Gully Mouse
The star of the Gulliver's theme parks, Gully Mouse has an animatronic which stands outside and talks and sings to guests, Gullivers Kingdom in Matlock Bath - England
Pre-Restoration
Gully was in an unfortunate state, did not function at all. The mechanism was failing and even had some snapped pieces, fur was also massively sun-faded due to him being outside.
Mechanical Restoration
The first step of any restoration is fixing up the mechanics, there was some snapped pieces which made this project very tricky but our expert mechanical engineer was determined and was able to get it fixed up even with the problems in the way. All pneumatic air cylinders have been repaired.
Cosmetics
The main cosmetical issue was the sun-faded fur, on a day where it was possible we stripped the character of all its fur and used our own technique to restore the fur to have colour in it again, this not only made him more presentable but made him look more like the character seen on signage and the parks advertising just like his old self. In this time we also added fake grass and flowers to the stage which makes it look way nicer than the bare wood that was there beforehand. both gully and the stage was repainted and a new outfit was sewn for him as the original was dryrotten.
Electrical System
The original control system badly damaged, the system however was replaced with one of our estate of the art animatronic control systems, this allowed for more energetic movement out of the character and the addition of LED lights, we programmed the original voice lines which we digitized and added new music tracks for Gully to sing along too, this allows for a more engaging presence of the character. The air compressor was also switched out for a new silent one to reduce noise levels and make this character silent.