Lost Media from Chuck E. Cheese

For all the decades that the popular restaurant has been around for, there's been a huge amount of missing content from archives and collections. Let's discover a few of these rare and coveted pieces!

[@BigTimeCheese]

Hello, just going to correct information here as someone who is in this community and has done and spoken to a lot of people who have found and researched this stuff. The duck animatronic’s name is not Dr Dux it is officially called DrQuack and is only known to have been installed at the Simi Valley Pizza Time Theatre in 1980 according to local newspapers. He was an early cabaret act that was targeted towards kids, unlike how Dollie Dimples and Artie Antlers were targeted towards adults, Dr Quack played nursery rhymes. Another fact is according to someone who worked at PTT Corp, Dr Quack was based off Mike Hatcher the original programmer and entertainment director for the early days of PTT. According to coworkers, Mike Hatchers nickname was “DrDux” and there’s a diagnostics tape labeled DrDux Diagnostics which is a reference to Mike not Dr Quack since the diagnostics is for The King animatronic.

[@Marchingvenusaur]

Really interesting insight! I find this kind of stuff so cool even if I'm not involved in the overarching Cheese Rat community

[@Russinhusky]

I swaear if someone says “I’m not reading allat” I’m going to scream

[@thegodzillafandomsrookie5514]

im not reading allat@@Russinhusky

[@someguest426]

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[@Tails7626]

This video warms my heart, I love the fact that the big C doesn't just get a mention in a larger video, but a whole video to himself.

[@jinksgaming1715]

I like how you call him "the big c" as if Chuck is a mobboss

[@BeastlyCoop]

@@jinksgaming1715early pizza time theatre showtapes would often refer to him as that

[@jinksgaming1715]

@@BeastlyCoop so he's canonically a mob boss. Got it

[@Zulf85]

Yeah - I'm not from America so I feel nothing towards the place, but Chuck seems to have given a lot of Americans fond memories over the years. I always find it very cool to learn more about the chain

[@Tails7626]

@@Zulf85 Im also not from America and found about Chuck E Cheese through Fnaf

[@TPLS2]

The sad reality too is that a majority of the masks for animatronics that were either some latex material have melted away or just turned to goop. Also the original molds have been lost.

[@tutorialtime403]

The rockafire molds still exist,the cec latex mask mold have been remade multiple times,and there are a million ways to make a new mask without destroying the original

[@Skymakescrafts]

@@tutorialtime403yea, the cei warehouse still has lots of molds.

[@tutorialtime403]

@@Skymakescrafts yeah they have almost every mold they’ve ever made,besides a few of the rockafire beta masks all of the molds still exist

[@Skymakescrafts]

@@tutorialtime403 yea, and this is unrelated but they still have the mijins

[@tutorialtime403]

@@Skymakescrafts yeah,they’ve still got most of there stuff,with a few exceptions like the jingle bell jamboree(witch are in storage),Freindly Freddy and the confederate critter show(both with private collectors,Dracula and stuff for the haunted house(most of it was burned up but the big gargoyle at the end survived),the talking heads from the 76 IAAPA,Willy Wabit,and of course,the zombie guy who took his head off witch was sold to a carnival

[@GodlysMusic]

I would love lost media videos from other restaurants and fast food establishments (like Burger King, Pizza Hut, Texas Roadhouse, McDonald’s, Wendy’s, Shake Shack, etc.).

[@imadog3837]

That would be siiiiiiick.

[@sonicbootlegplush]

Same! it's really interesting to see these kinds of restaurant lost media!

[@sakiology]

same! fast food lost media is very interesting and i would also love a video like that! ^_^

[@ciskogreen2076]

Chuck E cheese bootlegs lost media would be kewl.

[@sonicbootlegplush]

@@ciskogreen2076 YEssssssss

[@fruitcakedog1997]

This was very much an unexpected video, but a nice surprise! Wolfman Zapp’s has always fascinated me in a way. Imagine having a late night party at some random place completely unaware that 30 or 40 years later no one would know hardly anything about its existence…

[@christopher9727]

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[@trashfire1025]

As much as I love this topic, there's something so eerie about all the old footage, and the pictures of some of the animatronics? Like, the way they are standing in corners, with the heavy shadows behind them, and how some of them are half taken apart and sorta staring blankly? Very fascinating.

[@bluebaron6858]

Very creepy indeed

[@Pukeprincess]

I’m probably just scared because I’m one of many who grow up with five nights at Freddy’s but those early models DEFINITELY don’t look kid friendly

[@TyphlosionGirl]

That's probably why Five Nights at Freddy's is such a popular franchise haha

[@TheWholeEntireCake]

*Scott Cawthon has entered the chat*

[@mrlaz9011]

that's how the very first FNAF made its animatronics creepy.

[@Calpsotoma]

That animated commercial was listed as running from Dec 1979-Jan 1980. That is such a short window of time and still in that period of time when VHS players were too expensive for most people to own. I doubt we'll find it randomly recorded. Archives or even demo reels from the people involved would be more likely leads.

[@bluebaron6858]

Wow at the short time frame😮

[@tutorialtime403]

There exist recordings of older comercials that ran for far less,one day we will find this one

[@elizabethhuntley6056]

Fun fact: In the CEC's copyright folders, there is a copyright for a Crusty the Cat costume & merchandise of the day one cast.

[@tutorialtime403]

Yeah everybody copirights that so others don’t make it,this doesn’t mean that there was a crusty walk around though

[@kindlykitten-gh9hd]

This right here 6:01 is what caused some childhood trauma I would 100% knew that they were animatronics on the stage and when the walk-around character came out I thought it was robots taking over the world to come get me not only that but I thought every walk around costume ever worked this way and that is why I was afraid of giant teddy bears as well I thought they were all just robots and they could potentially hurt me because they're robots obviously that's not the case but thank you Chucky Cheese for the trauma

[@BerryClouds.]

Hi LSSQ, I just wanted to say that the lost sailor mouth uncensored audio used to be up on KZbin. I think around 2 years back, someone said he would post the audio on his channel which he did. This was before I was interested in lost media so I didn’t think much of it. I’m pretty sure it got taken down because I can’t find it anymore, but since it was up it must mean someone has it. So yeah, it’s out there somewhere, we just need to find the right people.

[@SonicDisplay]

To add on to the dr dux lost media, he was used in only 1 known store (Simi valley CA) which was used to sing childrens songs to guests at the location. (I got this information from chatty Chuck e)

[@sonicbootlegplush]

Wow, I never knew Chuck E. Cheese Lost media existed, these kinds of stuff always makes me happy, especially when it comes to my childhood shows or places. ( edit ) I know sometime the grimace shake will become Lost media.

[@The-64th-Gamer]

There's certainly an overwhelming amount of CEC lost media, much more than could ever be covered in a video series.

[@sonicbootlegplush]

@@chazzywaz the recipe

[@sonicbootlegplush]

@@chazzywaz I'm sure McDonald's will probably never tell us what's in the grimace shake.

[@bluebaron6858]

I hope more are found

[@Sea_of_Waves]

Dude I'm so glad you made this video! Wolfman Zapp has been an obsession of mine for an extremely long time and it's nice to see him get covered by bigger voices. Hopefully we'll be able to recover what exactly happened to a lot of the lost animatronics in this video, for some reason Chuck E. Cheese's lost media is just so interesting

[@Pushing_Daisies]

So glad to see someone talk about CEC. I’m a super fan, so I would like to clarify some things 1. Zapp is 100 percent a retrofit. Even the photos you showed show that he is a retrofit of the standard cyberamic bot 2 The person I’ve talking about may be lying, so take this with a grain of salt. I’ve spoken with someone who (supposedly) knows the guy who owns Zapp. It’s said he got it from a going out of business auction. This is a common thing for CeC animatronics to do 3. The awesome adventure machine was from my local CeC. Unfortunately it’s been confirmed that the bot was destroyed 4. This is also unconfirmed, but apparently the community were the ones to name the animatronics in the Hot Fudge Show 5. CEC has a history of destroying old stuff, so it’s most likely a lot of these animatronics were destroyed I’ve been in the CEC fandom for years at this point, so if anyone’s got any questions, I’d love to answer. Animatronics are my passion. I would also love to share more info about some other lost Showbiz and CEC media. I know of some more media you missed out on

[@Xx_lost_or_unheard_trackz_xX]

What do u think happened to Strike it Up, and do u think it'll get found?

[@uncoolity]

i thought it was family album that the community named, and hot fudge was modeled after a tv series

[@kaitlando636]

Too bad the lost bots couldn't be recreated in some way

[@thegodzillafandomsrookie5514]

theres a copy in corp sitting in the back@@Xx_lost_or_unheard_trackz_xX

[@NumeroLetter]

I wouldn't consider Zapp a "retrofit". He was simply created for a different purpose. CEC had a lot of rotating characters that used the same mech, but we don't call them retrofits since they were still from CEC, so I feel like the same applies to Zapp.

[@ZeepTheWocky]

Never have I clicked so quickly because of seeing Chuck E. Cheese in the title.

[@imadog3837]

Same!

[@realrtot9138]

Same.

[@zenith-gameing7197]

Agreed

[@amongusboy8029]

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[@RatKingLiam]

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[@NumeroLetter]

Just a quick note: PLEASE do not harass the owner of the Wolfman Zapp animatronic. They want nothing to do with the fandom after how terribly they've been harassed by angry fans. I know it's upsetting to see Zapp in such a sad state, but I'd prefer him being part of a parade to him being in a landfill somewhere!! And no, Zapp is not now, nor will he likely ever be, for sale!!

[@dengeki2005]

Imo they should at least try to restore his second eye, it's giving me fnaf vibes and I don't like it

[@skinnywacky]

i get that he doesn’t like the fame and angry fans but to let him rot like that why not just sell it to stop getting harassed and so he can be restored

[@CECGuy_]

Thanks for covering CEC lost media so that more people can help search for it. I’m really surprised that not even a single photo has came out of Wolfman Zapp’s. I hope maybe one day we can find either a showtape or a photo/footage. I also know that the lost commercial will definitely be found. If it never does resurface, I’ll definitely be surprised

[@Zulf85]

Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if some marketing department had promotional photos of at least a mock-up of a restaurant set in their archives. It seems like it would be interesting to see it show up if so.

[@bluebaron6858]

Hopefully at least one gets found

[@retropalooza]

Zapps bar is definitely mentioned in Atari ages magazine as a future to come article. I specifically remember my dad saying finally we can drink while the kids play...hop over to lairds lair he might know best

[@clownestjuice]

i saw somewhere that its policy to dismantle and destory animatronics before discarding of them. so the wolfman zapp animatronic attached to the truck is probably the only one still in existence, assuming wolfman zapp's bar and grill had the same policy (edit: take this with a grain of salt, my source for this is pinterest, because i like collecting older pics of the animatronics from showbiz and cec)

[@papachillothezappey4050]

CEC's trash all Animatronics policy didn't become a thing until around 2004-the mid 2000's. So there are a lot of CECPTT animatronics and RAE/CU 3 stage animatronics that might still exist and are unaccounted for.

[@The-64th-Gamer]

Destroying animatronics has always been a hit or miss policy up until only the most recent years. Most animatronics from the Pizza Time Theatre era were instead auctioned off with the rest of the arcade machines and kitchen equipment, which is why so many are still in circulation.

[@peachyjjarred]

This was really coo to learn about the different animatronics that were lost over the years. I still vividly remembered being obsessed with the animatronics as a boy;and I’d run up to the stage an watch the shows really close

[@jimmyjobin]

This has made my day and I didn’t know that CEC had a lot of lost media. Speaking of lost media, there was one rare 2004 ad that I haven’t seen on TV before. It features Chuck E., who takes something out of one kid’s ear and then, he reveals his hand to show five tokens. During the end, he goes “Chuck’s the name. Five free tokens’s my game.”. All I know is that I found the rough drafted version of the commercial on KZbin back in 2017. Hope to see the finalized version soon, which will be found online.

[@flurpoid]

I grew up during that time period and absolutely remember that commercial being on TV.

[@lunar2391]

I was born In 06 and I remember that for some reason💀

[@victoriam.4927]

I remember seeing this ad a few times on TV, tho it wasn’t around as long as other CEC ads were

[@J0SHUAKANE]

It's not really a mystery how random people get things like old animatronics. They are a burden, not a blessing, & before they are thrown in the dump people will ask around if any friends or family want them. Even if they are ordered to destroy the product, its often easier just to give to someone who will keep it in their garage. Taking them out of the garbage is also common.

[@NumeroLetter]

While that was the case in the '80s, that's not the case today, not with CEC animatronics. It's exceedingly rare to get your hands on CEC animatronics directly from the store. If they're obtained, they're usually in a horrifying state of disrepair that involves sinking a lot of time and resources into restoring them.

[@omamatone7633]

I will never get over the fact that they got rid of the animatronics. That was such a memorable part of Chuck E. Cheese. I remember being MORTIFIED when I saw them at my friend's birthday party when I was like 6, but they're still iconic to the franchise.

[@titicaca.]

probably because theyre horrifying

[@gracethefoxx]

​@@titicaca.Nah they're cool wdym

[@conceptcheeseentertainment]

DUDE THIS VIDEO IS AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you so much for including my clips I've never thought a youtube channel would include some of my videos especially when it comes to lost media this literally made my day love your contents we need a part 2 about this subject

[@SmittysSuperService]

Thanks for continuing to spread the word on the missing Animated PTT Commercial!~ I hope to see it fully one day!

[@lealinacharles8945]

This personally makes me sad I work at Chuck E. Cheese and a lot of stuff is destroyed to keep it from going public like chuck’s stage tapes we had when we got renovated last year he a lot of the original art and such too I think there had to be a manager that has some of these but corporate does not like having people owning anything even us workers as they say they don’t want anyone doing anything wierd with them

[@brooshgoeswoosh]

It’s nice to see big lost media enthusiasts talk about CEC lost media, you don’t see that very often. Great video, you explained everything very thoroughly, and you managed to summon an entire fandom here, haha.

[@merts3726]

Lsupersonic is Not pregnant but he never fails to deliver

[@QuickThekidd]

Wha😭

[@AG0NYB0LT]

Bro what???? 🤨

[@GraveyardCr0w]

HELPPP 😭😭

[@bIoodyrare]

NAHH

[@_casey_idk_]

Fun fact: Dr dux was in a single ptt location (I forgot what one) apparently he sang nursery rhymes. And also name was Dr quack.

[@RatKingLiam]

Can't believe that someone so popular would make a video about one of my favorite franchises! Congrats, Big C!

[@EberHeim22231]

The Rat King

[@RatKingLiam]

:) Indeed!@@EberHeim22231

[@Donyourmom]

Not even going to lie man, you might overdose on based

[@catholiccontriversy]

Something that is even more obscure that has basically no documentation, another pizza arcade animatronic restaurant in Madison Heights Michigan called Major Magic's. It also had the animatronic stage show, but was lead by a human magician. Now adays it's a post office, and I've only found like 1 reddit post and one news article talking about it.

[@louchies]

Oh lol I know this place yeah my aunt took me there when I was little I think with my cousin Edit: Yeah I was absolutely there as a kid just asked my mom. We don't have any photos though.

[@makotowalker8369]

There are some videos of the ainmatronics on KZbin. There is also a video of the inside of the building. But I do think that some of the showtapes are still lost

[@Autotunedqueef]

Something about old lost media just hits different and is on another level of entertainment 😊

[@NintegaDario]

This was a joy to watch! I've been extremely invested in Chuck E. Cheese's history and lost media, so this was really fun.

[@Tete_Ninjala]

The official Chuck E. Cheese gave you a shout for finding the lost media. Awesome Job

[@bluebaron6858]

Shouldn't they have it?!

[@Tete_Ninjala]

@@bluebaron6858 is the video, he said the CEC are known to throw away archives of the footage of the animatronic and tape recordings?

[@Wyattonigiri]

i like your usopp pfp@@Tete_Ninjala

[@PrinsaVossum]

People will know about pizzerias with animatronics for one of two reasons: 1: Being born before 2010 2: FNaF

[@CECSWF]

lil kids

[@muppetsretrofan8873]

Hi LSuperSonicQ, this was an amazing video! As someone who grew up with Chuck E Cheese in the early 2000s, I love learning about the lost media. Honestly, I prefer the PTT era snarky Jersey accent Chuck over the other incarnations, even the one I grew up with [Avenger], as he reminds me of Oscar The Grouch. I adore advertising lost media, but there's a few certain kinds of lost commercials that I'm interested in. First is the 1970s Jack In The Box animated commercials, with the 70s incarnation of Jack Box as well as the other JITB characters being voiced by Paul Winchell, voice of Tigger. There's only three on KZbin, which I'm glad we at least have those, but I hope more will show up one day. Second is the Domino's Pizza Donny Domino ads, while we have a few in a compilation [Donny The Domino Commercial Compilation], we don't have all of them, as there's a poster with a giant Donny about to crush a Pizza Hut van. I'm 99.9% sure Will Vinton worked on the Donny Domino ads, as Donny shares design traits with his other characters, especially the California Raisins and the M&Ms. Vinton also did The Noid ads, so I'm very sure he was behind the Donny ads. I hope more Donny Domino and 70s Jack In The Box ads will resurface someday.

[@Hauntaku]

The super adventure machine did actually have a show here in Canada a long time ago. Chuck E Cheese was wearing some hipster outfit with shades and said stuff like "radical" and "tubular" as he shifted the gear to the next part of the world and even time. It was a wacky thing but kinda interesting.

[@ethan6581_]

Thank you for covering these topics in this video. I'm in the CEC community and I'm huge into the history of the company, and It's one of the most fascinating topics when it comes to lost media. CEC related lost media is rarely talked about in the lost media community so hopefully this spreads and helps the search for some of these pieces.

[@Clay3613]

There was a Looney Tunes version of the Chuck E Cheese concept called Gadgets. Lot of lost media from that too!

[@junimoony]

When I heard that Strike It Up CD had been cut in half, my heart sunk…absolutely horrible! Bound to give them a piece of my mind

[@TyphlosionGirl]

Well they still have the master copy, they can burn as many CDs as they want, but I guess they just don't want to

[@nostalgiacow700]

It was a pleasure helping with you! Great video!

[@SanneFromBibleStudy1987-gq6vg]

I for one am waiting to see footage of Cabaret Helen Henny resurface. We have her showtapes and there was another picture of her found which was probably taken while she was in action judging by the looks of it. But any and all lost media related to CEC/SPP is something I look forward to seeing some day.

[@pizzacade8594]

The Ogden, UT location didn't have the Portrait Show exactly, but a rare variant that used the newer Cyberamics. Even though footage of the Ogden show hasn't resurfaced, some have of another show just like it.

[@Ender-kk7gg]

I would love to see a lost media video about Looney Tunes!

[@horse00626]

Really hope that this video sheds some light on how much lost media CEC has and encourages people to search for it! I love Foxy Colleen and would love for someone to uncover a video of her performing to see her in action one day.

[@mike_-hg9xl]

Never knew there was a lost media chuck e cheese community this definitely peaked my interest. This is definitely my favorite lost media category now

[@UnknownFlyingPancake]

Hearing about "lost restaurants" makes me wonder if there are many instances of that, particularly regarding CEC or related places. I know of a place I went to as a kid that is essentially one of them, as the only related images I can find of it, is a a far away top down outside view photo from an old newspaper. It was actually a former Chuck E Cheese location that was turned into a different restaurant. I remember it had animatronics, which I believe were reskinned into different characters. Unfortunately I cannot remember what they actually looked like. It might have had custom showtapes, but were likely destroyed when the place closed. There aren't any photos or videos of the interior online that I can find, which is odd because I remember the place was really popular, I even went there as part of an honors field trip (but stayed away from the showroom, as it was late elementary/early middle school and I was terrified that if I went near it, people would think I was childish, a decision that I honestly deeply regret as it was the last time I ever went there. If I went in, and the animatronics were still there, I would have at least be able to say now what they looked like, which is a mystery that bothers me due to my memories being fairly clear *except* for that.) I still remember the general layout of the place. I remember there was an absolutely massive skytube that spanned across the entire show room that went above the entrance. There was a restaurant area and an arcade area, both were separate from the show room. I remember what side of the room the entrance of the arcade was on, I remember spending a lot of time playing ms pac-man in the arcade, I remember how the arcade machines were generally set up. It might have also been the first time I ever saw DDR. The only video I've seen was filmed way later after it had long been shut down and only shows the exterior. I've seen posts of people talking about the place in a nostalgic way, but I still haven't found anyone talking about the animatronics aside from the fact that they were there. Which at least is better than many years ago, where I was worried that my memories of the place were just made up of different things, but it was nice to at least have confirmation that it was infact very real.

[@rebeccaderungs1748]

What is the restaurant called?? You’ve definitely peeked my interest

[@i.l.l.l.l.]

Yeah Zapp's had to shut down after all those kids went missing

[@awesomeocelot7475]

You should do a McDonalds (and maybe a fast food restaurant in general as well) lost media video too.

[@demontamerbf18]

Animatronics are so cool, I'm glad Five Nights at Freddy's didn't kill the art of animatronics as amusement parks still use them and they look amazing.

[@PizzaTimeFanatic]

18:58 Anyone else enjoy the implication that the right stage's only entertainment value comes from Earl, disregarding Rolfe entirely.

[@GarfieldPhone]

THAT'S WHAT I WAS THINKING LOL

[@Wyattonigiri]

ya

[@fluffcake]

Zapp’s Bar and Grill is so elusive and it’s such an interesting piece of lost media. How did it look? Was it like Chuck E. Cheese or more like a typical bar joint like Applebees? As for Wolfman Zapp, what did he do? Did he preform or was he just there doing nothing? It would be pretty funny if he did say Fuck or Piss or I’m going to Hell. Either way I don’t want any of them being forgotten as they’re just too interesting to be clear from the public perspective.

[@spit2000]

I am autistic and Chuck E Cheese/Showbiz Pizza animatronics have been my special interest for YEEEARS. I'm so happy you made a video talking about not only the animatronics but also the other aspects of the chain! :D

[@-b-g-]

AYYY SAME:D

[@PDComicBookNetwork]

Holy cow at 17:20! Hot Fudge was a syndicated kids' show in the 70s that barely anyone who isn't me remembers! I had no idea Chuck E. Cheese had animatronic versions of those characters!

[@crowfrog5745]

It’s so crazy to hear stuff about Dallas as someone who lives there. When you mentioned the monfort location I instantly knew which one you were talking about. So cool!

[@sarahmiller2431]

I used to be a manager at a chuck e cheese until the pandemic hit, I also was shown how to perform maintenence on the animatronic we had. The CEC location i worked in still used floppy discs! (As of 2020) whenever we were given a new show it came with 2 dvds and 1 floppy disk. We downloaded the info on the floppy and it ran with info from the two disks. I had never seen a floppy disk before working that job lol

[@7ElevenKevinNG]

I think I remember getting a token from a machine that looked like a thought bubble and (if I remember correctly) it said "ZAPP'S"

[@azaleawinchester]

Ah, two of my hyperfixations coming together in one video.

[@void5023]

I love this video! I just recently worked at a chuck e cheese near me and we unfortunately had to go through the renovation of the original showbiz three stage. I rifled through the back rooms and desperately tried to save whatever I could without getting fired. I was hoping I'd find the show tapes but I never did. It made me so sad to sit back and watch the history of our location get thrown out into the dumpster!!

[@iwavrQwpX4uB39nilBlQ]

the music in your videos always adds such a vibe to em

[@frankiefriedman6158]

I think the thumblink in the video will actually help inspire someone who is into the FNAF franchise .

[@StudioCheese]

You have summoned a whole fandom with 1 video.

[@tancoplays3502]

Glad to see someone big in the lost media scene cover CEC Lost media hopefully this will give us some leads from the bigger lost media subculture

[@MOREVIVID25]

As a Cec fan this fandom’s lost media is not cared about which is sad

[@Studio18sEntertainment]

I’m glad you covered this subject as it’s a very important area to the Fandom

[@WilfredCthulu]

I remember when I played mugen I found a stage that was just a real photo of a bunch of police pulled up at a Chuck e cheese at night.

[@elreycerdo9824]

This has made my day, I've been waiting for you to make a video on this topic for a long time.

[@roselorax7227]

I hear a lot of lost media stories start with someone who remembers something from their childhood. I distinctly remember a commercial with Chuck E. playing basketball with the PBS girl and boy mascots. I’ve seen similar commercials but none with them playing basketball

[@migueldiaz2050]

Also, don't forget about lost album of " It's a Groove Thing " by Lorie Salvatera. 🎶💖

[@LJA116]

During the Awesome Adventure Machine segment: Why does this sound so familiar? I don't live anywhere near Texas. "Studio C contained many concepts from Awesome Adventure Machine" THAT EXPLAINS IT! Studio C was definitely the show that played at the Chuck-E-Cheese I was constantly going to as a kid. Also, I swear I remember seeing some sort of portrait animatronics at a Chuck-E-Cheese at some point, which would've had to have been in the late '90's to early 2000's.

[@nicksullivan4994]

I Really miss The Chuck E. Cheese’s and other indoor playgrounds and arcades with slides and ball pits!😭❤️📺🎶👍🏻

[@NachoTaco.]

Thank you so much for Giving this the spotlight. i was one of the few people who where on the hunt for a couple weeks until i dropped out. Hope someday someone can come in and record the lost tape.

[@ant-fan]

This is crazy. I’ve been doing a deep dive into Chuck E Cheese lost media over the past few days by coincidence, and then you post this video.

[@paulmerachango]

Omg ive been waiting SO much for this Thank you SO MUCH for discussing this topic.

[@SmokeyMcb]

I've never been to a Chuck E. Cheese

[@RustyLeguito]

Me too

[@sonicfanboy3375]

Same, I'm not American

[@AnniChu]

Awesome video!! Thanks so much for covering! I would give SO much just to go back and experience some of those animatronics in person

[@bluebaron6858]

The was rhe best and most refreshing video in a while! Thank you!!

[@SakuraStardust]

Oh my goodness that thumbnail. I love it lmao

[@Shirthog590]

I started working at a Chuck e cheese 4 months ago. If any of you have questions about Chuck e cheese ask away and ill try to the best of my ability to answer it

[@ChuckEPerfect]

Thanks for doing a video about this!! Good to see people still talking about CEC

[@junimoony]

Oh man! I didn’t expect you to cover this, its a subject I adore!

[@emmayoung736]

Before there was Uncle Grandpa, there was Uncle Pappy

[@sunflow57]

You're the goat for compiling these man.

[@rivetsquid8887]

Fantastic to see, all throughput the fnaf height I was confused why nobody why also adopting real old animatronics as a special interest for the most part. One small note, when you talked about the late Uncle from showbiz, you showed a picture of Duke, a dog who really played drums instead of Rolfe who was a wolf with a hand puppet named Earl who had his own side stage. I was too young to ever see Earl locally, but our mid 90s Chuck E Cheese still had the three stage set up with all the streamers and I could never figure out what all the extra space was for lol

[@showb1zlov3r]

THIS MADE MY DAY! THANK YOU FOR COVERING THIS TOPIC! CAN YOU DO THE ROCKAFIRE NEXT!?

[@shammahikoro8475]

One of my favorites videos from you! As a kid, I was really into Chuck E. Cheese and the lost media behind it. I was really into this forum called the Retro Pizza Zone that had a lot of interesting information on not only Chuck E. Cheese and Showbiz Pizza, but other family entertainment centers. I stopped getting into the fandom when I got older, but also FNAF was really big and you had a lot of their fans leak into the community in a not so positive way. I think it’s because a lot of them were way younger, but it also heavily played into the narrative the animatronics were scary. On top off all that, Chuck E. Cheese restaurants were going hard on phasing out their animatronics around the same time, so I think it was a low in the fandom personally. But if I have to give FNAF some credit, it did bring in some new fans into the world of animatronics which allowed those few to have an appreciation for them :)

[@The-64th-Gamer]

Glad to see coverage on the vast amounts of lost media this company has to offer! Us over at Cheese-E-Pedia are trying our best to uncover things and it would be great to get the general lost media community's help.

[@BMoney8600]

This is really interesting. I used to go to Chuck E Cheese all the time as a kid. The one in my town is still open yet there are never cars in the lot.

[@kissmiasma95]

Some of the animatronics were repurposed and sold to WONDERLAND PIER in Ocean City NJ in the mid 90's.

[@prototype0z19athesaturdaym9]

Where a kid can be a kid Well used to be Also I don't know there where going to be adult theme version of chuck e cheese, which ironically there some chuck e cheese restaurants served beer's

[@mags.3459]

The owner of Smitty's Super Service Station was absolutely awful to me and my mother. It would have been such a great experience but he wouldn't even give us an estimated price because he relies on donations but anything I offered he said was too low and would talk to me like I was stupid. I specified that I was only a teenager and didn't know how these things worked or what I was in for, as they had no information on their website nor did they have a phone number, and he was so short with me. I still want to try and go, but my mom refuses to give them our business. He also refused me a tour and I was nothing but polite while he was rude and avoided my questions:(

[@sigma100millonpercent]

Skill issue

[@-b-g-]

Thank you for this! Cec/showbiz is one of my really big obsessions/interests so this is really cool to see:)

[@JackECheese]

YAY Ive been waiting for you to make a CEC lost media video!!!

[@marcusblackwell2372]

Awesome Adventure Machine deserved better

[@jayvensan]

Wolfman Zapp has always been a fascination to me due to his mysterious history

[@recorderkid14]

My partner sent this to me as soon it was uploaded. This is a cool video! And I just got back into Chuck E' Cheese history anyways, so this is perfect!!

[@Ze-Zany]

i used to be a CEC fan so this was nice to watch!! CEC has some interesting lost media, especially the Awesome Adventure Machine stage, i found it eye-appealing despite its cost. :]

[@HappyHappyJoyJoy1]

AYYYYY A CHUCK E CHEESE LOST MEDIA VID WHAT?? 🙏🙏🙏

[@cycl0ne]

As a huge cec fan for years, this was very nice to see

[@sonicshoes9299]

Haven’t watched you in a while, can’t wait to watch another one of your vids