It's a magical world of dancing and spinning elves, unicorns, skaters and dancers.
This is probably the coolest showroom around, for Lou Nasti's Mechanical Displays in East Flatbush. He’s been making these mechanized animated figures for half a century.
"I love it, I'm Gepetto,” said Lou Nasti, Owner of Mechanical Displays.
Nasti started the business in 1969 after graduating high school. A New York Times article spotlighted his talents after he built a robot, and the rest as they say is history.
It all happens thanks to gear reduction motors, animating plush figures or in some cases, pneumatic talking, or singing animations.
Nasti has created and installed displays here in town and all around the world at stores, malls, casinos, homes, you name it, he's done it.
"Simple things such as Teddy Bears moving and just waving or something is just simple animation. That's what it is. But if you put ten of them together and they start talking to each other, now you are animatronics. And we are capable of either; it's just a matter of budget," said Nasti.
Nasti credits his Dad for encouraging him to follow his dream and start the business.
"He said sure, sure you can, you've got to do it, try it, and that encouragement, that love of a parent to say yes you can, was the success behind it," said Nasti.
Nasti starts his days at 5 a.m. and is either here or on the road installing or planning pretty much every day. He has no plans of stopping anytime soon.
"It keeps me young and I have plenty of energy and plenty of ideas so, and I’m needed. I make people happy. Can't stop doing that," said Nasti.