I wasn’t born during the decade but I have such a strong fascination over 80’s -90’s memorabilia / animatronics. This is just so cool and I wish to go here someday.
The 90s were a great time to be a kid. And the 2000s the last great time to be a teenager. And the 80s are the definition of retro awesomeness. You’re obsessed with the right decades, my friend.
I really truly enjoyed this. These were the CEC character animatronics I grew up with. They were so detailed and moved so well compared to the later versions. Thanks for this, now I want to visit Smitty's!
I just now saw this and the fact y'all uploaded this on my birthday is what makes this vid even better This was looking back at a 80s time machine. I enjoyed watching it from beginning to end. I enjoyed hearing the fun memories y'all had with cec/showbiz
Great document of this wild place!! Enjoyed it and it kept my attention. Great job! So much amazing information.. The search n destroy... ugh. Youve given us another trove of specialness!
I was born at the tail end of Rockafire's lifespan, and grew up in a place that had no Chuck E. Cheese, so these dudes and the legacy the fans have curated have always been of fascination to me. I've been to Wolmi Land theme park in Incheon, Korea - made the trek out there from Seoul specifically to see the Rockafire Explosion! Sadly they're not in the best of shape (at least they all moved) but it was an amazing experience. Apparently it's the band that used to belong to Chris Thrash, who was one of the protagonists of the documentary. One day I hope to make it to Smitty's, or at least see the RAE that's in Vancouver! Not sure how many CEC's have animatronics in Canada...
This was really neat to see,I was laughing at the RAE show because all I saw in the corner was beach bear tapping fats shoulder like,"hey,hey,HEY!, can i tell ya something?!".
I have to go here one day. I never got to go to Showbiz Pizza, but I've been to Chuck E Cheese alot, and I had a birthday party there when I turned 4 in the 90s, and I remember it fondly
I gotta admit while these things are kinda creepy they do have some charm to them and they were definitely ahead of their time with stuff like this back then
i love your channel man, ive been hooked on this rock afire explosion stuff for like 3 years now and got re-interested in it recently like a month ago. im mad young and obviously havent seen these in person, always trying to go. My chuck e cheese recently got remodeled and it like sucks now. it was some sort of studio c stage
@@SetsStreetsEats Thanks man yeah I love the rockfire explosion I'm planning on going to creative engineering this summer also I love that video you made going to Stephen King's house Because I live in Maine and that was pretty neat
@@dylantilley2942 That's awesome, I really love Bangor, It was such a great town! Also word on the street is that Aaron sold the creative engineering building so it'll be interesting to see if he moves the whole setup to somewhere else in it's entirety or has one heck of an auction either way you're in for a great tour I'm certain!
21:40 - 21:50 I do know that a very talent costume maker called Harold Goldbrandsen (under his company Fantasy Forest) built all of the early PTT animatronics (and all the early Mascot costumes as well) from the very first store until around 1980 or 81.
@@SetsStreetsEats Your welcome. There are some newspaper clippings of Harold at work on the Bots and Costumes. I might try to share them here. But I've tried to share links on a RUclips comment the other day and they wouldn't let me. But I'll try to see if I can.
@@papachillothezappey4050 No worries bud, RUclips apparently has its own agenda or reasons for why they wont allow that I think it's very silly but instagram's the same way in not allowing pictures or files in the comments so I guess there's some reasoning behind it.
and in case your curious, the location in Redwood City, CA that exists *TODAY* is *NOT* the original RWC location (the one today *USED* to be a Discovery Zone)
Bro even tho im 12 and young i have so much interest in this 80s early 90s stuff and now know so much about it and i wish i could go back in time to see all this how it would’ve looked back then
I was so happy To see this today we used to have 2 CEC’s in South Dakota we now have 1 but they never had a full stage it was a studio C I need to see if I can get to smittys this summer how much does he want for pay
There's no charge, it just depends on if he is available for tours at the time of your trip. If you just shoot him an email off of his website he'll answer you back 😃
Cool! I hate how far away a drive it is for me, im lucky to live near the Rockford Location (The oldest CEC stage with a lot of history to exist till this day). You should stop by sometime! I have a vid uploaded to see what to expect! It's the famous rocker stage that he was talking about in the video, last of its kind. It's the first to have any full-body, and a redesign of the General Store stage, which never got released. Though, it isn't doing too well, and it is very quiet.
@@SetsStreetsEats Yep! I uploaded a video of the location if you're curious on what it looks like now. There is also a vid from 2001 for comparison on another channel
@@SetsStreetsEats Unfortunately, it's gone. I grew up with it, and, I still stand by that this was the highest quality CEC stage ever made. Once when I was little went to a 2 or 3 stage out of town, and I didn't like it. Growing up with the house was awesome
Damon Breland 1. Where's the Band Board that's supposed to be on your Balcony Stage? 2. What happened to Chuck E's old cyberamic snout with the larger cheek dimples before you replaced it?
I've seen the band board. It's huge. I would have had absolutely no where to put it. This snout is still a 1981 original. Since they were all hand made slightly different variations occurred.
That was Smitty's owner, Damon's idea, he thought it was a really great song for the end and once I listened to it I had to agree and a little bit of a sound mixing later I was able to have it at the end. ☺️
Can't believe I get to go there for my birthday this August!! If it's okay to ask, how long were you there? And did you get to pick any songs or did Damon choose randomly or?
Oh I'm certain they can and will be preserved and saved digitally, but the actual cell itself will keep decomposing and eventually be gone. They are a very cool artifact of how things used to be made. I really enjoyed seeing them.
@@SmittysSuperService This has got to be one of the rarest commercials to ever exist! Hopefully it's found one day because I'm sure any PTT fan would want to see it! So let's just hope one day it's found, and it surfaces to the internet. We have to spread the word about it because it's so interesting!
I grew up in the early 2000s, long after showbiz was gone. I didnt like chuck e cheese as a child, was terrified of animatronics but as an adult with a passion for character design and an appreciation for animatronics/mechanical gadgets i absolutely love the Rock a Fire Explosion characters. Specifically Rolfe DeWolfe, hes so cute. My region has Marvins Marvelous mechanical museum but the few chuck e cheese animatronics they had were in pretty sorry shape and not moving last i was there.
My mom and aunt said their favorite characters were Rolf and Earl... And my grandma loved Fatz.. heck, they kept old Showbiz tokens and showed me... Those were fun stories
@@SmittysSuperService At least he is working again. When he was at Tinley parks odyssey fun world his turntable never worked so this is the first footage we have of him performing!!!!!!!!!!!
Thankfully it crashed onto a nice bed of pine needles so it actually wasn't hurt at all amazingly cuz I really thought that thing was going to be a goner lol
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I wasn’t born during the decade but I have such a strong fascination over 80’s -90’s memorabilia / animatronics. This is just so cool and I wish to go here someday.
It’s on google maps
The 90s were a great time to be a kid. And the 2000s the last great time to be a teenager. And the 80s are the definition of retro awesomeness. You’re obsessed with the right decades, my friend.
@@allcapsROBit’s still a great time to be a teenager.
me to
Same
this dudes intro is basically "I have fun for a living" and i respect tf out of that
Lol, thanks!
I love how pasqually passes by and delivers the pizza!
Just casually passing by
same
@@Bozofish3535same
Thats not showbiz pizza its little ceasars
@@Gemelos18Vasquez are you okay?
So awesome seeing my content i helped create for Damon featured in a video! I created some of the countdowns you saw! Congrats on 100 episodes!
You did awesome! Damon was telling me about all those animations you did for him and they were really cool!
Ayo hi Mattthefranchise
Smitty seeks like a very nice guy, I like his funny laugh.
He let is go to smithys
I've always wanted to go here! And it would be really neat if both the CEC band and the RAE band did a song together.
I really truly enjoyed this. These were the CEC character animatronics I grew up with. They were so detailed and moved so well compared to the later versions. Thanks for this, now I want to visit Smitty's!
LOVE IT!!😍 Go Damon!!!👑👍🏻
His place is truly 🪄 Magical🪄
OMG it's THE KING!🦁
Memories
OMG those animation cels look so cool! I hope we find the whole commercial soon!
ME TO!!!
I just now saw this and the fact y'all uploaded this on my birthday is what makes this vid even better
This was looking back at a 80s time machine. I enjoyed watching it from beginning to end. I enjoyed hearing the fun memories y'all had with cec/showbiz
Well I'm super glad you enjoyed it and happy belated birthday!
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33:25 Earle is canonically aware of Google
Great document of this wild place!! Enjoyed it and it kept my attention. Great job!
So much amazing information.. The search n destroy... ugh. Youve given us another trove of specialness!
I was born at the tail end of Rockafire's lifespan, and grew up in a place that had no Chuck E. Cheese, so these dudes and the legacy the fans have curated have always been of fascination to me.
I've been to Wolmi Land theme park in Incheon, Korea - made the trek out there from Seoul specifically to see the Rockafire Explosion! Sadly they're not in the best of shape (at least they all moved) but it was an amazing experience. Apparently it's the band that used to belong to Chris Thrash, who was one of the protagonists of the documentary.
One day I hope to make it to Smitty's, or at least see the RAE that's in Vancouver! Not sure how many CEC's have animatronics in Canada...
the one in Mississauga still has them. i'm pretty sure it's also the unique road stage they talked about at some point in this video!
Holy Cow!!! What a trip to my childhood. Finally, a reason to visit Mississippi. I’ve gotta go check it out.
Yeah it was really awesome visiting there, that place is a time machine!
33:10 I love how beach bear is tapping fats
Wow !! Such an amazing video/documentary about Smitty's !!!
Thank you, I'm so glad you liked it!
I want to go here for my birthday so bad! Showbiz was a huge part of my childhood ♡
This is amazing, I love seeing stuff about Smitty’s.
These two guys are the coolest! I could hang out with them all day.
TY for a great video on the fun pass times in America History. People need this stuff. Classic time machine.
Such sweet memories! Wonderful collection, tour and video!
Thanks for watching it!
32:32 Am i the only one or does Looney Bird sound like Doofenshmirtz from Phineas & Ferb xD
So happy you finally made it out to Smitty's! Such a special and incredible location for sure. Congrats on 100 episodes! 🥳
Yes it really is, and thanks!
This was really neat to see,I was laughing at the RAE show because all I saw in the corner was beach bear tapping fats shoulder like,"hey,hey,HEY!, can i tell ya something?!".
I can't wait for this!
Omg I remember the pizza sizes with the faces!!! As a kid I wondered why the small was a hippo and not Helen!!
Congrats on 100 Buddy! Can't wait to see whats done the road.
Thanks Mike!
I have to go here one day. I never got to go to Showbiz Pizza, but I've been to Chuck E Cheese alot, and I had a birthday party there when I turned 4 in the 90s, and I remember it fondly
I gotta admit while these things are kinda creepy they do have some charm to them and they were definitely ahead of their time with stuff like this back then
i love your channel man, ive been hooked on this rock afire explosion stuff for like 3 years now and got re-interested in it recently like a month ago. im mad young and obviously havent seen these in person, always trying to go. My chuck e cheese recently got remodeled and it like sucks now. it was some sort of studio c stage
I like the intro with munch, billy bob, and Pasquale
38:15 I programmed this show for Damon! Awesome that he played dit for you.
That's awesome, I'm glad he did too!
did you voice fatz in that scene? if so thats a pretty good fatz
As it says in 39:33, that was Burt Wilson who voiced Fatz.
Awesome, just awesome!
Every episode at Smitty's is such a treat even the 2nd time through!!
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Today March 27th is my 16th birthday and this is a pretty good birthday gift
Thank you Chris
I really appreciate you saying that man, now go get that license so you can visit Smitty's and have a happy birthday!
@@SetsStreetsEats Thanks man yeah I love the rockfire explosion I'm planning on going to creative engineering this summer also I love that video you made going to Stephen King's house Because I live in Maine and that was pretty neat
@@dylantilley2942 That's awesome, I really love Bangor, It was such a great town! Also word on the street is that Aaron sold the creative engineering building so it'll be interesting to see if he moves the whole setup to somewhere else in it's entirety or has one heck of an auction either way you're in for a great tour I'm certain!
I love the chuck e cheese animatronics like the very old one
Those wall clappers and flags used to creep me out, they used to be at the one in Carson Mall. They just didn’t make sense to me.
21:40 - 21:50 I do know that a very talent costume maker called Harold Goldbrandsen (under his company Fantasy Forest) built all of the early PTT animatronics (and all the early Mascot costumes as well) from the very first store until around 1980 or 81.
That's some awesome information, thanks for sharing!
@@SetsStreetsEats Your welcome. There are some newspaper clippings of Harold at work on the Bots and Costumes. I might try to share them here. But I've tried to share links on a RUclips comment the other day and they wouldn't let me. But I'll try to see if I can.
@@SetsStreetsEats
I tried man. It's not working. Sorry
@@papachillothezappey4050 No worries bud, RUclips apparently has its own agenda or reasons for why they wont allow that I think it's very silly but instagram's the same way in not allowing pictures or files in the comments so I guess there's some reasoning behind it.
My Pasqually costume came directly from Harold. That's how I got his signature.
Awesomeness!
and in case your curious, the location in Redwood City, CA that exists *TODAY* is *NOT* the original RWC location (the one today *USED* to be a Discovery Zone)
Bro even tho im 12 and young i have so much interest in this 80s early 90s stuff and now know so much about it and i wish i could go back in time to see all this how it would’ve looked back then
Loved the intro 😂😂
I just went through some old photos of me at my birthday party at Chuck E. Cheese’s it was so crazy
I love how at the end Pasqually is riding a kids bike
Scooter lol
Whoa I see the very old chuck e cheese logo on the TV like chuck e cheese pizza time theater
I was so happy
To see this today we used to have 2 CEC’s in South Dakota we now have 1 but they never had a full stage it was a studio C I need to see if I can get to smittys this summer how much does he want for pay
There's no charge, it just depends on if he is available for tours at the time of your trip. If you just shoot him an email off of his website he'll answer you back 😃
Come up to ND. Fargo’s a former Showbiz & still has the band. It’s the only location up here.
The intro was so cool
Wait so crusty the cat and the original chuck e cheese are still alive 😱 YES
Yes in Colorado. Only known ones left in existence.
This place is awesome! Gotta go sometime
Also love the concept of your channel gonna subscribe to you
Wow Chuck is so awesome
When I grow up I hope to go there one day 🤩
49:09 this lost media !
Hope to go here someday it’s an amazing place
Even tho I’m six I love animatronics😊
20:27 What’s the name of this background music? It’s really nice!
My mum was born in 1983 and never went to Chuck E Cheese, hey life is rough in Australia
32:21 to 35:57, 38:08 Did smitty's super service station somehow get the original voice actors or was that actually an original showtape?
Cool! I hate how far away a drive it is for me, im lucky to live near the Rockford Location (The oldest CEC stage with a lot of history to exist till this day). You should stop by sometime! I have a vid uploaded to see what to expect!
It's the famous rocker stage that he was talking about in the video, last of its kind. It's the first to have any full-body, and a redesign of the General Store stage, which never got released.
Though, it isn't doing too well, and it is very quiet.
I am planning on going there in the first week of May and I'm hoping it's still set up cuz I would love to see it!
@@SetsStreetsEats Yep! I uploaded a video of the location if you're curious on what it looks like now. There is also a vid from 2001 for comparison on another channel
@@SetsStreetsEats Unfortunately, it's gone. I grew up with it, and, I still stand by that this was the highest quality CEC stage ever made. Once when I was little went to a 2 or 3 stage out of town, and I didn't like it. Growing up with the house was awesome
The time and dedication it must have taken to collect all this!
So cool I hope to go to Smitty‘s one day
44:09 where can I find this song?
Cool video :)
Damon Breland
1. Where's the Band Board that's supposed to be on your Balcony Stage?
2. What happened to Chuck E's old cyberamic snout with the larger cheek dimples before you replaced it?
I've seen the band board. It's huge. I would have had absolutely no where to put it.
This snout is still a 1981 original. Since they were all hand made slightly different variations occurred.
When I saw photos I wanted to pack my bags and go here
huey lewis workin for a livin AHAH!
Omnipresent Showbiz mix
7:10 Hehe...Damon swearing
33:23 Earl Shmeral: AND GUESS WHAT I FOUND YOUR POILICE RECORD
where is this place?
I crying bc of this ending
That was Smitty's owner, Damon's idea, he thought it was a really great song for the end and once I listened to it I had to agree and a little bit of a sound mixing later I was able to have it at the end. ☺️
I really like the first stage show of Chuck E Cheese compared to their newer stage shows they started doing.
Can't believe I get to go there for my birthday this August!! If it's okay to ask, how long were you there? And did you get to pick any songs or did Damon choose randomly or?
Is there away those animation cels could be preserved online by digital scans?
Oh I'm certain they can and will be preserved and saved digitally, but the actual cell itself will keep decomposing and eventually be gone. They are a very cool artifact of how things used to be made. I really enjoyed seeing them.
@@SetsStreetsEats I’m super into the history of cec and I didn’t even know that the cels existed!! Seconded on the enjoyment part :)
I have already scanned each cel for archival purposes. I just hope one day we find the whole commercial.
@@SmittysSuperService This has got to be one of the rarest commercials to ever exist! Hopefully it's found one day because I'm sure any PTT fan would want to see it! So let's just hope one day it's found, and it surfaces to the internet. We have to spread the word about it because it's so interesting!
great video
Thanks!
I grew up in the early 2000s, long after showbiz was gone. I didnt like chuck e cheese as a child, was terrified of animatronics but as an adult with a passion for character design and an appreciation for animatronics/mechanical gadgets i absolutely love the Rock a Fire Explosion characters. Specifically Rolfe DeWolfe, hes so cute. My region has Marvins Marvelous mechanical museum but the few chuck e cheese animatronics they had were in pretty sorry shape and not moving last i was there.
I googled rolfe and I found him in a villains wiki 😂😂😂😂😂
Believable since the other rockafire cast technically hated him lol
Question: is the Moon Rockers showtape lost media?
now you gotta go to goofy gas and see david's show!!
A David Ferguson interview would be very cool to see
@@W4ZFN especially since he wasn't in the documentary at aaron's insistence
Can you go to this place or is it just for guests and family members?
You can look their website up and send them an email and plan a trip if it's in advance based on their schedule.
Muy bonita interesante estos animatrónicos y su pizzería soy de Colombia ojalá uviera este tipo de pizzerías
¡Muchas gracias!
Heyyyyyyy this your first time coming to my house
king sent us
OMG CHUCK E CHEESE
Omg yes mitzy
How hard is it to be able to get a tour of this place
As long as you are willing to wait a few months and be patient .... then its not to hard.
If I was rich,...I would have this in my house.
My mom and aunt said their favorite characters were Rolf and Earl... And my grandma loved Fatz.. heck, they kept old Showbiz tokens and showed me... Those were fun stories
32:00- 36:00 my favorite moments!😂😂
yo soy fan de los animatronicos de los 1980
Glad Damon has Tinley Parks odyssey fun world Mijin Looney working again
Sorta.... he still needs more TLC....
@@SmittysSuperService At least he is working again. When he was at Tinley parks odyssey fun world his turntable never worked so this is the first footage we have of him performing!!!!!!!!!!!
How’s ur drone doing?
Thankfully it crashed onto a nice bed of pine needles so it actually wasn't hurt at all amazingly cuz I really thought that thing was going to be a goner lol
@@SetsStreetsEats lol
Is this place open to the public?
No we are not. We give private showings by appointment only
I always wanted to ho there but i live in dumont-
Good
3:28 man... that must be nightmare fuel ._.
OMG 😳😳😳😳😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱 YEs
GOGO Cho Cho train
He should make his RUclips channel into a tv show
I am lucky I went to Kmart before they went bye-bye I’m gonna go in to the ranks of circuit city every single abandoned building in the world
Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza Time Theatre.