I heard Billings doesn't want 2.0 since it's one of the only/the only full animatronic show for a while. They also don't have a tech, but the General Manager actually does a brilliant job on keeping them working when they have the time to work on the show. Nice video!
Anytime you’re in Florida and want to see a good Studio C alpha with working curtains, be sure to let me know! I’m the GM of the East Orlando location and we take great pride in our store and show! (I enjoy your videos too!)
One more thing I forgot. At some locations they use to turn Dukes drumhead inside out! One location was Wilmington NC. That’s the only one I can remember but they did do that at a few of them.
Wow, nice that you got to see some 3-Stages. Also i love the games they have in Billings. There used to be more of the Swirls in Different colors but there's not a lot of the Orange ones, which originated on the 3-Stages
man i miss the one i grew up with in dimond point ,MD. they had mostly all the orginal pictures including the drive in one and an orginal 2 stage witch where vary well maintained and tooken care of
I've heard that CEC corporate has given some people tours of their location in Texas before, they have some cool things there to see, you should see if you could have an opportunity to go!
These stages are both great! It'll honestly suck if they're gone at any point I'd personally recommend trying to save as much as possible to preserve as they are history! If you do, then I wish u the best of luck with saving em! :]
If you are ever in the Pittsburgh area again you gotta check out their CEC. It has a unique bot, it's a 32m with a 16m head. Warren, OH is also really great and is about an hour and a half from Pittsburgh. It's a 32m Beta that hasn't remodeled since they opened. (They updated the exterior though the interior is the same)
i love those black and white feathers. the style feathers that were used more on the early 90's helen henny puppet. used on mitzi bot. i love that helen cu outfit. with black and white feathers. i love purple along with mitzi purple eyelids eyeshadow.
yea i got bad news billings was just bought by corp and they are gonna remodel next year also i belive west des moines is still around. also west des moines has ould early 2000's random movements
You may have noticed West Des Moines Iowa was missing the stage left and right curtains. That’s because it was sent to Darien IL’s location for their unique studio c beta on a 3 stage. And also, I heard Billings Montana is a franchise location. I could be wrong about this but franchise locations might have protection from 2.0 remodels and may potentially make it beyond the 2023 deadline. I heard a rumor that Billings doesn’t want to give up their 3 stage.
Cool you went to West Des Moines, it’s very good condition and one of my favorite 3 stages. Also you went to Billings Chuck E. Cheese it’s a very good store and cool stage
You should check out the CEC in Midland, TX. It’s an under filmed store and has the last Studio C Beta/Alpha mix stage. You better visit it soon since all Studio Cs will no longer be programmed on September 19th this year.
WOW, A 3 STAGE THOSE ARE HARD TO FIND AND THERE SCELETINS ARE THE ROCKIFIRE XPLOSHIN I don't have a CEC where I live :( but I'm still a kid and if u looked at my history the only thing u would find are animatronics hope to build one one day your are my fav RUclipsr keep up the great work I will watch every vid forward like i have
One of the items on my bucket list was to see the chuck e cheese and/or rockafire explosion animatronics in person. Hopefully when the time comes a fan out there will let me see theirs.
Billings actually get their bots from a closed Showbiz to let you know as they're recycled. The location opened on 8/6/1984 (August 6, 1984). Billings is also Franchised as well. West Des Moines opened October 13, 1980.
The drum head on that stage is not one of a kind or two of a kind it actually is the original drum head that was at all of the locations. Because when the stages got concept unification this drum head replaced Dukes explosion drumhead on all the stages. I have nick names this drum head the “knock out” drum head because it looks the squiggles and stars above a cartoon characters head when they get injured in old cartoons. This drum head actually ended up at all locations and the road stage and the two stage and the one stage. Then some locations got a new drum head that looked more like dukes original drum head but the background was blue and the explosion was red. I saw this in Roanoke Virginia. After all of that they went back to Dukes explosion for everyone which was weird to go back. But now lots of locations just cut out plastic and put it in the drum head. Some use plastic from the ticket blaster! I guess kids much damage the originals and then they don’t have anything to replace it with so they make their own. But the one at Billings is still the original from right after concept unification which is very cool! I have been to Billings and does Moines. Fort Collins use to have this drum head before they closed and I went there too.
I love your videos! You should totally consider going to see Dreamfactory in Switzerland (if thats possible for you, it is very far from you), its an amazing museum of all sorts of entertainment things and magic and has lots of cool vintage pieces including the rockafire explosion!
As far as I know my local Chuck E. Cheese still has the Rockafire animatronics that were reskinned into the CEC characters (I’m from Omaha, Nebraska). It has the winking Chuck E above the stage and the miniature TV. It’s really cool to get a glimpse at what they looked like before concept unification.
I was going to stop to see that in Omaha but the site I follow with CeC show current status listed it as recently remodeled, is that not the case? Like is it still there?
@@SetsStreetsEats Not sure. The last time I’ve been there was 2 years ago for my nephew’s birthday birthday party. I was not aware that they remodeled the place.
Actually there are three RAE bots that are older then West Des Moines show that exist. Jack Turner owns both a Fatz and s Looney Bird that come from one of the first 6 stores and a Mitzi that come from the Topeka Kansas store (which was one of these first 6 stores)
38 hour road trip? I don't think I could ever drive that far in such a miniscule number of days! 20:47 I don't know if you noticed but in the vid when you visited the Huntsville, AL CEC, the wink was still working
Corporate is testing out a new show control system that sadly won't be compatible with the Studio C control system, which is why Studio C will no longer be able to run showtapes. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure that the reason for the new show control system is because the cost of shipping out the show DVDs to every location with a stage was getting too costly, so to cut costs they are trying some new system that doesn't require shipping anything out to locations. Sort of like Bluetooth maybe?
Yeah I was hoping to get to Eastern Pennsylvania soon cuz I couldn't get there at the beginning of this trip but it looks like I might be able to do it in October 😁
@@SetsStreetsEats OH IAM DEFINITELY COMING OVER AND SAYING HI if I have any money, I might buy something and is it fine if I do a little vlog for my subs?
@@SetsStreetsEats Don't forget to wave @ San Jose exit 383 Tully road on the 101 and then about 50mins later @Salinas ext 331 I believe both are dance floor setups.
We might have a gig for a company,fly to Pittsburgh from Phoenix then drive back ughhhh 🤦♀️never did a cross country drive,any takes on this drive??? Help lol
Another thing about 3 stage shows is the animation they use for these bots is very simple compared to what creative engineering used to program for them too! These bots can do so much more then what their corporate turned them into 😢
I'm upset that they are doing away with these animatronics... because they were the backbone of CEC!!! They are killing off something from our childhood and they think it's fine with everyone and maybe so, how about the ones that has memories of them and want to show today's kids of the past and yes... we do have RUclips to show them of it, but taking them out is so painful to me!!! I'm normally about games at CEC, but those animatronics were part of my childhood... R.I.P. CEC aka the old style of it!!!
That would be wonderful, also the few employees I asked about it when I was in there had no clue when their remodel was coming so maybe that's what it means, fingers crossed!
What will happen to them?just get scrapped that’s such a waste. Hopefully someone will buy them or something and restore them into the rock afire explosion!
Another thing about 3 stage shows is the animation they use for these bots is very simple compared to what creative engineering used to program for them too! These bots can do so much more then what their corporate turned them into 😢
![I.N "HALLUCINATION" | [Stray Kids : SKZ-PLAYER]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/n5B5q1Hwt_U/mqdefault.jpg)
Wow just seeing all these mountains is a beautiful sight to behold.
I heard Billings doesn't want 2.0 since it's one of the only/the only full animatronic show for a while.
They also don't have a tech, but the General Manager actually does a brilliant job on keeping them working when they have the time to work on the show.
Nice video!
That's fantastic news, he does seem to be doing a good job. Thanks for watching 😁
are they a franchise? I think franchise locations get to pick
Bad news, almost a month ago corporate bought Billings along with Fargo. Looks like 2.0 is gonna hit them both at some point 😔
@@UnshornKeyboardist 2.0 got Fargo but I'm not sure about billings
Ok
Anytime you’re in Florida and want to see a good Studio C alpha with working curtains, be sure to let me know! I’m the GM of the East Orlando location and we take great pride in our store and show! (I enjoy your videos too!)
Thanks for the tip, I will!
@@SetsStreetsEats You should. Isn't that one of the few location that have more than one costumed character?
Oh, you gave Grant his start! I’m going to college in the area, so i might visit
@@bagofgroceries you definitely should!
Is that the one on Alafaya?
One more thing I forgot. At some locations they use to turn Dukes drumhead inside out! One location was Wilmington NC. That’s the only one I can remember but they did do that at a few of them.
Wow, nice that you got to see some 3-Stages. Also i love the games they have in Billings. There used to be more of the Swirls in Different colors but there's not a lot of the Orange ones, which originated on the 3-Stages
man i miss the one i grew up with in dimond point ,MD. they had mostly all the orginal pictures including the drive in one and an orginal 2 stage witch where vary well maintained and tooken care of
Thank you for videoing your experiences going to see these shows. I hope that you have a wonderful existence.
Thank you, I appreciate you watching them!
I've heard that CEC corporate has given some people tours of their location in Texas before, they have some cool things there to see, you should see if you could have an opportunity to go!
I will absolutely check into that!
These stages are both great! It'll honestly suck if they're gone at any point
I'd personally recommend trying to save as much as possible to preserve as they are history! If you do, then I wish u the best of luck with saving em! :]
You should go to the CEC in Northridge, CA, it is really rare, has showroom walls and the old showroom sign, you should really go!
If you are ever in the Pittsburgh area again you gotta check out their CEC. It has a unique bot, it's a 32m with a 16m head. Warren, OH is also really great and is about an hour and a half from Pittsburgh. It's a 32m Beta that hasn't remodeled since they opened. (They updated the exterior though the interior is the same)
I'll be back there in December, thanks for the tip!
i love those black and white feathers. the style feathers that were used more on the early 90's helen henny puppet. used on mitzi bot. i love that helen cu outfit. with black and white feathers. i love purple along with mitzi purple eyelids eyeshadow.
yea i got bad news billings was just bought by corp and they are gonna remodel next year also i belive west des moines is still around. also west des moines has ould early 2000's random movements
Facts
You may have noticed West Des Moines Iowa was missing the stage left and right curtains. That’s because it was sent to Darien IL’s location for their unique studio c beta on a 3 stage. And also, I heard Billings Montana is a franchise location. I could be wrong about this but franchise locations might have protection from 2.0 remodels and may potentially make it beyond the 2023 deadline. I heard a rumor that Billings doesn’t want to give up their 3 stage.
I hope that's true!
Billings is a very beautiful stage!
Video good 👍 Jim Ross ATL 😮😮
Cool you went to West Des Moines, it’s very good condition and one of my favorite 3 stages. Also you went to Billings Chuck E. Cheese it’s a very good store and cool stage
You should check out the CEC in Midland, TX. It’s an under filmed store and has the last Studio C Beta/Alpha mix stage. You better visit it soon since all Studio Cs will no longer be programmed on September 19th this year.
Unfortunately I won't be around Texas until the spring so I'm going to miss out on that one :-(
@@SetsStreetsEats oh, I see.
Midland is getting 2.0 this year sadly
@@RPCECNorthEast I’ve known about that already for a while 😔
WOW, A 3 STAGE THOSE ARE HARD TO FIND AND THERE SCELETINS ARE THE ROCKIFIRE XPLOSHIN I don't have a CEC where I live :( but I'm still a kid and if u looked at my history the only thing u would find are animatronics hope to build one one day your are my fav RUclipsr keep up the great work I will watch every vid forward like i have
Thanks so much bud, I appreciate you!
The one in Boise used to have one, But they sadly had 2.0 a few weeks ago.
Awesome man And I'm glad that you saw the 3 Stage there before they go and get destroyed
Great video man! I was at the West Des Moines Chuck E. Cheese’s last month and I’m really happy you got the chance to see it too!
Absolutely, I was very happy to get in there before the remodel.
You’re awesome , love your videos ! Cheers from Milwaukee
Thank you!
One of the items on my bucket list was to see the chuck e cheese and/or rockafire explosion animatronics in person. Hopefully when the time comes a fan out there will let me see theirs.
🅒🅞🅞🅛🅒🅞🅞🅛 vids! Keep on going!
@Miguelnathanael Tamayo I'm not hacker
@Miguelnathanael Tamayo how? 💀
Billings actually get their bots from a closed Showbiz to let you know as they're recycled. The location opened on 8/6/1984 (August 6, 1984). Billings is also Franchised as well.
West Des Moines opened October 13, 1980.
Thanks for filling in those blanks!
please go to the one in lynnwood washington!!!
Amazing video keep it up your amazing
You drove from one side of USA to the other side?
Actually that drumhead is also the one in the concept unification installation tape lol
14:48 “Stars in the Sky” from Sonic 2!!!
retro rock-afire explosion show. thats different yellow fur legs on mitzi bot.
The drum head on that stage is not one of a kind or two of a kind it actually is the original drum head that was at all of the locations. Because when the stages got concept unification this drum head replaced Dukes explosion drumhead on all the stages. I have nick names this drum head the “knock out” drum head because it looks the squiggles and stars above a cartoon characters head when they get injured in old cartoons. This drum head actually ended up at all locations and the road stage and the two stage and the one stage. Then some locations got a new drum head that looked more like dukes original drum head but the background was blue and the explosion was red. I saw this in Roanoke Virginia. After all of that they went back to Dukes explosion for everyone which was weird to go back. But now lots of locations just cut out plastic and put it in the drum head. Some use plastic from the ticket blaster! I guess kids much damage the originals and then they don’t have anything to replace it with so they make their own. But the one at Billings is still the original from right after concept unification which is very cool! I have been to Billings and does Moines. Fort Collins use to have this drum head before they closed and I went there too.
Yeah I definitely wish showbiz wiki was kept a little more up-to-date on their key facts to be sure.
I love your videos! You should totally consider going to see Dreamfactory in Switzerland (if thats possible for you, it is very far from you), its an amazing museum of all sorts of entertainment things and magic and has lots of cool vintage pieces including the rockafire explosion!
Thank you so much, and yes I would definitely love to visit there someday if I can get over to Europe.
@@SetsStreetsEats And maybe you could visit the rockafire's at the Gulliver's theme parks over in England in the future
As far as I know my local Chuck E. Cheese still has the Rockafire animatronics that were reskinned into the CEC characters (I’m from Omaha, Nebraska). It has the winking Chuck E above the stage and the miniature TV. It’s really cool to get a glimpse at what they looked like before concept unification.
I was going to stop to see that in Omaha but the site I follow with CeC show current status listed it as recently remodeled, is that not the case? Like is it still there?
Omaha’s stage was removed in March of this year.
@@SetsStreetsEats Not sure. The last time I’ve been there was 2 years ago for my nephew’s birthday birthday party. I was not aware that they remodeled the place.
@@ShowbizMidwest Aw, well that sucks! I haven’t been there for a while so I never knew that. :(
The 3 stage in west des moines is actually the oldest rock afire show with it being a beta rock afire show the last of it's kind
Actually there are three RAE bots that are older then West Des Moines show that exist. Jack Turner owns both a Fatz and s Looney Bird that come from one of the first 6 stores and a Mitzi that come from the Topeka Kansas store (which was one of these first 6 stores)
@@papachillothezappey4050 those aren't at CEC.
38 hour road trip? I don't think I could ever drive that far in such a miniscule number of days!
20:47 I don't know if you noticed but in the vid when you visited the Huntsville, AL CEC, the wink was still working
I must have been sleep deprived from that drive cuz I totally forgot to include it, thanks for letting me know!
damn I'm moving from Pittsburgh to Seattle and about to do the same drive next month
Corporate is testing out a new show control system that sadly won't be compatible with the Studio C control system, which is why Studio C will no longer be able to run showtapes. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure that the reason for the new show control system is because the cost of shipping out the show DVDs to every location with a stage was getting too costly, so to cut costs they are trying some new system that doesn't require shipping anything out to locations. Sort of like Bluetooth maybe?
Seems like a digital download system should have been in place for them years ago. Thanks for the info!
@@SetsStreetsEats Np!
But it doesn't make sense how their internet system isn't capable of sending show files for studio c
@@MrPixieanimatronics its because the control system is way different than a three stage or cybers control system
I wish you could save one group of theses guys
I still love going to chuck e cheese but I miss going there
What are they going to do with that old drive in picture from 1993? I hope they still keep it!
On second store munchs eyeball screws needed a little love 😢
I saw Heldens eye lids Close
Are there any cec locations left with original cec bot cosmetics?
The CEC here in Amarillo has their animatronics. I don’t think they’ll be getting the 2.0
You need to check out the chukee cheese in altoona pa and it’s a three stage before it gets ripped out
Yeah I was hoping to get to Eastern Pennsylvania soon cuz I couldn't get there at the beginning of this trip but it looks like I might be able to do it in October 😁
I wanna buy a CEC 3 stage & modify it with a studio C Chuck. Pipe dreaming ofc
38 hours? Jeez. Good luck man
are u going to nyc comicon?
Yep!
@@SetsStreetsEats im guna be there every day and one of the days are my birth day october 8th
@@PokeBoyVT you should come by my booth and say hi! Hit me up the week before and I'll know my booth number by then.
@@SetsStreetsEats OH IAM DEFINITELY COMING OVER AND SAYING HI if I have any money, I might buy something and is it fine if I do a little vlog for my subs?
@@PokeBoyVT of course!
I love that I didn’t release that he was stopping at the Chuck E. Cheese that I grew up at
What stages are left in California are you planning on visting? Is there a list?
I'm putting a list together n I'm gonna try n get down to LA next week
@@SetsStreetsEats Don't forget to wave @ San Jose exit 383 Tully road on the 101 and then about 50mins later @Salinas ext 331 I believe both are dance floor setups.
great video
i really really love his beard
Thanks, I love it too!
Do you made videos about stages at Chuck E Cheese?
I have made several recently but I make a lot of other videos as well.
I'm pretty sure not all cecs will get 2.0 and I'm assuming there will still be 3 stages
We might have a gig for a company,fly to Pittsburgh from Phoenix then drive back ughhhh 🤦♀️never did a cross country drive,any takes on this drive??? Help lol
Another thing about 3 stage shows is the animation they use for these bots is very simple compared to what creative engineering used to program for them too! These bots can do so much more then what their corporate turned them into 😢
I'm still feeling sad about the animations too as well
Like you channel
Hi im your biggest fan can you do paramus nj chuck e cheese
I'll be in New Jersey this fall!
And north bergen
Go to Chuck E. Cheese’s in Charlotte NC
This stage was running good for being 40 years old just looked like pasqually needed a neck fix honestly
You know Ohio, Ohio, not dangerous😅
I'm upset that they are doing away with these animatronics... because they were the backbone of CEC!!! They are killing off something from our childhood and they think it's fine with everyone and maybe so, how about the ones that has memories of them and want to show today's kids of the past and yes... we do have RUclips to show them of it, but taking them out is so painful to me!!! I'm normally about games at CEC, but those animatronics were part of my childhood... R.I.P. CEC aka the old style of it!!!
They should of took the locations with the worse condition out first it makes no sense why they didn't do that
Billings is a franchise so, if God be willing, they may not receive 2.0
That would be wonderful, also the few employees I asked about it when I was in there had no clue when their remodel was coming so maybe that's what it means, fingers crossed!
Yep! Billings May hold out for quite awhile! Being a franchise, they don’t have to get it right away.
@@Cheezbat My fingers are crossed!
@@SetsStreetsEats or corporate could force them into 2.0, but let’s pray otherwise!!
@@brysonvines3030 Just don’t tell corporate. Lynwood Washington still looks like it did in the 90s and corporate hasn’t done a damn thing
Wow never knew this was original beta rockafire characters still its sad to see them get taken out
What will happen to them?just get scrapped that’s such a waste. Hopefully someone will buy them or something and restore them into the rock afire explosion!
cec entertainment is slowly losing their touch by implomenting ideas no one asked for and honestly i'd like to see them go bankrupt for good
same
Wth ohio💀
Its not ohio 😂
Another thing about 3 stage shows is the animation they use for these bots is very simple compared to what creative engineering used to program for them too! These bots can do so much more then what their corporate turned them into 😢