Matt The Franchize Tells Me The History Of Showbiz/Cec On Montfort In Dallas Texas!

I meet up with ‪@MattTheFranchize‬ at the CEC on Montfort in Dallas, TX and tells me the history of the original showbiz location just down the street where the Awesome Adventure Machine was located and the Current location where the Star Stage and original Circles of Light stage premiered, Enjoy!
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[@TheFunArchivist]

The showroom at the abandoned Montfort location is actually still intact. If you go to the cube glass windows on the side of the store, you can see the old studio c stage!

[@smokeyjoeproductions]

Any videos that show that?

[@TheFunArchivist]

@@smokeyjoeproductions just look up CEC Montfort and you'll find it

[@Noahvis4]

@@smokeyjoeproductions None unfurtunately since it's Target corporate work offices and they are strict about taking photos or video there.

[@JimBobJoeB0b]

This is gonna be hype! About a month ago I did some Google-Fu and Google Earth scouring to find the original Showbiz location, found out it closed in 2002 or so and was demolished not much later....the location of the doorway is now part of a parking lot 😢 but I'm still looking forward to watching and learning more! Edit: my bad, by original Showbiz you meant the original *montfort tx* one! haha

[@SetsStreetsEats]

It's actually not demolished. They just repurposed it into offices but it's still there and you'll get to see it in this video!

[@s_1020v]

Do you mind sharing the exact address of old original location? I've been trying to look for it.

[@CECWashingtonTheCECFan]

Awesome! I’m glad you met Matt once again!

[@TheGemmyKidYT]

I don’t know if he mentioned this, but the 32m bot was sent to the port orange, Florida Chuck E. Cheese’s. The store got destroyed due to hurricane Ian and. So was the bot.

[@dedsecpetrikov]

actually, the bot was completely fine surprisingly! i don’t recall what happened to it after but it did infact survive

[@TheGemmyKidYT]

I know it survived when the store got damaged. I’m just saying, after that they demolished the store.

[@YCMjersey]

Once again what amazing video Chris and especially with Matt the franchize again! 🤩

[@mikeyrodge329]

The abandoned Montfort location was a staple of my childhood. One time I went there and one of the speakers that was hanging from the ceiling suddenly fell to the ground right in front of the stage. Didn’t injure anybody, although it could have. I’d completely forgotten about that till I watched this video.

[@parker14_]

2 LEGENDS RIGHT HERE

[@MystiqEevee]

Nice to see they're being a bit more lenient on not destroying everything too bad we can't say the same for all the other locations I sure hope they save atleast 1 of every type of animatronic show even if it were to just go into a museum and be put on display in a static no perform format im sure people would still go for the history and to see all the cool old stuff

[@mateo.ham08]

Ask him for the layout!!

[@jr5620]

Wonder if Dallas could become a pioneer once more as a retro store. Via the corporate owned Huntsville AL 3 Stage or something similar! Cant wait nonetheless!❤

[@SetsStreetsEats]

That would be amazing!

[@Cheezbat]

Huntsvilles show was destroyed so that’s impossible.

[@karlgt3656]

​@@Cheezbatit didn't get destroyed

[@BeachKai]

@@Cheezbat The Huntsville show was taken to SPT in Kansas, minus the Building and Pizzacam if I recall

[@Cheezbat]

@@BeachKai I don’t know where you got your information but from what I was told that show was destroyed

[@_SillyBoy813_]

15:12 it was on top of a wall when you visited Travis

[@CaseytheCalifornian]

That's so cool that you saw Matt again

[@tancoplays3502]

I went to this CEC for the summer of fun Concert tour it's a pretty nice store

[@Hedggyshow-cf8qm]

Dallas monfort always has been the place where they test stages like the prototype cu stage and the star stage and later the circle of lights

[@disneydanny2]

I guess corporate stopped considering Irving a home base store once corporate relocated their offices.

[@blueghost4121]

You need to give your guests a mic. It's hard to hear him.

[@tancoplays3502]

If you ever wanna do a video on the history of past and current locations in the OKC area I'd love to help I know a lot about those locations as they are the ones i grew up going to like how the original showbiz in SW OKC burned down sometime around 2004 or 2005

[@miket7330]

Super interesting with nice archives!🐭

[@chuckster7248]

I can’t wait to watch this

[@Willkniceley654]

Hi Chris I will see you in the live

[@kierstenseethaler941]

How did I not catch this one here? 😅

[@Anonymous-ru2vg]

Awesome video , would be awesome to have both you and Matt visit Chuck E. Cheese at Milwaukee Chase Ave again. Opened around 1981 and used to have a Chuck e Street zone and an underground crawl zone under the show also. The show walls are still in tact and still have animatronics also. A lot of history at that location, and rumored was they had a adult section in the far right with the King at one point

[@drewdrew_drew17]

All 3 locations in Hawaii have the skytubes still

[@SetsStreetsEats]

That's very cool to hear, I'll be visiting at least one of those in February

[@drewdrew_drew17]

@@SetsStreetsEats oh sweet! Lmk which location! I work at the Honolulu CEC!

[@ClaerisGames]

I didn't know there was more than one two story CEC lol. One of these days I'll figure out how to demo my idea for a 2.5 stage idea. It'll never happen but I really want to get the idea how there as a 'just in case' lol

[@thegreatpapyrus1518]

Is anybody gonna talk about the fact that the old booths are still here?!

[@spunchbop47428]

that’s because Budget Cuts

[@puzh._.top66]

NOW ASK HIM ABOUT THE SHOWBIZ OF ARLINGTON

[@DreamQueenScream]

Tell me why if I win lotto I’m 100% opening my own CEC ❤😂 this location is truly wonderfully maintained

[@s_1020v]

Probably the best 2.0 location, except for Northridge CA.

[@AlexPlays14]

April 2010? Whoa i was born in april 1st, 2010 lol

[@Radicalchuckshows]

you should go to cec headquarters that will be amazing

[@SetsStreetsEats]

They no longer allow tours sadly.

[@thefools]

2.0 with old booths?

[@WhoDidWhat17]

they got the Refresh version of 2.0 (2023 version), the ones earlier in the year reused the old furniture but all the ones that I've seen pics of recently have the 2.0 booths. (Montfort got 2.0 in May 2023)

[@flight8371]

do you think you'll ever visit the manchester location? its an old ptt

[@destinyberry3518]

I laugh about the first of the video

[@cec_ent]

Are you ever going to dept 18

[@SetsStreetsEats]

They no longer allow tours

[@cec_ent]

@@SetsStreetsEats aww man :(

[@wiseman5519]

Hey Chris I have a question have you seen a studio c stage that had the old camera to the blue room I know you don't see it anymore but it had this turning camera that you could switch to on the interact camera control

[@SetsStreetsEats]

I know what you're talking about and I definitely keep my eye out for one but I have yet to see one but I sure would like to 🙂

[@wiseman5519]

@@SetsStreetsEats and when you can could you try checking out the 2.0 version of the Chuck-E-Cheese in hickory North Carolina Caldwell

[@SetsStreetsEats]

@@wiseman5519 I really don't do any 2.0 visits unless there's a particular historical reason and it has to be a really significant one.

[@WhoDidWhat17]

@@SetsStreetsEatsif i recall correctly, the blue screen camera is only at some of the few Studio C Beta locations outside the United States.

[@FurbyRocker]

Hey! Just thought I'd mention something 7:56 About the Canadian stores being Franchises, I'm not sure if this applies to stores outside of Ontario, however all Ontario CEC stores are Corp owned and we have no play places in any of our locations!! We have only 5 locations in the entirety of Ontario and all have removed their Skytubes and stuff during the pandemic I'm not really sure about the other Canadian stores personally since I haven't looked into em

[@SetsStreetsEats]

Thank you for updating that information!

[@SetsStreetsEats]

By the way, is the road stage still at one location and the giant Chucky statue at the other?

[@FurbyRocker]

​@SetsStreetsEats The huge statue is located at the 2stage location in Willowdale/North York The location turns 40 yrs old today, actually! I'll have a little Anniversary video out for it lol

[@WhoDidWhat17]

all 10 locations in Canada are corporate owned (the 5 in Ontario, the 3 in Alberta, and the 1 in Sasketchewan and the 1 in British Columbia.)

[@chuckster7248]

What happened to Chris

[@holliehogan8682]

Sup

[@dustyclore7406]

Nooo…. I cannot wait for Halloween to be over. This should be voted worse intro on KZbin. Music really stinks Chris.

[@CaseytheCalifornian]

*sorry we don't allow haters on here get out*

[@lucaleiva6021]

U hate Halloween? Or what the problem

[@dustyclore7406]

@@lucaleiva6021 not Halloween. Chris cannot hold a tune. The music stinks. Chris has bad taste in music for Halloween. I like his channel, but now I hate his intros

[@dustyclore7406]

@@CaseytheCalifornian The music stinks. What are you..a Karen??