Gemmy 2002 5ft Life Size Dancing Santa - 5 Songs

Had to crop the video slightly because my green screen has limits lol
Sorry again for the delayed upload, I usually have these videos done weeks in advance but I’m way far behind right now and literally just finished this one. This video WOULD’VE been on time if it weren’t for this: • Chist Chist Chist Chis...
I got this guy at an awesome estate sale for $65 on July 6th, 2023, and it was the whole reason I drove out to the sale. This is one of Gemmy’s earliest life sizes, and possibly my favorite model of the life size Santa. It runs on a 6 volts, it has a really long body shell, the speaker is in the base, the mouth mech is gear driven, the head mold is rough and unfinished on the back and bottom, and it comes with a random generic microphone from a different company. Pretty primitive compared to the later models. My favorite thing about this model though, is that it plays “Santa Claus Is Coming To Town”, a song that was extracted from later models for some reason. Which is a shame, because it’s arguably the best song he has lol.
This thing came in absolutely perfect shape on the outside, and also came with the box and all the original packaging. The mouth and head turning mechs both had split gears, and the mouth also had a bad belt, but otherwise he came fully working mechanically. He just had one small issue… and by small I mean very major. All of his songs played perfectly fine except one: Santa Claus Is Coming To Town. There was a super bizarre glitch on the IC that made him do this exact same thing every single time he got to that song: • Chist Chist Chist Chis...
There is absolutely nothing you can do to fix something like that without replacing the entire IC, period. Luckily, I just so happened to have a spare board from the earliest version of the 4ft Santa, which I bought at a yard sale for $20 back in 2020. It was in horrible shape, but I do still hope to finally restore him someday. But when I do, he will have the weird IC glitch, because I took his original board and gave it to this 5ft Santa lol. That’s what I was working on this morning when this video was supposed to be out already… but here he is. I can’t believe it’s taken me this long to get my own collapsible life size dancing Santa, but I couldn’t have asked for a better one. I love this thing, and he definitely won’t be leaving my collection anytime soon.
Thanks for checking out the video! Hope you enjoyed! Let me know what you think in the comments, and I hope to see you again soon!