Upon entering the Rainforest Cafe, I was greeted by a talking tree that rattled off a slew of plant-related factoids. Pumped-in fog and canned thunder rang out, as a hostess led me through an ...

While it was handily beat by the Chuck E. Cheese animatronic band when it came to robot animal entertainment, Rainforest Cafe went about mechanical fun in what was once a brand new, eccentric way.