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Creepy Showbiz Pizza Robots Premiered At Antioch Mall?!
Posted by Bradley under Kansas City, Personal
Apparently Antioch Mall was the home of the very first Showbiz Pizza in 1980.
My inner child just cried.
Like the time I looked up Mitzi Mozzerela’s skirt and was horrified at the vagina-less pneumatics that were there. Ahhh, memories.
Anyway, I only mention all of this because those creepy singing robots (AKA the Rock-afire Explosion) have been known to sing other, not-so-kid-friendly songs.
Electric Feel – MGMT, Conquest – White Stripes, 4 Minutes – Madonna, Love In This Club – Usher
I stumbled upon the Antioch Mall connection while doing some background research. And if you have some cash to spare the original creator of the bots will program any almost any song you like.
Enjoy a trip down memory lane courtesy of some very devoted people.
http://www.showbizpizza.com/rae/index.html
[Thanks Tony!]
Tags: 1980, Antioch Mall, Kansas City, Mitzi Mozzerela, Robots, Rock-afire Explosion, Showbiz Pizza
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Man thats weird. I like how all the robots usually had one bad eyelid that kinda lingered there like Forest Whittaker or something. All the while… smiling.
Awesome find Brad! I remember those things used to scare the crap out of me! Jeff used to have his b-day parties there and we’d be forced to eat shitty pizza while looking at those robotic minions from hell.
Bwah! Good research Brad! Though I must confess, some nights I wake up in the middle of the night, my sheets soaking wet in a cold, terrified sweat. Sometimes Becky tells me I was screaming, other times she tells my I was just sobbing, pitifully. Poor Becky, she is said concerned and wants so desperately to understand, but she cannot, and perhaps you two, Brad and Jim, perhaps only you two can really understand the reason why I cannot sleep. We know that somewhere, in a dark, long forgotten warehouse are dozens of those foul creatures in various states of decay just waiting with the patience of a fearsome predator, waiting for some poor schlub to fireup their circuits. They must be stopped, they must be destroyed!
But the MGMT video was pretty sweet, I’ll give th that much.