Thread: Found Santa in the garbage!!!

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Today in a dumpster outside of my work I found a dancing santa with a 4rpm gear motor inside with ac adapter included. Well, you know that to a yard haunter, finding a motor is like winning the lottery. My question is what should I build with this? I built my first/only animatronic prop last year (A FCG), what should my newest attraction be this year?

Thanks in advance for the advice...

Lucky you!!
I made a pirate out of my dancing santa.There is thread in this section with links to some hacks for him.
And welcome to the forum!!!

Here is the link to the links lol
Gemmy singing/dancing Santa

unfortunately i don't think it was the same santa. mine only had the motor as seen in this photo

That is pretty much the same as the reindeer motors... do a search for reindeer and it should pull up some interesting posts. Nice score for free!

I have never seen a reindeer motor on a santa do you have a picture of the entire prop?
Reindeer motors are great so it is still a awesome find.

Poor Santa! Mrs. Claus musta caught him fooling around.

Great find!

Power the motor . See if it still works.

I lost a lot of time building props around used motors only to have it run a very few times then quit for good (4-bad, actually)

Tested the motor quite a few times and it works fine. I cannot get pics of the entire santa prop since the garbage man picked up his corpse. I don't think it was a dancing santa, just a waving or head moving santa.