ikr, and from a business standpoint that would make more sense; if they didn't feel like putting the effort in to doing the museum themselves, why not make a ton of money auctioning off all the props and animatronics? Doesn't make any sense to destroy them
Idk why buy him talking about how depressing it is that Chuck E Cheese is throwing out your childhood and then immediately switching to “I’m the proud owner of the air chuck ones” made me laugh
Honestly i'd kill to get to see the Rockafire Explosion play live. Their whole story is so amazing yet tragic and consistently keep my interest. I hope Aaron and his creations will have good luck in the future (and Rolfe will finally get fans!)
In Illinois there's this place called volo museum they have the full rockafire band and the shows run on a schedule I went to see them but they were still putting the faces and stuff on the animatronics it's really cool they even have the original backdrop I'm pretty sure
22:32 Fun fact, that abandoned Chuck E. Cheese Studio C animatronic is from the Birmingham, Alabama Chuck E. Cheese, the Vestavia one specifically (it was actually one of my locals when I used to live there!). It was replaced in 2016 for a Dance Floor. It was really cool finding out that the meme image of this destroyed Studio C animatronic was from my old local, not to mention the fact that it's been restored now.
Fun fact about the mario bros live-action movie, the directors didn't want to make a mario movie but a sci-fi dystopia movie. However they couldn't get the funding to make their movie; so they agreed to make the mario movie and turn it into the movie they wanted. Not only that but it was terribly managed, actors were overheated (even those outside the suits) and arguments over the script happened often, as the directors changes to make THEIR movie ended up changing the script every day. The actors even went as far as to forget memorising the script, as there was no point since it'll change the next day. The actor for Bowser even argued this with the director and nearly quit due to how badly managed it was; the rest of the staff begged him to return and showed distaste for the directors themselves; so bowsers actor stayed to finish filming after he cooled off. Bob hoskins (the actor of mario) ended up injuring his arm due to yet another on set problem where his arm how slammed in the car door and had to wear a disguised cast through the rest of the movie. It didn't help they were literally drinking alcohol to get through the insanity of the movie which lead to luigi's actor accidently driving the van badly due to how drunk he was. Bob hoskins went on an interview and said that filming for the mario bros movie was "the worst experience in his life".
I'm a huge fan of CEC and the rockafire explosion, animatronics in general, it's awesome to see more youtubers and bigger channels cover these topics as the community is relatively niche. I've been a part of the community for a while and there's still always things being found and discussed.
Growing up I was terrified of the animatronics at my Chuck E. Cheese. I wanted a large gap between me and the animatronics, but at the same I didn't mind their shows haha. I don't think somebody could pay me to get close to one now, but I do enjoy learning about all the different ones and what's happened to them. Thank you for doing all the research and giving us this video.
Its cool to see some bigger youtubers shed some light on this obscure topic, ive always been very fond of animatronic entertainment and it saddens me to see how so many famous attractions are just lost forever, I hope one day animatronic restaurants will be revived, but i highly doubt it
I’m glad my local Chuck E. Cheese hasn’t been 2.0 remodeled yet. The last time I went there was I think months ago, and it seemed they replaced the old playground with new arcade machines. Still sad, but at least they still have the animatronics.
Fun fact: the rockafire explosion appeared at a theme park called funderland in cork Ireland for a few years from 2015-1018 before being retired probably due to deterioration, so in a way, they were still performing (although under the name fatz and the hillbilly band)
I was hardly ever able to go to Chuck E. Cheese but I wish I'd been able to go more often. I'm quite fascinated with animatronics. I hope I can make my own someday. It's not likely, but man would it be cool.
While I can't really relate to experiencing the nostalgia of Animatronic Restaurants. Since in Australia, they never became a thing. The idea of animatronic restaurants absolutely fascinated me, the first time I was exposed to this idea was with the release of Markiplier's Five nights at Freddy's playthrough. And I developed a morbid curiosity and found their designs unsettling, and wondering how children could watch the performances without getting scared lol. If I ever make my way to America, I'd most certainly like to checkout an animatronic restaurant, before they all close down lol. But this video was very informative, and taught me about animatronic restaurants and their history.
@desmodus.__. Oh yeah, I think in Sydney, they had Segaland with Sonic the Hedgehog and shit. But they shut down ages ago as well. The only places in Australia that still have animatronics nowadays are amusement parks, like Dream World and Movie World lol 😅
There was actually an Australian Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza Time Theatre (renamed to Charlie Cheese's Pizza Playhouse since I guess "chuck" in Australian English means "to throw up") in Surfer's Paradise, Queensland that opened in March 1981. They relocated to a location in Carina, Queensland in 1982 (Surfer's Paradise also was the first international PTT to open, and the first PTT to close, even though they relocated). Carina would close between 1984 and 1986, and since then CEC has not returned to Australia.
@CECBowlingGreen Yeah, but that was before I was born and I don't live in Queensland lol. I'm not sure why animatronic restaurants never took off in Australia. But I'd assume It'd be because of our pubs, RSLs and beaches, and there wasn't really much of a need for them. Most of my childhood for special occasions, we'd just go the RSL and get lunch or dinner, or go the beach and have a BBQ or something. good times lol 😅
i think it's really cool that this video released just around the time i got fixated on the Rock-Afire Explosion!! i love these silly little air pressurised guys and i'm so glad they're getting the attention and love they deserve :) they're super interesting to research and i love finding out new things about them!! also, interesting thing about that Clown animatronic: there was a theme park called "Mundo Magico" in Chile, and there's a promotional ad that, for a second, shows an animatronic resembling an older man that appears to be a retrofit of the Clown animatronic! this implies that there were more than one Clown mech produced (or even a whole animatronic!), since the Clown in its original state still sits in Creative Engineering's warehouse. there's another short video lying around that shows a couple seconds of this retrofitted animatronic in action, showing what its mouth movements look like. nothing of this animatronic's showtape(s) have resurfaced to my knowledge.
As a European that grew up in a country where Animatronic entertainment for kids wasn't really a thing I'm surprised how interested I am in this, very informative. thanks for shedding light on a piece of niche overseas culture.
2:00 Norman sang "Evil" back in my Birth Year, damn... Coincidence~ 2:34 *_THEY GOT THE ANIMATRONIC_* that's soooooo cool, Norman used right here, and I've heard "Evil" it's a good song !! 24:42 Sadly here in Ireland, we don't have Chuck 'E' Cheese or The Rockafire Explosion, but it's cool to hear about them~^^
@justberp734 If your on about me, I'm not sure why. Some people just think I type like a Bot, I'm not sure why, probably to do with my Autism, is my guess
The only animatronic i lived through was just chuck e cheese. Not munch’s band, but at my local CEC, they kept Chuck E, and idk what happened to the others. I would go CRAZY every time chuck e had “woken up” or something. He would dance and “sing”. There are videos on youtube right now with the same chuck e cheese i grew up with, before they turned his stage to a wall I also was there for tickets, and tokens, etc. i have a faint memory of something that counted the tickets for you and printed reciepts showing how many you had so you could go to the prize counter.
Not sure if anyone has mentioned it. But there used to be this show called totally obsessed, or something like that. I remember there being a person on the show who was obsessed with TMNT. I believe they owned one of the Mikey Costumes from a movie. I think I saw someone say they did party bookings, like how people would book people dressed as a princess. I just thought it was interesting😊
i love billy bobs wonderland, i live in west virginia and used to go to billy bobs wonderland as a kid for my birthdays and for fun. Im glad to hear it mentioned as barely anybody does
I was searching these comments for someone else mentioning that. Billy Bob's Pizza Wonderland is the last public exhibition of the Rock-A-Fire Explosion and recently got an overhaul. Reportedly all of the animatronics are back in tip-top shape. I'd love to go down to Barboursville and check it out just for nostalgia but a 38-year-old guy wandering in by himself is liable to set off some red flags with someone.
I loved Chuck E Cheese as a kid, so it made sense to have my little cousins birthday there in 2017. Unfortunately “The Band” was out of commission, so we didn’t get to see them perform, However, the Chuck E animatronic would occasionally open its eyes, fixate on something in the restaurant, stare for a few minutes, and then close its eyes again. Luckily my cousin (5yo) didn’t seem to care too much, but it was a far cry from what I remembered Chuck E being when I was a kid :(
My little brother celebrated his birthday in that Northridge CA CeC party room! It looks EXACTLY like in the video still. Animatronics have seen better days though.
I was literally just watching tuv's video about animatronics and i didnt realize morbid was in the video until he mentioned it (this is the first time ive ever watched any of his videos!)
Looking at this now, I kind of saw mine evolve over time. I very vaguely remember some of our locations changing from the PTT to the Tux era and beyond. Ironically, I wondered even as a kid, why they were built into the ground ther than standing like they eventually would. Asking too many question that my 2 year old brain couldn't possibly comprehend is probably why I was terrified of Chuck as a toddler. I refused to go near him without my dad going with me. I got over it later but seeing fnaf when it originally came out partially reignited that old fear again.
This was an amazing video. I remember going to Showbiz Pizza Place when I was a kid in the 80's. Many good memories. Also, I didn't even know there was a place in WV that still had them running! I' in OH on the border of WV and now must go see that! Thank you for the wonderful video!
For billy bobs i actually went there in march for a early birthday Since it was a long drive there we stayed for the weekend in west Virginia it was definitely fun however the robots were all fixed and everything which was nice we didn't hsve to deal with the broken ones in 2020
@@lazality Now you've found another - I just live in St. Albans and for as long as I can remember we used to go there 3-4 times a year until my younger brother was too old for it.
I remember first hearing about Chuck E Cheese getting rid of all their animatronics. With how popular animatronics have gotten in the past several years with FNAF I’m surprised they’d do this, it sounds like a pretty bad business idea to me 😕
From what i remember that leonardo costume was also aquired by someone and restored. I remember someone contacted the seller and took it upon them to fix it. I don’t remember who it was apart from having seen a previous video about it a while back.
I once stayed at a hotel directly across the street from guntown mountain, where theres apparently a set of rotting rock a fire explosion animatronics in the basement. My little child brain had no idea what I was so damn close to.
I didn't know about the portrait animatronics, that's interesting, sad that the remaining animatronics that are being destroyed, and corporate requires picture of the act... I hope others that still have them, keep them and don't destroy them
there was an abandoned australian animatronic restruant also called pizza time theartre (or something close to that name) it had 2 signing koalas a kangaroo wallaby and i think a dingo. this place is so unknown that you didin't include it. edit: so its called pizza showtime and there was 2 singing koalas a kangaroo called dingo a wolf mascot that walks around a horse robot and a bear, and i think there was a dog that announces the songs before the band plays it.
I'm glad I was able to visit Chuck E Cheese before they removed the animatronics, sometime in 2015. The location in question no longer exists. It once stood in Port Orange, Florida. I even stopped by once to visit it one more time just to be met with an empty lot.
Lol I read the title and assumed it was something like “top ten celebrities and where they are right now” just imagining an animatronic washed up on the side of the road drugged out
I have to be honest, I tend to find your narration jarring but mate this was an excellent video. So well researched and the effort to involve all of these other creators really shows. Just excellent work.
I hope this isn’t what happens to the animatronics from the fnaf movie, they are so well made and the actors had a lot of fun with them. Maybe they will be sold, maybe they will get their own “life” like Norman did. I just hope they aren’t scrapped.
The arcade I grew up with had rock-a-fire explosions up until a few years ago. Some teens ripped the faces off and they arcade owners couldn’t afford repairs, they where sold to a anon collector
When I was a kid in the early 90’s the “Rocketfire explosion” was at the local Circus Circus (similar establishment to Chucky Cheese). They are some of my favorite childhood memories. 😊
I was the service tech for Chuck E Cheese Tallahassee and Panama City Florida stores during the Tuxedo era 1994 to 2002. A friend of mine was able to rescue Pasquali and Helen from Tallahassee After the remodel. They are in terrible shape after the destruction process. I saved Billy Bob from Panama City and just sent him to Australia to a collector. Had I known they were going to be so popular, I would have saved more stuff. I had 2 shows worth of parts from 3 stage shows stored at Panama City from closed stores around the area. The Panama City store was destroyed in the early 2000's to make room for a hotel. All that stuff went straight in the trash, including the live third 3 stage show. I was not the tech at that time.
Just a tip (not like im a professional at speach and shit) but ending sentences with a down pitch instead of an up pitch can make you sound more confident about your knowledge and it makes it sound more cohesive ending with an up note and can make it sound like a question. Other than that Keep the great work up king
hi on 21:57 about TMNT I went to that museum with a couple friends on a field trip to DC, I can confirm that its not in display anymore. We tried looking for it everywhere for no luck😔
I think FNAF accidently popularize the animatronic scenes again. I doubt any corporation would bring them back, but I think we wouldn't have so many animatronic recreation stories if FNAF haven't decided to use them.
I’m surprised you didn’t mention the cursed Hoggle animatronic (from the movie Labyrinth) that was lost and found in a suitcase. It was restored and is used as a mascot for a second hand store in Alabama (I think)
I actually worked at the Chuck E Cheese in Florida that got destroyed by the hurricane a year or two ago. It was one of the newer locations that still had animatronic Chuck and it was a really great model. Its sad that it got destroyed because of poor construction and while theyre rebuilding the location, you know it won't have an animatronic in it.
I can't believe you actually got the shoes! They look pretty cool, take good care of them. I enjoyed the video. It's a shame the animatronics are being destroyed. I've never been to one of these animatronics show, I had went to a local Chuck E. Cheeses growing up but there's no animatronics, just arcade games. I am aware of these animatronics because of the internet. I wish the animatronics can be preserved in a museum for history, like one of the TMNT being in a museum. Funny enough FNAF got me interested in animatronics after a while. It might not be the same thing but I've seen a few robots being built, I live in Boston area. I'm aware of Boston Dynamics, I've wanted to visit there but I don't think guests/visitors are allowed. I've been interested in robots but building a functioning robot goes over my head. So I'm more into animation and learning to code. I got into robots from one of my favorite anime, Astro Boy.
I used to work for CEC back when I was a teen. I remember having to change into the Chuck E. walk-around costume in the space behind the stage. Did you know there was a height limit on the costume? It was almost always a girl in the costume because of the 5'8" limit!
Fnaf not only got me into not just animatronics but robotics as well. Servos, servo motor controllers, cycloidal gearboxes, a battery pack, and an onboard computer will make a free-roam roaming animatronic possible.
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I know animatronics have been a thing for several decades but FNAF really got me interested in animatronics.
Probably because fnaf had lore
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@Ostr0 thats cool, but the discussion wasnt talking about real life
@@supermaga5 That's cool but the discussion was about animatronics in general , not just FNAF.
@@_V.Va_ it was about fnaf regardless
I remember many of these animatronics from the past. It feels strange to know that they've become abandoned
i miss billy bob.😪
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Fans should make a petition on making a musuem for the animatronics and antiques i hate to see a peice of history get thrown away. 🥺💙
To late they had a frikm rule to BURN AND DESTROY ALL ANIMATRONICS 😢
@@ItsPoseidon that's too bad that's a piece of history 😞
ikr, and from a business standpoint that would make more sense; if they didn't feel like putting the effort in to doing the museum themselves, why not make a ton of money auctioning off all the props and animatronics? Doesn't make any sense to destroy them
reason why they won’t is no one will work the night security shift.
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Idk why buy him talking about how depressing it is that Chuck E Cheese is throwing out your childhood and then immediately switching to “I’m the proud owner of the air chuck ones” made me laugh
Honestly i'd kill to get to see the Rockafire Explosion play live. Their whole story is so amazing yet tragic and consistently keep my interest. I hope Aaron and his creations will have good luck in the future (and Rolfe will finally get fans!)
Don’t worry Rolfe fans are out there in the wild hard to find but they’re out there
@spacedude5208 Well, even if he did know he had fans, I don't think Earl would stop teasing him
Too bad that Aaron is a difficult person to work with and is very very picky with the rights to the rockafire, so kinda his fault too
In Illinois there's this place called volo museum they have the full rockafire band and the shows run on a schedule I went to see them but they were still putting the faces and stuff on the animatronics it's really cool they even have the original backdrop I'm pretty sure
Rolfe fan here!
22:32 Fun fact, that abandoned Chuck E. Cheese Studio C animatronic is from the Birmingham, Alabama Chuck E. Cheese, the Vestavia one specifically (it was actually one of my locals when I used to live there!). It was replaced in 2016 for a Dance Floor. It was really cool finding out that the meme image of this destroyed Studio C animatronic was from my old local, not to mention the fact that it's been restored now.
Wow I Didn’t Even Now That!
That’s so cool! I remember going to Birmingham for vacations
ITZAROB I WILL KILL JUST TO SEE YOU AM YOUR BIGGEST FAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This was my childhood Chuck E. Cheese! I was shocked when I heard that.
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Fun fact about the mario bros live-action movie, the directors didn't want to make a mario movie but a sci-fi dystopia movie.
However they couldn't get the funding to make their movie; so they agreed to make the mario movie and turn it into the movie they wanted.
Not only that but it was terribly managed, actors were overheated (even those outside the suits) and arguments over the script happened often, as the directors changes to make THEIR movie ended up changing the script every day. The actors even went as far as to forget memorising the script, as there was no point since it'll change the next day. The actor for Bowser even argued this with the director and nearly quit due to how badly managed it was; the rest of the staff begged him to return and showed distaste for the directors themselves; so bowsers actor stayed to finish filming after he cooled off.
Bob hoskins (the actor of mario) ended up injuring his arm due to yet another on set problem where his arm how slammed in the car door and had to wear a disguised cast through the rest of the movie. It didn't help they were literally drinking alcohol to get through the insanity of the movie which lead to luigi's actor accidently driving the van badly due to how drunk he was. Bob hoskins went on an interview and said that filming for the mario bros movie was "the worst experience in his life".
Holy sh!7
That’s… concerning
Thats one of the most dystopian things ive ever heard
So ummm, fun fact, i worked with one of the co-directors of that movie, if it wasnt for the 1st AD it pretty much could've gone similarly
Imagine destroying what made you famous to the point where you're almost unrecognizable
I'm a huge fan of CEC and the rockafire explosion, animatronics in general, it's awesome to see more youtubers and bigger channels cover these topics as the community is relatively niche. I've been a part of the community for a while and there's still always things being found and discussed.
Growing up I was terrified of the animatronics at my Chuck E. Cheese. I wanted a large gap between me and the animatronics, but at the same I didn't mind their shows haha. I don't think somebody could pay me to get close to one now, but I do enjoy learning about all the different ones and what's happened to them. Thank you for doing all the research and giving us this video.
WHY WASN'T I NOTIFIED?!? Of course I'm late to the party!!! This came out AMAZING! Thank you for making me a part of this!
owning and WEARING the chuck e cheese shoes is actually just so fucking fire. i am neon green with envy
Its cool to see some bigger youtubers shed some light on this obscure topic, ive always been very fond of animatronic entertainment and it saddens me to see how so many famous attractions are just lost forever, I hope one day animatronic restaurants will be revived, but i highly doubt it
I cannot escape you, even on non-msm videos…
I’m glad my local Chuck E. Cheese hasn’t been 2.0 remodeled yet. The last time I went there was I think months ago, and it seemed they replaced the old playground with new arcade machines. Still sad, but at least they still have the animatronics.
Fun fact: the rockafire explosion appeared at a theme park called funderland in cork Ireland for a few years from 2015-1018 before being retired probably due to deterioration, so in a way, they were still performing (although under the name fatz and the hillbilly band)
I was hardly ever able to go to Chuck E. Cheese but I wish I'd been able to go more often. I'm quite fascinated with animatronics. I hope I can make my own someday. It's not likely, but man would it be cool.
You can do it one day man. With animatronics fantasy and fun always come to life
@@Iamworm unless they actually do
Chuck E Cheese and Fnaf both have similar concepts but also different ideas- but both will forever give nostalgic memories. :D
While I can't really relate to experiencing the nostalgia of Animatronic Restaurants. Since in Australia, they never became a thing. The idea of animatronic restaurants absolutely fascinated me, the first time I was exposed to this idea was with the release of Markiplier's Five nights at Freddy's playthrough. And I developed a morbid curiosity and found their designs unsettling, and wondering how children could watch the performances without getting scared lol. If I ever make my way to America, I'd most certainly like to checkout an animatronic restaurant, before they all close down lol. But this video was very informative, and taught me about animatronic restaurants and their history.
It seems to only be an American thing. In Russia the only robots we have are used for research or experiments
In Perth we had the Pizza Showtime restaurant, but that's long gone now
@desmodus.__. Oh yeah, I think in Sydney, they had Segaland with Sonic the Hedgehog and shit. But they shut down ages ago as well. The only places in Australia that still have animatronics nowadays are amusement parks, like Dream World and Movie World lol 😅
There was actually an Australian Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza Time Theatre (renamed to Charlie Cheese's Pizza Playhouse since I guess "chuck" in Australian English means "to throw up") in Surfer's Paradise, Queensland that opened in March 1981. They relocated to a location in Carina, Queensland in 1982 (Surfer's Paradise also was the first international PTT to open, and the first PTT to close, even though they relocated). Carina would close between 1984 and 1986, and since then CEC has not returned to Australia.
@CECBowlingGreen Yeah, but that was before I was born and I don't live in Queensland lol. I'm not sure why animatronic restaurants never took off in Australia. But I'd assume It'd be because of our pubs, RSLs and beaches, and there wasn't really much of a need for them. Most of my childhood for special occasions, we'd just go the RSL and get lunch or dinner, or go the beach and have a BBQ or something. good times lol 😅
i think it's really cool that this video released just around the time i got fixated on the Rock-Afire Explosion!! i love these silly little air pressurised guys and i'm so glad they're getting the attention and love they deserve :) they're super interesting to research and i love finding out new things about them!!
also, interesting thing about that Clown animatronic: there was a theme park called "Mundo Magico" in Chile, and there's a promotional ad that, for a second, shows an animatronic resembling an older man that appears to be a retrofit of the Clown animatronic! this implies that there were more than one Clown mech produced (or even a whole animatronic!), since the Clown in its original state still sits in Creative Engineering's warehouse. there's another short video lying around that shows a couple seconds of this retrofitted animatronic in action, showing what its mouth movements look like. nothing of this animatronic's showtape(s) have resurfaced to my knowledge.
its always interesing seeing abandoned animatronics being fixed
I like how they got the actual Normal himself to recite what was essentially his life story to the audience,instead of just have Morbid explain it.
As a European that grew up in a country where Animatronic entertainment for kids wasn't really a thing I'm surprised how interested I am in this, very informative.
thanks for shedding light on a piece of niche overseas culture.
We need justice for these animatronics!
I agree!
Northridge wasn't touched since the 90s. The 80s looked very different.
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Norman sang "Evil" back in my Birth Year, damn... Coincidence~
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*_THEY GOT THE ANIMATRONIC_*
that's soooooo cool, Norman used right here, and I've heard "Evil" it's a good song !!
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Sadly here in Ireland, we don't have Chuck 'E' Cheese or The Rockafire Explosion, but it's cool to hear about them~^^
Why dose this guy sound like a robot trying to impersonate some edgy teenager
@justberp734 If your on about me, I'm not sure why. Some people just think I type like a Bot, I'm not sure why, probably to do with my Autism, is my guess
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Been here since you had 20k, your content has gotten so much better, and I hope it will get even more better!
The only animatronic i lived through was just chuck e cheese. Not munch’s band, but at my local CEC, they kept Chuck E, and idk what happened to the others. I would go CRAZY every time chuck e had “woken up” or something. He would dance and “sing”. There are videos on youtube right now with the same chuck e cheese i grew up with, before they turned his stage to a wall
I also was there for tickets, and tokens, etc. i have a faint memory of something that counted the tickets for you and printed reciepts showing how many you had so you could go to the prize counter.
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Hey look it's animatronic enthusiast Cavity Sam
She has a few animatronics too
geez that norman animatronic is so freaky looking
we're all lucky he doesn't have the inside of a human
It creeps me out too
I dunno he's kinda sweet
Heyyyyy... Watch it bub!
That's nightmare fuel
Not sure if anyone has mentioned it. But there used to be this show called totally obsessed, or something like that. I remember there being a person on the show who was obsessed with TMNT. I believe they owned one of the Mikey Costumes from a movie. I think I saw someone say they did party bookings, like how people would book people dressed as a princess. I just thought it was interesting😊
This was a cool video! Btw the Air Chuck ones are firee!🔥🔥
i love billy bobs wonderland, i live in west virginia and used to go to billy bobs wonderland as a kid for my birthdays and for fun. Im glad to hear it mentioned as barely anybody does
I was searching these comments for someone else mentioning that. Billy Bob's Pizza Wonderland is the last public exhibition of the Rock-A-Fire Explosion and recently got an overhaul. Reportedly all of the animatronics are back in tip-top shape. I'd love to go down to Barboursville and check it out just for nostalgia but a 38-year-old guy wandering in by himself is liable to set off some red flags with someone.
I loved Chuck E Cheese as a kid, so it made sense to have my little cousins birthday there in 2017. Unfortunately “The Band” was out of commission, so we didn’t get to see them perform, However, the Chuck E animatronic would occasionally open its eyes, fixate on something in the restaurant, stare for a few minutes, and then close its eyes again. Luckily my cousin (5yo) didn’t seem to care too much, but it was a far cry from what I remembered Chuck E being when I was a kid :(
My little brother celebrated his birthday in that Northridge CA CeC party room!
It looks EXACTLY like in the video still. Animatronics have seen better days though.
You can see the hard work he put in this video
I was literally just watching tuv's video about animatronics and i didnt realize morbid was in the video until he mentioned it (this is the first time ive ever watched any of his videos!)
The fact he used chica from fnaf at the start is insane
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Looking at this now, I kind of saw mine evolve over time. I very vaguely remember some of our locations changing from the PTT to the Tux era and beyond. Ironically, I wondered even as a kid, why they were built into the ground ther than standing like they eventually would. Asking too many question that my 2 year old brain couldn't possibly comprehend is probably why I was terrified of Chuck as a toddler. I refused to go near him without my dad going with me. I got over it later but seeing fnaf when it originally came out partially reignited that old fear again.
Wow I would have never though that Norman would end up like that
those Air Chuck.1s are actually 🔥🔥🔥🔥
My local chuck e cheese does have an animitronic but, it's only chuck the mouse
Jeez that Goomba had a rough life
Billy bob is cool
i'm still sad chuck e cheese got rid of the tokens, tickets and animatronics. it doesn't feel fun or rewarding anymore
This was an amazing video. I remember going to Showbiz Pizza Place when I was a kid in the 80's. Many good memories. Also, I didn't even know there was a place in WV that still had them running! I' in OH on the border of WV and now must go see that! Thank you for the wonderful video!
For billy bobs i actually went there in march for a early birthday
Since it was a long drive there we stayed for the weekend in west Virginia it was definitely fun however the robots were all fixed and everything which was nice we didn't hsve to deal with the broken ones in 2020
Thats really cool, i live here in wv and used to go to billy bobs all the time as a kid for birthdays, and just for fun.
youre the only other person ive seen on the internet when talking about the rockafire explosion even MENTION wv's billy bobs wonderland
@@lazality Now you've found another - I just live in St. Albans and for as long as I can remember we used to go there 3-4 times a year until my younger brother was too old for it.
I remember first hearing about Chuck E Cheese getting rid of all their animatronics. With how popular animatronics have gotten in the past several years with FNAF I’m surprised they’d do this, it sounds like a pretty bad business idea to me 😕
seems a bit extreme to destroy them... atleast arron fetcher is trying to preserve his characters and lets people buy parts
Can you do a part 2 that includes info on the abandoned Pokémon animatronics that were found in an abandoned theater. Keep up the great work!!!
From what i remember that leonardo costume was also aquired by someone and restored. I remember someone contacted the seller and took it upon them to fix it. I don’t remember who it was apart from having seen a previous video about it a while back.
i enjoyed watching this video! very cool 😊
I once stayed at a hotel directly across the street from guntown mountain, where theres apparently a set of rotting rock a fire explosion animatronics in the basement. My little child brain had no idea what I was so damn close to.
I didn't know about the portrait animatronics, that's interesting, sad that the remaining animatronics that are being destroyed, and corporate requires picture of the act... I hope others that still have them, keep them and don't destroy them
there was an abandoned australian animatronic restruant also called pizza time theartre (or something close to that name) it had 2 signing koalas a kangaroo wallaby and i think a dingo. this place is so unknown that you didin't include it.
edit: so its called pizza showtime and there was 2 singing koalas a kangaroo called dingo a wolf mascot that walks around a horse robot and a bear, and i think there was a dog that announces the songs before the band plays it.
Really awesome video man. Keep up the awesome work.
I'm glad I was able to visit Chuck E Cheese before they removed the animatronics, sometime in 2015. The location in question no longer exists. It once stood in Port Orange, Florida. I even stopped by once to visit it one more time just to be met with an empty lot.
Lol I read the title and assumed it was something like “top ten celebrities and where they are right now” just imagining an animatronic washed up on the side of the road drugged out
Its crazy how every time he said madame oink i immediately said "ITS MADAME UNK??"
Broooo Damon has changed so much he was in the rock a fire documentary!!!! Such a nice guy and knows his stuff!
I have to be honest, I tend to find your narration jarring but mate this was an excellent video.
So well researched and the effort to involve all of these other creators really shows.
Just excellent work.
I hope this isn’t what happens to the animatronics from the fnaf movie, they are so well made and the actors had a lot of fun with them. Maybe they will be sold, maybe they will get their own “life” like Norman did. I just hope they aren’t scrapped.
The arcade I grew up with had rock-a-fire explosions up until a few years ago. Some teens ripped the faces off and they arcade owners couldn’t afford repairs, they where sold to a anon collector
Hey i love all the creepy and horrifying videos you make!
Big fan I love watching these videos!
When I was a kid in the early 90’s the “Rocketfire explosion” was at the local Circus Circus (similar establishment to Chucky Cheese).
They are some of my favorite childhood memories. 😊
I was the service tech for Chuck E Cheese Tallahassee and Panama City Florida stores during the Tuxedo era 1994 to 2002. A friend of mine was able to rescue Pasquali and Helen from Tallahassee After the remodel. They are in terrible shape after the destruction process. I saved Billy Bob from Panama City and just sent him to Australia to a collector. Had I known they were going to be so popular, I would have saved more stuff. I had 2 shows worth of parts from 3 stage shows stored at Panama City from closed stores around the area. The Panama City store was destroyed in the early 2000's to make room for a hotel. All that stuff went straight in the trash, including the live third 3 stage show. I was not the tech at that time.
Literally more than 75% of the viewers are FNAF fans
Fnaf 2 withereds be like
Just a tip (not like im a professional at speach and shit) but ending sentences with a down pitch instead of an up pitch can make you sound more confident about your knowledge and it makes it sound more cohesive ending with an up note and can make it sound like a question. Other than that Keep the great work up king
Good video I can see a lot of effort put in it 😊😊
ShowBiz was fantastic They will make a comeback I hope animatronics happy holidays all
hi on 21:57 about TMNT I went to that museum with a couple friends on a field trip to DC, I can confirm that its not in display anymore. We tried looking for it everywhere for no luck😔
would be cool if in modern times we still had restaurants with animatronics Showbiz Pizza or Chuck E Cheese style.
Didnt expect such a cool video with you actually visiting them
25:45 Honestly, seeing this broke my heart. I love Helen and shes one of my favorites, it really sucks to see her like this.
I think FNAF accidently popularize the animatronic scenes again. I doubt any corporation would bring them back, but I think we wouldn't have so many animatronic recreation stories if FNAF haven't decided to use them.
the real reason they threw out the animatronics is because no one wants to be the night guard-
this channel deserves at least 1 mil
The thumbnail looks like a straight up poster for a Chuck. E Cheese game ngl.
BRO I CANT BELIEVE U HIT 100k dude! i was subbed to u when u had like 11k subs!
Gonna watch your video and tuv’s after this
I’m surprised you didn’t mention the cursed Hoggle animatronic (from the movie Labyrinth) that was lost and found in a suitcase. It was restored and is used as a mascot for a second hand store in Alabama (I think)
What a well made video.
18:33 pretty sure that’s Donatello lol, but could just be a mask that’s deteriorated
I actually worked at the Chuck E Cheese in Florida that got destroyed by the hurricane a year or two ago. It was one of the newer locations that still had animatronic Chuck and it was a really great model. Its sad that it got destroyed because of poor construction and while theyre rebuilding the location, you know it won't have an animatronic in it.
I can't believe you actually got the shoes! They look pretty cool, take good care of them. I enjoyed the video. It's a shame the animatronics are being destroyed. I've never been to one of these animatronics show, I had went to a local Chuck E. Cheeses growing up but there's no animatronics, just arcade games. I am aware of these animatronics because of the internet. I wish the animatronics can be preserved in a museum for history, like one of the TMNT being in a museum. Funny enough FNAF got me interested in animatronics after a while. It might not be the same thing but I've seen a few robots being built, I live in Boston area. I'm aware of Boston Dynamics, I've wanted to visit there but I don't think guests/visitors are allowed. I've been interested in robots but building a functioning robot goes over my head. So I'm more into animation and learning to code. I got into robots from one of my favorite anime, Astro Boy.
This is such an amazing video I love this!!
Kinda sucks that companies actively will try and destroy the animatronics that built the companies and not try and preserve them
I used to work for CEC back when I was a teen. I remember having to change into the Chuck E. walk-around costume in the space behind the stage. Did you know there was a height limit on the costume? It was almost always a girl in the costume because of the 5'8" limit!
This is a great video man
There is a Billy Bob’s Wonderland that still has the Rockefellers! I go all the time and it is still open!
Glad Norman got a RUclips channel.
animatronics my beloved
You already know it's a banger.
Bro i COULD not ignore the freddy in the start💀
Fnaf not only got me into not just animatronics but robotics as well. Servos, servo motor controllers, cycloidal gearboxes, a battery pack, and an onboard computer will make a free-roam roaming animatronic possible.
I loved this whole video
This needs waaaayyyy more viewsss
11:28 was so sad like it looks like soon they are going to replace the rocket fire explosion with the newer animatronics and throw them away
Norman's cameo was awesome!
Probably should also mention the animatronic princess from Downtown Disney 2006-2007 she was a little sweetheart ❤🥺