Tex Critter's Pizza Jamboree Tokens

Operating across the mid-1980s (roughly 1982 through 1986), Tex Critter's Pizza Jamboree was a regional family pizza-and-arcade chain whose distinguishing feature was an unusually sophisticated animatronic stage show built by AVG and reportedly led by a former Disney Imagineer. The country-themed band was fronted by mascot Tex Critter, an eight-foot-tall guitar-strumming dragon, joined by Foxy Roxy, Country Cal, and Skeeter the Snake. The figures were notably advanced for the era: their face masks were buttoned tightly onto an inner skull (rather than slipped loosely over a bare mechanism as on the Rock-afire Explosion) and could be remotely steered via joysticks to track audience members, yielding much smoother, more Disney-like motion than its ShowBiz and CEC contemporaries. Estimated to be AVG's most-produced show with 20+ installations (including a well-documented Muncie, Indiana location), the chain faded out by the late 1980s and most of the figures have since been lost or scattered.