Dandy Bear's Funday Band

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**Dandy Bear's Funday Band** (Sometimes referred to as "**The Funday Band**" or "**The Fundays**") is an animatronic band that has been playing at Dandy Bear restaurants since 1992. Its members are Dandy Bear who is the leader, Leo the Lion on trumpet, Barny the Beagle on guitar, Tu-Tu E. Trunkster on drums, Foxy Flannigain on piano, Miss Kitty on tambourine, Randy in his speaker box, Kristina on flute, Manny on grubby kazoo, Orlando with his Ice Bazooka, Bertie on clarinet, Oliver in his treasure chest, and Mr. Froggy Pal hanging from the roof. Miss Alyssa's voice is heard through the showroom speakers as the announcer for the band, and the Chicks provide the backup vocals.

The stage design goes as follows: Dandy Bear is front and center with the rest of the band behind him. Tu-Tu is on a drum set, Leo, Randy's speaker box, and Barny are aboard the Bandwagon, and Foxy is on an electric piano. This set-up is known as the "Rootin' and Tootin' Stage". The Chicks are perched atop a doorway next to the main stage. In a style similar to Captain Andy's River Towne Band at Watermouth Castle, one of the side walls of the showroom has Miss Kitty's cat door, Kristina's jack-in-the-box on a shelf, and Bertie's cow door. The other side wall has Orlando's porthole from which his Ice Bazooka pokes out, a rectangular hole with Manny's trash can in it, and another rectangular hole with Oliver's treasure chest in it. Froggy Pal also hangs from the roof of the stage spotted under a cloud on top of, but not touching the bandwagon. All of this is located in the Birthday Showroom, which also acts as a main dining room in the store, so the band can play their shows while customers are eating.

The Funday Band has 23 different regular shows they perform, featuring English and Spanish songs, as well as 1 birthday show, 6 Christmas shows, and 1 showtape that plays during the FNAF Nights events only. The name "Funday Band" is derived from Dandy Bear's slogan: "Every Day is Family Funday", but it also might be a reference to the Funsters Band. The band animatronics are manufactured and retrofitted by VP Productions, but the show's set pieces are custom built and are simply plywood structures, setting the band apart from other animatronic shows. The band plays multiple styles of music, like Contemporary, 80's, Pop, Old Time Rock and Roll, Dixieland, Ragtime, Swing, Jazz, Rock, Hip-Hop, and Latin.

There are three old versions and four new versions of the Funday Band. One of the old versions of the band was a CEC retrofit, that being at the University Park location.

## University Park Funday Band

The first Funday Band was at the University Park location, which was located in the University South Shopping Center, across the street from the main campus of the Florida International University (FIU), and the Youth Fairgrounds in the building where Davita Kidney Care is now. It was once a China Apple Buffet after DB moved out. Dandy Bear managed to purchase a full cyberamic show from Chuck E Cheese's Pizza Time Theater before their first locations opening. It is unknown what stage this was, although it is widely speculated to be a Road Stage, or what location the bots came from. They sent the cyberamic characters to an animatronic manufacturer, known as Visual Presentations (VP productions for short), to retrofit the Pizza Time Players into the Funday Band. The characters were retrofitted from: Chuck E. Cheese to Dandy Bear, Jasper T. Jowls to Barny the Beagle, Pasqually P. Pieplate to Tu-Tu E. Trunkster, Mr. Munch to Foxy Flannigan, and Helen Henny to Leo the Lion. Along with the main five DB also purchased Warblettes characters. The drum set, piano, and circus wagon were custom built by the DB company, which goes for all of the versions of the show. This version of the Funday Band ran until the locations closure but this would not be the last of these characters. After the closing of the original Dandy Bear location, the Funday Band was taken out. The owner took the Dandy and The Chicks bots home with him, and sometime in March 2003, the other four characters were put on display at the Kendall Dandy Bear location behind the tunnel. They ran on random movements but over time turned static due to the lack of maintenance. The four characters are now owned by Mech-A-Dice. The Dandy animatronic from this version of the band, if it is still around, is to be put on display at the entrance hall of the new location as a tribute to Dandy Bear's past. See Dandy Bear 2.0 for more information.

## Hialeah Gardens Funday Band

The second Funday Band was at Dandy Bear's Hialeah Gardens location. The company, already familiar with VP Productions, requested a second show to be made. But instead of sending them full characters to retrofit, DB sent generic animal mascot costumes made by Marylen Costumes to VP to create internal mechanisms for these costumes to be put on. Using the previous show for reference, VP built these mechanisms with movements very similar to the cyberamics. It is important to note that the mechanisms of these characters are not direct replications of the PTT mechanisms and have a very different frame structure. Similar to University Park, this Funday band ran until the locations closure. At some point, while four of the Hialeah characters were put on display, they were put on top of the ordering counter at the Kendall location. While it is unknown what happened to the two Dandy and Warblettes animatronics, most likely being in the possession of the owner, the other four of both afro-mentioned bands are now owned by Mech-A-Dice, who is restoring them to their former condition. In addition, an animatronic head without any cosmetics was recently discovered at the Kendall DB in a plastic container. This was believed to be the head of the retrofitted Dandy Bear from the Miami Funday Band, however this rumor was actually false.

## Kendale Lakes Funday Band

The third animatronic show made for Dandy Bear once again had involvement from VP productions. But this time it was completely produced by VP with the character cosmetics and mechanisms being fully custom. The characters in this show looked like their Hialeah Gardens animatronics until the Hialeah Gardens location closed. Then they were modified to look different. This show ran from the location's opening to its recent closure. Due to the lack of maintenance, this show gradually degraded in performance over time and by the locations closure, the show was almost fully static with each character having 1-3 functioning movements. On the last day, the Funday Band held its last performance, which concluded with the stage being powered down for good. It is unknown what the last show was that day. As of now, this version of the Funday Band is in the hands of Dandy Bear's former owner, Jorge Sauma. The exact location of Dandy Bear and his once thriving band is at Sauma's house. The animatronics and props will be used in the new West End Dandy Bear location, being refurbished and restored for use in the new Funday Band.

## Dandy Bear 2.0 Funday Band

The fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh Funday Bands will be used at the new locations as part of Dandy Bear 2.0. This version will have the old Kendale Lakes Dandy Bear animatronics and they will be restored. However, the old Kendall animatronics are to be only in the first store. The other three stores will use entirely new characters. The Rootin' and Tootin' Stage will have floodlights in back of the show's set pieces and shining over the characters, similar to the lights found on many Chuck E. Cheese 1, 2, and 3 stages. There will also be a big neon sign reading "THE FUNDAY BAND: IN CONCERT" on top of the stage. This is done because previously, there was no sign displaying the band name, so it was unknown until Dandy would introduce the band. To both sides of the sign will be be two big traffic lights much like those over the ordering counter at the Kendall DB which would flash to the beat of the music along with the floodlights. The Chicks would now be perched on top of a doorway, and Randy is placed in a speaker box aboard the band wagon. Miss Kitty will also be placed on a cat door next to Tu-Tu's drum set. A sort of Donkey-like animatronic of Bertie would also be in his cow door, but his face, arms, and body will appear since his animatronic is half bodied. Kristina would also be housed in a jack-in-the-box. Manny would also be housed in a trash can. Orlando would also be housed in a rectangle-shaped hole with a door with his Ice Bazooka. Oliver would also be housed in a treasure chest. Mr. Froggy Pal would also be housed in a square-shaped door on the ceiling which opens when he wants to come down. Tu-Tu would be fitted with a trunk movement, and Dandy's bot would have also been modified to have a foot tap. This Funday Band design is also used in the TV shows and movie. The Rootin' and Tootin' Stage part of the set-up takes inspiration from all three of the previous stages but mostly resembles the Kendale Lakes version due to the big musical notes and chasing lights on the set pieces. It does have the lighting patterns on the wall from the Hialeah stage, (albeit the background is blue instead of black) and the piano has musical notes on the brim like the one at the University Park location did. However, these notes are in reality strip lights that are programmed to the music, giving the illusion of music swinging throughout the piano.

## Trivia

According to the Dandy Bear website in 2003, the band is referred to as "La Banda Funday" in the Spanish version of the website.

The Bandwagon, Drum Set, and Piano all looked different in the versions of the show made, and so did the backdrops for the stage. This will not be the case with the new versions of the band, as all four variants will be designed to look exactly alike with only a few minor differences.

It is not clear who the voice actors for the band members were, but it is widely speculated that Jorge Sauma voiced Dandy and Leo, and Elsa Sauma, his wife, voiced everyone else.

The University Park and Hialeah Funday Bands had the exact same programming as each other, with the programming being changed for the Kendall location due to some certain movements, particularly Dandy's hip movement.

The stage from University Park is set much lower to the ground than the other two existing stages, with the new version being set higher off the ground just like Kendall's stage. The University Park stage also has Barny wearing a top hat instead of a straw hat. He retains the straw hat in the new version of the stage.

The University Park stage's showtapes, especially Shows 6 and 4, have longer spaces between dialogue of characters. This dialogue space may have been shortened and cut down for the other bands, made more evident in Show 4 when Dandy says "Well Foxy, that can really take your breath away" and the "well" is cut off.

From the night of September 30th to the night of October 31st, the band temporarily is renamed to the "Foul-day Band" during the FNAF Nights events. It returns to its former glory on November 1st, but the stage is decorated for the holidays.

Being CEC Retrofits, the University Park Funday Band was the only version of the band to have random movements when a show was not being performed. The other two bands would remain motionless between shows, however the main members and Chicks of the new 2.0 bands will be programmed to have random movements between shows. The side characters do not need these programmed as they will be either inside of objects or behind doors or curtains.