Defunctland: The Failure of Disney's Chuck E. Cheese Ripoff, Club Disney
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The last stop in a long journey to Disney Quest, Defunctland takes a look at Disney Regional Entertainment's first venture, Club Disney. Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza Time Theater, McDonald's Playplaces and Leaps and Bounds, Discovery Zone, Showbiz Pizza, and more are discussed in this little-known part of Disney history.
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This man uttered the name Charles Entertainment Cheese with his whole chest like damn
Power move
@@AnguishedMan Don't you have a Manger to call? 🤨
@@Loscxxo leave Joseph and Mary alone, they got enough on their hands already
The Disney logo always looked look Gisney to me. I pronounced it as gisney, which sounds alot like jizz knee, which also confused me as a kid. I was more confused because i wasn't lysdexic so I thought all signatures had to begin with a backwards letter.
10/10
a POWERFUL rat
named
-Charles
-Entertainment
-Cheese
Gabby Edgar what time stamp?
@@redactedredacted5370 7:25
Well, their pizza tasted exactly like it was cooked by a rat. So they nailed that. I mean if rats could microwave frozen pizza.
Scott Humphreys Their pizza is delicious gtfo
@@overworkedcna412 Hell nah. Not compared to real pizza.
Not even Mickey Mouse could defeat *"the powerful rat"* , who goes by the name:
*C H A R L E S*
*E N T E R T A I N M E N T*
*C H E E S E*
Bwahahaha
Well, Charles did go bankrupt
@@Webb_Studios They’ve cleared their debt, and still have over 500 locations. Don’t worry about Charles.
You didn't have to use mans government name like that
Charles Entertainment Cheese the 3rd man, put respect on his damn name. The first two died in the great war
5:09 don't forget the soul-zapping static shocks you'd get from the metal bolts holding the tubes together. After crawling through 40 feet of plastic tubes in your socks you were basically Zeus.
God the memories.
Im Getting some flashbacks
damn you didn’t have to jumpscare me with violent flashbacks
Oh, the horror!
OH MY GOD SOMEBODY ELSE KNOWS THIS PAIN
I used to go on the slides in the McDonald's playlands and they were fun but at the bottom my skin would be covered in goosebumps because of the pure amount of static that's been forced onto my skin from the metal. At least now I know why they did that, I just thought the plastic was evil.
Fun Fact: Chuck E. Cheese's (the character's) official backstory is that he was an orphan, so no one ever celebrated his birthday, and this upset him so much that when he grew up, he made a fun restaurant-arcade for kids to go for their birthdays so no one had to experience party-less childhoods like he did.
Surprisingly heart warming.
Really? I never knew that! In recent news, a girl who worked there threw a young boy a birthday party when no one showed up. She couldn't handle his reaction so all the employees of that location got together and made it special for him. Goes right with the backstory (if that is true)....making her kind act even better.
somebody really needs to make a movie on his backstory academy award winning tearjerker right here
Why am i crying in the club rn
The happiest day
When your parents call you by your full name:
CHARLES, ENTERTAIMENT, CHEESE!!...
XD!!!!!!!
* Piano intensifies *
thats when you know you fucked up
Chuck E Cheese: I MUST HAVE FORGOTTEN TO MAKE THE PIZZA!
Its not funny because you have a jojo prof picture
There's a plaza by my childhood home where the only business left standing is a Chuck E. Cheese's. Like, sure, it outlasted a Blockbuster, who didn't, but it also outlasted a major regional grocery store, a Little Cesar's, a popular local Chinese food restaurant, a Pub 99, a nail salon, and a CVS. When the world ends, Charles will still stand tall.
This sounds eerily identical to a place by my own childhood home, down to the blockbuster building
@@thebestgirlwithpooeyes9531 The Rat is eternal
@@thebestgirlwithpooeyes9531 All I'll say is that the one I'm describing is in central New England
ayyyyyyy i used to love that little cesars, and the big y used to be the grocery store my parents went to. never thought i would see another person from around these parts in the comments of a youtube video of all places
Charles Entertainment Cheese, after all, is a powerful rat.
“Blockbuster buys indoor play area” is the most 90s business deal there could ever be
"charles entertainment cheese"
what an absolute chad of a name
Hello sans
Oh my god is that sans from sonic the hedgehog
@@DiagonalTanooki no you idiot it's clearly Sora from all dogs go to heaven
@@trophyish actually I just realized it's cloud from super Mario 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@Amigamertv no I’m fairly certain it’s master chief from minecraft
"a powerful rat named *biker mice from mars* "
Who have close ties to Renegade Nuns on wheels.
Lol
Snickers
"Why did I have biker mice from mars instead of Zelda?"
@@squirtlecipher8473 Snickers
Disney really looks at anything successful and immediately:
"WE HAVE ONE OF THOSE TOO!"
Can't wait until Disney starts making consoles to compete with... *Sees Disney Quest* oh 😐😐
Disney is basically a mom in the Eisner era, says that they have it at home/park and it's absolutely not what they claimed it to be
When I was six I legitimately got lost in a McDonalds play place crawl tunnel. I crawled through those colourful, sweat smelling tunnels for what felt like ages (but was probably only a couple of minutes). I could hear other people but I only saw one other kid peaking out from behind a corner only to skitter back when she saw me.
I’m not saying I temporarily clipped into a child version of the backrooms, but I think we can all agree that if there existed such a place, one entrance would definitely be inside a McDonalds
I think that was me, were you wearing glasses and a purple striped shirt? What year did this happen to you? LMAO just curious because I distinctly remember "playing hide and seek" with my older sister in one of the play places. After being "the best hider" for like maybe twenty or thirty minutes I gave up and eventually went down the slide. I remember being really mad and asking my sister what happened, she said,"I forgot to go in there!" Also I was extremely shy/ possibly antisocial as a kid... If you were the kid in purple you did look hella lost/confused. If it wasn't you, "I'm sorry kid in a purple striped shirt." 😊😅😂
“A room themed to Peter Pan where guests could see their shadow”
Such a revolutionary concept! I really can't see why this thing failed.
Ikr, some cutting edge shit right there. What a shame.😔
Gotta love the blatant sarcasm here.
Wow, I can see my shadow! 😆
They should’ve patented it, maybe it would have had a better chance without the competition of literally everything else
@@df5295 bruh
Why is every single Defunctland like its own movie they're too good
That’s why Defunctland is one of the best RUclips channels.
I think he should make history videos he’d be good at it
I have them all in my Movies I Want To Watch playlist
Its funny how this was made 2 years ago but is the only comment liked by the creator I've seen.
I thought the Chuck E. Cheese rip-off was called defunct land until this comment
THIS IS WHERE THE MEME IS FROM
“A powerful rat, named Charles Entertainment Cheese”
(7:29)
The fact that Eisner was concerned with the furniture makes me both disturbed by his micromanagement and impressed buy how much he cares
It's the kind of micromanaging that worked for Walt Disney when Disney was a much smaller, non-international conglomerate. They all want to be Walt Disney but that shit works in the 50s not the 90s.
HIS MIDDLE NAME IS ENTERTAINMENT???
IMMINOSUS his parents must have hated him
Has Anyone Seen Owen Grady? Lmfao
IMMINOSUS I wonder which of his family members was named “Entertainment”
Yes, his name was Michael Entertainment Eisner.
Has Anyone Seen Owen Grady? He’s an orphan. He has no parents.
"Pooh 'n' You Corner" sounds like a place I'd never want to go to. Ever.
Sounds like a child put on time out for soiling themselves.
@@jeffreytoman5202 while still soiling themselves
I believe it's called prison.
Or as us intellectuals like to call it "The Bathroom"
Sounds like a great alternative to stun amog us
Its like "you ever heard of pooh?" "Who's pooh?" "Poohed n yo corner"
As someone born in 2001, the '90s sounds like a simultaneously utopian and dystopian fever dream.
Same
Imagine what you could do in a day if there were no computers, 2 tv channels, freedom. That's what we did.
Everything and nothing. You're all so disconnected it's really sad. It's not that far off. If you unplug and socialize with reg folks you got it.
Oh yeah, and there's no proof of stupid shit we did lol you post it online damn
Living in the moment, we never knew what we had.
That’s great good job
"watched tv for 3 days straight" he was in that photo physically but not mentally. dude was gone.
so he truly was a "couch potato"
Chuck E. Cheese's is the og "We have Disneyland at home"
Not really. Its an aracade restaurant and disney land is theme park
@@Venom-rr1vg you see, both have mascots and animatronics, so mothers dont see a damn different thing about the two
damn I wanna like the comment but the number is perfect the way it is
@@arekrekas213 The Chuck E Cheese I went to didn't have any animatronics. I didn't even believe they were real, I thought people had made them up.
See that’s true but it doesn’t work because Chuck E. Cheese was actually pretty great lol
A Powerful Rat Named Charles Entertainment Cheese
A Powerful Rat Named -Charles Entertainment- *Biggie* Cheese
Someone stop him he's too strong
IT'S NO USE!!!!
CK16 Striker *stares at you with big blinking eyes*
"My name...is Charles E. Rat, and together, we can make this Zone a better place."
I can only assume that the Peter Pan room was actually one of those shadow rooms I've seen at a couple fun houses, where there's a dim room with one or more walls covered in some sort of photosensitive material and a strobe light that flashes once every few minuets. When the flash happens, the photosensitive walls will retain any shadow that got cast on them until the next flash occurs.
9:51 my favorite part of every Defunctland episode i've seen so far is when Kevin says something like "...they could dominate the new market." and the unsaid, 'but you're listening to it on a channel called /Defunct/land, so you know where this is about to go.' gives me such a grin (usually. Sometimes it makes me sad).
a powerful rat, named charles entertainment cheese.
Jordan what time is it at?
7:28
And don’t you forget it!
Hey shister
wtf is ur profile pic
"So what are you in school for?"
Oh I'm a history major.
"Ooh cool! What time period do you like?"
80's and 90's America.
"...……."
top 10 most relatable youtube comments
As a 1980-born guy, I can relate. Not just for nostalgia's sake. A real course of history can be taught on this era & just of pop culture alone. Pre-millennium anything is fascinating to discover & learn about, especially for those of us who lived it & now wonder, "What was it about this that made us like it so much?"
Yea and people were less PC and annoying then
@@oooh19 i smoke fat doinks
“O you mean the pinnacle of human civilization?”
I want an adult version of Discovery Zone. I remember going as a kid in the 90’s and that place was A M A Z I N G.
It sounds great, but my old bones would be so mad at me the next day. But it would be worth it!
There was a Discovery Zone in my hometown and I never got to go :( I was so bummed when they closed down.
The nostalgia I feel for these places is so intense
My father was the corporate/regional executive chef for Disney Regional / ESPN Zone restaurants from 2001 to around 2009. My father was forced to retire by Disney due to the recession taking its toll. I had no idea when I started watching this video that it would have any connection. I thank you so much for helping me understand just a little more about my father's 21 years with the Walt Disney company!
You know, places for kids to "let loose and be themselves" sound really good on paper. But, having worked at one myself, I can tell you it is hell for every single minimum wage worker who has to handle it.
It was hell disguised as heaven when I was a kid. It probably was my first panic attack seeing a gigantic mutant Rat dancing in the dark for no good reason with his other mutated friends. Haunted Houses could learn a thing or two from Chuck E. Cheese.
I can images that
@@o_o5210 Just discovered a meme that became a big inside joke with my coworkers, titled "Fart Ni Botto" (after how the crop killed the meme text), that depicts a toilet after one of our customers had explosive diarrhea and missed the bowl. Should I imgur it?
at the very least that should pay more than minimum wage.
To parents mad this may cost them more money: you really want people who are only being paid for the bare minimum watching your kids? you get what you pay for.
Such is capitalism
7:29
c h a r l e s
e n t e r t a i n m e n t
c h e e s e
then he was canceled
Lol so wrong
He your uncle?
Aiden Barsimantov probably for being too damn creepy
That's his real name ya know
I hated the net to get to the slide at McDonald's as a person with cerebral palsy it was very difficult and painful. It was also scary just like it is for other kids.
I have CP too and also hated this
Not at McDonald’s but Burger King, and I have a brother 20 years younger than me at 4 years old, and he hates the nets too. I think it’s a shared part of the human condition to hate being supported by something that’s not solid.
I have CP too and one time, I got stuck in the ball pit at McDonald's and my mom had to come and rescue me.
DisneyQuest was my first job after highschool. It was such a rad experience and Pleasure Island was such a fucking awesome thing for me through my early 20's. It broke my heart to see them kill off Pleasure Island and eventually DisneyQuest. I legitimately teared up when you mentioned it. They threatened closing it when I worked there in 2005 and it seemed like they had been threatening for years. It made me so happy to see that stubborn bastard hold on for another 12 years before being closed. I still have a Cyberspace Mountain card with 13 loops on it named the Jolly Trolley.
You commissioned an entire 90's sitcom theme song for this, and that's what I appreciates about you.
yes 100% agrees
Take about 20% off her there Squirely D
Give yer balls a tug
You spelt 'I appreciate' wrong.
@@TealProjects it's a reference to Letterkenny. In that show, one of the main characters has a vocal tick where he unnecessarily pluralizes words.
That original Chuck E. Cheese mascot is terrifying omg
he was like a Rodent Mafioso, I see that and imagine he sounds like Joe Pesci.
I can see how FNAF came to be now.
Lucas Butterfield It looks like it's catchphrase would be "Hey kids, wanna die!?"
Charles has never ceased to be creepy.
Yea I think the new one is a better idea
"Pooh-robics" sounds like an exercise routine for the severely constipated
Wow so I'm not crazy. I've been telling people all my adult life that when I was a kid I went to a small indoor Disney amusement park and had a lot of fun exploring the Time Toaster but no one ever believed me, even people I know I went there with. Thank you Kevin for doing the research for this video.
The Mickey Macarena is the most 90s thing I’ve ever heard.
Second only to the Bartman in ridiculous dances made my corporations
Up there with Blockbuster Video buying Discovery Zone.
"A room where guests could see their own shadow." WOAH
VandelayOfficial it was so cool I remember this experience as a child 😭
I think I know what that is and it's less stupid than it sounds
Kind of
VandelayOfficial lmao
@@corinamontiel3549 now THAT is something I would pay to see
Your 90s show intro was absolutely on point!
Rest in peace Disney Quest, I'll always remember that spiral staircase that triggered my motion sickness somehow
Pretty sure Disney Quest went to hell
I can’t believe how many times I rewinded this video to listen to “a powerful rat named Charles Entertainment Cheese.”
*Giorno's Theme plays in the backround as he appears*
Keeping the likes at 666
7:29
Back to Eisner’s special business technique: Jealousy
Midnight Owl then made 2 movies and a cartoon out of it
*vomit
@@primusvsunicron1 actually the team was founded beciase of the movies
Jordan Barboza
What’s Iger’s Hissatsu Waza?
And pettiness!
"Pooh and You Corner"
He is talking about the honey bear, he is talking about the honey bear, he is talking about the honey bear...
Imagine sitting in a chair for 3 days straight without sleeping just for a raw potato nailed to a wooden plaque.
for over a year my best friend had me in her phone under "charles entertainment cheese" with the picture of the original costume so thank u for this
I want to know why did she had you as chuck e cheese in her contancts
@@josephochoa9861 don't worry about it
@@raediant3307 alright than
@@raediant3307 no I want to know
No problem, it's all yours my friend! Take it!
I was watching this video when my mom came in and started watching it with me. She told me I had a Pooh themed party at Club Disney when I was really little and that it was the worst thing ever. Club Disney had messed up big time from printing the wrong location (TO instead of Covina), to giving my presents away to a different family, and never giving me my cake or Mickey pizza. I don't remember any of this (I was 3-4) but apparently I was devastated since I only had 3 people (all of whom were my cousins) show up to my freaking party due to the printing error sending people to the wrong location. My mom ended up buying each of us one toy from the store to make up for it. She was quite livid after the whole ordeal. She made Club Disney track my presents down to return to me and demanded a refund for all the money she had spent for the party. They found & returned my presents and she got every dime she spent on this disaster of a party refunded to her. They apparently never apologized for any of this.
All in all I learned something new from my mom and Defunctland!
The littlest things make the biggest of mishaps, Funny how life works out that way huh?
I'm not surprised that an establishment run by Disney would end up being a huge mismanaged shitshow.
Your mom was mom’in awesomely! Inspirational to this millennial momma.
I hope Your mom also reduced your exposure to disney crap for the rest of your childhood, treating it like it was nothing special.
Catbug❣️
You know, as I kid my parents never brought me to play places or Chuck E. Cheese's. Now that I'm an adult, I understand now 😭 it sounds like a sanitary nightmare
Same
Bushnell: *doesn’t get hired by Disney*
Disney years later: “Let’s make our own Chuck E Cheese”
Bushnell: 😐
I like that no kid could leave Club Disney with a different adult than they came in with.
They had the same system at Chuck E Cheese, at least by the time kid me was going there in the 2000s/2010s
that is a very good idea
would stop anyone from trying to recreate the five nights lore at the very least
@@carlwheezerofsouls3273 Sadly most of the lore happened INSIDE the pizzeria.
Love the one you’re With.
Ah, Discovery Zone. The original early-90s PvP battle royale arena.
No reward at the end, only pure and endless pain
I forgot Discovery Zone was even a thing...but some memory in the back of my mind is recalling going down that slide that was basically made of rolling pins and climbing through those goddamn net tubes.
@matt yes, somewhat, at least...I don't remember there being an arcade, though, but I was like...5 or 6, and my tiny developing brain was more focused on slides and ballpits rather than video games.
DZ!!
matt True - at least we couldn’t go to school w it.
As an adult I really do miss those inside playgrounds. There was one that was a super deep styrofoam sqares pit at my local sports and aquatic center. That was my favorite. Good memories…
The discovery zone thing legit happened to me. My mom took me and my brother to the one in our area and we witnessed the sign on the door saying it was closed. And yeah someone was having a birthday party at the time and showed up for it, a whole group of kids was there. Everyone was really upset about it.
Like, how many phone calls would it have taken to let people who had a reservation know for the week it closed? If that's how they treated people, it deserved to go out of business.
Would you Rather:
Have a Cartoony Mouse be your company mascot
*Or*
*Have a Realistic sewer Rat Serve you questionable Pizza at a child casino.*
Wait what
*Welcome to Chuck E. Cheese.... Where a Kid can be a Kid....*
@@congratsyoufoundmychannel1098 *Forever*
The latter... but only if the rat is training four turtles that are also ninjas that are named after Renaissance artists.
@@Masterge77 you forgot mutants. You now have four regular ninja trained turtles. Which are able to walk slightly faster and wear colored headbands.
"A kind of terrifying helicopter thing where the mean kids would jump up and down"
"The net thing where your feet would get caught"
I didn't even KNOW i had ptsd about these things until Kevin said them
I remember back in 2014 or something I was at a Funtopia and some kid wouldn’t let me go down the slide to get out that a worker had to come to push the kid out of the way.
@@TankEngine_12 How old are you?
Vomit
Disinfectant
Vomit
Disinfectant
@ジェーミー because the kid probably shouldn’t be on RUclips unsupervised
@@Bass_Goat53 lol
A POWERFUL RAT NAMED CHARLES ENTERTAINMENT CHEESE. 3 years and this is still stuck in my brain
I miss the 90's, 😥 I was born in 1993 so I remember a lot of this. Kids stuff doesn't seem the same anymore, plus I never see soft plays anywhere these days
oh dude I'm born late 2000s and i fumckin love 90s stuff
also cause things were cheaper
Born 1992. I'm pretty sure us 90's kids were the last generation to have an amazing childhood where we used our imagination and had fun places to go to. Now kids would much rather play games on their iPads and all that.
Here is a brief summary of Defunctland videos, as a whole:
_Timmy's Dad voice_ "EISENERRRRR"
This comment needs more likes.
TigirlakaLaserwolf6 And here is a brief summary of this video: CHARLES ENTERTAINMENT CHEESE
And this is where my Disney stock certificate would be...IF I HAD ONE!
“That fucker Michael Eisner,”
I love that among the Chuck E Cheese mascots, all of them are giant talking animals or bizarre creatures, but then one of them is just an Italian guy.
Isn't that included in 'bizarre creature'?
When you lay it out the way you did, Disney IPs, theming, and attention to detail, it's absolutely dumbfounding that it *didn't* become a hit. I remember being a kid and having Chuck E. Cheese down the road from us when I lived in the Atlanta suburbs, and I thought even then that it was trying to be Disney and have the Country Bears Jamboree vibe. At that time it was mostly an arcade, with video games and ski ball and other fair-type games where you could win tickets to get a prize. By the time it became an indoor playplace, I was a teenager and bummed that I was considered too old/tall to get in there and do the FUN stuff, and I remember wishing that had been around when I was a smaller.
So, was it mostly that they scared too many people away with the idea that there were going to be tons of people and it would be a madhouse? Or is it just that Eisner micromanaged too much and really did NOT have that Disney eye for detail, or that he wanted to do it all on the cheap?
My old elementary school was immediately next to a playplace named "Makutu's Island" which was originally going to be a Club Disney, but the plan was shuttered during the closures and it became its own thing. In fact, there's still a pair of footprints belonging to what appears to be Mickey and Donald out front.
7:29 This is what you came for. I know it. I came here for it to.
TheAmazingMoist thank you
😩👌🏼
TheAmazingMoist you know me so well
TheAmazingMoist lmfao thank u 😂😂
THANK YOU
"poohrobics" sounds like an exercise routine for when you're having colon issues.
0p
Hu
I thought it was a potty training class or something.
Thank you for the laugh 😂😂
I only have Colin issues while playing Changed.
I used to go to the Thousand Oaks Club Disney a lot as a kid! My strongest memory was the Peter Pan shadow room. You would stand against a wall and pose before a light flashed and saved your silhouette for a bit. It was pretty fun for a kid. The indoor playplace was also cool as hell (even though I know I spent most of my time in the computer lab)
If the Wikipedia page for Bushnell is to be believed, it's crazy that Disney was trying to compete with Chuck E. Cheese, because Nolan Bushnell had *repeatedly* tried to get hired by Disney throughout his early career post-college!
Can we take a moment to appreciate the opening song?
Good shit my dude
3:16 For anybody looking for the song :)
I love that drum sample.
A more accurate spoof of the "Full House" theme than "Too Many Cooks," that's for sure!
Mousetv watch your profanity! For the one hundred and twenty two TIMES!!!!
what is that god damn song called i wanna be able to listen to it on its own
12:12 Oddly enough, the "Pooh and You Corner" was what we used to call a specific spot in the ball pit at the Chick-Fil-A I worked at, though obviously for reasons unrelated to branding.
*oh*
Oh *g o d*
@@peachtea7269 God can not save you from the "Pooh and You Corner"
now that Winnie the Pooh is no longer copyrighted, you can call it that again! :D
@@SireneKalypso I mean the Disney version is in their power but the original story is no longer theirs so anyone can run with it
Did they really just make a whole 90s themed song for this? Yes. Yes they did
Honestly watching tv for 3 days straight and only getting up to use the bathroom every 8 hours without sleep is VERY impressive.
The knowledge that Chuckie Cheese's full name is Charles Entertainment Cheese has made me be reborn
His name is Chuck E Cheese, which makes the full one a lot more obvious than chuckie.
And Mickey”s real name Is Michael Theodore Mouse
Rat vs. Mouse
Battle for the Rodent King
i think rat
Winner: Porcupine
Winner: h am pter
rat is more resistant, mouse sees new york sewer and cries
Cat wins either way
"Ten or so were protestors accusing Disney of paying Hatian workers 28 cents an hour to make Pocahontas-themed pajamas."
I really wasn't expecting that detailed of an explanation. lmfao
Dude, your content is some of the best on RUclips. You understand how to make content for RUclips viewers with all the particular nuances that viewers appreciate. Inside jokes, pause frames with extra info, really funny commentary. Great stuff.
"A room themed after Peter Pan where guests could see their shadow"
Uhhh... I mean, I can usually see my shadow
You people get shadows?
@@HanMestov Did you pay god the DLC before you were born?
@@thesolidestsnake I paid the collector was by some guy called Lucifer. But I think he was a swell guy.
@@HanMestov oh shit dude. That sucks. He seemed so trustworthy
@@thesolidestsnake ikr? He had a great character. He was charming and persuasive too
My god. For youtuber with only about 300k subscribers, This is insanely high quality. Keep up with the good work :)
Mr. Mouses meanwhile fortnite youtubers shit out effortless content on the daily and get millions of subs
"Only"
Just visualize what 300,000 people looks like for a second.
Keep in mind that Defunctland has been growing extremely quickly.
Jayfive276 yeah but a lot of others RUclipsrs have a lot more subscribers for a lot less effort
I totally agree Bbistheman. Most of the kids these days watch mindless fortnite content from clickbait Ali-a
I had this on while drawing and didn’t even know that the Charles Entertainment Cheese meme came from Defunctland. Caught me off guard lmao.
The concepts of these regional Disney projects were flawed, but I feel they could have worked (with tweaking) over time.
However, Disney just abandoning for not immediately meeting unreasonable expectations just made things worse. Sure a few locations stayed around for a few years, but they were essentially zombie products.
Lost it at “Charles Entertainment Cheese “
Same
*Biggie* Cheese
me too
more like hid because it was so creepy
I spent so much time at Club Disney as a kid that I still have dreams about it as an adult, but no one ever knew what I was talking about to the point where I questioned its existence. This seriously just unlocked some childhood memories!
Who ever thought of the mouse pad deserved a raise.
so wild to hear my hometown being a first location for a huge play zone, most people wouldn't think midwest for a starting point of a franchise! love learning all this history behind these long gone places/atrractions, I always look forward to the new videos when they come out c:
Y'all were so caught up with Charles Entertainment Cheese, you all forgot the real treat:
A Swing Themed Tarzan
Glampyra Nicr
i dont get it
ash ツ which comment, theirs or mine?
Cracked egg theirs but I figured it out
@@sourashpple I haven't :(
*a powerful rat named Charles Entertainment Cheese*
_s m i l e a m e r i c a_
This video has transported me WAY WAY back. I went to a Club Disney in Arizona a lot for the small window it was open. Dressing up and participating in those “fashion shows” was a staple of my childhood
This episode is really ironic given that Chuck E Cheese is now bankrupt aswell.
What? :'(
Looks like they were having problems before the pandemic and in anticipation of filing for bankruptcy gave big retention bonuses to its executives.
I love these videos. I can tell just how much time and effort was put into all of these and I love them all, including Defunct TV
Always consistent
one of the few youtube channels were I watch every video uploaded
yeah but he really milks play time, by playing the full commercial and then playing the same commercial with a voice over, and then playing another full commerical
I feel like this could end up turning into a tv show
x13years I like the nostalgic commercials, usually it irritating when channels don't get to the point, but it seems to work very well here
Walt Disney "Its kind of fun to do the impossible"
Micheal Eisner: "Its kind of fun to rip off other companies ideas"
Bob Eiger: It's kind of fun to make almost nothing but remakes.
The intro jingle to this episode was sheer brilliance. This channel deserves copious awards.
It's so catchy
I remember when fun-fitness places were shutting down through the 2000s as well. Parents would book birthday parties and never be told when the place shut down. Poor kiddos
Vomit, disinfectant, vomit, disinfectant
Gold
Sad, but oh so true. Although there was probably some other things in there based on the smell.
Hilarious
Lucas Butterfield he forgot to mention the piss!
I hade to pause the video at the near end of the list just to say “vomit, disinfectant” again.
I thought I was crazy remembering going to a Club Disney when I was small, mostly because no one mentioned it when I was older and all my memories were foggy from childhood. This video explains so much lol
Wryder Christy Yeah. My class went to one on a field trip when i was a kid. It was a bit of a drive then but i drive by the old building sometimes now. The outside has never changed despite it being something completely different now.
14:38 That one hit a bit too close to home LMFAO
Oh boy, I remember field trips to ESPN Zone Baltimore. It was through the somewhat separate aftercare program, and they happened on days in which there was no school but weren’t holidays like professional development days and whatnot.
Disney: they either rip off something or buy it
Or they dont.
Or both
Or They Kill
Disney: we cant do anything to copy fox
Disney:i got an idea
Disney:*buys fox*
"The already California-themed California."
Disney really is a such a morally grey company. While employing very talented artists, engineers, and people who I think do genuinely care about kids, they are also a giant capitalistic leviathan who now have become the Standard Oil of entertainment. Issues such as low employee pay at their resorts still persist to this day. As someone who was born in Orlando Disney stories always hit close to home for me as what Disney produces truly highlights our society's surreal contradictions.
They are going to increase the pay sooo....
Disney isn't THAT bad.
The goal of any BUSINESS (not charity) is to make money. Period. There is absolutely nothing morally wrong with what Disney does... the issue is that people CHOOSE to consume the garbage they produce. Just look at what they did to Star Wars... UGH!
Well said Justin.
+Stevie 1. Neither Disney or Bob Iger weren't going to do anything about their workers' low salaries until they were publicly shamed by Bernie Sanders. And 2. it really says everything about our society when people will run and take up for a large impersonal corporation over actual flesh and blood workers. The brainwashing is truly fascinating and scary at the same time. Sure Disney stories are good and they hire very talented and well meaning creatives, but at the end of the day Disney the company only cares about its shareholders and nothing else. They do *not* care about you or your family. Us Americans really do need to step out of our right-wing economic Stockholm Syndrome and learn that large corporations do not need to be defended. Our social and economic systems are broken and Disney's issues are just symptoms of these larger problems.
+Moby Green This consumerist "personal choice" narrative is just flat-out corrosive and the cause of pretty much all of our country's problems. A choice of products is the furthest thing from choosing your own destiny, and fooling people into thinking that buying and selling things is the purest form of freedom has made them way easier to control by those in power. This is the true face of neoliberalism, which really is a form of social darwinism in a clever disguise, and it seeks to turn every aspect of life into a commodity that is to be bought and sold. This comment from a socially right-wing perspective, but this has also taken over too much of the so-called "left" as well. I hope this disgusting greedy ideology crashes like the authoritarian Communist societies because ideas like these are truly Communism's evil reverse image. People are sick and tired of "business" having lordship over their lives and people on the right and center need to understand that.
In my area is a building that had been commissioned by Disney, but the Club Disney concept folded before it could open as one. It was subsequently taken on by an independent children's venue called Makutu's Island, which remains open to this day.
The fact the the AD at 5:26 is so similar to modern humour is fascinating, just speed up footage with funky sound effects, just makes it really funny was not expecting it tbh.
It’s a solid ad.
The amount of art Kevin P. puts into these videos absolutely astonishes me. A simple and amusing concept made breathtaking and so informational without the inconvenience of sounding droll brought to life by the creativity and mastery that is Defunctland. I absolutely love the youtube channel and series as a whole. I hope it continues until Kevin can sustain it and I will support him the entire way. Godspeed you magnificent historian.
I’ve seen that Charles Entertainment Cheese bit all over and it never fails to make me laugh. I’m proud to know it came from a Defunctland video
It’s his official name you dumbass
@@finnprince2163 I'd explain that the quote "A powerful rat named Charles Entertainment Cheese" got passed around the internet, but I'm afraid the knowledge would slide off your smooth brain.
@@morgansheepman2403 It really IS Chuck's official name, apparently.
@@greenaum I'd explain that the quote "A powerful rat named Charles Entertainment Cheese" got passed around the internet, but I'm afraid the knowledge would slide off your smooth brain.
@@idoodooo3988 Yeah, I wasn't aware, and didn't care, and actually, I still don't. But it's still his real name. Have fun with your Tiktok maymays!
OH MY GOD A WHILE AGO I SAW A CLIPPED VIDEO OF THE "A POWERFUL RAT NAMED CHARLES ENTERTAINMENT CHEESE" AND I LOVED IT SO MUCH SO WHEN IT POPPED UP IN THIS VIDEO I GOT SO HAPPY
In the late 90s, my local Discovery Zone (in Toronto) actually stayed open for awhile! Except it was re-branded as 'Leap Frog.' I can't find anything about this online.
we had a discovery zone at a local mall that was rebranded as leap frog too, but it was in the us