Combining Emotes

[MightyBob]

Is it possible to combine the boombox emote with a specific dance emote? I think the boombox used to do a random dance or a dance tied to each random song but now it's always just a shuffle? I recently created a toon where thematically it would be cool to consistently use certain dances but I can now either play the boombox or do a specific dance without the boombox but not both. Any ideas? Something like this should work I think but it doesn't: /bind x "Em Dance4$$Em Boombox"

[BlackSpectre]

No, the emotes cancel each other out so you can't make a bind and string them together. It would be nice if you could start the boombox, and then select a dance. But the way it is now, as soon as you select a dance the music goes away.

[biostem]

On 6/4/2025 at 8:28 PM, MightyBob said:

Is it possible to combine the boombox emote with a specific dance emote? I think the boombox used to do a random dance or a dance tied to each random song but now it's always just a shuffle? I recently created a toon where thematically it would be cool to consistently use certain dances but I can now either play the boombox or do a specific dance without the boombox but not both. Any ideas? Something like this should work I think but it doesn't: /bind x "Em Dance4$$Em Boombox"

What they'd need to do is to create a temp power that summons a temporary boombox entity/pseudopet that exists on its own for a set amount of time.  This would then free you up to perform your own emote.  I don't think it'd make sense to create a special alternate dance + boombox for every single dance and song...

[Scarlet Shocker]

we need a boombox vanity pet

 

[TheMoneyMaker]

7 hours ago, Scarlet Shocker said:

we need a boombox vanity pet

 

And it needs volume control so that we can make people listen to it.

 

Seriously, though, multiple boomboxes spawned in one area could become an annoyance, so maybe make it a recharge power instead of a toggle. And the boombox despawns if the person who summoned it moves more than 10 or 20 feet away (because someone swiped it when you weren't looking) and/or if another boombox gets summoned in close proximity like how Ouro portals will despawn existing portals if set too close. Don't know why they did that to the O-portals; I can remember when people would stack the hell out of them for beach parties like it was a bonfire. The longer spawn time (was it 5 mins?) kept the fire going and people could "throw another log on it" every so often. Now you can drop one and if someone comes along and places another right by it, the one you dropped immediately goes away. Do that with boomboxes so that noise doesn't get out of control.

 

Additional thought: have all the music that can be played on it put into a universal playlist that affects all boomboxes in play regardless of zone. So if you drop your boombox in Atlas Park, it kicks in with whatever song is playing in everywhere else, then changes to the next tune as the play list progresses.

 

[Scarlet Shocker]

3 hours ago, TheMoneyMaker said:

Don't know why they did that to the O-portals; I can remember when people would stack the hell out of them for beach parties like it was a bonfire. The longer spawn time (was it 5 mins?) kept the fire going and people could "throw another log on it" every so often.

 

They were used to block entrances to bases and Ouro, thus preventing players from accessing their destination I believe.

 

I think the Boombox pet would need to vanish if you move far away, and they should be noise cancelling so that only the newest wtihin a given radius can make any sounds

[MightyBob]

Thanks for the responses everyone. Looks like no boombox robo dance for me then.

[BZRKR]

On 6/8/2025 at 2:53 AM, MightyBob said:

boombox robo dance

Maybe that's the solution!? Make a Robots MM, and have one of the bots drop a boombox while you do the dance emote?