I never knew that Chuck E Cheese’s backstory was that he was an orphan and wanted to celebrate everyone’s birthday to make up for all of the birthdays he missed. That’s actually kinda sad lol
"(...)my favorite animatronic is The King. He’s nine feet tall. He is 700 entire pounds. He is a BIG BOY." Could we say he is dummie thicc? haha get it...?
KaijuFan 202 hatsuné miku is actually a vocaloid, which is essentially a humanoid character with no distinct personality and what’s known as a “voice box,” meant to be used for making music and singing songs from those who aren’t vocally talented or as confident as our blue-haired cutie. though her style resembles japanese anime, she’s not that at all :) i give you credit for trying though !
it really upsets me greatly that animatronics are being phased out, its a huge interest of mine and seeing them just be left in the dirt makes me very sad :( i remember being a small child and wanting to hug the chuck e robot so much and wanting to learn so much more about robots! i wish people would see how interesting robots really are and would improve upon them rather than just leave them behind for quicker options of entertainment
@@noahmarshall2380 i was more talking about inexpensive trips like restaurants since i cant really afford to go to disney attractions often but i still enjoy those and am glad to see them!! i just wished they were more mainstream and available to see, its still understandable why theyre only seen at expensive attractions since they do cost a lot to operate
r/whoosh me all you want but Scott said that he has no experience on handling restaurants so even if multiple people fund the project, Scott won't accept any money in creating a real Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria I'm still not sure about my comment though so someone please fact check.
Also, I don't know if you had this experience but a lot of little kids at CEC, especially in the 90's, started talking FNAF before FNAF was even a thing. We used to all tell each other about how the animatronics could get up off the stage and walk around freely and that they could use this ability to do bad things to a kid. In my own experience, our CEC location had a stage door located right behind the show stage that led out into the arcade and I was in the arcade once, minding my own business, when I turned around and saw Jasper trying to hug me and I ran screaming like "NOPE". I thought he had gotten up off the stage to come hurt me. I loved him in the show but I was also terrified of him. Who wants to bet Scott Cawthon had a similar experience and wanted to make it a video game?
I know many people say the animatronics are "creepy", but i find them fascinating. When I was little, the animatronics were mostly the main reason I went there, along with that i thought the inside of the place looked cool..
It is an interesting concept. The idea that you'd want to zone out live artists for artists who build potentially mass produced, tireless entertainment machines. And we are in pursuit of that, still. Through video games and AI through them to create endless entertainment avenues, and obviously the artists who create such things. Until we create the creators and. AI to make games, then AI to play them. What place do humans have then?
Incredible video, as a complete animatronic fan/nerd it really saddens me that they are becoming a dying art form and that only really Disney uses them any more. I do love five nights at freddy's but I don't like that now many people only see animatronics as a thing of horror and not the sparkling wonder of entertainment...
Well while Five Nights at Freddys is nearly nothing but animatronics, Scott Cawthon never got the idea from any animatronic business whatsoever, he got the idea from an earlier game he had created, Chipper and Sons Lumber Co. where people stated that the characters movements were like animatronics. So yes the game is based around animatronics, but nothing in relations to other franchises that had animatronics. But yes I will say because of the games some people may see animatronics as scary and not amazing. A quick edit: This was not to argue against you or anything, just giving the backstory of Five Nights at Freddys. I still see animatronics as wonderful things too, but Chuck E Cheese and such wasn’t the inspiration for FNAF.
I REMEMBER TOUCHING CHUCKEES HAND, THE ANIMATRONIC ONE XD CANT BELIEVE I WAS ALLOWED TO DO THAT. I LOVEED WHEN THEY THREW THE TICKETS IN THE AIR AND YOU WOULD GRAB AS MANY AS YOU COULD JUST TO GET A PRIZE LOL.
It’s honestly sad to see that animatronics have a reputation like this. Not a lot of people understand how unique they are. As a person who’s building (now currently restoring) an animatronic, it’s shocking to hear that people still believe that these treasures are possessed. As a CEC, SPP, and a HUGE Disney fan, it’s depressing to see how people only know these guys as creepy. It’s pretty interesting to learn about it.
I haven't been in a CEC restourant before or Showbiz but i can see how they're unique and extraordinary Someday i want to eat pizza while charles ent. Cheese is performing
I am old enough to remember all of this when it was going on. At one point, the animatronics could be live controlled from a booth as well as spoken through. I had an "argument" with one of them on my birthday. It was more like we were taunting each other and there was no one else there because they were about to close. I remember it vividly. Later I met someone who had been one of the operators and said that concept was quickly phased out becasue... well... Also, after Rainforest was a thing, the Jeckyl and Hyde Club/ Eerie world Cafe opened up in a few locations which was closer to Chuck E. Cheese and Showbiz but mixed with Rainforest Cafe using the animatronics as atmosphere and decor. Animatronics have seen a small resurgence in the Escape Room community because the technology is well within the grasp of the consumer now and easier to do and cheaper. (I myself have made some for some rooms) All that said, thanks for doing videos like these. I found you from your Garfield phone video (which I used to have because... I'm old enough to have had it).
I love this!! Animatronics are one of my fav things and I'd love to get into collecting and refurbishing them if it wasnt so expensive and it didnt freak people out so much,, it's a shame they're becoming obsolete bc theres a weird charm inherent to them Edit: also I bet this channel is gonna take off ur content is SO good
I'm still getting used to the cyberamics at my local Chuck E. Cheese's but I will never forget the Studio C/Star/Circles Of Light 32-movement bot at the Grand Rapids, Michigan location
Same, though given the fact I literally tried to steal Chuck E. Cheese as a child [and obviously failed] I didn't much care whether they freaked other people out.
Ignoring FNAF and all of the attention it brought, animatronics absolutely fascinate me and have for quite some time. They're such a sacred view into a period of time I wasn't alive to experience but wish I could have. Seeing the tapes, I project into that room and try to imagine what it must have been like to see those bands up close, and it's an entirely different experience. I wish I could go back in time and book a show, just to be there and see what it was like; to feel the energy of the room, and to really enjoy it at its peak. They're bizarre, somewhat horrifying pieces of metal with that staple mid-to-late 1900's facial style, and its that surreal combination that really makes me wonder what it must have been like to see them from the eyes of a child.
Five Nights at Freddy’s made me try to steer clear of animatronics. This has applied to thousands if not millions of people, which reduced the amount of children who wanted to go to places with animatronics. This realization has led to me believing that Scott Cawthon, the creator of the franchise, indirectly closed a multi-billion dollar company. Well played, Scott.
I don't really agree with you I wasn't that intrested in animatronics until I started learing about fnaf so I think it was that covid made the restaurants go bankrupt and they had to close down
I have a pretty good feeling that after Chuck E Cheese gets rid of the animatronics the walk around characters will be the next to go Mainly because let’s face it people (mainly kids) are so unnerved by a robot what makes a guy in a suit any better Do I support this well no I’d love to dance in a costume like that and entertain people But CEC is gonna have to do this in order to keep its core audience happy at some point in the future It’s either that or go bust so it’s probably a pick your poison situation for CEC
I had this discussion with my friends but instead it went like this Friend 2: I'd see Randy (Me) getting a job as a walk around character at Chuck E. Cheese Friend 1: Bro you're 6'7" that'd be a terrifying Chuck E. Cheese. Me: I wouldn't even fit in the costume. Friend 2: They could probably get it custom made tbh. Friend 1: Bro if you get a job as a walk around character at Chuck E. Cheese, I should come over one day and we should do a wrestling match in the ball pit. Me: ... I legit wanna get a job at Chuck E. Cheese now, that'd be dope as hell.
I have vague, hazy memories being in a Chuck E Cheese from over a decade ago -- I remember that band there and how I refused to go anywhere near the stage. I think I was about 8 or 9 at the time. I remember other kids actually hopping up onstage or at least trying to. It was chaotic, and I remember my family leaving in a hurry, but I can't remember why. I forgot all about that until FNAF came out. I think that location is still open, and I wonder if they still have the band to this day sometimes... ;-;
I have a similar memory! The one and only time I went to a Chuck E Cheese I was around that same age and I was scared out of my mind. I remember a bunch of boys daring each other to touch one of the animatronic's feet, but I genuinely refused to even LOOK at that stage. I was terrified of Chuck E Cheese before it was cool!
that backstory was made for the rockstar era of chuck e cheese. during their 30th anniversary, (back when avenger chuck still roamed stores) it was said in the song he had a family and wasn't an orphan. So this makes rockstar and avenger 2 separate entities.
When you started talking about the Disney animatronic history I was ready to roll my eyes because most videos info on that subject is usually inaccurate, but you did an awesome job. Great video!
Here on Peru there are two restaurants similar to Rainforest Cafe: Kilimanjaro and Dino Rex Restaurant, the latter one having dinosaur animatronics instead of rainforest animal ones and located on the Huachipa Zoo.
Im looking for information on the swamp themed, Pizza place and video game arcade that starred a friendly animatronic gator and his band of frogs etc.. It was in phoenix and or Scottsdale AZ..It was the paradise in which i beat dragons lair and Tron. I wish i knew the name and more about it. I'm hoping that animatronic fans will help me figure it out :)🐸 LOVE
Chuck E. Cheese needs to stop complaining about business and what customers really want. Just bring back Crusty and then everyone comes to spend money hooray
@@whistlepunkz lol yep. Here’s what they *should* do. Bring back Crusty and add Madam Munch as a new character. Why is a chef playing the drums?? He should play the saxophone and wear sunglasses. Crusty should play the drums and Helen should have a tambourine. Madam Munch can have a violin or something. Give Chuck E. his New Jersey accent and red and yellow clothes with the bow tie and bowler hat back. Stop trying to turn Helen into a gamer girl she should wear a dress or something like that again. Jasper and Mr. Munch are unchanged other than Jasper’s clothes being better looking. The stage itself would essentially be a wall with 7 windows, 4 on the top 3 on the bottom with each having a wooden looking background and the name of each character underneath it. Each backdrop could have some sort of word to represent the character. (Ex: Munch’s Make Believe Band sign, a neon sign reading Chuck E. Cheese for Mr. Munch and Chuck respectively.) All characters would have greatly advanced mobility, however all would be rid of anything below their waist. That is my proposal, apologies to anyone who read it.
The location of the Showbiz Pizza in my town has been a Chinese buffet for decades now. But I'm always charmed by the fact that they have kept the marquee sign intact. It now says "Paradise Buffet" but the shape is instantly recognizable as the Showbiz Pizza logo. I had no idea Nolan Bushnell started Chuck E. Cheese. Cool!
1:10 I'm glad that you added FNAF in the beginning of the video it makes me feel happy and comfortable. 9:29 This reminds me of VHS tapes that I've seen in animatronic related videos.
My location only has chuck e cheese, he used to not move until recently when they started using him again. But mostly it was TVs that they used for the shows
Chuck E. Cheese ceos say that kids stopped looking at the animatronics years ago, but when the puppet shows on the huge TVs right next to the animatronics are given 11 times more effort than the animatronics where now they just move their mouths and eyes to the videos, then whose fault do you think it is that kids don’t look at them? IT’S YOURS, CHUCK E. CHEESE CEOS!! AND THEY START TAKING AWAY MOST OF THE ANIMATRONICS AT A LOT OF LOCATIONS WHERE THE TVS ARE EVEN BIGGER!!! #BringBackCrustyTheCatHeWasAlwaysTheBestCharacterNoOneCanProveMeWrong
how is this on less than 1k views? love this retro Americana vibe, so fascinating to me as a 90s kid from Australia that's only heard about it secondhand. Slick production and pro quality as well. Super into it.
Aaron Fechter is one of the nicest people on earth. He invented the pool shark too. If you absolutely love Rockafire, he will give you a tour of the animatronics factory. You can tell which animatronics he made by the quality of the chuck e cheese animatronics. His animatronics were (and still are) amazing.
Seeing as FNaF has brought animatronics back into the minds of people (And introducing them to kids), I wouldn’t be surprised if the ceo of CEC is considering bringing them back.
im so glad I found your channel!! the presentation of your videos is incredible and the topics you’ve covered are right up my alley, hope you know you’re doing an amazing job! :D
You did a wonderful job on the video! It deserves so many more views. It’s a shame that animatronics are being pushed out of entertainment. They are a very fascinating and significant part of historic technology.
Great video! And yes I also heard there are some..issues with fnaf making animatronics scary and it affects the restaurant with animatronics, though, because of fnaf, I get to know there is a thing called animatronic, and because of this game, I really wanna go to chuck e cheese or any other pizza place when I can. Because in my country, there is little to no animatronics at all and...I've never heard about pizza/arcade place until...fnaf came out. It felt so new and interesting, I was like "wait....so it's'..restaurant but also arcade place? and there's this..huge doll? thingy on the stage? singing? what is this?" And as a person who loves puppets and dolls in general, though animatronics are robots, the way they look feels like a doll/puppet, so I eventually got interested in with these animatronics So for me, fnaf was...kinda informative in a way
The last time I went to chuck e cheese (which was probably over 10 years ago now) they had the full band. Its pretty cool to think it was probably a showbiz pizza at some point! I highly doubt they still have the animatronics there, but it would be really cool to see if they still did
Great job on these videos. Showbiz Pizza Place was the absolute best. I remember my 7th or 8th birthday there and I had me and all my friends try to beat the arm wrestler 1:40 on hard.
For me the animatronic restaurant of my childhood was Showbiz Pizza Place and The Rock-afire Explosion band. Even had one of my earlier birthdays there. Wish I could find my old photos of it. I was a preteen when the location I went to was turned into a Chuck E. Cheese. Unlike what I've read from others, I was never scared of the animatronics. Probably due to a childhood fascination with electronic toys (Alphie 2, Simon, robots) plus outings to Showbiz Pizza Place followed later by going to Walt Disney World often since a young age. I've always loved animatronics, computers and technology.
I remember having a strange fascination with animatronics when I was younger. I did become less obsessed over time, however these animated machines still interest me. Your video was really well made too! Keep up the good work.
Technically, animatronics are still a thing( albeit a little less advanced). If you own a furby, a toy that moves around, or if you have ever bought a decoration from home depot( my mom bought oogie boogie when he first came out and we r getting the 13ft Jack Skellington animatronic in the mail from the home depot) u own an animatronic! While those things are less advanced, they are still animatronics and they can still move around or speak or do both. I have even seen some videos of people taking the toys and decorations they own and programming them to add more features( like more movements or more speaking lines).
Even before five nights at freddys, I remember being terrified of the animatronics and people in the suits at Chuck E. Cheese. I still had my birthday parties there but I would hide under the table at my party when it was time to hug Chuck E. Cheese
i just watched your woodsy owl video and it was really cool! i’m glad that you made a video about animatronics, i’ve had a fascination with these things since five nights at freddy’s helped me get over my fear of chuck e cheese animatronics. i certainly hope we get some kind of animatronic restaurant revival someday...
I wish Animatronic Restaurants had become a popular thing in the UK. Like, I know there was like 1 or 2 Attempts using old re-modelled animatronics from America, but they failed. I wish we had our own original locations.
Animatronics still flow through our memories. Spreading joy and fun throughout the people of the world.Proof? 1-Chuck E Cheese was one of our childhood heroes that spread delight in our hearts. 2-FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S SCARED THE HECK OUT OF US AND THAT'S WHY I LOVE ANIMATRONICS!!!
Great video I will always love the animatronics I wish one more time somebody would take a whack at it I think animatronics could be big again if they had the right technology I think cec should keep the lighting part of the show it looks great I honestly question why they think a dance floor is a good idea it doesn't really create all that much entertainment definitely not as much as a big light show like they had from 2012 to 2015 but oh well I think the company should really go back to the drawing board with their current entertainment options because 6 tvs above a cheap dancefloor that ain't working half the time sucks
I've been watching animatronic videos for years now and I'd never heard of the rainforest or rocky and bullwinkle restaurants before. Cool! I wish there were more videos about animatronics outside of disney parks.
Idk about what you said about the animatronics not being popular at the beginning of the video. I used to go to Chuck E. Cheese and I remember every time I went there was a crowd of kids around the stage every time there was a show.
In my chuck e cheeses restaurant, they got rid of ALL of the animatronics before COVID. Chuck e cheeses is empty and sad nowadays. The only entertainment we have there are games and the depressed actor in a big chuck e cheese suit. Last time I went, the actor was barely interacting with the kids and was almost...motionless.
There one thing that will never die. And you know what they’re are. Animatronics will never die even if thing like miku or the new Chuck E. Cheese dance floor there will be all way be animatronics. Old or new we should thank Walt Disney and Scott and the maker of Atari that we have animatronics Nathan belvins
I remember going to see Mr. Munches band and I loved it but when I came back I was sad the they toke them away from the stage and used a wall to cover them I was so sad :(
Im a big FNaF fan, and last october i went to Chuck E Cheese, but when i got really close to the animatronics i got flash backs from the bit of 87 from FNaF, where an animatronic bites on a kid's head, and that was enough chuck e cheese for me.
Chuck E. Cheese’s fans and Showbiz Pizza Place fans must put aside our differences to defeat the real enemy: Five Nights at Freddy’s fans. Obviously I mean this as a joke lol, especially since I used to be a FNAF fan myself (I’m not anymore though, however I am a CEC fan because of the childhood memories and nostalgia that I associate with them), but I do think that FNAF has unfortunately contributed to the downfall of animatronics since the games and characters make many people, especially young children, more afraid of animatronics than they were before. But even before FNAF, animatronics were slowly losing interest anyways (especially outside of amusement parks like Disney World and Disneyland, since animatronics outside of the Disney Parks tend to be much more dated and “creepy” in appearance), and honestly CEC’s 2.0 concept was basically inevitable. On a slightly unrelated side note, I would absolutely love to see the Enchanted Tiki Room at one of the Disney Parks. It looks like such a cute and lovely little show!!
Great video Snellby. I'm more of Showbiz fan, but I'm happy to see animatronics too in Chuck E Cheese. It's part of pop culture that shouldn't die out.
Man... I remember my older cousins stepped on the stage with the animatronics and we all laughed... Then when I found out about the lore of fnaf I literally was so scared 😂
JUST A DISCLAIMER: I am not hating on Fnaf I fact it is my favorite game! This is just what I think... I think that kids seeing the animatronics from fnaf especially the fnaf 4 ones have scared kids of any animatronics, and that could be why kids don’t enjoy the animatronics and are why many animatronic restraunts are dying!
Just because they aren’t supposed to doesn’t mean they don’t. FNAF definitely isn’t as big as it was when it first released, but the amount of views on the big gaming channels shows that it’s influence is wide spread. I was only in Junior High when it came out, but kids in my class and on the High School campus would play it constantly, and in the elementary classroom I was a student worker for it wasn’t much better lol.
I mean, I found animatronics to be creepy way before FNaF came out, and I know a lot of others did as well, which is probably why FNaF worked so well as a horror game
So, if what you say is true, the Chuck E Cheese 10 minutes away (by car) from my house was a Showbiz Pizza at one point. From what I last knew, it still has the original band on stage. At least, it did when I was a kid and from when I visited for my niece's birthday party a couple years ago (around mid 2018)
I never knew that Chuck E Cheese’s backstory was that he was an orphan and wanted to celebrate everyone’s birthday to make up for all of the birthdays he missed. That’s actually kinda sad lol
And she said he smoked....
Dang how is chucky cheeses a kids place?
Claudia Fritz Back then smoking was seen as normal. Nowadays, it’s bad.
Bro I legit had a birthday party there and no one showed up
@@Clauver200 Maybe he smoked to try and get rid of the stress of his sad backstory
"(...)my favorite animatronic is The King. He’s nine feet tall. He is 700 entire pounds. He is a BIG BOY." Could we say he is dummie thicc? haha get it...?
why did i got
I like the rockafire explotion, and the Chuck E. Cheese band
If you like the king go check out this channel called THE KING he’s a guy that has I think four king animatronics
check out THE KING’s channel, it’s so entertaining
WHAT ABOUT THE FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDDYS ANIMATRONICS
Well, seeing those unification tapes. Now I see where the fnaf community got their lost tape inspiration
*Squimpus McGrimpus*
Lol i just realized this XD that's pretty cool!
Lol
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Thats scary accurate to his tapes wow!
i wasn't expecting hatsune miku in this video but she was a great surprise
@KaijuFan 202
Hatsune Miku is not from an anime...
@KaijuFan 202 hatsune miku is vocaloid not an anime
@Android's Let's plays close enough lol
KaijuFan 202 hatsuné miku is actually a vocaloid, which is essentially a humanoid character with no distinct personality and what’s known as a “voice box,” meant to be used for making music and singing songs from those who aren’t vocally talented or as confident as our blue-haired cutie. though her style resembles japanese anime, she’s not that at all :) i give you credit for trying though !
@KaijuFan 202 oh buddy, you don't know what yah just triggered lol
*Everybody gangsta until an older brother and his friends put his little brother into an animatronics mouth-*
MISTAAA!!!
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AN THATS JUST A THEORY, A GAME THEORY, THANKS FOR WATCHING
Start running
Grab the boys leg
*AND YANK HIM OUT BEFORE THE OTHERS COME TO LIFE*
"Do get a bit quirky at night..."
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Five nights at Chuck E. Cheese
@@theindigoshow167 lol
@@anthonybob8453 Overrated*
yeah just a bit... not like they will stuff you in a suit or anything
it really upsets me greatly that animatronics are being phased out, its a huge interest of mine and seeing them just be left in the dirt makes me very sad :( i remember being a small child and wanting to hug the chuck e robot so much and wanting to learn so much more about robots! i wish people would see how interesting robots really are and would improve upon them rather than just leave them behind for quicker options of entertainment
Disney is still using animatronics for their theme parks
@@noahmarshall2380 i was more talking about inexpensive trips like restaurants since i cant really afford to go to disney attractions often but i still enjoy those and am glad to see them!! i just wished they were more mainstream and available to see, its still understandable why theyre only seen at expensive attractions since they do cost a lot to operate
Maybe it's for the best, those things are creepy.
@@theguywhoasked1453 to each their own!
@@jr1zg7kt3g huh?
Some ceo somewhere: Animatronics are going out of fashion
Scott: Hold my beer
2022: Freddy Fazbear's Pizza opens in response to Chucky Cheese closing all locations.
Omg lmao
r/whoosh me all you want but Scott said that he has no experience on handling restaurants so even if multiple people fund the project, Scott won't accept any money in creating a real Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria
I'm still not sure about my comment though so someone please fact check.
@@theanimalsimulatorbyragnar4391 I'm afraid it's already happening !
@@Cinderblock-c7l Mr Cawthon said if anyone's willing to show him the ropes This could be a smash hit
@@fazbearandfriendsentertain1439 It's not LMFAOOOO. Scott himself said it. Horror game restaurant won't replace a whole ass pizza chain.
Also, I don't know if you had this experience but a lot of little kids at CEC, especially in the 90's, started talking FNAF before FNAF was even a thing. We used to all tell each other about how the animatronics could get up off the stage and walk around freely and that they could use this ability to do bad things to a kid. In my own experience, our CEC location had a stage door located right behind the show stage that led out into the arcade and I was in the arcade once, minding my own business, when I turned around and saw Jasper trying to hug me and I ran screaming like "NOPE". I thought he had gotten up off the stage to come hurt me. I loved him in the show but I was also terrified of him. Who wants to bet Scott Cawthon had a similar experience and wanted to make it a video game?
Scott made the game because a review for one of his older games stated that "The characters look like creepy robots". (I think). :/
@@Hello________________ You must be from mars because i don't remember a single person on this planet who asked
@@plant5875 Somebody piss in your cereal?
I don't remember writing that
@@plant5875 ok
I only hope this channel takes off enough for you to get sponsors to pay for that Woodsy. I BELIEVE IN YOU
I like how the 4th and 5th top comments have a stardust crusader as their pfp
I know many people say the animatronics are "creepy", but i find them fascinating. When I was little, the animatronics were mostly the main reason I went there, along with that i thought the inside of the place looked cool..
It is an interesting concept. The idea that you'd want to zone out live artists for artists who build potentially mass produced, tireless entertainment machines. And we are in pursuit of that, still. Through video games and AI through them to create endless entertainment avenues, and obviously the artists who create such things. Until we create the creators and. AI to make games, then AI to play them. What place do humans have then?
Ever since I became a fnaf fan animatronics always have interest me
Like the robotics and history of them
Incredible video, as a complete animatronic fan/nerd it really saddens me that they are becoming a dying art form and that only really Disney uses them any more. I do love five nights at freddy's but I don't like that now many people only see animatronics as a thing of horror and not the sparkling wonder of entertainment...
Well while Five Nights at Freddys is nearly nothing but animatronics, Scott Cawthon never got the idea from any animatronic business whatsoever, he got the idea from an earlier game he had created, Chipper and Sons Lumber Co. where people stated that the characters movements were like animatronics. So yes the game is based around animatronics, but nothing in relations to other franchises that had animatronics. But yes I will say because of the games some people may see animatronics as scary and not amazing. A quick edit: This was not to argue against you or anything, just giving the backstory of Five Nights at Freddys. I still see animatronics as wonderful things too, but Chuck E Cheese and such wasn’t the inspiration for FNAF.
Agreed.
I really want more animatronic restaurants! It's so sad that no one really cares about them anymore
@@itspumpkin886 Actually Chuck E Cheese and Showbiz Pizza are also the inspiration for FNAF aside from the hater comment from Chip and Sons Lumber Co.
I REMEMBER TOUCHING CHUCKEES HAND, THE ANIMATRONIC ONE XD CANT BELIEVE I WAS ALLOWED TO DO THAT. I LOVEED WHEN THEY THREW THE TICKETS IN THE AIR AND YOU WOULD GRAB AS MANY AS YOU COULD JUST TO GET A PRIZE LOL.
It’s honestly sad to see that animatronics have a reputation like this. Not a lot of people understand how unique they are. As a person who’s building (now currently restoring) an animatronic, it’s shocking to hear that people still believe that these treasures are possessed. As a CEC, SPP, and a HUGE Disney fan, it’s depressing to see how people only know these guys as creepy. It’s pretty interesting to learn about it.
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I was scared of them BEFORE FNaF.
I haven't been in a CEC restourant before or Showbiz but i can see how they're unique and extraordinary
Someday i want to eat pizza while charles ent. Cheese is performing
I think their both and love them for it.
IKR? Like people need to understand reality from fantasy
I am old enough to remember all of this when it was going on. At one point, the animatronics could be live controlled from a booth as well as spoken through. I had an "argument" with one of them on my birthday. It was more like we were taunting each other and there was no one else there because they were about to close. I remember it vividly. Later I met someone who had been one of the operators and said that concept was quickly phased out becasue... well...
Also, after Rainforest was a thing, the Jeckyl and Hyde Club/ Eerie world Cafe opened up in a few locations which was closer to Chuck E. Cheese and Showbiz but mixed with Rainforest Cafe using the animatronics as atmosphere and decor.
Animatronics have seen a small resurgence in the Escape Room community because the technology is well within the grasp of the consumer now and easier to do and cheaper. (I myself have made some for some rooms)
All that said, thanks for doing videos like these. I found you from your Garfield phone video (which I used to have because... I'm old enough to have had it).
Which character did you argue with?
@@GalaxyDogenut Charles Entertainment Cheese himself.
Bizzaro Galore nice.
wait why was the concept phased out though?
Octo Sketches what concept?
I SWEAR THAT TAPE HAD ME ON EDGE THE WHOLE TIME BECAUSE OF THOSE FRICKING FNAF TAPES
Ikr
*squimpus mcgrimpus vibe increases*
Yes
FNAF sucks
@@NaturallyInspire ok we get it.
This is a great video! Very well researched, written, and edited
Everyone gangsta till Mr. Munch bites someone's frontal lobe off
“Yeah. I-It's amazing that the human body can live without the frontal lobe, you know?”
bUt ThAt CaNt HaPpEn
DVDspeler
puts my head in Mr. Munches head
*U Sure Bout Dat?*
Noel Laguna yes
*bite of ‘87 intensifies*
I love this!! Animatronics are one of my fav things and I'd love to get into collecting and refurbishing them if it wasnt so expensive and it didnt freak people out so much,, it's a shame they're becoming obsolete bc theres a weird charm inherent to them
Edit: also I bet this channel is gonna take off ur content is SO good
I'm still getting used to the cyberamics at my local Chuck E. Cheese's but I will never forget the Studio C/Star/Circles Of Light 32-movement bot at the Grand Rapids, Michigan location
Same, though given the fact I literally tried to steal Chuck E. Cheese as a child [and obviously failed] I didn't much care whether they freaked other people out.
Ignoring FNAF and all of the attention it brought, animatronics absolutely fascinate me and have for quite some time. They're such a sacred view into a period of time I wasn't alive to experience but wish I could have. Seeing the tapes, I project into that room and try to imagine what it must have been like to see those bands up close, and it's an entirely different experience. I wish I could go back in time and book a show, just to be there and see what it was like; to feel the energy of the room, and to really enjoy it at its peak. They're bizarre, somewhat horrifying pieces of metal with that staple mid-to-late 1900's facial style, and its that surreal combination that really makes me wonder what it must have been like to see them from the eyes of a child.
Five Nights at Freddy’s made me try to steer clear of animatronics. This has applied to thousands if not millions of people, which reduced the amount of children who wanted to go to places with animatronics. This realization has led to me believing that Scott Cawthon, the creator of the franchise, indirectly closed a multi-billion dollar company.
Well played, Scott.
Thats not to say fnaf has done the opposite for some people. For me fnaf is what made me MORE interested in animatronics
I'm sure steering people away form animatronics was not his intention. He just wanted to make a creepy game which features animatronics.
I don't really agree with you I wasn't that intrested in animatronics until I started learing about fnaf so I think it was that covid made the restaurants go bankrupt and they had to close down
Animatronics were already a dying breed. Their fade into history was inevitable. Scott Cawthon merely sped up the process.
Not really just chuck e cheess failed to modernize and died off. It just doesnt fit in with 21st century culture
Showbiz: *buys Chuck E. Cheese's to get rid of them once and for all*
CEC: UNO reverse card.
I have a pretty good feeling that after Chuck E Cheese gets rid of the animatronics the walk around characters will be the next to go
Mainly because let’s face it people (mainly kids) are so unnerved by a robot what makes a guy in a suit any better
Do I support this well no
I’d love to dance in a costume like that and entertain people
But CEC is gonna have to do this in order to keep its core audience happy at some point in the future
It’s either that or go bust so it’s probably a pick your poison situation for CEC
I had this discussion with my friends but instead it went like this
Friend 2: I'd see Randy (Me) getting a job as a walk around character at Chuck E. Cheese
Friend 1: Bro you're 6'7" that'd be a terrifying Chuck E. Cheese.
Me: I wouldn't even fit in the costume.
Friend 2: They could probably get it custom made tbh.
Friend 1: Bro if you get a job as a walk around character at Chuck E. Cheese, I should come over one day and we should do a wrestling match in the ball pit.
Me: ... I legit wanna get a job at Chuck E. Cheese now, that'd be dope as hell.
@@MrJones52 Chuck e cheese doesn't have ball pits anymore
I have vague, hazy memories being in a Chuck E Cheese from over a decade ago -- I remember that band there and how I refused to go anywhere near the stage. I think I was about 8 or 9 at the time.
I remember other kids actually hopping up onstage or at least trying to. It was chaotic, and I remember my family leaving in a hurry, but I can't remember why. I forgot all about that until FNAF came out. I think that location is still open, and I wonder if they still have the band to this day sometimes... ;-;
I have a similar memory! The one and only time I went to a Chuck E Cheese I was around that same age and I was scared out of my mind. I remember a bunch of boys daring each other to touch one of the animatronic's feet, but I genuinely refused to even LOOK at that stage. I was terrified of Chuck E Cheese before it was cool!
The girl: the band doesn’t catch the children’s attention as it used to
Me: it’s still gets my attention
Chuckie: am I a joke to you?
Thx for the like’s
that backstory was made for the rockstar era of chuck e cheese. during their 30th anniversary, (back when avenger chuck still roamed stores) it was said in the song he had a family and wasn't an orphan. So this makes rockstar and avenger 2 separate entities.
When you started talking about the Disney animatronic history I was ready to roll my eyes because most videos info on that subject is usually inaccurate, but you did an awesome job. Great video!
Here on Peru there are two restaurants similar to Rainforest Cafe: Kilimanjaro and Dino Rex Restaurant, the latter one having dinosaur animatronics instead of rainforest animal ones and located on the Huachipa Zoo.
Saludos desde Perú:v
Also, where are those 2 restaurants you mentioned? I don't think iv ever heard of those places.
@@dapizzaman9914 Kilimanjaro is on Surco district.
I’ll love to visit Peru one day ❤️
Im looking for information on the swamp themed, Pizza place and video game arcade that starred a friendly animatronic gator and his band of frogs etc.. It was in phoenix and or Scottsdale AZ..It was the paradise in which i beat dragons lair and Tron. I wish i knew the name and more about it. I'm hoping that animatronic fans will help me figure it out :)🐸 LOVE
animatronics are a BIG special interest for me and still i didn't know a lot of this stuff. Thank you!!!!! (my favorite is crusty)
omg cute microorganism narancia pfp
@@snubnosedmonke ty!!!!!
Chuck E. Cheese needs to stop complaining about business and what customers really want. Just bring back Crusty and then everyone comes to spend money hooray
@@Toaster003 "oh noooo our animatronic resteraunt is losing business! I know what will fix this! Removing the animatrionics!"
@@whistlepunkz lol yep. Here’s what they *should* do.
Bring back Crusty and add Madam Munch as a new character. Why is a chef playing the drums?? He should play the saxophone and wear sunglasses. Crusty should play the drums and Helen should have a tambourine. Madam Munch can have a violin or something. Give Chuck E. his New Jersey accent and red and yellow clothes with the bow tie and bowler hat back. Stop trying to turn Helen into a gamer girl she should wear a dress or something like that again. Jasper and Mr. Munch are unchanged other than Jasper’s clothes being better looking. The stage itself would essentially be a wall with 7 windows, 4 on the top 3 on the bottom with each having a wooden looking background and the name of each character underneath it. Each backdrop could have some sort of word to represent the character. (Ex: Munch’s Make Believe Band sign, a neon sign reading Chuck E. Cheese for Mr. Munch and Chuck respectively.) All characters would have greatly advanced mobility, however all would be rid of anything below their waist.
That is my proposal, apologies to anyone who read it.
The location of the Showbiz Pizza in my town has been a Chinese buffet for decades now. But I'm always charmed by the fact that they have kept the marquee sign intact. It now says "Paradise Buffet" but the shape is instantly recognizable as the Showbiz Pizza logo.
I had no idea Nolan Bushnell started Chuck E. Cheese. Cool!
1:10 I'm glad that you added FNAF in the beginning of the video it makes me feel happy and comfortable. 9:29 This reminds me of VHS tapes that I've seen in animatronic related videos.
Squimpus mcgrimpus?
Balloon Boy On TH-cam, yes something like that.
My location only has chuck e cheese, he used to not move until recently when they started using him again. But mostly it was TVs that they used for the shows
Chuck E. Cheese ceos say that kids stopped looking at the animatronics years ago, but when the puppet shows on the huge TVs right next to the animatronics are given 11 times more effort than the animatronics where now they just move their mouths and eyes to the videos, then whose fault do you think it is that kids don’t look at them? IT’S YOURS, CHUCK E. CHEESE CEOS!! AND THEY START TAKING AWAY MOST OF THE ANIMATRONICS AT A LOT OF LOCATIONS WHERE THE TVS ARE EVEN BIGGER!!! #BringBackCrustyTheCatHeWasAlwaysTheBestCharacterNoOneCanProveMeWrong
my location used to only have him too but he didn't perform
I have a massive craze for FNaF, I’m thinking of making a pizza Rae with animatronics to, but not exactly the same as them,
Elmer Hernandez Erazo most likely
Of course you wanna make a “pizza Rae” you fucking like gachshit
@@kevintrejo5714 yo tf calm down
@@kevintrejo5714 SHUT UP GACHA HATER, NOT ALL OF US ARE HEATERS
A kids stupid dream
how is this on less than 1k views? love this retro Americana vibe, so fascinating to me as a 90s kid from Australia that's only heard about it secondhand. Slick production and pro quality as well. Super into it.
Your video quality gets better and better! Loved this one
Aaron Fechter is one of the nicest people on earth. He invented the pool shark too. If you absolutely love Rockafire, he will give you a tour of the animatronics factory. You can tell which animatronics he made by the quality of the chuck e cheese animatronics. His animatronics were (and still are) amazing.
When they removed token from Chuck E. Cheese’s I was kind of upset because those tickets were my life.
Something about putting tokens into the arcade machines to play them was special
Seeing as FNaF has brought animatronics back into the minds of people (And introducing them to kids), I wouldn’t be surprised if the ceo of CEC is considering bringing them back.
I hope so
Omg i hope they bring back the animatronics and they're updated with more child friendly looking suits
@@Venom-rr1vg I'm hoping for a suit with springlocks~🎵
@@paprikadevil6405 just stop
@@funkifroggi1727 don't judge
im so glad I found your channel!! the presentation of your videos is incredible and the topics you’ve covered are right up my alley, hope you know you’re doing an amazing job! :D
yeah that's right
I loaf ur profile with the pride flag!
You did a wonderful job on the video! It deserves so many more views. It’s a shame that animatronics are being pushed out of entertainment. They are a very fascinating and significant part of historic technology.
All we need is a guy in a Chuck-E-Cheese suit luring 6 Kids backstage.
Oh no
We all know how that's gonna end up
it already happened search it up but it was 5 kids
@@srdjandakulovic6052 Close enough..Was he wearing Purple or Yellow by chance?
William do be branching out from freddy fazzbear's tho
Everybody gangsta till the tape at 9:28 cuts audio and sound for 15 seconds
Amazing and detailed little piece of history!
Great video!
And yes I also heard there are some..issues with fnaf making animatronics scary and it affects the restaurant with animatronics, though, because of fnaf, I get to know there is a thing called animatronic, and because of this game, I really wanna go to chuck e cheese or any other pizza place when I can.
Because in my country, there is little to no animatronics at all and...I've never heard about pizza/arcade place until...fnaf came out.
It felt so new and interesting, I was like "wait....so it's'..restaurant but also arcade place? and there's this..huge doll? thingy on the stage? singing? what is this?"
And as a person who loves puppets and dolls in general, though animatronics are robots, the way they look feels like a doll/puppet, so I eventually got interested in with these animatronics
So for me, fnaf was...kinda informative in a way
The last time I went to chuck e cheese (which was probably over 10 years ago now) they had the full band. Its pretty cool to think it was probably a showbiz pizza at some point! I highly doubt they still have the animatronics there, but it would be really cool to see if they still did
Great job on these videos. Showbiz Pizza Place was the absolute best. I remember my 7th or 8th birthday there and I had me and all my friends try to beat the arm wrestler 1:40 on hard.
I was surprised at how accurate the information in this video was... most people don’t get it right. Great job.
For me the animatronic restaurant of my childhood was Showbiz Pizza Place and The Rock-afire Explosion band. Even had one of my earlier birthdays there. Wish I could find my old photos of it. I was a preteen when the location I went to was turned into a Chuck E. Cheese. Unlike what I've read from others, I was never scared of the animatronics. Probably due to a childhood fascination with electronic toys (Alphie 2, Simon, robots) plus outings to Showbiz Pizza Place followed later by going to Walt Disney World often since a young age. I've always loved animatronics, computers and technology.
Everyone gangsta until someone makes a Fredbear diner and puts springbonnie and Fredbear on the stage and recreates the bite of 83
Oh god no that wouldn't be good
tbh that would be pretty much impossible considering the kind of force required to crush a human skull
That's what I wanna do when I get older (and enough money).
Everybody gangsta untill william strollin to fredbear's
Yall mentioning the bite of 83 and william but you forgot this implies springlock suits too
I remember having a strange fascination with animatronics when I was younger. I did become less obsessed over time, however these animated machines still interest me. Your video was really well made too! Keep up the good work.
Great content for the amount of subscribers, really. I could see you going far 🙌🤧
Technically, animatronics are still a thing( albeit a little less advanced). If you own a furby, a toy that moves around, or if you have ever bought a decoration from home depot( my mom bought oogie boogie when he first came out and we r getting the 13ft Jack Skellington animatronic in the mail from the home depot) u own an animatronic! While those things are less advanced, they are still animatronics and they can still move around or speak or do both. I have even seen some videos of people taking the toys and decorations they own and programming them to add more features( like more movements or more speaking lines).
My location had the 80s figures and I'm glad bc even though I have a fear of animatronics I enjoy the memories 💫
I'm surprised you don't have like 500k subscribers, this is some quality content
I was in a showbiz pizza multiple times from 2007-2008, i remember the sign and billy bob playing music and stuff, i swear i was in one.
Wait how
kinda sad that animatronics in general are dying. They've existed since 1964 and now people only think "Fnaf" when they see animatronics.
In 1970s,80s and 90s animatronics used for entertainment,now animatronics are for fears and rare
The rocks fire was also in MGMT's "Electric Feel" music video!
I’m a kid and I love the rockafire explosion
Even before five nights at freddys, I remember being terrified of the animatronics and people in the suits at Chuck E. Cheese. I still had my birthday parties there but I would hide under the table at my party when it was time to hug Chuck E. Cheese
I’ve always wondered how animatronic restaurants started really good video💖
soo chuckee=rolfe the wolf helen=mitzi mozarella munch=fatz geronimo jasper=beach bear pasqually=duke larue
9:32
That Remember me the tapes videos of Five nights at Freddy's that's the fans of that game made in TH-cam
Yea the one that Cory X Kenshin reacted?
@@DevourLifteri don't no what youtuber are talking about????
Like ScrimpusMcGrimpus?
i just watched your woodsy owl video and it was really cool! i’m glad that you made a video about animatronics, i’ve had a fascination with these things since five nights at freddy’s helped me get over my fear of chuck e cheese animatronics. i certainly hope we get some kind of animatronic restaurant revival someday...
Thank You for the bittersweet stroll down memory lane.
9:28 Wait! The creppy animatronic check VHS tapes on YT are based on real training videos! Thats so cool :D
The Chuck E. Cheese in Memphis TN still has it's animatronics and show stage.
Yaaassssss
My local CEC might still have those as well. It’s been ages since I’ve been, however.
My dad worked as a dough boy for Showbiz.
He used to work on Billy Bob until they moved him to permanent dough boy.
9:29 this gives me the big ol' hebbie-jeebies
I wish Animatronic Restaurants had become a popular thing in the UK. Like, I know there was like 1 or 2 Attempts using old re-modelled animatronics from America, but they failed. I wish we had our own original locations.
I can't wait to see the day u get that woodsy
Animatronics still flow through our memories. Spreading joy and fun throughout the people of the world.Proof?
1-Chuck E Cheese was one of our childhood heroes that spread delight in our hearts.
2-FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S SCARED THE HECK OUT OF US AND THAT'S WHY I LOVE ANIMATRONICS!!!
Great video I will always love the animatronics I wish one more time somebody would take a whack at it I think animatronics could be big again if they had the right technology I think cec should keep the lighting part of the show it looks great I honestly question why they think a dance floor is a good idea it doesn't really create all that much entertainment definitely not as much as a big light show like they had from 2012 to 2015 but oh well I think the company should really go back to the drawing board with their current entertainment options because 6 tvs above a cheap dancefloor that ain't working half the time sucks
10:16 for some reason that sentence REALLY creeps me out and I have no clue why.
Good luck getting your woodsy 🙏🏻
I think this new CEC action sucks... I want animatronics back in my pizzerias... I grew up with that both at CEC and the Florida parks since 1995...
I was born in 1992 and am 27 now but I don't care. Animatronics are still way more fascinating to me than screens. -_-
True
Yes
I've been watching animatronic videos for years now and I'd never heard of the rainforest or rocky and bullwinkle restaurants before. Cool! I wish there were more videos about animatronics outside of disney parks.
Here's hoping liking and commenting will get you picked up by the algorithm. You make wonderful videos!
Well... since I’m here, I guess it worked!
Congratulations
Idk about what you said about the animatronics not being popular at the beginning of the video. I used to go to Chuck E. Cheese and I remember every time I went there was a crowd of kids around the stage every time there was a show.
Everytime i see this it makes me want more and more to scott collab with a company to make a Freddy's restaurant...
My heart! Ugh I wanna cry this just sent me back
One thing you forgot to mention, Chuck E Cheese filed bankruptcy again during the pandemic, so all the animatronics they have left are not leaving.
In my chuck e cheeses restaurant, they got rid of ALL of the animatronics before COVID. Chuck e cheeses is empty and sad nowadays. The only entertainment we have there are games and the depressed actor in a big chuck e cheese suit. Last time I went, the actor was barely interacting with the kids and was almost...motionless.
Well, Chuck E. Cheese had a good run. Just like Toys R Us, it’s time to move on. But it still saddens me deeply
There one thing that will never die. And you know what they’re are. Animatronics will never die even if thing like miku or the new Chuck E. Cheese dance floor there will be all way be animatronics. Old or new we should thank Walt Disney and Scott and the maker of Atari that we have animatronics
Nathan belvins
If only chuck e cheese weren’t in bad condition. Fnaf ruined it of course.
Good work Snellby! I love the effort you put into this video with the history of my childhood memories! :)
1:22
Thatlegit looks like my math teacher.
Gues your teacher got inti a pizza party before you did
I have never been to a animatronic resteraunt.
we are poor little souls, who've lost al control
Not so poor
I remember going to see Mr. Munches band and I loved it but when I came back I was sad the they toke them away from the stage and used a wall to cover them I was so sad :(
Ok but when you said “The animatronics dont capture kids attention as much as back then” I almost cried and also you sound just like Helen Henny
Im a big FNaF fan, and last october i went to Chuck E Cheese, but when i got really close to the animatronics i got flash backs from the bit of 87 from FNaF, where an animatronic bites on a kid's head, and that was enough chuck e cheese for me.
-_-
You see what fnaf does to you
@@freshcutduckling5840 yep that the worst part of the community
I’m just watching this because I like FNAF
smh
how does this have under 1000 views??? this is such a well put together video!
6:18 love him or hate him, he spitting straight facts
Chuck E. Cheese’s fans and Showbiz Pizza Place fans must put aside our differences to defeat the real enemy: Five Nights at Freddy’s fans. Obviously I mean this as a joke lol, especially since I used to be a FNAF fan myself (I’m not anymore though, however I am a CEC fan because of the childhood memories and nostalgia that I associate with them), but I do think that FNAF has unfortunately contributed to the downfall of animatronics since the games and characters make many people, especially young children, more afraid of animatronics than they were before. But even before FNAF, animatronics were slowly losing interest anyways (especially outside of amusement parks like Disney World and Disneyland, since animatronics outside of the Disney Parks tend to be much more dated and “creepy” in appearance), and honestly CEC’s 2.0 concept was basically inevitable. On a slightly unrelated side note, I would absolutely love to see the Enchanted Tiki Room at one of the Disney Parks. It looks like such a cute and lovely little show!!
I think it's more due to just times changing and all right
I love how they actually mentioned FNAF 😂
Great video Snellby. I'm more of Showbiz fan, but I'm happy to see animatronics too in Chuck E Cheese. It's part of pop culture that shouldn't die out.
Man... I remember my older cousins stepped on the stage with the animatronics and we all laughed... Then when I found out about the lore of fnaf I literally was so scared 😂
This is so sad how animatronics are no longer relevant
JUST A DISCLAIMER: I am not hating on Fnaf I fact it is my favorite game! This is just what I think... I think that kids seeing the animatronics from fnaf especially the fnaf 4 ones have scared kids of any animatronics, and that could be why kids don’t enjoy the animatronics and are why many animatronic restraunts are dying!
Nope, fnaf isnt big enough to destroy restaurants like that and kids arent supposed to be playing fnaf
Just because they aren’t supposed to doesn’t mean they don’t. FNAF definitely isn’t as big as it was when it first released, but the amount of views on the big gaming channels shows that it’s influence is wide spread. I was only in Junior High when it came out, but kids in my class and on the High School campus would play it constantly, and in the elementary classroom I was a student worker for it wasn’t much better lol.
I mean, I found animatronics to be creepy way before FNaF came out, and I know a lot of others did as well, which is probably why FNaF worked so well as a horror game
Nora Yeah, same. I just don’t think it was something I thought about until it came out lol. There’s something that’s uncanny valley about them.
I understand that kids will still play it anyways, i just dont think fnaf could destroy restaurants like that.
So, if what you say is true, the Chuck E Cheese 10 minutes away (by car) from my house was a Showbiz Pizza at one point. From what I last knew, it still has the original band on stage. At least, it did when I was a kid and from when I visited for my niece's birthday party a couple years ago (around mid 2018)