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if you're watching this video right now
you're most likely a fan of chuck e
cheese's a couple months ago we released
a video that counted down 10 extinct
chuck e cheese animatronic characters
well you all really seem to enjoy that
video so today we'll be doing a part two
because there's a bunch more extinct
animatronic characters in the
restaurants if you haven't seen the
first video there's a card in the right
hand side right there or a link in the
description for you to check it out now
just to quickly recap the chucky cheese
restaurants have been around since 1977.
the company filed for bankruptcy in 1984
showbiz pizza place bought pizza time
theater then concept unification
happened by 1992 when all locations were
branded as chuck e cheese's between the
bankruptcy and concept unification and
left behind many animatronic figures in
chuck e cheese history but there's also
some other characters who are around
after concept unification that are also
on their way to extinction so today
we'll be taking a look at extinct chuck
e cheese animatronic characters part two
dolly dimples a little while after the
opening of the first chucky cheese pizza
time theater restaurant in 1977
locations began receiving a piano bar
lounge that was added to a separate area
in the restaurant's dining room the very
first piano bar cabaret act to open at
the restaurants was dolly dimples who
was a singing piano playing blues and
jazz hippopotamus dolly dimples made her
first appearance in 1978 at the second
pizza time theater location in san jose
california now when pizza time theater
began creating the animatronics they
used to use latex and fiberglass to
create the characters faces any
characters created after the second
restaurant in san jose the company began
using a mixture of plywood and foam for
their faces you can see there is a
difference in the appearance of dolly
dimples from this footage here at the
second restaurant and this footage here
from another restaurant later on the
first figure has much rounder features
compared to her second incarnation where
the features were much sharper and
jagged the initial figure looked a lot
more realistic now not only was she able
to move her head hands and arms blink
her eyes and move her mouth but she was
created with an extra chest movement
which allowed it to move up and down
during dolly's existence in the
restaurants only two show tapes were
ever created for her with the first
being in 1978 and then the second in
1982 in 1980 she was removed from some
locations to make way for a new cabaret
figure but she was still able to be
found in certain restaurants until the
mid-1980s
arty antlers
in 1980 pizza time theater thought it
was time to switch up their cabaret act
so the next character to be featured was
artie antlers he was a soulful classic
rock piano playing moose who was
retrofitted from the dolly dimples
animatronic in some of the restaurants
he had all the same movements that dolly
dimples was capable of except for her
chest movements that wasn't enabled in
the programming for artie a shiny blue
tuxedo was a signature look but there's
a few differences between different
models of the animatronic character that
were created when arty was first debuted
his antlers were actually made of wood
but they experienced some issues after
his first year of performing the
character would often stop suddenly and
the pressure of the rough movement
resulted in the wooden antlers breaking
now back in the early 80s a company by
the name of riordanco created a
lightweight polyurethane banjo used for
jasper tea jowls now they actually used
to use a real banjo for jasper but the
weight of it added extra pressure to the
animatronic that caused the figure some
problems so reording co's polyurethane
banjo solved that issue while the
company was called up once again when
artie's antlers began to break so
riordanco created a lightweight
styrofoam antler for the character and
apparently none of these new antlers
ever broke another different seen in
artie's appearance was his nose
originally it used to be black but then
the company removed the nose tip in
favor of more prominent nostrils which
better resemble the moose now arty only
had one show tape created since in 1982
the company decided to give dolly
dimples that second show tape instead of
artie with this decision the company
decided to create yet another character
as an alternate to replace either dolly
or artie
bb bubbles the next cabaret character to
be featured was a pink circus elephant
who sang in a really high pitched voice
she played the piano and sang what pizza
time theater described as a saucy and
sultry selection of songs bb bubbles was
retrofitted from arty antlers or the
dolly dimple animatronics depending on
the location since not all locations
switched from dolly to arty she was
introduced into chuck e cheese pizza
time theater in late 1982 to early 1983
but was extremely rare and only placed
in a handful of restaurants her original
movements were the usual eye mouth and
head movements as well as arm movements
to play the piano there was one other
movement unique to bb bubbles which was
the trunk movement during the
animatronics retrofitting they reused
dolly dimple's chest movement for bb's
trunk which allowed it to move back and
forth bb bubbles was the last cabaret
piano bar player to be installed at the
restaurant before pizza time theater
went bankrupt and was purchased by
showbiz pizza place in 1984 by the time
concept unification came around and was
completed in 1992 all the cabaret acts
officially became extinct
the little shavers in 1981 chuck e
cheese tested out a new concept in
select restaurants which was an ice
cream parlor called the ice cream
emporium it was tested in a few
locations on the cabaret stage side of
the restaurant in 1981 the restaurants
that didn't have a piano bar act had
another cabaret stage act called the
beagles they were a group of animatronic
dogs which we also mentioned in part one
of extinct animatronics well the ice
cream parlor test brought along a set of
very rare characters into the
restaurants called the little shavers
they were retrofitted out of the beagles
animatronics and were a barbershop
quartet made up of four members their
names were actually inspired by pizza
time theater founder nolan bushnell on
the far left we have oh nolan holding
the shaving cup curly sitting in the
chair with a towel draped over his chest
mcnolin holding the broom and dustpan
and lastly nolan at the bottom right now
all the little shaver characters were
able to move their heads bodies and
mouths but the movements were rather
limited they made their first debut at
the carrollwood villages pizza time
theater in tampa florida and were also
placed in the brandon florida and san
antonio texas ice cream emporiums now
there's very little known and documented
about the little shavers and the ice
cream parlor test besides what we just
mentioned so it's probably safe to say
that they didn't last for too long at
the restaurants before they were cut
from the animatronic lineup and became
extinct
the warblettes
now these characters were mentioned in
part one but what wasn't mentioned was
the variation of the warblettes which
looked like a completely different set
of characters so in the war bloods first
debuted they were black singing crows
but later on in their existence there is
a rainbow variation these birds appeared
more as a human animal hybrid character
like the other chuck e cheese characters
at the restaurants their movements were
very basic and would rock back and forth
and move their mouths while providing
the backup vocals for the band during
the late 80s with the construction of
the rocker and sea stages the war bloods
flew the coop and became extinct in the
restaurants today a pair of warblettes
can be found at jungle gyms in
cincinnati ohio
the pizza cam
although not completely extinct pizza
cam is a rare character to be seen in
the restaurants he was able to be found
on the three stages which were
originally the showbiz pizza place
locations that got converted during
concept unification pizza cam appears
beside pasquale using the looney bird
animatronic from the rockifier explosion
band at shoba's pizza place he's a blue
tv camera with a lens for a nose and a
mouth that moves he'd be housed in a
speaker box that was beside pasquale's
drum set and would pop up sometimes
singing background vocals and would also
occasionally introduce segments
now over the years the locations that
had a pizza cam animatronic began
removing the character and the speaker
box from the three stage due to them
being in poor condition apparently the
latex mold for the pizza cam had been
discarded by cec entertainment and was
no longer available to create new molds
so as of today it appears that only
three locations still have a working
original blue pizza cam but you can see
they aren't in the best condition the
locations that appear to have the
working pizza cams are richmond virginia
wilmington north carolina and laurel
maryland a couple other restaurants have
a working pizza cam but a new plastic
black mold has been created for the
character the restaurants that appear to
have the black plastic pizza cam are
huntsville alabama madison tennessee and
roanoke virginia it's only a matter of
time until the pizza cams are fully
removed and become extinct from the
restaurants but considering how many
restaurants still have a pizza cam
versus how many chuck e cheese locations
there are most people will never see
this character when visiting one of the
restaurants so for a lot of people you
can really consider this animatronic
extinct
munch's make-believe band now depending
on the chuck e cheese location you go to
some of the restaurants got an update to
the studio c stage in the 90s which just
had the chuck animatronic so like we
mentioned in the past part 1 video the
other band members have already become
extinct at some locations in august of
2017 cec entertainment announced that
select stores would receive a new test
concept it would remove the animatronic
band members in favor of a large dance
floor and the frequent appearance of
their live costume characters now just
to recap tom loverton ceo of chuck e
cheese's said that the animatronics have
become the sideshow and the kids stopped
looking at the animatronics years and
years ago but do you guys think that
that's true now this overhaul has
already been carried out at the san
antonio texas location and is set to
take effect at six more of the
restaurants in the chain if these tests
do go well there's a good possibility
that all stores would receive the new
concept it could mean that the chuck e
cheese animatronics will take their
final bow become completely extinct and
go down in the chuck e cheese
animatronic history books
so what's your opinion on this recent
new look of the restaurant and the
possible removal of the chuck e cheese
animatronics in all the restaurants and
if you could bring back or save one
character either from the extinct
animatronics or the current band members
which would it be leave a comment down
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