Man this is my old stomping grounds! I grew up in Irving and I lived near Belt line and Story road. The Irving mall was awesome 20+ years ago. I too am 46 years old and it’s crazy to see how that mall has changed. I used to work at the GameStop across the street from the mall too. Also Arlington was another place I frequently visited because my best bud lived there. He lived near the Forum mall and we’d walk there all the time. Thanks for the nostalgia! I do miss those good old Irving days
I have lost two of the malls I visited as a youngster. Both in Arlington, TX. I visited both frequently to go to the movies and worked in a restraunt. The Forum Mall and Six Flags Mall. They have both been demolished and turned into industrial wear houses.
I have never been to a Chuck E Cheese but back in the 80's we had a Bullwinkle's Family Fun Center based on the characters from the Bullwinkle cartoons. They not only had a animatronic show but the show was on a rotating stage with different characters and a water & light show in front of the stage. There are 3 still left according to Wikipedia but I haven't been to any of those, apparently they've been removing the animatronics.
That's cool, but i'll always be a Showbiz Pizza Place kid. I remember the dark arcade and even darker dining area and the animatronics freaked me out. I look back at it now fondly.
You might be slightly younger, but being from Irving, as great as Chuck E. Cheese was back in the day, I LOVED Crystals Pizza! It had a wonderful 1920s/30s aesthetic. It had great arcades and a cartoon movie theater that look like the movie theater from that time period! You could also go upstairs and watch TV on a big screen TV back when that wasn’t common in households. And when you wanted to get away from it all you could hide behind an aquarium where there was a sophisticated looking library. There was a location in Irving, Fort Worth and I believe there was one across the border in Oklahoma. It was at least great from the late 70s to the mid 90s. Sadly, it got sold off and whoever owned it just ran into the ground.
@@ElectricStarshipArcade yeah it breaks my heart. I don’t even see a lot about it online minus a couple of TH-cam videos from when it closed in 2013. The guy who ran it, just ran it into the ground and never updated it. Not dimension the shopping center went to hell in a handbasket since thenfrom when it opened. But that’s always been a bucket list of mine if I ever came into was to re-create it and reopen it to the public. I didn’t care if it did or not.
Howdy ya'll, As for animatronics or a giant TV screen, without a doubt, or even having to think about it, hands down, Animatronics, I'm very disappointed to see Chucky Cheese, changing the all so popular animatronics, to a boring TV screen.. I haven't been to a Chucky Cheese in years, but always enjoyed going, however my favorite was Bullwinckles, good pizza, great animatronics show, and the arcade Classics were always working, plus I really liked the layout way better than Chucky Cheese, Bullwinckles had many levels, Including the eating area, where you watched the show, every seat in the house, could easily see the stage, without having to look over anyone, ya, I definitely miss Bullwinckles, was very disappointed when they closed it down, Great video as always, Stay safe, God Bless and game on my Friends 🕹
Today, I found out that there's one last Aladdin's Castle location in the world. It's in an Illinois mall if I remember. Edit, I found out that it closed in 2022 probably because the mall it was in was somewhat dead-ish.
Man this is my old stomping grounds! I grew up in Irving and I lived near Belt line and Story road. The Irving mall was awesome 20+ years ago. I too am 46 years old and it’s crazy to see how that mall has changed. I used to work at the GameStop across the street from the mall too. Also Arlington was another place I frequently visited because my best bud lived there. He lived near the Forum mall and we’d walk there all the time. Thanks for the nostalgia! I do miss those good old Irving days
I have lost two of the malls I visited as a youngster. Both in Arlington, TX. I visited both frequently to go to the movies and worked in a restraunt. The Forum Mall and Six Flags Mall. They have both been demolished and turned into industrial wear houses.
@@michaelault3180 I worked at the Tilt (arcade) in Six Flags Mall
I have never been to a Chuck E Cheese but back in the 80's we had a Bullwinkle's Family Fun Center based on the characters from the Bullwinkle cartoons. They not only had a animatronic show but the show was on a rotating stage with different characters and a water & light show in front of the stage. There are 3 still left according to Wikipedia but I haven't been to any of those, apparently they've been removing the animatronics.
That's cool, but i'll always be a Showbiz Pizza Place kid. I remember the dark arcade and even darker dining area and the animatronics freaked me out. I look back at it now fondly.
You might be slightly younger, but being from Irving, as great as Chuck E. Cheese was back in the day, I LOVED Crystals Pizza! It had a wonderful 1920s/30s aesthetic. It had great arcades and a cartoon movie theater that look like the movie theater from that time period! You could also go upstairs and watch TV on a big screen TV back when that wasn’t common in households. And when you wanted to get away from it all you could hide behind an aquarium where there was a sophisticated looking library. There was a location in Irving, Fort Worth and I believe there was one across the border in Oklahoma. It was at least great from the late 70s to the mid 90s. Sadly, it got sold off and whoever owned it just ran into the ground.
@@jeenkzk5919 I loved Crystals Pizza. Ive been wanting to find memorabilia from there but it has kind of faded out of existence.
@@ElectricStarshipArcade yeah it breaks my heart. I don’t even see a lot about it online minus a couple of TH-cam videos from when it closed in 2013. The guy who ran it, just ran it into the ground and never updated it. Not dimension the shopping center went to hell in a handbasket since thenfrom when it opened. But that’s always been a bucket list of mine if I ever came into was to re-create it and reopen it to the public. I didn’t care if it did or not.
@@jeenkzk5919 I took a picture of it after it closed. Everything they tore it down after it sat there for years. It’s a parking lot now.
Howdy ya'll,
As for animatronics or a giant TV screen, without a doubt, or even having to think about it, hands down, Animatronics, I'm very disappointed to see Chucky Cheese, changing the all so popular animatronics, to a boring TV screen.. I haven't been to a Chucky Cheese in years, but always enjoyed going, however my favorite was Bullwinckles, good pizza, great animatronics show, and the arcade Classics were always working, plus I really liked the layout way better than Chucky Cheese, Bullwinckles had many levels, Including the eating area, where you watched the show, every seat in the house, could easily see the stage, without having to look over anyone, ya, I definitely miss Bullwinckles, was very disappointed when they closed it down, Great video as always, Stay safe, God Bless and game on my Friends 🕹
Today, I found out that there's one last Aladdin's Castle location in the world. It's in an Illinois mall if I remember.
Edit, I found out that it closed in 2022 probably because the mall it was in was somewhat dead-ish.
I got my 2012 chuck e plush from matts hometown cec!(corpous)
Was that a Tic 'Shaq' Toe I saw there? 😅
@@jabotheclown617 haha yes
best Chuckie was original, snarky bowler hat chuckle
wow, Mechanical Rat child casino has gone super downhill, they don't even have a mechanical Rat.