Artie Antlers

Artie Antlers is a classical rock piano-playing moose character used by Apple Entertainment, Inc. in their entertainment centers, mainly their theme parks.

He is voiced by Jim Cunningham.

History
The "Swing Daddy" of the piano, Artie Antlers was initially one of the early cabaret characters at the Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza Time Theatre restaurants. Artie sings with a deep soulful voice, and his style of music ranges from boogie-woogie, to swing, to early Rock and Roll. He often refers to himself as "moose-ical" and also plays up the moose theme by making quotes such as "this Moose is loose".

Artie was first used in the early 1980s, and was the final culmination of the proposed guest-characters of Elkton John and Glen Camel who were mentioned in the original 1977 PTT Program but never put into production. He was originally announced in 19793, and debuted during the first half of 1980. He originally appeared at three of the earliest Pizza Time Theatre locations - San Jose (Kooser), Concord, and Sacramento, California, replacing Dolli Dimples in the Cabaret (then known as the Piano Bar Lounge).

Artie dresses in a flashy blue tuxedo, but has a Davy Crockett style look at Apple's Railroad Depot.

Alex Apple picked up the copyright to the character and purchased nearly all of the existing Dolli/BB/Artie robots and nearly all the Artie cosmetics, then retrofitted all the robots he purchased as Artie and installed him in his theme parks after the Pizza Time Theatre went down the crapper before their rivals Showbiz Pizza saved them.

Costume
Like all Apple Entertainment characters, he has a costume, used at all Apple Entertainment parks and entertainment centers. The head is made of plastic forming and is painted and furred. The costume's hands are leather gloves with fur and fake nails hotglued over them. Gold rings are worn over the hands. The head uses a motocross helmet as head gear, with visibility through the eyes and mouth, often the visor is up for more visibility. Flashy pants and giant leather shoes are worn with the suit. The suit initially used extra large bubble wrap to add "bulk", but now uses velcroed clamshell VHS cassette cases to add "bulk". Full body thermal suits are used to keep performers at a warm temperature.