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Top Class Meet & Greet Acts.

Walkabouts/Greeters
in a Nutshell:

With our attention to detail, these acts set a high standard for your event from the outset.
Excellent for corporate meet and greet for a variety of functions.

Meet & Greet Acts & Characters

Captain Franko Reliable Entertainment offers a variety of well produced Meet & Greet acts. Unlike many of our competitors, all of our walkabout acts are performed by experienced professional entertainers. This ensures a high standard of interaction - just owning attractive costumes is not enough!

The variety ensures we have something to suit a wide range of age groups. We can meet & greet your guests in style for your dinner function, big day, concert or corporate event.

They have been performed so far at theatres, night clubs, shopping centres, AGMs, & Belfast's Waterfront Hall.

The Acts:
Buckle & Swash

Be among the first to see this amazing new walkabout act! Buckle & Swash is a two-man act, featuring amazing new costumes and props (and months of rehearsals!). The title characters are 'Captain Jack Buckle', a loveable pirate & 'Commodore Simon Swash', his foppish adversary. They "sail" about on their (land) boats, providing lots of fun interaction for your visitors. They can even perform a comedy sword battle like you've seen at the movies!! Excitement, fun & humour put together in a first-class package. Available as either a 1 or 2-man meet & greet Photo here & Video here.

James Bond / Austin Powers Theme NEW!

We have a new range of first class meet & greet acts: you can have Blofeld, Jaws or Odd-Job for a true James Bond feel, or why not Dr Evil & Mini Me for an Austin Powers style event. Dr. Evil & Jaws are available at normal height, or on stilts! Ideal for a variety of events, including corporate dinners, Oscar themed events, restaurants, clubs & more.

Paparazzi

Ideal for a variety of events, including launches, Oscar themed events, restaurants, clubs & more. These cheeky paparazzi will 'snap' away at your guests as the a arrive, asking daft questions as they do.(You'll appreciate the difference hiring skilled entertainers can make!) In the interests of privacy, the cameras do not contain film. Photo here

Super Zeroes!

This hilarious meet & greet is ideal for a huge age range. These failed super heroes have 'amazing' powers - such as the ability to fly (provided no-one is looking) and an ability to eat smarties. Lots of overacting, inability to lift even the lightest objects and general silliness. Photo here

Ventriloquist

We now have a variety of puppets for meet & greet, suitable for all ages. As well as the traditional 'wee boy' puppet, they include a Smoke-breathing Dragon accompanied by a Knight, a colourful Flamingo and an Orang-utan. They are accompanied by a skilled entertainer, for maximum effect. Photo here

Captain Franko & the Be-Talls: Stilt-walking Clown Band

The Original Fun-Time Stilt-walking Clown Band Trio (Captain Franko & the Be-Talls), featuring a Ukelele-Banjo, a Mandolin, percussion & Kazoos - ofen imitated, never surpassed!

Fantastic for meet & greet & walkabout for a variety of ages! The band play a varied set, with music covering a wide range of tastes from the present day right back to the thirties. The selected songs are all easily recognisable, in spite of our musical talents. Some were originally funny, the others take on a whole new sound when played by a trio of clowns!

Live Statues New Style Added!

Our most popular meet & greet to date: Amazing live statues, add a real buzz to many kinds of event. Experienced professional entertainers as always!

Available in three different styles: Beautifully crafted costumes, designed to look like stone (two charactors available), our new Knight in Shining Armour, or a white roman-style statue.
The reaction to their occasional bursts of life are priceless! You can have up to 2 statues at any one time.

For something extra special, if your venue has a piano, why not seat the stone statue at the Piano, allowing him to start playing spontaneously as your guest approach?

Photos here.

Ollie the Ostrich

This Ostrich Rider illusion is quite convincing, a professionally built illusion costume, complete with live cowboy rider. Think Bernie Clifton's ostrich rebuilt for modern audiences. Our Ostrich has been re-engineered to improve interactivity, and is ridden by a professional entertainer, not just some random person as used by some of our competitors.

Terrific meet & greet for a wide age range.... Photo here & Video here.

Meet & Greet Acts
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You can see some more pictures of these acts if you click here.

Other ideas:
go Magic Clown go P and J
go Flea Circus go Walkabouts
Now: Meet/Greet go Theme
go Birthdays go Stilts
go Inflatables go Weddings
Chip Weiser

Please note: All Performance & Character names are © Captain Franko 1989-2008.

The "Saddle Sore" Cowboys

These two to four cowboys are always well received. They often burst into song, singing C & W songs to Chip's woeful accompaniment. Kiddies & Grannies laugh at 'em, and the teenagers lap 'em up! Available with or without fake Whiskey depending on the audience's age. Photo here

Choose your Stilt-walking Character: Updated!

As well as the popular "Elvis" character,we have several nine-foot clowns & a very tall wizard. We also have Charlie Chaplin, a peg-legged Pirate, a giant Frankenstein, a cowboy, pilot, Snowman, Santa's "Little" Helper & Hagrid.

Stilt walkers are great for both catching attention at your function and making people come and ask for one of your leaflets!

Why not try our stilt-walking clown band, featuring a Ukelele-Banjo, Mandolin, & percussion. Fantastic for meet & greet or walkabout for all ages - see below.

These acts are immensely popular for shop launches. As well as having a great performer on site, you have a sight visible from a terrific distance. Perfect for photo opportunities!

A great idea for fun days, cross-community parades and launches is to add in the balloon modelling. A couple of nine-foot balloon modellers always gets the youngsters going, as well as drawing attention from far and wide!

Photos here.

Charlie Chaplin Tribute

Brilliant and amusing walkabout and meet & greet, ideal for all ages - whether you know the original or not! See a short video here and a Photo here

George Formby Tribute

Perfect for a variety of themed events, you can book a George Formby tribute. He comes complete with a Ukelele-banjo - and actually plays the instrument and sings a couple of George's best known songs.
He's dressed in an authentic 1940s army uniform. Photo here & Video here.

"Life Unearthed"

This mock camera crew are filming the wildlife series 'Life Unearthed' - the only difference being that their interest lies in humans rather than animals. Cameraman, Soundman & of course the Star of the show 'David Middlesborough' will bring out the best in your guests.

Comedy German Officer / English Tommy New!

For a W.W.II theme, as well as the 1940s army uniform worn by George Formby, we also have a comedy inept German officer (actually uses a post-war DDR uniform to avoid offensive symbols, but works just as well).

Blues Brothers

Fun meet & greet, using the Blues Brothers' intro music as a background to welcome you guests. Photo here

Toulouse Lautrec / Generic Frenchman New!

Why not have a French-speaking Meet/Greet, featuring Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec & Marcel Marceau (yes, I know the second one doesn't say much!)? You can also add a cabaret show performed entirely in French - which works even if the audience don't understand the language - by an entertainer who spent six years in France.

Professional Compere

A professional compere makes a huge difference to your event, and can also be used to meet your guests - or combined with a different meet & greet act. Ideal for a variety of events, particularly our full 'Oscars Ceremony' package. Photo here

We can provide a full 'Oscars Style' ceremony, including host, PA & Music and the full stage set. See the theme page for further details.

Clowns

Our Clowns are great fun, & are well suited for walkabout. Photos here

More...

Other acts are currently in development, they will appear here after launch. If you are planning a Theme Night, we can provide the total package through carefully selected business partners.

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