The History Of Chuck E. Cheese’s Photo Ride

This video was a trip down memory lane for me! Had a great time making it, hope you enjoy!
Copyright Chatty Chuck E! 2023.

[@Invader_Cat]

6:12 "I'm Helen Henny, you're an excellent driver" *car crashes*

[@jackykayGaming]

I laughed at that too! :D

[@theworldofcharacters8877]

She lied

[@madden8021]

You killed Helen, YOU MONSTER

[@zoeysavino709]

R.I.P Chuck E. You're a terrible driver

[@Santos_Vader_51]

Oh My God, You Killed Helen! You Bastard!

[@NathanSpies]

This is a cool video! I didn’t know there was so much history to a simple kiddie ride!!!

[@brandonsierra3761]

Can you make the history of the Lynnwood Chuck-E-Cheese video? Please

[@rosedawn602]

Can you make a history of Fayetteville Arkansas please

[@alexsreviews4164]

can you make the history of the Gilroy Chuck E. Cheese video 🐭

[@Mr5lapp]

@@rosedawn602THIS

[@cttrobotics]

Can you do a history of the North Dartmouth, MA Chuck E. Cheese it’s a pretty famous location

[@Coolbradandrew87]

There was another version that didn't have the camera and was just the car itself. There was also a Helen Henny car. (The Chuck E. Cheese's in Honolulu, HI (Dillingham Blvd) has a Helen Henny car.)

[@theofficialalexshow]

there IS a version with helen henny. it's in hawaii

[@thetman0068]

I haven’t set foot in a Chuck E. Cheese since my 8th birthday, but I have fond memories of going! I still have some of my photo ride photos! I can’t believe they got rid of the tokens!! I didn’t know about this until this video but the tokens were such an iconic part of the CEC experience! Nothing like begging your parents to pay for the staff to refill that paper cup of brass coinage. Made you feel like a baller as a kid. Fat stacks of doubloons!

[@thetman0068]

I remember the one at my local Chuck E’s (Clearwater, Florida, at the time) was a 1995 ride with the purple and green Chuck E.

[@TheDottedGlove]

Yea and the animatronics 😢 when I went to a Chuck E. Cheese’s all they had was a little tv playing “we don’t talk about Bruno”

[@ChuckE.CheesesIllinois]

Here's an interesting fact: for a brief time at Northridge they had the Avenger Photo ride but with the updated cameras system. I don't see a lot of people talk about it so idk if it was Northridge exclusive or this happened at other stores too

[@WhoDidWhat17]

it happened at other stores. There must have been a stock of Avenger photo ride statues so they just put those on some of the new photo rides instead of the rockstar statue

[@HicksAnimations]

yea it’s at other locations cause when I was at Chuck E. Cheese’s in Lexington KY (which is a 2.0 store) I saw a avenger photo ride.

[@SlushysSecret]

​@@HicksAnimationsthe thing is, corporate didn't try to erase avenger or cool chuck illustrations from most of their games despite them desperately trying to erase their identity for a while now, youd expect them to at least update their games because of that but I guess not

[@onionmastori]

16:12 Actually, the earliest pictures or media of the Avenger version happen to be from 2011, as I remember seeing a CEC grand opening video from 2011 that had that version of the ride

[@AwesomeDrawer2017]

What location was it

[@SlushysSecret]

Yea what local?

[@HeadsetGuy]

The Helen Henny ride existed, I swear. Why does no one ever talk about that ride?

[@caydencrawford18]

You should make more of these history videos, they’re really interesting.

[@AwesomeStarbust7]

Agreed!

[@Dinkityz]

I miss the tokens, as a kid I would stick my fingers under some of the machines and find many tokens. My dad would cut out Chuck E. Cheese coupons from the Sunday paper, and I would make those tokens go a long way [with the help of looking for tokens as well]. I also miss the mascots who would throw tickets .. or were they tokens? The nostalgia this video brought made feel so happy. Thank you.

[@chattychucke5535]

Happy to hear I brought back some memories! The mascots never threw out tokens, it was typically tickets.

[@jadenmuniz8817]

@@chattychucke5535When the Avenger version debuted, the catchy Photo Ride music was released. Glad they kept it when switching over to the Rockstar version! I can’t get it out of my head now.

[@ELPRIMAL22XDSEGUNDACUENTA]

Hey Im late but, in my country honduras still have old games and the costumes of Chuck e, still throw tickets! Sadly there is no animatronic

[@Xenon_Proto]

Remember when you would put your hand under the token machines and find a ton of really really old tokens that were likely there since the 90s?

[@sen2808]

Munch was actually voiced by Duncan Brennan Doug Teel didn’t start voicing until 1999.

[@Billy_BoB189]

6:13 hi im helen henny and you're a great drive- CRASHHH

[@LishB1011]

My mom took my daughter to Chuck E Cheese back in January, and she got pictures of her on the ride ❤️ so nostalgic!

[@WhoDidWhat17]

My local upgraded to the "newer" Rockstar photo ride (the 2019 version with the color printer and the rockstar voices) a long while ago (i dont know exactly when, but i do have a pictures with it, although i dont fit in the actual car anymore i just stand behind it), my local also upgraded to the rockstar ticket blaster when they remodeled to 2.0 last year. They had the old Rockstar photo ride version from before 2019 I believe if I remember correctly (it's been a long while and I'm young so some things I can't remember all that well). I think it it's funny that the Avenger photo ride released in 2012 yet that was when Rockstar came out (they could have done it years earlier), also i don't think i've ever seen an original photo ride with yellow sweater chuck (i've only seen Avenger and Rockstar photo ride versions, and those are the two Chuck E.'s I've grown up with, mostly Rockstar since he's been around since I was 5)

[@corvigae]

This is a really interesting video, but I have to say I was distracted by seeing that "Kiddie Coaster" ride with Cedar Point themed rides! I had no idea something like that existed until I saw a photo of it, that's pretty cool!

[@Studio18sEntertainment]

I believe that the reason for avenger rides being installed in remodeled stores was the surplus of them in the Topeka distribution center

[@airgroverjuniorcoaster9357]

Oh men I wish I can buy the avenger Chuck photo ride the 2011 kiddie ride, just so I can fit it in my house!

[@loganmiller7827]

I grew up in Topeka and had no idea there was a distribution center there. We didn't have the Avenger ride version that looked like he was pregnant or anything like that. Our "ride" was just a straight up photo booth where you could sit inside and it would take a picture and pretend Chuck E was drawing your picture, and had a pencil sketch filter of sorts on it. The other hosts didn't have any involvement in the photo booth. I don't know how common it was since it wasn't touched on in this video but I don't know, if the Avenger rides were overproduced in Topeka, you'd think that the Topeka location would have one of them. I haven't been to that location in years so I don't know if they still have that photo booth set up or not. I do think they waited a long time to remodel though. Potentially as long in as not remodeling until around 2019-20, so maybe that's why they were never given one

[@gabriel9116j]

​@@loganmiller7827it sounds like a reskinned 'van goh's masterpiece' by ice

[@mangoopangoz]

this is the most obscure kiddie ride to do a deep dive on i love it

[@catholiccontriversy]

Somewhere my mom has all the photos we took, every trip we had to get one and we had the whole family get in the frame to get everyone there for memories.

[@Sonicfanultra266]

Fun fact : c.e.c 79 debut Chuck-E-Cheeses restaurant

[@seancostelloandfriends]

Not only that they made a Chuck E Cheese car ride but they also made a Helen Henny car ride from the 90s

[@CECWashingtonTheCECFan]

Great video! I love this ride.

[@Showbiz_sam]

The amount of black and white photos i have on this thing

[@lordjigglebottoms]

So interesting! I grew up on early 2000’s Chuck-E-Cheese and went to the Paducah Kentucky location multiple times as a kid!

[@Newtho1o3wr]

17:25 as in the photo you can see that there a big chuck e cheese plush on the train ride behind him you can see big Freddy plush behind the big chuck e cheese plush

[@megacashmatt1166]

Cool vid just one thing, if Bob West and Carissa McKinney were the original voices for the ride, they did it during the January ‘94 show tape meaning the voice actor for Munch would actually be Duncan Brannan. It sounds a lot like his version of munch too. Doug Teal voiced Munch the second tape of the year, when a whole new cast was hired except for Duncan Brannan remaining as Chuck E. Cheese

[@CEC_CherryHill]

I didn’t even know half of these existed!!

[@cec.newmexico9290]

my very favorite ride i used to ride it every time I went to my local cec

[@aceentertaiment-wz8rs]

Another greatly done video I was waiting for this video for a long time thank you man!😀😀

[@toddalexander5517]

Atari ruled the late 70s and early 80s. I got an Atari 2600 for Christmas in around 1982 or so. By modern standards, the graphics were primitive. But it was all we had ever known at the time, and we had the most fun ever.

[@AwesomeStarbust7]

I love this kind of videos! Keep up awesome work, sir! :)

[@rad_rat103]

i love this kind of video, thank you for making this

[@LuLu43215]

“Hi, I’m Helen Henny, you’re an excellent driver! The car noises in the background: car crashes.

[@Zoopop13]

i love that bowling for soup is involved after 2012. i also just found my picture, its from 2003 i was 4 yrs old (my mom dated my pictures bless her), wildly i dont really remember it. i want to go back and get another photo, 20 years later.

[@nakamaswarrior292]

Great job! Really enjoyed the video.

[@DaveysWonderfulWorld]

Exactly what Nathan spies would do Great job Chatty Chuck E 😊😊😊

[@tookeydookey]

Never knew any of this about the photo ride! This was fascinating!😁👌

[@kaitlynhunt6086]

KZbin loves to find me new special interests and now I have a special interest in Chuck E. Cheese 😂 glad to have your account to dive as deep as I can into this

[@cobblewobble]

you just unlocked a core memory omg! i wonder if my parents have any of those old photos hidden somewhere

[@Bowsermmbbreal]

I went on it once. I blinked when the photo was taken

[@CECandCartoonian]

Greato Video! Also i still have my pic of the old Chuck E. Car ride when my location, Blackstone was still in phase 2 i believe. (My other location, Shaw Avenue has the avenger chuck photo ride which is pretty rare nowadays)

[@QuintonRe2s]

This video is great! But I'd suggest not stopping the music every time you fade to black. It gets a little creepy!

[@madnessmariobros5972]

27:30 you forgot to mention that the Guatemala store still has the cool chuck photo ride

[@SonicNoahcool]

I wish the Chuck E Cheese In Lafayette IN location kept their cool Chuck Photo ride

[@tailsfan628]

I think the thing the proto avenger statue was holding was a helmet, and he was wearing a racing uniform.

[@ethanSderrick]

My local used to have the yellow sweater one before replacing it with the rockstar one around 2014/2015.

[@Vvvv86051]

The prototype Avenger ride scares me (my local Hialeah had it till 2021 or 2022 when they got 2.0 with a full rockstar car with voice branding and design)

[@chrisms_96]

Sounds like the original photo ride has two different Chuck voice actors. The opening and closing lines were Duncan, but the voice that plays from the Chuck button sounded like an earlier voice.

[@wintersprite]

Somehow, my brother and I never went on this ride when we were kids. *Adds this ride to list of things she never experienced or had in her childhood that were popular*. A couple of years ago, I did two non-ride Chuck E. Cheese photo ops/booths. They had the color photos.

[@coolkid57456]

The PTT vest was an alternate outfit until 1995, so thats why the ride had his vest in the 1994 version.

[@Bobbleplayz56]

Cool I was excited

[@KingChaos98]

I remember this ride and remember taking several pictures with Chuck E., wished I saved those photos but oh well at least I still have the fond memories.

[@BibleChick-zo1kb]

I love Chuck E. Cheese’s photo ride pictures

[@JJVR7]

The 1995 one is not familiar with me it was always the avenger Chuck one

[@SonicNoahcool]

12:28 I remember that location it’s the Hobart/Merriville but it’s close to Merriville so whatever but I still remember that ride but unfortunately they replaced it :(

[@ashcashgamer5770]

I think we all have photos taken on this iconic car ride along with the black and white filtered pictures, in fact I have photos from the early 2000's of infant me along with the Cool Chuck version of the ride. I actually have a lot of photos taken of me as a baby or child at Chuck E Cheese in my house but this was one of the more memorable attractions there. Maybe you should make more videos about the Chuck E Cheese reskins of existing games and rides and the history of the most nostalgic ones.

[@simonsays365]

prototype avenger ride he is holding a helmet maybee it is to look like it is for the kids ik you said do not comment but i think it may be a possibillity

[@gwenmloveskpopcecmore]

I’ve gone on the yellow sweater one once, avenger 1-2 times, and every other time was rockstar

[@ghostygraveyard6200]

9:21 found a KZbin video touring the location after the 2.0 remodel out of curiosity. It seems that it has been switched to the rockstar version unfortunately

[@transtar_lexington]

The older photo ride printed the pictures on thermal paper, which makes them notorious for fading over time

[@Neku628]

I wish they included more of the other cast in the photo ride besides just their voices.

[@pepsitate8019]

The prototype one where chuck e looks pregnant looks like he's supposed to be in an racecar driver's outfit holding a helmet. That's my guess.

[@wintersprite]

I was guessing it was supposed to be a helmet too.

[@kristinlambert8811]

He could've had a beer belly

[@gwenmloveskpopcecmore]

I know a lot of the cars still used the same avenger audio (With Jeremy Blaido) whether they had avenger or rockstar

[@dingdongfootball5331]

I think I remember my childhood chuck e cheese photo ride as the 1995 version with the purple and green “avengers” paint job, but since the photos were in black and white and this happened decades ago, it’s hard to recall.

[@frodolives6671]

I remember the photo printer printing in individual lines leading to the very grainy and sometimes of set photos of the 2010-2012 photos

[@Thatdudeidk123]

Something i find weird about the rockstar ride is that all avenger renders have rockstar's head on avengers head

[@itsvondell]

Once I noticed the place on most of the classic statues where the edges of the open mouth meet the edges of what looks like it should be a closed mouth seam, it's so hard to ignore. Like he's going :-)D Chilling stuff.

[@gwenmloveskpopcecmore]

I’ve never heard the rock star audio before tbh (only the music though cause avenger used to use it at some point)

[@RuffthedogshowOfficial]

My local has a rockstar statue but has the early 90s audio and my vocal is Hicksville New York

[@LegendarySSJZEKE]

My mom still has my photo ride picture of me when I was four and I remember taking the picture too. I miss those days.

[@TheClassicChuck1]

Give this man a million subcribers

[@cecdenverspersonalaccount5933]

omg it’s my picture of the photo ride manual i feel honored

[@jenniferwebb677]

Interesting, I have a few pics on this ride somewhere ♥️😮

[@superman-eg2jp]

Can You Do History Of Chuck-e-cheese Themed Kiddie Rides?

[@LDTV22OfficialChannel]

I mostly remember riding the Avenger version of this Photo Ride, as well as the classic one.

[@kalelcaraballo80]

Guess what I'm looking at this version of the Kiddiy ride of the Avenger version of chuck e cheese. Then it went to Rockstar at my local chuck e cheese

[@sonichujfs2393]

man when i was a kid i used to go to cec every birthday and i remember taking a picture on the original photo rides what i would give to get a picture taken on one again

[@YakkoWarnerTower]

Man I remember seeing that kiddie photo ride I was a kid at Chuck E Cheese I rode on that with my bro and sister. ❤

[@Neku628]

I thought Chuck E. was holding his helmet.

[@carlomalijan8001]

I still remember when Fairfield CA had theirs, until theirs stopped taking photos, and the fact that the lights were stuck on.

[@Cecnorthernohio]

I think the munch on the original photo ride was duncan but idk

[@ryanwhittier7314]

I still have my CEC photo from 2004, though it’s not from the photo ride as the Chuck statue isn’t there and the border is different. It’s the one where the photo looks like a black and white sketch. For the longest time, i thought that photo was from this very ride.

[@AwesomeDrawer2017]

I grew up before the avenger photo ride was replaced, it is 10x better then the rockstar one

[@pizzatimemedia]

Facts

[@zoeysavino709]

I agree too

[@enellentetv5866]

bro the car just crashed in the audio💀💀

[@hayleywaalen2612]

I noticed that one of the Chuck E Cheese statues had cat eyes.

[@someguest426]

there was another photo ride that existed, the creepy bus ride, i found 1 pic of it selling on ebay

[@sethboothproductions2635]

I ride the photo ride a few times before

[@PizzaTimesBrasil_official]

Helen chuck e. cheese OR BUST ride exists and also a Jasper airplane ride.

[@Claudiafavela5077]

5:30 Nice!

[@Sakachi18]

Sadly my childhood location didn't have one of these until I was too big to fit in it. So I never got to get a picture with any of the good ones, and I don't want to get one with that cringey Rockstar Chuck one.

[@kristinlambert8811]

I've heard there used to be a Chuck e cheese pizza in Lawton next to k Mart

[@kendrickscollection]

You know, some of the avenger audio photo cars plays that annoying siren sound when it’s not in action. When I was little, photo car at my Chuck E. Cheese’s in Louisiana at Baton Rouge had a rockstar looking Chuck,but had the avenger audio & when it wasn’t in action, it played the siren sound that used to scare me only when I was small, but it doesn’t scare me when it became the year when CEC gave away tokens and used them as credit cards because when it did that, it had the same things but didn’t have that siren sound anymore. Then in 2020-now, it looks the same but has the new rockstar audio. It just mixed up.

[@zeroh2hero]

Dude I still have the photo of when I was a kid lol

[@lexiyah643]

I forgot this OMG I remember this now bro at Chuck E Cheese lol 😂

[@STRIVEEEEE]

Cec so cool😊

[@Razer3073]

Most of the dialogue of the longtime actors is reused such as helllen and Chuck e va

[@CubeAtlantic]

i haven't seen this Chuck E Cheese thing in probably yrs i had a photo of me being on this as a kid :D

[@toddalexander5517]

I vote Chatty Chucky E for CEO!!!

[@Cec23565]

17:17 how do you spell the 2012 photo ride creator company name and you better reply

[@epicboyo4883]

I remember Midlothian having the 90s version until 2015 iirc. But what about the Helen variant of the ride? I’ve seen photos of that one but rarely any videos of it.

[@chattychucke5535]

That wasn’t a photo ride, it was just the car ride.

[@yungtrunks1194]

I have a picture of me in that ride in like 2007

[@bubbleserotica]

aw. ❤ fond memories. i dont get the same feeling from the new versions of the characters.