Meet Reggie: Our Very Special Host for IAAPA Expo 2026

We’ve already shared that Gig Game is heading to IAAPA Expo 2026, where you’ll find us at Booth W2286.

Now it’s time to introduce someone else who will be joining us.

Meet Reggie the Alien.

And Reggie isn't just coming along for the ride.

He’s going to be hosting Trivia Night.

We're Giving Our AI Host a Body

If you've been following Gig Game, you already know that we create AI-hosted and interactive game shows where the AI actually speaks to your players.

Our AI hosts become part of the game — presenting the prepared game content, speaking directly to players, reacting to what's happening, interacting with the audience and helping run the experience from beginning to end.

So we're officially taking the next logical step.

We're giving our AI host a physical presence.

At IAAPA Expo, that presence will be Reggie.

Reggie will interact with attendees and host a special IAAPA edition of Gig Game's Trivia Night. He'll talk to the audience, present questions, react to players and help run the game while everyone competes from their own phones.

No app. No downloads.

Just scan, join and start playing — with an animatronic alien running the show.

So... Who Is Reggie?

Reggie isn't from around here.

Actually, he isn't from anywhere around here.

Reggie is an alien who crash-landed on Earth and has been fascinated with humans ever since.

He's curious about pretty much everything we do. He's especially fascinated by robots, flashy buttons and anything that spins, twirls, flashes, moves or makes strange noises.

So naturally...

Of course he had to come to IAAPA.

As far as Reggie is concerned, an enormous convention filled with rides, robots, animatronics, arcade games, flashing lights, giant machines and twirly things might be the greatest place humans have ever created.

And Reggie hasn't been sitting around the booth.

He's been exploring the show floor.

He's been looking at the rides, games, robots, attractions, technology and all of those wonderfully flashy, spinny and twirly things humans have built.

Along the way, he's learned quite a bit about the attractions industry.

And now he wants to share what he saw and learned with you.

Naturally, Reggie's preferred method for doing that is...

Trivia.

Reggie Hosts IAAPA Trivia Night

We've created a special edition of Trivia Night specifically for IAAPA Expo, centered around the attractions and amusement industry and Reggie's adventures exploring the show floor.

The rides. The games. The technology. The entertainment. The food. The companies. And the creative people behind all of it.

Reggie will share some of the things he's discovered — and then find out how much you know about them.

He'll serve as your interactive animatronic host, bringing together our existing AI-hosted game technology with a physical character standing right there with the players.

When you visit our booth, you won't just be watching a technology demonstration.

You'll be part of the show.

Grab your phone, join the game and see how well you know the industry while Reggie tells you about some of the fascinating things he's discovered on his journey around IAAPA.

And pay attention.

Reggie is still learning about Earth, so occasionally one of his answers might involve something that exists only on his home planet.

A Huge Thank You to Axtell Expressions

There's another very important part of this story.

Reggie is joining us courtesy of Steve Axtell and Axtell Expressions, who are generously loaning him to Gig Game for IAAPA Expo.

Axtell Expressions has spent decades bringing incredible characters to life through puppetry and animatronics, and we're tremendously grateful to Steve and the Axtell team for giving us the opportunity to bring Reggie into our booth.

If you're not familiar with Axtell's work, we encourage you to visit Axtell.com and take a look at the amazing characters and animatronics they've created.

It's also an exciting combination of two worlds.

Axtell creates characters with a physical presence.

Gig Game creates interactive experiences with AI hosts that can speak to and engage an audience.

At IAAPA, we're bringing those ideas together.

Reggie isn't going to be a prop sitting beside our display.

He's the host.

A huge thank you to Steve Axtell and everyone at Axtell Expressions for trusting us with Reggie and helping us bring this idea to life.

Come Meet Reggie at Booth W2286

If you're attending IAAPA Expo 2026, come find Gig Game at Booth W2286.

Meet Reggie.

Play a round of our special IAAPA Trivia Night.

Find out what Reggie discovered while exploring the show floor.

See our audience engagement games in action.

And experience what happens when AI, interactive gaming, audience participation and animatronics become part of the same show.

We've already given our AI hosts a voice.

At IAAPA, we're giving one a face.

And Reggie?

He's finally getting an entire convention filled with robots, flashing lights, buttons and twirly things.

Of course he had to come to IAAPA.

We'll see you — and all of Reggie's new Gleep-Glops — at Booth W2286.