Busytown Theater

The  is an animatronics show at Carwardine Colony. It opened in 1990.

Details
The animatronics were originally built as Cyberamics for a Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza Time Theater in that was closed due to the franchisee filing for bankruptcy. They were purchased at auction by Carwardine for the purposes of retrofitting into new characters for an upcoming attraction at Omaha Luna Park, but they ended up being sent to Carwardine Colony when budget cuts meant new animatronics couldn't be built for a planned attraction, which turned out to be Busytown Theater.

The Cyberamics were rethemed as:
 * Chuck E. Cheese -> Huckle Cat
 * Mr. Munch -> Hilda Hippo (uses modified Dolli Dimples mask)
 * Guest Star/Helen Henny -> Sally Cat
 * Pasqually -> Mr Fixit (uses modified Foxy Colleen mask)
 * Jasper -> Sergeant Murphy
 * The King -> Bananas Gorilla (uses mix of The King's head mask and a spare Dolli mouth mask)
 * One of the Warblettes -> Lowly Worm

All the characters are set up in a similar manner to the Balcony PTT stage, with the exception of The King/Bananas Gorilla. The costumes for the retrofitted mechs were created in house at Carwardine Office Dept. #2 (which closed in March 1990 due to Carwardine Studios, the office was replaced with a training center) by Henry Himmons, Jimmy Barrera and Amaya Carwardine. In the early-2000s, retrofitted Cyberamics used at a Mexican Showbiz/Boomis Pizza Fiesta location were bought for spare parts for the Busytown Theater, with the Tete (retrofitted Guest Star/Helen) mech later being used as Sally Cat's new mech after the old one was retired and parted out due to mechanical issues.

The original programming was done using MIDI, after the Carwardine technical team reverse-engineered PTT's old Songcode programming language and Jimmy Barrera found a way to use a Yamaha CX5M computer to program a show with MIDI. The programming for the current showtape was done by Barrera using Carwardine's proprietary animatronic programming language at the time, Universal Animatronic Language, which had been developed after Carwardine reverse-engineered AVG's programming language for the Circus Playhouse and Tex Critter's shows (Barrera also programmed the earliest Carwardine-produced shows for the two chains with a CX5M and MIDI).

Lobby
When the lobby TVs were added in 1994, they originally showed clips from The Busy World of Richard Scarry and the Random House Home Video Richard Scarry edutainment videos. For the 2009 season, clips from Busytown Mysteries replaced the Busy World clips.

Characters

 * Huckle Cat
 * Lowly Worm
 * Sally Cat - Huckle's curious little sister.
 * Hilda Hippo - The only member with a microphone.
 * Bananas Gorilla - Plays electric guitar.
 * Mr. Fixit - Plays an accordion-like instrument that controls his own music machine.
 * Sergeant Murphy - Plays keytar.

1990-1994
Voiced by staff from Carwardine Parks' head office.
 * Wayne Carwardine II - Huckle Cat
 * Jimmy Barrera - Lowly Worm
 * Elizabeth Erlanger - Sally Cat
 * Ian Montiel - Sergeant Murphy
 * Greg Everett - Mr. Fixit
 * Jessica Gabriela Morris - Hilda Hippo
 * Marv Simpleton - Bananas Gorilla
 * Jan Gabriel - Announcer

1995-present
Voiced by cast members from The Busy World of Richard Scarry.
 * Sonja Ball - Huckle Cat
 * Tara Meyer - Sally Cat
 * - Lowly Worm
 * Peter Wildman - Mr. Fixit
 * Phillip Williams - Sergeant Murphy
 * Cathy Gallant - Hilda Hippo
 * - Bananas Gorilla
 * Martin Gottschalk Berger - Announcer

Trivia

 * Unlike most animatronic shows across the chain, the Busytown Theater doesn't have set showtimes or a queue line, allowing people to stay in the area as long as they please. This was part of the licensing deal with Richard Scarry, as he wanted "everyone" to see the show.
 * According to Amaya Carwardine, it was Richard Scarry himself who suggested that Sally Cat be a part of the show.