is a very simple figure, as its only movements are its raising from behind the backdrop, and opening its mouth. The Sun would later be used in  [[Concept Unification Stage|Concept Unification]], where it would be changed into Building, which is a building with eyes and a mouth.
+The '''Sun Animatronic''' (Also the Building Animatronic) is a figure created by Creative Engineering Inc. for Showbiz Pizza Place locations from 1980-1983. It is a very simple figure, as its only movements are raising from behind the backdrop and opening its mouth. During [[Concept Unification]], Sun was retrofitted into Building.
 == Movements ==