I Return To The CEC In Des Moines, IA To See It Remodeled And The Oldest 3 Stage Gone! 

Before I worked at my local, the employees and managers said “The animatronic will be used for parts.” I then saw the dumpster and curiosity took over. I am proud to say that I saved my local Studio C, but it’s ridiculous how we have to lie about where they went. I have had many kids come up to me wondering where the robot went, and I have to say “He’s sleeping.” It’s heartbreaking how they don’t know what actually happened.

Soul-crushing stuff. I don't get what the appeal of this restaurant is supposed to be without the animatronics. Talk about a franchise that has truly lost its way.

My childhood… it’s gone… the robots were my favorite thing about this Chuck E. Cheese 😢

Its sad that all this history is going to be gone soon... Don't know if you heard but the Northridge CEC got its 2.0 remodel earlier this month. They tore out the showroom wall, took out all the unique 80s decor, and of course took out the stage. I agree with your thoughts about what the employees said about the show being destroyed. One by one, these iconic signs of 80s and 90s nostalgia, being destroyed. I'm so glad my local CEC's 3-stage didn't suffer this worse fate.

My heart dropped when I saw that bare character wall, it's a huge bummer...

That’s awful, I was gonna make a trip out to this stage before it was too late. So sad to see another 3-Stage gone, especially considering these were the oldest Rockafire bots still standing at CEC… 😞

Honestly with your statement at the end, I feel like they are embarrassed to say the actual reason why they are gone and where they are now. Because I think that CEC knows that this is a really dumb decision they’ve made. So what I’m thinking is CEC corporate gave all the employees of every CEC to say “they are going to a museum” when someone asks where are the animatronics now. I was told this once and now I completely believe that the museum rumor is 100% false.

So nice waking up to a new video from you! Anyways, sad to see they got rid of their 3-stage

i remember when they changed this location to CEC from showbiz. back then, i wondered what happened to the bear. I sure won't be taking my kids there now that the band is gone but the smell will remain in my memories forever lol. Also miss a place we had called kidzone

If you get the chance to swing by Huntsville, Alabama again, I’d love to see a tour of their remodel! Though it would be quite saddening, there hasn’t been any footage of it yet and the location is very special to me :)

When I used to live in Jacksonville,fl until 2011 before I moved to Orlando and now I live in stuart,fl. Whenever I would take my car at tire kingdom, while I wait for my car to finish, I would walk over to Chuck e cheese to dine in and watch the animatronic shows while I ate my meal and would stay there until they called me letting me know that my car was done.

feels like it had it's 3 stage yesterday

Apparently Rockford’s stage is also being saved in a museum too!

It’s so sad Chuck E. Cheese is taking away history I don’t care how bad they are

I was able to visit the Tallahassee, FL 3-stage at the end of May. I can’t help but wonder if they have remodeled yet. It was so vintage in there, and the showroom was packed with birthday parties. You don’t really see that at the 2.0 locations

Awesome and informative video as always Chris, thanks for the upload 👍

i actually went to this chuck-e-cheese as a kid. i think i was.. 6 or 7. at that point in my life alot was going on, my dad was either just about to be deployed or he was already deployed. i was being mistreated at school and struggling to bond with other kids. in my child brain, i had only one place that was safe, home. until i went to this chuck-e-cheese. i had a blast, but don't remember much of it since i've been through more trauma and aged, but i remember being in awe of the animatronics. i knew they were robots but i was still fascinated by them. i remember sitting at the table, eating my pizza and drinking my drink, and i couldn't take my eyes off them. i never got up close to them though since i was a little wary of them. i also remember standing at the prize counter with my handful of tickets and being a little bummed out i didn't get many. nonetheless, i was still happy because i got a rubber duck and a plastic cup to hold my coins in. i might've got a coin and came home with a few extra tickets too? not sure. i still have the cup, but i sadly don't know where the rubber duck is. it makes me sad just thinking about how the only piece of those memories i have left is a plastic cup. i can understand wanting to swap out the old for something new, but the least they could've done was put the animatronics on sale, or raffle them off, or auction them off and maybe donate the proceeds to charity too. literally anything would've been better than destroying them. shout-out to the people working to revive the animatronics, you are keeping a part of my already very scattered childhood alive. it means a lot to me.

Hi crish this video is so good. Hi crish have a great summer.

When all the Chuck E. Cheese’s robots go away I won’t go ever again

You have the best videos keep it up!

I remember spending hours with the coin operated train set at CEC. They usually had a MTH rail king engine and a car or two with it on a set of O scale 3 rail track. Im sure you know all the rest of the details and have seen them before! Lol

That’s very sad. It had the beta Rock-afire sign.

Hey Chris! You should go to my local Chuck E. Cheese, Roseville, CA! One of my friends work there, and his name is David. You Definitely should talk to him!

I live in billings mt and i'm glad the 3 stage is still here but probably not for much longer

You should go to Roseville or Elk Grove, ca

Hey. I saw a couple comments on RU-vid on Multiple videos saying that at the Northridge, California location that they are going to keep the animatronics even through the remodel. I don't know if they are lying but they are really deep into the remodel and the animatronics are still not taken out. So I have hope that thats actually gonna be true.

I live in Des Moines, Iowa!! 😃

The truly saddening part was seeing the old logo being removed on the wall. Interesting the employees aren't supposed to tell people what happened to the animatronics. They should be embarrassed

I wonder what's going on with the Charlotte, NC location I remember the 3 Stage with Munch Jr, Moon, and Building but I wonder if they still have that location it was very amazing.

Hi i love your vids. I was wondering if you could do another huntsville vid?

This man is hitting 10k so fast i bet he gonna hit 100 k in december or next year

I have an idea you could do for videos since 2.0 is happening you can do a walk through of all the other locations you have been to and do a before and after

You should come back in California murrieta got remodeled finished and you gotta see northridge they’re keeping animatronic on cec 2.0

I’m currently writing a paper letter to CEC Entertainment about the current issues of Chuck E Cheese’s and will send it through the mailbox. I’m writing it on my computer, will print it out. It’s long. But, I hope they’ll know how bad 2.0 has gotten.

Seeing that is so depressing..I'm pretty sure I've seen a 3 Stage once in my life, and what I'll never understand is why get rid of the animatronics? Especially with how popular FNAF has been for almost 10 years now, you would think that somehow they could spruce up the animatronics and make them like new since there's probably new people that are interested in them because of the series. Maybe even use the technology that Disney used for the animatronics in the Rise of Resistance. I want to take my niece to CEC and show her what me, my brother, and my sister got to experience when we were growing up when she's a little older but I guess I can't. It is what it is

But there was one cool 3 stage location I loved but closed the Wilmington NC because they had the real last munch Jr on stage butt I can't wait to go to Pineville.

In the oldest Chuck E. Cheese’s on Chile, we still have the 1 stage since 1994!🐭

Are you by any chance going back to huckleberry junction if so they are getting renovated

Glad you documented the old CC. Shame! At the very least they could have given the robots to the "The King" Channel.

This is insane! Like, would it be SO HARD for CEC, so PAINFUL to KEEP the animatronics in atleast the locations where they were working well? They could call it "Chuck E Cheese Retro" and have specific locations with either the Cyberamics or the CU bots... They wouldn't be the norm, they would be rare and special....Or even better, you could add the dancefloor in FRONT of the stage, so the kids could dance with the band? It looks so lame just having a small dancefloor in the middle of the place... 😳 This is really infuriating because it's not even about money it seems like (they would make a nice buck off the bots). It's more like they're trying to destroy any evidence of their history, their legacy, and at the same time, destroying ShowBiz history too, when it's these type of animatronics... I think one day soon, maybe not immediately, maybe after the FNAF movie comes out, CEC is gunna be really regretting their soulless decisions.... Even if animatronics are a niche market, those who love them should have some places where they can go see them! 😡 Anyway that's my rant LOL. Really can't believe this....Thankyou so much for being the best at covering these locations and going to so many and filling us in on the history. I know it's alot of effort and alot of gas and hotel costs, but it really means alot to us. It's ironic that videos like these are the only way some of us can see these bots....I wish I had the money to travel and see them 😭 I love hearing your opinion pieces and your ideas on how to bring them back, even if it were in temporary ways, just during a travelling fair or something. Would love to see more segments like that 😃👍

I was just there before the remodel. It’s like they’re trying to sell the building.

So sad dude... im really gonna miss these animatronics it just looks ugly now. The stage really brought the place to life

This is real sad because I was one of the first place’s chosen for the dance floor prototype losing my studio c animatronic

Hey while you were visiting this locarion, Did you see a fish store or taco bell because i want to know if its my location or not.

Oof, that's alot of hurts bro... x_x

Have u made a chuck e cheese Toronto video yet?

It's as if corporate wants us to believe CEC's past never existed and they're doing that through a 2.0 remodel Thanos snap.

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BBWL is under new ownership and he is making a lot of improvements

Very few animatronic Chuck E. Cheese are left. Say goodbye, and hello to 2.0

Cool I like chuck e cheese

5:16 my heart fucking broke dude come on

5:16-5:24 Well that hurt…

rip btw does the king respond?

Good Morning And Today Is My Birthday

That is very sad....

I saw Noah’s Ark. Also can be seen at the Tyler, Texas location.

Aw man :(

Not only that they completely ripped off their mechs leaving their legs still bolted to the floor before destroying them

No don't tell me the location gotten 2.0?

The fact that they had the destroyed characters in a few locations (including west Des Moines). were left in the open for people to see them so they knew that they were destroyed, really defeats the purpose of “oh there in a museum” kind of pointless (one example of them being out in the open would be Garden Grove CA,)

Hurts to see it go 💔. Before you know it, it won’t be any Chuck E. Cheese’s left.

What happened it's only been a couple weeks the animatronics are mostly gone my childhood in 2002 and now it's gone I don't really like going to chuxk E cheese any more no animatronics not seeing me in there😭

If I was near one of these remodels you wouldn’t be able to keep me away from those dumpsters. So much history just being trashed like it means nothing. Sad.

Sad.... :(

Why do they destroy the animatronics though? There has to be a reason.

Why do they destroy them? Those animatronics are probably worth thousands of dollars and required a lot of time and effort to build

No. Not this one. Such some good bots.

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I just took my kid and he loved the new Chuck E. Cheese 2.0. The animatronic scared him but the live Chuck E does not. That you CNC for getting rid of those talking garbage cans.

😭😭😭😭😭CHUCK E. NOOOOOOOOOO😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

Chuck-E-Cheese used to be good they're getting rid of all the good old stuff.

Sad, they could have sold the animatronics. A lot of Gen Xers have nostalgia. What a waste 😢

Nooooooooooooooooooooo Stupid Cec Stupid Rockstar Ratatouille aaaaaaaa

In my opinion modern chucky is ugly to me. Not so cool looking and something else that lacks about him i cant put a finger on it. They should have just stayed with avenger chuck. But this is just an opinion. I honestly teared up a little seeing it all gone

I’m clicking like for the algorithm, but in my heart I’m clicking dislike.

What would make more sense us upping the arcades with real vintage machines and of course keeping the animatronics. Oh well corporations have no soul and it shows.

i actually went to this chuck-e-cheese as a kid. i think i was.. 6 or 7. at that point in my life alot was going on, my dad was either just about to be deployed or he was already deployed. i was being mistreated at school and struggling to bond with other kids. in my child brain, i had only one place that was safe, home. until i went to this chuck-e-cheese. i had a blast, but don't remember much of it since i've been through more trauma and aged, but i remember being in awe of the animatronics. i knew they were robots but i was still fascinated by them. i remember sitting at the table, eating my pizza and drinking my drink, and i couldn't take my eyes off them. i never got up close to them though since i was a little wary of them. i also remember standing at the prize counter with my handful of tickets and being a little bummed out i didn't get many. nonetheless, i was still happy because i got a rubber duck and a plastic cup to hold my coins in. i might've got a coin and came home with a few extra tickets too? not sure. i still have the cup, but i sadly don't know where the rubber duck is. it makes me sad just thinking about how the only piece of those memories i have left is a plastic cup. i can understand wanting to swap out the old for something new, but the least they could've done was put the animatronics on sale, or raffle them off, or auction them off and maybe donate the proceeds to charity too. literally anything would've been better than destroying them. shout-out to the people working to revive the animatronics, you are keeping a part of my already very scattered childhood alive. it means a lot to me.