it's a real shame that memories of both adults and even teenagers are starting to fade away first Toys R Us, now Chuck E Cheese. i'm only in high school but it's still sad seeing these things go, i remember them vividly from when i was a bit younger.
@@Son_Joe_Productions i remember watching a video on this saying they were coming back around 3 years ago, but it's still sad knowing they shut down in the first place.
This is so sad. Not just that this place was abandoned, but how all that stuff was just LEFT there to rot, from coins to prizes to games. Even Chucky’s endoskeleton is there, like it’s worthless. Hopefully it all will be put to use again someday. We still have a working, thriving Billy Bob’s Wonderland here where I live. I hope it manages to avoid this fate.
Just wanted to mention, it's not actually referred to as an endoskeleton, but rather as a mech. I apologize if this sounds impolite; I'm just pointing out that the term 'endoskeleton' is specific to FNAF and not the correct technical term.
I'm really surprised they left so much of Chuck's mech behind, considering corporate requires employees nowadays to completely destroy all animatronics upon conversion. They really don't care for their history or for Showbiz Pizza's or anything 😿 I'm still heartbroken that they won't let fans purchase them or donate them to museums etc.
@@honeybelle1203 Apparently, a lot of people believe that FNAF is based on a true story. Either way, it is loosely based on Chuck E. Cheese, and I imagine the company wants to be as far away from it as possible.
@@StrangeStartrackerArt its not an unheard practice for children's entertainment companies to destory animatronics and costumes and props from popular childrens media and mascots after they stop using them/have to abandon them, due to the worry of a bad person getting their hands on them and using them to harm minors or make nsfw/harmful content that they don't want their brand to get assosiated with.
I work at Chuck E Cheese. My location has been open since 2010 and it has the same games as this one does minus the weird hamster wheel-esque thing. It's really interesting honestly.
@GAMES OF YGONE yeah its Studio C Beta, just wasn't sure if you'd know what I meant if I said it LOL. honestly I really like the remodel but i wish they'd kept the animatronic. They could totally refurbish them but the kids aren't interested in them anymore
I'm one of those people that got into Showbiz and Chuck E's because I was introduced to Five Nights at Freddy's when I was 9, for 9 years straight I've been fascinated with these animatronics and I wish this was a childhood I could have experienced. Living in the UK we do not have a Chuck E Cheese's location or anything similar at all. I hoped that one day I could fly out to America to witness the animatronics myself but now locations are shutting down, being renovated with dance floors replacing the animatronics and just being straight up abandoned. Maybe one day I can own an animatronic or two if listings for them ever come up.
There is actually a location that has all of the animatronics from Showbiz and Chuck E’s. They still do showings, and have memorabilia, but it is not an arcade type place. I aim to go, someday. It is a museum, where you sit and watch, Maybe snack, and tour
This makes me indescribably sad. I had some fun at Chuck E. Cheese’s, but the real fan was my sister (who is mentally handicapped). We kept going for a long time, just for her. I would do anything (almost) to save this business, because of her. We stopped going before the pandemic because of personal health problems, and now I’m worried to tell her one of her fondest memories is disappearing. I’m trying to hold it off for as long as possible. There are better pizza places, but those arcades made Chuck E. Cheese’s special. They gave something to kids that will never be forgotten. That is of true value in this life, the joyful and precious memories we share with our loved ones.
@@altkitty135, if it were an act, then yes, gladly. But if you mean like something out of a horror movie, for real, then no, probably not. The smallest print in a contract is usually the most important part.
That's honestly such a small, cramped, and barren room and not at all what I would expect a Chuck E. Cheese to look like. I guess that just proves that when you're a kid, you see things so differently.
It would honestly be cool if there could be a place for adults to be a kid again, kinda like a throw back nod to Chuck E. Cheese with something from childhood. Adult sized climbing gym thingy, funny arcade games from the 90's and early 2000's.
They should have animatronics of their own too, for the adults and older kids to relive their childhoods even further (and for the FNAF fans to enjoy as well lmao)
a core memory of mine unlocked when you were in the 'fun tubes'. I remember as a kid those were so fun, and sketchy because they shook so much but ALSO you have to be careful running around because the static electricity would build up and if you touched one of the metal rivets you would get a nasty shock!
I remember being scared as hell of running around inside of them, they also smelled horrible since you had a bunch of kids running around without shoes
I am surprised that the shells for Chuck E's lower half and part of his mech was still there, as most locations that closed down had completely removed any proof of the animatronics from what I know. Very interesting.
When i was little i always thought Chuck E. Cheese was huge and filled with the best games and huge play area. It’s incredible how they dialed back all those arcade games and rides due to expenses. A few years ago, I got a glimpse of what Chuck E. Cheese had become which was an empty husk of what it once was. Honestly, this is the reality of alot of arcade places. Even Dave and Buster’s isn’t the same anymore
no way, this is literally my childhood location I can't believe that much of their animatronic is still left. I literally wanna go here & salvage some of the stuff so bad like I WANT THOSE TICKET MUNCHERS
Imagine being in a place that is off limits and abandoned and you dont ever notice in rhe shadows there's an animatronic original chucky just watching and waiting for the power to go out to attack.
Yes, the Spray-painting is due to orders from Corporate (most likely, I don't work at CEC and never have but judging from past knowledge of retail + CEC rebrands). All CEC-branded stuff has to be destroyed so it can't be salvaged, picked up looters, reused, or be resold online. It's kinda sad, but all those CEC machines will be destroyed and thrown out. Best case scenario (but unlikely because of the cost) is that they'll be shipped off to other CEC to be used for spare parts. A similar instruction was used when Showbiz Pizza locations were rebranded and transformed into Pizza Time Theaters/Chuck E. Cheese. Even the animatronics' outer character decor (minus shell and wires and the actual robotics) and stage decor was destroyed. Of course, some locations did not follow instructions which is why Showbiz memorabilia can be found online. Anyway, the arcade machines that are not CEC have a better chance at being resold/stripped for parts. From the footage it looks like some have already been torn apart for spare parts. Or maybe looters? Probably looters. IDK. All just speculation :-)
So as a person who restores arcade machines I would LOVE the opportunity to take all those busted up machines out. There are LOADS of good parts in there. I wonder who owns them...
I'm used to the videos of places that laid abandoned for decades, so it kinda freaks me out the think, about the fact for these its only been for a few months to a year or two. Granted places like this will never be abandoned for too long due them being in population centers (unless the stores as big as some of the places like the closed KMarts, because those are way too big to repurpose unless by another massive company), but imagine how the kids would feel seeing this a decade or two from now, when the building's power will have been gone, the paint has peeled, and the machines rusted away with moldy plastics and parts randomly salvaged or ripped away. At that time, the younger generations will have forgotten the things that shaped our current lives from 9/11 (Heck, some of the kids that join the military today were born years AFTER and don't seem to understand why it mattered so much to us) to the pandemic. They'll walk in there and see the dried, rotting papers, warning of "Social distancing" and "The don't come to work, if symptoms occur" signs.
This is the location I went to as a kid since I moved close to that area in 2013. Man, I have so many fond memories of that place. Real shame what happened to the company.
Man, I’m 15, and seeing this just is so sad. Everything that pretty much every generation (excluding gen c, ) knows is going away. I’m so happy my local Chuck E. Cheese was not effected and it is still open to this day
Shit bro im 22 and dead ass i feel like i was 15 yesterday bro i kid you not. I miss going to chuck e cheese as a young kid man. Like you said tho places like this are dying out. Luckily the one near my house got refreshed instead of closed down
Does yours still have animatronics? They're getting rarer and rarer. If yours are still intact consider yourself lucky (ESPECIALLY if your location was a Showbiz Pizza!)
My only memories of good ol’ Chuck was during Five Night’s at Freddy’s peak of popularity, everyone was either scared or fascinated by the animatronics during our trip, kinda funny
I work at a Spirit Halloween that was formerly a chuck e cheese and whenever I had an anxiety attack my managers let me go hide in the boiler rooms and kitchens. It was really eerie.
I definitely love the old mouse better and it looks so sad seeing everything left behind but so cool that you got to check out everything. Did you have to get permission to go in or did you sneak inside?
As someone who experienced Chuck E' Cheese back in the early 2000s (when I was 7 or 8), my fondest memories was probably the little camera crew section in the back where you could pretend to mix audio and use actual camera feed that were hooked up to the stores actual cameras. The pizza was kinda meh, but everything from the little jungle gym, to the sketchbook booth, to the arcade games just brought probably the best experience a kid could've asked for.
Speaking of all the tokens you found, at a Chuck E. Cheese location near me (Altoona PA.) it was originally a Showbiz Pizza location, and when I put a coin into one of the machines that gives you tokens to put in the slots, I got a Showbiz Pizza coin and I still have it!!! I used to have a Pizza Time Theater Token too, but it slid into a slot between two very close-together seats of a car that got in an accident and was scrapped for parts :(
Interesting, I'm surprised they left any parts of the Studio C mech there. Most of the time the animatronics are one of the things to get fully removed from a location that closes permanently. I wonder if the location either had a 16 or 32 movement Studio C? My guess is 16 judging by the shoulder structure of the mech and the absence of the foot tap movement. Also one of those ticket munchers is pretty decently intact.
When in October 2023 you find a horror location based on an abandoned pizzeria chain, be warned for flames to occur in that building. If you work in that place, find a flammable source to light the building ablaze. There will be something inside the building. *They'll thank you for it.*
this was my childhood chuck e. cheese i had some really fond memories there. i find it suuuper eerie to see it in it’s current state though. i’m in the area often nowadays and i’ve always wondered what it looked like on the inside after they closed, thank u for fulfilling my curiosity :)
Not only are locations closing, the animatronic shows too. They're replacing our childhood and scary animatronics to a Janitor dressed up as Chuck E. and dancing on a dance floor.
I grew up going to this exact location at the mall in Leominster Massachusetts. Shame that it’s all run down, that whole mall is being shut down little by little. Hopefully they’ll do something with it soon that’s worthwhile
We still have 2 Chuck E Cheese locations left and one of them still has the animatronic gang! I got to show it to my daughters. 🥰 It wasn't as significant to them though. 😢
I haven't seen those ticket munchers in years, the nostalgia that I got when I saw it hit hard. It's one of the many things I missed, ever since they replaced them with digital tickets on the cards. Is there anyone else who was afraid of the Ticket Munchers as a child, or was it just me?
I remember when I went to a Chuck E. Cheese years ago and it's been over three years since that happened currently I looked at the place on Google maps and it is now abandoned shut down and has been abandoned for years now sing any Chuck E. Cheese gives me so many memories😢
The reason all the chuck e cheese designs were spray painted is because corporate doesn't allow anything to be resold when removed, that's why they destroy animatronics when getting rid of them, my home town location in billings mt still has our animatronics which actually is a 3 stage and it's still the animatronics when it used to be showbiz pizza, unfortunately it's official that ours is going to be removed this year, so, there goes 40+ old animatronics because they're going to be destroyed when they're removed
My “home” Chuck E Cheese was on the corner of the strip mall so it had a lot of depth to it. It became an antique store but it might be vacant again. They gutted the stage, but the backdrop is the same as I remembered. I don’t think I had my birthday there, but have celebrated others birthdays there-among play dates and side stuff. Loved the Tower of Power game and tend to find them at other arcades at indoor water parks at ski resorts (I’m not a skier/snowboarder which makes that funnier). I actually went to a different one once and they had a completely different audio animatronic show
I remember visiting my local CEC when I first moved to my current hometown in 91. I used to fling pennies in the coin-slot of the arcade game 1942 and it gave me game credit. I did that A LOT!!! I bet the management was pissed about that. Good times.
Lots of Chuck E Cheese locations are closing: this one they said due to bankruptcy, another one, in a video from another youtuber I've been watching, due to 5 kids disappearing, and a lot due to health issues, that were before COVID. I'm surprised none of them are closing for public disturbances leading to fights.
The missing children thing is a hoax based off of a video game, the rumor comes back around year after year. Don't believe everything you see on the Internet
If this was a fictional movie or a video game, you probably would’ve found a dark secret in the back rooms that would try and kill you! Suddenly very glad real life isn’t that kind of horror show! Jokes aside, I remember this one Chuck E Cheese I went to when I was younger that had a small section that played Veggie Tales stuff. Wish I could’ve found that one again before everything shut down…..and before I turned 18 (I’m turning 25 this June 29th)!
Recently, I went to the Chuck E Cheese in Nanuet. It was a cool location to visit. I went there two times before, once in 2018 and then again in early 2020, which was around the time CEC Entertainment filed for bankruptcy and closed a lot of their locations including the one in this video
Honestly I like the old one with the baseball hat when I was a kid, the new one sucks, I’m now 16 and I heard a lot of people from the reviews of Chuck E. Cheese that they said they were recycling their pizza slices and they never repaired the machines they just replaced them with new ones
I felt so sad watching this, especially when she went down the slide. that really unlocked so much memories for me and it’s so sad seeing something that I enjoyed so much as a kid broken down and abandoned. It’s like there’s no life in it anymore and it’s really sad
The reason they spray painted the machine was because it is company policy that when a location closes or remodels they are required to vandalize or destroy the machines and animatronics or trash them leaving no trace of them left. They do this so no fans take the things and sell them on sites like eBay and stuff because they are very protective of their copyright and sometimes sue people who make games with their characters But yea
it must be a generational thing but, trust me when i tell you Showbiz Pizza was beyond top tier (The set-up walking into the building felt like you were walking into a theme park, super long Hallway with countless parody posters of pop culture films, The animatronics were super detailed, the entire vibe was larger then life! as a kid every time i went into Showbiz Pizza it was packed (It was a great example of the 80’s excess and glitz and glamour run amok throughout that decade! Once Chucky Cheese starting gobbling up/acquiring The Showbiz Pizza IP it changed a lot imo the local Chucky Cheese pulled a good 30% of the arcade cabinets and just seem to get cheap last time i went there was with my sister and (3) nephews in 2002/2003 the vibe was not the same (It’s actually sad that society is missing out on places like this and real arcades, and music stores (Especially music stores i could spend 2-3hrs in a music store just looking at stuff) Even though the concept of the internet was very cool it’s never really brought people together in many ways it’s made the general population more narcissistic and cruel (But, it’s destroyed real life experiences/memories)
Absolutely correct my friend. So many fond mid 80's memories of the Rock-afire Explosion band. Check out the documentary about the band (if you haven't already). It's a great watch.
I wonder why they left everything behind? Eviction, maybe? I agree that the new Chuck E is horrible! I consider the 3D Chuck E to be a non-canonical imposter. Chuck E Cheese is not the same any more and today's kids will never get to have a real Chuck E Cheese's experience with animatronics! They were replaced with stupid TV screens!! A great find, and very fun! Just a side question but why didn't you guys explore the kitchen or any of the backrooms, though?
I remember going to Chuck E. Cheeses, used to go in the late 90s to early 2000s, as a kid, closest one for me, was in the Summit City of Fort Wayne, Indiana, the one is still around today, probably around there since the early 90s. Did enjoy the games, the food, fun & entertainment, and seeing Chuck E. and his friends and the birthday parties. Great memories. Chuck E. Cheeses, a great place for being Kid. Great video. Keep making more videos.
Used to go to Chuck E Cheese all the time when I was a little it was the best thing ever but eventually it did close down seeing this video brings back memories of what it was like back in the early 2000s as a kid
My childhood one is still open. I think it still even has animatronics from what I remember. (Even though I drove past it only a month ago....but I didn't look inside.) Also, y'all should've gone in the back rooms of the stage and kitchen. Who knows. Maybe some animatronics or parts are still left.
i’m from the UK so we’ve never had Chuck E Cheese’s, BUT i was lucky enough to see some animatronics at a theme park restaurant when i was little, only to realise when I got older that those animatronics were in fact Rockafire Explosion (from Showbiz Pizza) animatronics that were changed into the “Hard Luck Bears Jamboree” so that’s the closest i’ve ever gotten to anything like what you had in america. now all the places in the UK that have had an animatronic band like the ones in america are all pretty much gone now. i find animatronics so fascinating and it’s so sad to know they’re slowly leaving us :(( if they could’ve just donated the unused animatronics to museums instead of just leaving them then that would’ve been so much better.
When I had my parties there, we didn’t have any slides or things to climb through. All we had was a ball pit and I was SO EXCITED to jump in. Now that I think about how dirty those pits were…🤢
The original FNAF lol even though the era of Chuck E Cheese is slowly fading away, im kind of happy that the style of "children's entertainment restaurant" will live on vicariously through FNAF
I remember seeing the original Chuck E cheese characters. When they would dance on stage and you could see them display outside in a plastic dome. Now that was the real cheese, and now everything is gone.
When the one i worked at shut down the only thing we really left were the skeeball lanes and whatever bench/tablas we couldnt sell and some trash from the destroyed games. We had to destroy, dismantle, and pack up to ship off to other stores and most of the games to the main storage warehouse.
We have technology to blame for a lot of closing things nowadays, I don’t think kids should be allowed any phones or iPads until they are 10, that’s how it was for me and it would help them be more active and outdoors
it's a real shame that memories of both adults and even teenagers are starting to fade away
first Toys R Us, now Chuck E Cheese.
i'm only in high school but it's still sad seeing these things go, i remember them vividly from when i was a bit younger.
Toys r us came back
Yep. Saw a small stand in a mall saying Toys R Us is coming back and already having figures right next to it.
@@Son_Joe_Productions i remember watching a video on this saying they were coming back around 3 years ago, but it's still sad knowing they shut down in the first place.
@@A_Buster9693 now they're reopening Baby's R US
Toys r us is back they in macys now
This is so sad. Not just that this place was abandoned, but how all that stuff was just LEFT there to rot, from coins to prizes to games. Even Chucky’s endoskeleton is there, like it’s worthless. Hopefully it all will be put to use again someday.
We still have a working, thriving Billy Bob’s Wonderland here where I live. I hope it manages to avoid this fate.
❤ Fr 😢
ur so lucky. I live like 40 states away from bbw.
Facts
Just wanted to mention, it's not actually referred to as an endoskeleton, but rather as a mech. I apologize if this sounds impolite; I'm just pointing out that the term 'endoskeleton' is specific to FNAF and not the correct technical term.
@@Rat_Latte well its basically a metal skeleton but mech still works
I was the last guy to ever see that chuck. His head was in the trash compactor. In attempt to free him, the machine started. Thank Richard Balboni.
who is richard balboni
is it the manager of clearwater fl cec
which location was this?
Leominster MA
@@CreativeEnJuneering glamrock chica?
I'm really surprised they left so much of Chuck's mech behind, considering corporate requires employees nowadays to completely destroy all animatronics upon conversion. They really don't care for their history or for Showbiz Pizza's or anything 😿 I'm still heartbroken that they won't let fans purchase them or donate them to museums etc.
Maybe there's a reason behind destroying the animatronics? I.E. FNAF
@@StrangeStartrackerArt What do you mean? o___o?
@@honeybelle1203 Apparently, a lot of people believe that FNAF is based on a true story. Either way, it is loosely based on Chuck E. Cheese, and I imagine the company wants to be as far away from it as possible.
@@StrangeStartrackerArt its not an unheard practice for children's entertainment companies to destory animatronics and costumes and props from popular childrens media and mascots after they stop using them/have to abandon them, due to the worry of a bad person getting their hands on them and using them to harm minors or make nsfw/harmful content that they don't want their brand to get assosiated with.
@@maxwellkat9695 Still seems like a huge waste of money and materials.
I work at Chuck E Cheese. My location has been open since 2010 and it has the same games as this one does minus the weird hamster wheel-esque thing. It's really interesting honestly.
And what stage is in that location?
@@GAMES_OF_YGONEwe don't have one anymore. Renovated over the summer. Used to be a Studio C stage, 2000s Era, circular with a purple curtain.
@@cactusparty3119 maybe you are mentioning Studio C beta. dang that's sad that the location got 2.0'd. No more studio C beta and other old CEC stuff..
@GAMES OF YGONE yeah its Studio C Beta, just wasn't sure if you'd know what I meant if I said it LOL. honestly I really like the remodel but i wish they'd kept the animatronic. They could totally refurbish them but the kids aren't interested in them anymore
@julemenard2982 2 years
I'm one of those people that got into Showbiz and Chuck E's because I was introduced to Five Nights at Freddy's when I was 9, for 9 years straight I've been fascinated with these animatronics and I wish this was a childhood I could have experienced. Living in the UK we do not have a Chuck E Cheese's location or anything similar at all. I hoped that one day I could fly out to America to witness the animatronics myself but now locations are shutting down, being renovated with dance floors replacing the animatronics and just being straight up abandoned. Maybe one day I can own an animatronic or two if listings for them ever come up.
Awe, I'm sorry you never got to experience this stuff, that makes me a little sad. I hope one day you can go to one of the open locations!
William? Is that you?
@@thepogisreal5231*THE MIMIC*
There is actually a location that has all of the animatronics from Showbiz and Chuck E’s. They still do showings, and have memorabilia, but it is not an arcade type place. I aim to go, someday. It is a museum, where you sit and watch,
Maybe snack, and tour
Luckily for people like you, legacy stores exist. At least now. This is an older comment before they announced the legacy stores.
This makes me indescribably sad. I had some fun at Chuck E. Cheese’s, but the real fan was my sister (who is mentally handicapped). We kept going for a long time, just for her. I would do anything (almost) to save this business, because of her. We stopped going before the pandemic because of personal health problems, and now I’m worried to tell her one of her fondest memories is disappearing. I’m trying to hold it off for as long as possible. There are better pizza places, but those arcades made Chuck E. Cheese’s special. They gave something to kids that will never be forgotten. That is of true value in this life, the joyful and precious memories we share with our loved ones.
would you perhaps become a funny purple man with funny wacky perhaps psycho tendencies
@@altkitty135, if it were an act, then yes, gladly. But if you mean like something out of a horror movie, for real, then no, probably not. The smallest print in a contract is usually the most important part.
@@brianbommarito3376 he's referencing Five Nights at Freddy's
Who cares
That's honestly such a small, cramped, and barren room and not at all what I would expect a Chuck E. Cheese to look like. I guess that just proves that when you're a kid, you see things so differently.
It would honestly be cool if there could be a place for adults to be a kid again, kinda like a throw back nod to Chuck E. Cheese with something from childhood. Adult sized climbing gym thingy, funny arcade games from the 90's and early 2000's.
NOBODY CARES ABOUT YOUR NOSTALGIA
They should have animatronics of their own too, for the adults and older kids to relive their childhoods even further (and for the FNAF fans to enjoy as well lmao)
I would go there every day!
It's basically Dave and Buster's. Anything else is barcades
a core memory of mine unlocked when you were in the 'fun tubes'. I remember as a kid those were so fun, and sketchy because they shook so much but ALSO you have to be careful running around because the static electricity would build up and if you touched one of the metal rivets you would get a nasty shock!
Actually true
I remember being scared as hell of running around inside of them, they also smelled horrible since you had a bunch of kids running around without shoes
I am surprised that the shells for Chuck E's lower half and part of his mech was still there, as most locations that closed down had completely removed any proof of the animatronics from what I know. Very interesting.
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Im soo late, but they did instruct for them to destroy the animatronics so no one had a "Chuck E. Cheese abandonded" animatronic for some reason
When i was little i always thought Chuck E. Cheese was huge and filled with the best games and huge play area. It’s incredible how they dialed back all those arcade games and rides due to expenses. A few years ago, I got a glimpse of what Chuck E. Cheese had become which was an empty husk of what it once was. Honestly, this is the reality of alot of arcade places. Even Dave and Buster’s isn’t the same anymore
no way, this is literally my childhood location I can't believe that much of their animatronic is still left. I literally wanna go here & salvage some of the stuff so bad like I WANT THOSE TICKET MUNCHERS
I hate 2020 so much it took away so many from us.
what location is it?? :)
@@Bellywellywoo Not really sure if I should actually say where it is, I wouldn't want anyone to
idk... break in there
@@squishlez ok buddy that’s fine!! You don’t have to tell me if you’re nervous about it :-)
Imagine being in a place that is off limits and abandoned and you dont ever notice in rhe shadows there's an animatronic original chucky just watching and waiting for the power to go out to attack.
He’s got a nice music box in him too.
He don’t got arms your fine
"umm, guys? Is this freddy fazbear?"
Yes, the Spray-painting is due to orders from Corporate (most likely, I don't work at CEC and never have but judging from past knowledge of retail + CEC rebrands). All CEC-branded stuff has to be destroyed so it can't be salvaged, picked up looters, reused, or be resold online. It's kinda sad, but all those CEC machines will be destroyed and thrown out. Best case scenario (but unlikely because of the cost) is that they'll be shipped off to other CEC to be used for spare parts.
A similar instruction was used when Showbiz Pizza locations were rebranded and transformed into Pizza Time Theaters/Chuck E. Cheese. Even the animatronics' outer character decor (minus shell and wires and the actual robotics) and stage decor was destroyed. Of course, some locations did not follow instructions which is why Showbiz memorabilia can be found online.
Anyway, the arcade machines that are not CEC have a better chance at being resold/stripped for parts. From the footage it looks like some have already been torn apart for spare parts. Or maybe looters? Probably looters. IDK. All just speculation :-)
Chuck E. Cheese lore.
It makes me sad that kids cannot experience what we did growing up but all things change and people move on i guess. Life .
So as a person who restores arcade machines I would LOVE the opportunity to take all those busted up machines out. There are LOADS of good parts in there. I wonder who owns them...
This was my thought! I'd love to tinker with them
It amazes me that urban explorers like you get into these places and that so much is kept behind.
I'm used to the videos of places that laid abandoned for decades, so it kinda freaks me out the think, about the fact for these its only been for a few months to a year or two.
Granted places like this will never be abandoned for too long due them being in population centers (unless the stores as big as some of the places like the closed KMarts, because those are way too big to repurpose unless by another massive company), but imagine how the kids would feel seeing this a decade or two from now, when the building's power will have been gone, the paint has peeled, and the machines rusted away with moldy plastics and parts randomly salvaged or ripped away. At that time, the younger generations will have forgotten the things that shaped our current lives from 9/11 (Heck, some of the kids that join the military today were born years AFTER and don't seem to understand why it mattered so much to us) to the pandemic. They'll walk in there and see the dried, rotting papers, warning of "Social distancing" and "The don't come to work, if symptoms occur" signs.
They will probably know about COVID, but yeah.
This is the location I went to as a kid since I moved close to that area in 2013. Man, I have so many fond memories of that place. Real shame what happened to the company.
Man, I’m 15, and seeing this just is so sad. Everything that pretty much every generation (excluding gen c, ) knows is going away. I’m so happy my local Chuck E. Cheese was not effected and it is still open to this day
Shit bro im 22 and dead ass i feel like i was 15 yesterday bro i kid you not. I miss going to chuck e cheese as a young kid man. Like you said tho places like this are dying out. Luckily the one near my house got refreshed instead of closed down
Does yours still have animatronics? They're getting rarer and rarer. If yours are still intact consider yourself lucky (ESPECIALLY if your location was a Showbiz Pizza!)
@@honeybelle1203 yes
mine is still open to
My only memories of good ol’ Chuck was during Five Night’s at Freddy’s peak of popularity, everyone was either scared or fascinated by the animatronics during our trip, kinda funny
Aww man. I wanted a whole building tour 😂 show me the kitchen and manager's office, all that bts stuff we as kids never saw
Same here
I work at a Spirit Halloween that was formerly a chuck e cheese and whenever I had an anxiety attack my managers let me go hide in the boiler rooms and kitchens. It was really eerie.
I wanted to see those also!!
I definitely love the old mouse better and it looks so sad seeing everything left behind but so cool that you got to check out everything. Did you have to get permission to go in or did you sneak inside?
The old mouse was Chuck E Cheese himself. The CGI rat is an imposter!!
Im 11 and guess what i like the old one better
@@saulsomshit-je4uy yes we all do actually, this new one is ugly
@@christiangonzales7429 oh so its not chuckee without his hat on? thats a relief
Same here.
As someone who experienced Chuck E' Cheese back in the early 2000s (when I was 7 or 8), my fondest memories was probably the little camera crew section in the back where you could pretend to mix audio and use actual camera feed that were hooked up to the stores actual cameras. The pizza was kinda meh, but everything from the little jungle gym, to the sketchbook booth, to the arcade games just brought probably the best experience a kid could've asked for.
Speaking of all the tokens you found, at a Chuck E. Cheese location near me (Altoona PA.) it was originally a Showbiz Pizza location, and when I put a coin into one of the machines that gives you tokens to put in the slots, I got a Showbiz Pizza coin and I still have it!!! I used to have a Pizza Time Theater Token too, but it slid into a slot between two very close-together seats of a car that got in an accident and was scrapped for parts :(
That sucks! But coool!
thats my childhood chuck E Cheese place too
I remember showbiz pizza from Austin Texas. That's so cool you still have an original coin.
This is actually so sad, I literally grew up close to that Chuck E. Cheese and had so many birthdays there 😢
They should sell the old stuff. Tons of cool games people would enjoy and fix up. Thanks for filming
I remember loving this place my mom used to work for one back in the 80's and it was a huge Chuck E Cheese. Brings back memories.
Interesting, I'm surprised they left any parts of the Studio C mech there. Most of the time the animatronics are one of the things to get fully removed from a location that closes permanently. I wonder if the location either had a 16 or 32 movement Studio C? My guess is 16 judging by the shoulder structure of the mech and the absence of the foot tap movement. Also one of those ticket munchers is pretty decently intact.
15:09 I absolutely hated being anywhere close to that game😂 scared the living crap outta me, god I friggin hate balloons 😂
So, uh… fun fact. Five Nights at Freddy’s 3 takes place in 2023. PLEASE DON’T GO LOOKING IN SECRET ROOMS!!!
Edit: Mom! I’m famous!
I will do it before FNAF is not real stinky face (I'm joking I don't actually care if FNAF is real or not)
Nahh bro we dead
the backrooms baby
When in October 2023 you find a horror location based on an abandoned pizzeria chain, be warned for flames to occur in that building. If you work in that place, find a flammable source to light the building ablaze. There will be something inside the building. *They'll thank you for it.*
@@cheeseburger555 it's a joke
0:44 WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU CUCK E CHESE
this was my childhood chuck e. cheese i had some really fond memories there. i find it suuuper eerie to see it in it’s current state though. i’m in the area often nowadays and i’ve always wondered what it looked like on the inside after they closed, thank u for fulfilling my curiosity :)
Same this is very cool to see especially now the mall is slowly getting worse
Not only are locations closing, the animatronic shows too. They're replacing our childhood and scary animatronics to a Janitor dressed up as Chuck E. and dancing on a dance floor.
My childhood was already replaced around the beginning of the '90s. Nothing about any of the current Chuck E Cheese locations is recognizable to me.
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Like that is so true
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I grew up going to this exact location at the mall in Leominster Massachusetts. Shame that it’s all run down, that whole mall is being shut down little by little. Hopefully they’ll do something with it soon that’s worthwhile
I live in leominster Massachusetts and I can confirm this is the one in leominster
Yea
It’s sad what’s coming to the Whitney Field mall 75 to 80% of the stores are closed for good They’re probably only like 10 stores left. What a shame.
@@masonperry6478 so this one is located in Leominster Massachusetts?
I love seeing old ballpits or ballpools and seeing the adults act like big kids just warms my heart ❤️
I worked at one for 2 years as a teenager and played as Chucky every day for those years. It was actually alot of fun to work there. ❤
Cool!
I wanted a job there but they never replied back to me. I might try again
You mean Chuck E., right? I don't know how well you'd go over playing Chucky...
I had a birthday party where Chucky came up to me and pretended to bite my pizza. I was so mad, there's a picture of me giving him a death glare.
We still have 2 Chuck E Cheese locations left and one of them still has the animatronic gang! I got to show it to my daughters. 🥰 It wasn't as significant to them though. 😢
The fact that these are most likely the last Chuck E. Cheese sky tubes though!!!
I wonder how many adult fights broke out at this Chuck E. Cheese before it closed? Lol!
Creepy 😂 but so wild to remember the memories and to see how everything decays
yeah where is this one?
The craziest part was this wasn't even that old, they showed a social distancing piece of paper which means it had to have been open 2019-2020
@@AutisticPrimieprimprim Leominster MA
@@AidanGaming1000 thanks
I wonder if you could take those tickets and bring them to a location that's still open and redeem them 😂
Maybe! 😳
i don't think very many work with tickets anymore the points go on your play card now
The best thing with the slides, is how much static electricity you got, and zapping your friends. 😁
Yes!! 👏🏼😂
I haven't seen those ticket munchers in years, the nostalgia that I got when I saw it hit hard. It's one of the many things I missed, ever since they replaced them with digital tickets on the cards.
Is there anyone else who was afraid of the Ticket Munchers as a child, or was it just me?
The Chuck bot was there actually. That hunk of metal on the stage without a head is what’s left of him
So many memories as a kid there. Times have changed, sad to see them all pretty much going away.
I remember when I went to a Chuck E. Cheese years ago and it's been over three years since that happened currently I looked at the place on Google maps and it is now abandoned shut down and has been abandoned for years now sing any Chuck E. Cheese gives me so many memories😢
The reason all the chuck e cheese designs were spray painted is because corporate doesn't allow anything to be resold when removed, that's why they destroy animatronics when getting rid of them, my home town location in billings mt still has our animatronics which actually is a 3 stage and it's still the animatronics when it used to be showbiz pizza, unfortunately it's official that ours is going to be removed this year, so, there goes 40+ old animatronics because they're going to be destroyed when they're removed
I used to love go to Chuck E. Cheese when I was a kid until now I’m an adult now, I don’t go to Chuck E. Cheese anymore…..childhood memories! ❤❤
This vid has a liminal space vibe
My “home” Chuck E Cheese was on the corner of the strip mall so it had a lot of depth to it. It became an antique store but it might be vacant again. They gutted the stage, but the backdrop is the same as I remembered. I don’t think I had my birthday there, but have celebrated others birthdays there-among play dates and side stuff. Loved the Tower of Power game and tend to find them at other arcades at indoor water parks at ski resorts (I’m not a skier/snowboarder which makes that funnier). I actually went to a different one once and they had a completely different audio animatronic show
I remember visiting my local CEC when I first moved to my current hometown in 91. I used to fling pennies in the coin-slot of the arcade game 1942 and it gave me game credit. I did that A LOT!!! I bet the management was pissed about that. Good times.
Lots of Chuck E Cheese locations are closing: this one they said due to bankruptcy, another one, in a video from another youtuber I've been watching, due to 5 kids disappearing, and a lot due to health issues, that were before COVID. I'm surprised none of them are closing for public disturbances leading to fights.
The missing children thing is a hoax based off of a video game, the rumor comes back around year after year. Don't believe everything you see on the Internet
Kids disappearing?!!?
Five Nights at Freddy's.
That's just what I heard.
The 5 kids rumor is complete BS.
It's really hard to keep living with all of my childhood things fading away. I'll never be able to share the joys I grew up with with my children
Thats creepy that the animatronic is still there, it would've been creepier if it had the costume on it and started moving, FNAF vibes
But u remember u have a shotgun
Never got to go to Chuck E. Cheese's but it was still a nostalgia trip of arcade-type places and 90's/early 2000s decor.
If this was a fictional movie or a video game, you probably would’ve found a dark secret in the back rooms that would try and kill you! Suddenly very glad real life isn’t that kind of horror show!
Jokes aside, I remember this one Chuck E Cheese I went to when I was younger that had a small section that played Veggie Tales stuff. Wish I could’ve found that one again before everything shut down…..and before I turned 18 (I’m turning 25 this June 29th)!
I REMEMBER THAT!!
Wait, you mean I’m not crazy?! Huh….I wonder what else I thought I remembered is actually true!
Recently, I went to the Chuck E Cheese in Nanuet. It was a cool location to visit. I went there two times before, once in 2018 and then again in early 2020, which was around the time CEC Entertainment filed for bankruptcy and closed a lot of their locations including the one in this video
finally someone doesn't like the new chuckie I thought I was the only one
New Chuck e sucks!!
Honestly I like the old one with the baseball hat when I was a kid, the new one sucks, I’m now 16 and I heard a lot of people from the reviews of Chuck E. Cheese that they said they were recycling their pizza slices and they never repaired the machines they just replaced them with new ones
And before there was CHUCKEE CHEESE, we had, my generation, SHOWBIZ PIZZA!!! They all turned into CHUCKEE Cheese…Absolutely amazing
My father have told me many stories about Showbiz Pizza
Yeah Showbiz Pizza was the Chuckee Cheese of my childhood.
I felt so sad watching this, especially when she went down the slide. that really unlocked so much memories for me and it’s so sad seeing something that I enjoyed so much as a kid broken down and abandoned. It’s like there’s no life in it anymore and it’s really sad
Perhaps you can contact any of the living Chuck E. Cheese locations if they want ANYTHING from that abandoned Chuck E. Cheese with their permission.
right there is so much here i would wanna grab for home. sweet stuff
@@baddumtiss6541 I see.
14:01 woman: “classic basketball game.”
Everyone else: that's a football game
I loved taking my kids here many years ago. Well done!
Thank you so much! Gotta love Chuck E Cheese!! 😁
hello, do you know where the place is, it's just to know more about it
@@AlexGamerRBXLeominster ma Chuck E. Cheese at wintey field mall
It at your own risk If You wanna see it
I been there since I was little
I remembered passing by an abandoned Chuck E Cheese in Diamond Bar, California and bruh, it was vandalized to hell
Five Nigths At Freddys
Please do it
Fnaf sucks
@LuciferDaSandwingboinow it is
Fnaf is the best thing of all time it's better than fnaf if you say fnaf fnaf sucks you are a looser hater and fnaf gets a movie but not Chucky cheese
But it basically is fnaf
This has to be the one in Leominster, Massachusetts
This is boosting-up nostalgia but this looks so eeire, sad to see it closed down & kinda interesting to watch :O
18:59 that’s not the whole animatronic poets at all😮😢😊😅
It's in surprisingly terrific condition given it's been abandoned for 3 years
Guys when they’re in the and you look at the girl that’s driving if you put your finger over hair she kinda looks like Eminem
The reason they spray painted the machine was because it is company policy that when a location closes or remodels they are required to vandalize or destroy the machines and animatronics or trash them leaving no trace of them left. They do this so no fans take the things and sell them on sites like eBay and stuff because they are very protective of their copyright and sometimes sue people who make games with their characters
But yea
Corporate sucks
@Retail City yep couldn't agree mlre
So wasteful
@xxundead52 That is actually true
it must be a generational thing but, trust me when i tell you Showbiz Pizza was beyond top tier (The set-up walking into the building felt like you were walking into a theme park, super long Hallway with countless parody posters of pop culture films, The animatronics were super detailed, the entire vibe was larger then life! as a kid every time i went into Showbiz Pizza it was packed (It was a great example of the 80’s excess and glitz and glamour run amok throughout that decade! Once Chucky Cheese starting gobbling up/acquiring The Showbiz Pizza IP it changed a lot imo the local Chucky Cheese pulled a good 30% of the arcade cabinets and just seem to get cheap last time i went there was with my sister and (3) nephews in 2002/2003 the vibe was not the same (It’s actually sad that society is missing out on places like this and real arcades, and music stores (Especially music stores i could spend 2-3hrs in a music store just looking at stuff) Even though the concept of the internet was very cool it’s never really brought people together in many ways it’s made the general population more narcissistic and cruel (But, it’s destroyed real life experiences/memories)
Absolutely correct my friend. So many fond mid 80's memories of the Rock-afire Explosion band. Check out the documentary about the band (if you haven't already). It's a great watch.
I wonder why they left everything behind? Eviction, maybe? I agree that the new Chuck E is horrible! I consider the 3D Chuck E to be a non-canonical imposter. Chuck E Cheese is not the same any more and today's kids will never get to have a real Chuck E Cheese's experience with animatronics! They were replaced with stupid TV screens!! A great find, and very fun! Just a side question but why didn't you guys explore the kitchen or any of the backrooms, though?
I remember going to Chuck E. Cheeses, used to go in the late 90s to early 2000s, as a kid, closest one for me, was in the Summit City of Fort Wayne, Indiana, the one is still around today, probably around there since the early 90s. Did enjoy the games, the food, fun & entertainment, and seeing Chuck E. and his friends and the birthday parties. Great memories. Chuck E. Cheeses, a great place for being Kid. Great video. Keep making more videos.
I’m shocked to see my hometown location! So many memories
Me to same town
This is in Leominster MA, a shame because it was my childhood one. The mall it is in is sooner or later gonna go downhill
I have good memories of CEC, Bullwinkle’s, and other pizzeria fun center related places. Sadly we don’t see these sort of places as much, anymore.
CEC? Colossal elephant cock?
@@GiveMeMeatballsImHungry 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Used to go to Chuck E Cheese all the time when I was a little it was the best thing ever but eventually it did close down seeing this video brings back memories of what it was like back in the early 2000s as a kid
This brought back soooo many memories from when i was a kid now that I’m 25 it don’t seem the same i was about 13 the last time i went there.
I know right!!
@@urbaxvibes time really do fly
My childhood one is still open. I think it still even has animatronics from what I remember. (Even though I drove past it only a month ago....but I didn't look inside.)
Also, y'all should've gone in the back rooms of the stage and kitchen. Who knows. Maybe some animatronics or parts are still left.
Even tho they weren’t there…Am ABSOLUTELY TERRIFIED of animatronics!
Love you guys content!🥰
Ikr! And thank you!! 😁
i’m from the UK so we’ve never had Chuck E Cheese’s, BUT i was lucky enough to see some animatronics at a theme park restaurant when i was little, only to realise when I got older that those animatronics were in fact Rockafire Explosion (from Showbiz Pizza) animatronics that were changed into the “Hard Luck Bears Jamboree” so that’s the closest i’ve ever gotten to anything like what you had in america. now all the places in the UK that have had an animatronic band like the ones in america are all pretty much gone now. i find animatronics so fascinating and it’s so sad to know they’re slowly leaving us :((
if they could’ve just donated the unused animatronics to museums instead of just leaving them then that would’ve been so much better.
I miss those days of Chuck E Cheese In The Early 2000’s,
And My Local Chuck E Cheese No Longer Has Those Tubes!
Same!!
Same bro kids today will never understand those nostalgic memories that a lot of 90s and 2000s kids had going to chuckecheese rip childhood
When I had my parties there, we didn’t have any slides or things to climb through. All we had was a ball pit and I was SO EXCITED to jump in. Now that I think about how dirty those pits were…🤢
Man this reminds me of toys r rus I loved that place until they took it down where I’m living:( the memories
TOYSRUS MY CHILDHOOD
imagine they open the curtains and find a headless Chucky, Helen smashed, and then a chainsaw in a dumpster, and blood.
They need to invest in a chuck e cheese for adults. That would be cool.
The original FNAF lol even though the era of Chuck E Cheese is slowly fading away, im kind of happy that the style of "children's entertainment restaurant" will live on vicariously through FNAF
Gives me FNAF vibes
Gives me fnaf movie vibes
I remember seeing the original Chuck E cheese characters. When they would dance on stage and you could see them display outside in a plastic dome. Now that was the real cheese, and now everything is gone.
Would it be awesome to have an entire arcade to yourself? (Which location is this?)
Leominster ma Chuck e cheese. But I think the doors are locked
And the games are broken
@MommaandDaddaRobloxContent Man, I wouldn't care. I would still take the shells of an arcade game
When the one i worked at shut down the only thing we really left were the skeeball lanes and whatever bench/tablas we couldnt sell and some trash from the destroyed games. We had to destroy, dismantle, and pack up to ship off to other stores and most of the games to the main storage warehouse.
Wow! Thank you!!
Have you guys ever been to Gary, Indiana it is the king of abandoned places just behind Detroit of course.
Nope but she should definitely check it out!!
Like literally stepping in a real life liminal space. Creepy!! Yet….nostalgic
Yes!!
You should have taken those tickets and looked for a chuckie cheese that was still open and gave them to some random kids.
We’ve heard they do not take tickets anymore. The points are put on to a card now!!
The animatronics are coming you need to run now
Imagine the lights shut off and then eyes light up while music from a music box plays.
Har har har har har har har
We have technology to blame for a lot of closing things nowadays, I don’t think kids should be allowed any phones or iPads until they are 10, that’s how it was for me and it would help them be more active and outdoors
This was literally my local store. How did you manage to get in there?
they had permission
@@iloveowls90 nah the door was unlocked after another explorer broke the window to get in lol
Where is this located?