Animatronic Marketing and Mobile Sign Business
A Fun and Profitable Business Opportunity!

Here is an opportunity for an unusual and fun business that you don’t see everyday.  An ideal home based business that has tremendous expansion possibilities limited only by ones desire, time, and investment.  The business model is a professional robotic tricycle with a riding, talking, interactive character.   The riding character is able to travel indoors or outdoors riding a tricycle and interacting with people.  The character is operated by a remote human operator who uses radio controlled equipment, and wireless microphones to control the character. The operator is able to be 100 feet or more away from the character and have live interaction with people. As the operator speaks, the character’s mouth moves in sync with the operator. In addition, the character’s head turns and nods via commands from the remote operator.  All this produces an incredible, delightful response from the audience of choice. In addition, the pick up style tricycle has a removable sign that can be adapted to advertise businesses or events.   The business generates income by offering the character for rent for all kinds of events.  Rental can be by the hour, day, week or longer contract.  All kinds of businesses are potential customers from small to large corporations.  Rental rates can range between at least $75.00 an hour to $150.00 an hour and more depending an event and application.

An example would be to provide a character for trade or home shows. Characters work extremely well for such events. Recently we provided character and marketing services for a plumbing company at a local home show. We operated the character in and around his booth for two days, promoting a drawing. The response was the best he had in over twenty years. The company owner was delighted. The competition at the show was blown away by the activity at our booth with our character “Willy”. 

While technical skills are not a requirement, individuals who get a kick out of tinkering with electronic & mechanical things would seriously enjoy owning this business.  Personally, I am not a technical person and I have developed this business to a nice stage outsourcing what I needed to have done. With that being said, if you are a hobbyist and enjoy radio control, robotics, or even tinker with animatronics then this business would be a great fit. Maybe you have a hobby in these areas and now you can make money with an expanded version of your hobby. 

I have spent the last five years developing and prototyping this business to a ready to go operation.  There is a lot more detail about this business as to how it works, history, price, competition, characters, and lots more.  This information is available on this web site along with lots of photos and video clips.

Please contact me with questions
billsikes@gmail.com 530-263-4098