Gene Simmons met with fans at Electric Lady Studios in New York following the band’s Dec. 2 finale at Madison Square Garden. During the meet-and-greet, Simmons talked with a fan about the future of the KISS avatars that the band announced were coming during their final show.
“How did those avatars look when you first saw them?” Gene asked a fan. “They’re gonna get better, that animated stuff.”
The fan responded that the avatars he had seen looked “absolutely amazing,” referring to the Michael Jackson show in Las Vegas that revolves around a hologram. The fan also noted that his friend saw the ABBA avatar show in London and that they thought it was “amazing.”
Simmons commented: “There’s so much being planned, even beyond my comprehension. But they’re spending, oh, about 200 million to take it to the next level. You can’t tell if they’re there, right there, like that.”
KISS’s avatars are set to appear as fantasy-based superheroes who are eight-feet tall, breathing fire and shooting electricity from their fingers while floating above the audience. The ABBA show is more grounded in how the band looked in their prime.
Plans have yet to be announced for the full-on debut of the KISS avatars.
“We’re going to figure it out after the tour,” Pophouse CEO Per Sundin (the company in charge of the technology) said prior to the final show at Madison Square Garden. “Is it a KISS concert in the future? Is it a rock opera? Is it a musical? A story, an adventure? These four individuals already have superpowers. We want to be as open as possible.”
