/tags/animatronics/Recent content in Animatronics on Gromet's Plaza ArchiveHugoen-usSun, 10 Jul 2016 00:00:00 +0000/stories/2016/07/10/the-stand-in/Sun, 10 Jul 2016 00:00:00 +0000/stories/2016/07/10/the-stand-in/<p>&ldquo;Tell them it broke&rdquo; I offered.</p> <p>&ldquo;These kinds of people are short on understanding, and their head marketing guy is positively infatuated with you, as you may well remember from when you two first met. They expect to see this display window demo fully operational as a proof of concept test so that I can collect their obscenely large check, and then I can afford to pay both of us what we deserve and still have enough left to fix this latest bug before their major market stores all get one of their own. Your the stunning model for this prototype, they expect to see your stunning interactive form prancing about in their clothes in stunning fashion in that display window in less than two hours one way or the other.&rdquo;</p>