Thank you for joining me for another episode of YQG in Bloom.
My name is Tracy Martens and we are still at Wolf & Rebel for our podcast pop-up.
Now this shop is located at the corner of Seminole and Drouillard in Windsor, Ontario.
And right now I am going to be talking to Alejandra Diaz from Optimus Show Events.
Yeah, I'm so happy to be here. Thank you for inviting us.
Oh, these guys have the eight foot tall robot, right?
Nine feet.
Nine feet tall?
Yeah.
And they do events all over Windsor.
Whatever you guys do.
So it's a person in a robot suit, light up LED. They wear stilts. So they're trained
professional stilt walkers that we know they're safe doing that. It won't fall on trip or on anyone.
And we can do weddings, we do parties, kids parties. We go to bars. We do concerts.
Any type of celebration really, the robot can be there. And we also do promotions. We were
at Open Streets promoting with YKG Green. And the robot's just really good at attracting
people's attention because it's something a lot of people haven't seen before.
So they're very surprised to walk up and we'll ask more.
Yeah, it's massive. I just don't know if I could do that on stilts.
Now, how many is in your business?
Well, the business was founded by a couple from Venezuela.
Okay.
It's the two of them, Claudia and Giovanni. And they started it. They're the ones that actually
they make the suits from scratch themselves, which is so impressive to me. I don't know how
they do that. And then my family, my mom and I specifically got involved. They were looking
for someone to bridge the gap between the Spanish language and English. And we could do that. So we
decided this is cool. We'll help them out. So it's basically us and then our stilt walkers that we...
How many of them do you have? How many stilt walkers do you have?
Like two or three.
Two of them.
Okay. So you guys could do more than one event in a weekend.
Yeah, we could.
And when did you say it started again?
The company was actually founded eight years ago, but the couple actually just moved to
Canada a couple months ago. So it's just been starting up here.
You guys are everywhere. You have to be really booked up.
Yeah. So we actually have a very big event that we're very proud of on Friday. We can't say the
details. It's a little bit of a surprise, but I'm sure you guys will see us around. It'll be a big
thing. Are you booked up until the holidays already or are there still openings for bookings?
There's definitely still openings. Since the robots only need to be at an event for an hour,
or we work with the people, right? So say we have one event, we have to be there from eight to nine.
We can go to another event at midnight. So we can do multiple events a night. And we also have...
So we have the person on the stilts and then we have another robot that it's like a girl robot.
So she's not on stilts. So she can dance more with the people and interact more with them from their
own height level.
Can the stilt person, can they do all the dancing and...
Yeah, they can. They can. That's what they're for. They also have laser pointers. They shoot
out fireworks. A lot of things.
I had no idea they did the fireworks too.
Yeah. Oh, that's great. I bet the kids go nuts for that.
Yeah, the kids, when we were at YQG Green Expo, we were out at the door of the building,
greeting people. And there was the kids from swimming practice, hockey practice, whatever,
walking by. And they were floored. They were so shocked. Some of them were just standing there
for minutes just staring at the robot, not knowing what to think.
Now, I know you guys have partnered up a couple times with YQG Green. Is the suit environmentally
friendly? I wasn't sure.
Well, yeah, that's something we definitely think about when making our suits. So we try to get
everything, like the fireworks and all the attachments from local places instead of like
the made in China places just because of the delivery. So when making it, they take into
consideration using all the product and not wasting any of it. So like this LED strips
that they cut and use in different spots. Is your event, is the Optimus Show events,
is it just strictly the robots or? Yeah, it's just strictly the robots for now.
That's the main focus of the thing, because we think that they're so cool.
That's your niche. Well, yeah, they are. I've never seen anything like that.
Yeah, which is exactly what we what we're for. There's one company in the States, actually,
that is really inspiring to us. They've worked with really big brands, NASCAR, like Formula
One. OK, they've worked with, who was it? Red Bull. OK, MTV, Space X.
OK, MTV. And they do pretty much the same thing. And it's robots. They have multiple robots.
And something we're trying to do is make a robot look even cooler, give it more of a robot look,
more like metal shiny parts and stuff so that we can build that off factor just like they do in the
States. So maybe people should contact you if they have any ideas. Yeah, for sure. If anyone's a
welder out there knows how to design a robot suit, that would be amazing. That would be great.
Yeah. And how can people get a hold of you? So we have a website. We also have our Instagram,
where is where we post most of our information. Our Instagram is Optimus Show Events, and we post
there almost daily. Yeah. Things that are going on, upcoming events, past events. And in our
Instagram bio, there's a link to our website. If you do want to have an event, you can, people can
DM us or they can fill out a form that we have on our website as well. And if they have any hints
on how we can make this the even better robot. Yeah. If you want to partner with us, we got to
get you guys out of Windsor all over the place, just like the one in the States. Yeah. Have you
guys traveling? Because it's a great company. And I think it's it's fabulous that you guys have made
such a niche for yourself in such a small time here. Yeah. And something we're actually looking
forward to doing is we've been planning some events in London and in Toronto, because usually
I feel like when you want something big, you grab the Toronto people and you bring them to Windsor.
Yes. But we're trying to do the opposite. Yeah. Get the get the talent from Windsor and spread
that around. Why not? Yeah, why not? I definitely wouldn't. I think this would be a great idea for
the Toronto area for Ottawa, for London, for anywhere. It's something different. It's great.
Yeah. It's a small business, but big ideas, which is so important for growth. Yeah. Always think
bigger. Alejandra, I really do appreciate you guys being here today and telling us about your robots
and about your event company. It's been great. Yeah. Thank you so much. I enjoyed it. Thank you
so much for joining me on another episode of YQG in Bloom. My name is Tracy Martens and make sure
for your next event, you get in touch with Optimus Show Events on Instagram or their website
and book soon because I have a feeling it's going to be going fast. Yeah. Have a great day.