Yes yes. Animatronics were a bit creepy by themselves. Might be the way they move, might be how when they get older they break down frequently and look creepier and creepier.
I remember going to chuck e cheese with my uncle as a kid. He worked with all sorts of technology so we always stayed after the place closed while he talked to the staff about the robots, lights, and sound system. I remember being right there on the stage and looking at the animatronics up close, and even being able to look at the ways they hid some of the animatronics that weren't working without removing them from the stage altogether. It is one of my favorite memories and I am truly saddened by the fact that they are getting rid of the animatronics
I actually have fond recent memories of taking my Niece to Chuck e Cheese, and her being absolutely enraptured by the Chuck e Cheese animatronics. They really don't need to get rid of them, just update them with modern technology.
film theory idea: how long would the the bad guys ACTUALLY be in jail/what are the fines they would have to pay or any other punishment they'd have to endure
The whole reason Chuck E. Cheese's in Northridge CA is keeping their animatronics, is because of my best friend. He started a petition to save the animatronics 2 years ago. (Before the movie even came out) Chuck E. Cheese has been removing the stages for years. The movie had nothing to do with it.
@@darkdest6664 Yeah, but I heard about this incident specifically from a channel called CrowRanaBurger around 6 months ago, and he described the renovations exactly how Mat described them.
Billybobs Wonderland in Barboursville, WV has a fully operational Rockafire Explosion show. I just spoke with the owner when I was there and they plan on having a haunted animatronic attraction in the future! He even met with Aaron Fechter at the most recent IAAPA. They have pictures up on the wall of FNAF characters that fans have drawn and brought in, a whole door with pictures of FNAF, and they even have FNAF plushies at the prize counter!! They’re embracing it and I think that’s going to work in their favor!!! (Also, their pizza was actually delicious AND they had fried pickles!!)
I mean honestly, those Chuckie E. Cheese animations were already pretty creepy, even when I was 8, I was scared of them; I thought they were old news in the 1st place.... And besides that, Scott got partly inspired by those animatronics anyways; Those guys just needed to be retired, They are an old and outdated idea of the future and very old technology, They needed to go...
Ngl, bc of FNAF, I'm now into animal animatronics, which got me into fnaf, showbiz, circus jamboree, etc., its why I've heavily considered going back them just to see the animatronic shows, I even considered (and applied) to work there as my first time job but am now SUPPER upset they the one near me doesn't have them anymore! While leaning into the horror aspect might be more appealing to teens, there are little kids who are fans of fnaf who I'm sure would love that.
I feel like as a kid the animatronics were only ever used once in a blue moon. Almost every time I ever went there the entire section with the animatronics was closed. Us kids didn't really care. We just wanted to play the arcade games and gamble our tokens away. Even without an animatronics show, if they just partnered with fnaf for some branding crossover, that would be enough for kids to be interested. Name some arcade games after fnaf characters and kids would be all over it.
I miss the days of hurtling down a twenty-foot slide and getting kicked in the thigh by a twelve-year-old on their way down after me at Monkey Joe's. Oh, to be young, free, and in extreme, sweaty pain.
0:12 this is actually incorrect, Chuck E Cheese was already removing their animatronics for months before the FNaF movie was released for their 2.0 remodels. and most locations already lost their animatronics even before the fnaf movie released too
The most interesting thing in this video is at the 12:46 mark he showed items that people like, and one of them was a Megumin doll from Kunosuba, which is a very under rated anime. Good going MatPat.
@@cv5870 it is, I have seen plenty of other anime on t-shirts, collectibles, top 10/20 list, but never really seen Kunosuba. I am not saying it isn't popular, I am saying it's underrated compared to most other ones. I have been looking for some collectibles for that show and yet to find any.
Okay, but NOBODY was dealing with the full animatronic band, especially Moon, Pizza Cam and Munch Jr. Those guys were never cared enough about to repair, so that really doesnt matter. Also, even then, most places didnt have all the band anyway, theybusually just had a Studio C set up, either a 32 movement or a 16 movement, so it would only be 1 animatronic really needed to maintain for most locations. Plus, I have heard from employees that the darn dancefloor breaks down at least once a wesk anyway, so they are still making idiotic financial decisions, not that THATS a surprise since they axe the bots rather than sell them minus the cosmetics to collectors. Those endos go for like 3 grand a pop when destroyed on Ebay. I know in tact ones that have sold for 10 grand. We CEC fans are willing to pay and arm and a leg for these guys to be preserved, and CEC is just literally destroying and throwing them away, along with OLD WALL ART which we fans ALSO buy, usually for a couple hundred dollars. They are throwijg away free money that could help with their debt and they wonder why the fans arent happy. REMEMBER FOLKS! Dumpster dive near your local CEC if it is legal and save what you can find when they get the dreaded 2.0 updates, because we fans WILL buy that stuff right up from ya.
Being 26, I will always remember my birthday at my first Chuck E Cheese (I was in the single digits then); it had the singing animatronics on the stage(two actually), a disco dance floor(with a camera setup on the dance floor that broadcasted children on the dance floor all around the restaurant periodically), and sky tubes that stretched over the entire restaurant 😂😅 And Mat, we did in fact love those Dance floors😂 I was actually heartbroken when we moved to Georgia and the those here couldn’t even come close to the one in Orlando
I worked at Chuck E Cheese as a manager for 2 years and it was a daily question, "Where is the Animatronics?" "is it true kids got stuffed in them?" "Do you know Fnaf?"
For those wondering, Scott said he wouldnt make FNAF a real thing as a park, restaurant, or anything like that because he's scared someone would make the games real to become famous or something
Valid. Copycat killers are a thing and I'm convinced someone would be crazy enough to try be the real William Afton minus the genius intellect in making sophisticated animatronics.
@@Vibing_Colorsvery big difference. Afton robotics was always independent of Freddy’s or was the company that provided Fazbear ent with its robots(atleast originally)
@@darling.............. Real-life Squid Game incident? Not sure I follow? What happened? The only one I heard of was when those girls stabbed another girl over the Slenderman video game thing. That was years ago and thankfully she is OK now.
@@BurningFlamesofDivineDragon i hadnt heard of that. i am familiar with netflix making their own IRL SquidGame Gameshow...and are now being sued for contestant injuries
I think the main mistake a lot of "family friendly" companies are making is that they put way too much focus on being unoffensive to the parents. Theyre so careful not to give the parents any reason to *not* bring their kids to their restaurants, that they completely neglect to give the *kids* any reason to *want* to go in the first place. Would a FNAF event at Chuck E Cheese upset some parents? Sure. But kids would be *begging* to go check it out, and that would drum up so much more business than theyd potentially lose
I agree, there are times when I feel like we never truly got out of the moral panics of the 20th century that claimed things like Dungeons and Dragons and Pokemon were "evil". It really doesn't help that most of these companies, especially in the United States, are ran by the older generation (what we call "boomers"), who is largely stuck in a pre-internet world as to what is and isn't socially acceptable, and only care about upholding the status quo as to avoid controversy and lawsuits.
There's a Chuck E. Cheese about 30 or 40 minutes away from me that I always played in as a kid, but it was when they still had tokens to play those games. Now, they switched to cards which I do not trust one bit in comparison to tokens. In my mind, tokens have more value as it's usually one token or two tokens to play per game along with the opportunity to find random tokens on the ground to play more games for "free" and you can save leftover tokens for the next visit. Not to mention the paper tickets which you could also save. With those cards, the credits per game makes me feel like I'm not playing as many games as I could while the "tickets" is also a no go. If I lose the card then I lose both my chance of playing games and getting prizes. Not to mention, you can't find a random card on the ground that gives you the chance to play more games for "free".
Without a doubt. Kids being involved with the newest indie horror because it's cheap and accessible in the new digital era is the norm, and they should adapt with it. My 5th grade students all went to see the most recent adaptation of IT when it came out. My little brother is 10 and is *obsessed* with mascot horror - has been since he was 4. Businesses have to be willing to embrace that, just like they had to embrace my generation becoming fascinated with anime and other like mediums, and that sort of adaptation is sink or swim for the most part.
@@Masterge77 I mean; I'm Still not going to buy another D&D Material; Because 1. My Parents would find out; and they WOULDN'T be OK with it 2. THERE are Literal DEMONS in the world of D&D; Including The Tieflings; and I'm NOT fond of Anything that's Openly & Blatently Demonic; Like Helluva Boss, Hazbin Hotel, The Owl House, Shin Megami Tensei, etc
So in this video we learn that the FNAF lore is basically just an overcomplication of the real history of Chuck E Cheese. Originally a robotics engineer was amazed by animatronic shows, started an own pizzeria with them and was ripped off with a superior brand, then had to merge with that to survive. Now just like in the FNAF lore, the key to the franchise‘s survival is turning the old kid‘s pizzeria into a horror attraction. All of this is happening exactly like in the lore, in 2023.
I mean that's the theory matt made while heavily using Chuck E Cheese's real life history to help the fnaf lore fit into a cohesive timeline. He even says in the lore video he made that a lot of that is based on Chuck E Cheese's history and speculation of the fnaf lore. I know at least one of the books portrayed Henry and William as business partners from the very beginning but there are too many books now and they don't fit with the game lore so doesn't really matter.
Thing is, I think Chuck could still make it if they KEPT their animatronics. The issue isn’t FNAF, it’s that the old animatronics haven’t had any design updates really since their inception. If they used new technology not only for their food but for their Animatronics they really could have Disney Imagineer level animatronics that aren’t scary to kids.
This isn't fully true actually. If you rlly dig into CEC history you'd know that Chuck n the band have gone through a lot of iterations. Especially Chuck, as for a while they made a ton of new versions of him while they were trying to downsize from the full band. The newest ones are incredibly child friendly.
I don't think any amount of rebranding is going to save them. MatPat's take is honestly what people have been asking for forever. In terms of relation between generations, Gen Alpha and Gen Z have the most overall interests in common that we've seen between generations in a while. Horror is one of the most popular subjects even amongst young children in today's day and age, to the point where horror games such as Poppy Playtime and Baldi's Basics are literally being turned into slop shoveled in to low quality childrens advertisements. I think a rebrand, not even necessarily an official collaboration between fnaf, in the FNaF style would help sky rocket their sales. Better yet, maybe just turn it into a weekly thing. Maybe every Saturday night, after hours, a special horror themed day could be a thing.
I work at a Halloween costume store and one of the popular costumes was indie horror game characters like FNAF and Poppy Playtime. And it was for kids sizes.
It’s also that they never really did much with the opportunities they’ve been given Here’s what I mean by that: When CEC merged with Showbiz and got their animatronics, it was a big deal. The Showbiz animatronics were leagues more capable in movement compared to the cyberamic ones that they originally had. When concept unification finished, CEC had THEIR characters on WAY better robots, capable of so much more, but after only a bout a year or so, they just went back to using the animatronics in stiff ways, instead of the full-of-life ones they inherited. This is the problem; they never fully take advantage of their opportunities, it’s not that the robots are bad, they’re just not doing anything with them when they very well could
As a kid in the 90s the Chuck E Cheese animatronics were barely working and they were scary to me. Timeskip to now, and as someone who loves FNAF I would love to see a collab between FNAF and Chuck E Cheese. Heck I'm sure the kids going to Chuck E Cheese love FNAF
They have to invest and the kids will move on soon. And there aren't enough hardcore FNAF Fans to make it profitable. Plus would you go to a place with screaming kids????
I actually had a recent idea that Chuck E Cheese could do their normal thing during the day, then convert just before sunset to a FNAF style attraction
I think the problem they want to avoid is if they lean TOO HEAVILY into the fnaf side then some psycho might attempt to recreate the games irl. That’s exactly why Scott has said he doesn’t want really pizzerias.
Feel like the best approach would be to just add something like pirates cove to their restaurants with just foxy, and then start selling fnaf merchandise. It would keep the Chuck E. Cheese brand
Remember that Chuck E. Cheese was the actual main reason why FNAF happened in the first place. So I think the best thing Charles Entertainment could do is not only Collaborate Chuck E. Cheese with FNAF, but also possibly make a trip down memory lane to FNAF’s history and most Chuck E. Cheese’s history as well.
My mom worked at chuck-e-cheese as a teen and when she was watching the FNAF movie with me, especially right when they enter for the first time, she kept pausing and telling me about how much it looked the same. The employee video, the rack, apparently even the layout of the games!
Honestly if the real life FNAF franchise made a theme park or a restaurant attraction of some sort, it would probably be a major hit and I would go. [EDIT] Just something fun to theorize about bc I'd love to go to a real-life mega pizzaplex as seen in security breach yknow but there are too many Aftons in the world \:
It’s actually interesting that Chuck E. Cheese was starting to file for bankruptcy similar to how FNAF kind of did it mostly in the first game. This possibly states that Chuck E. Cheese is now officially FNAF but in real time.
"... Why were the animatronics removed? What happened to them? Why did we replace them with a disco floor? If you get asked these questions, answer with this: Chucke does not exist. His band doesn't exist. Nothing happened to anyone."
I actually think it would be really cool if Chuck E Cheese came up with their own non fnaf related scary restaurant. Maybe with a meow wolf style story that you can figure out by looking around.
Some Chuck E Cheese locations used to have interactive consoles where kids could look at different camera feeds placed around the restaurant. They should have kept those around to appeal to FNAF fans.
I’m glad someone finally said it. I have young cousins who love fnaf, and I would totally love to take them to a chuck e. cheese if they created some sort of partnership with fnaf. Heck, I would personally go there to celebrate my birthday with my friends at my grown age! I feel like horror unites all ages, so this would be a great opportunity for everyone involved. I’ve been thinking about this a long time, but I’m glad Matpat put it out there!!
@@GOJOSATORUWILLIVEYou clearly didn't watch the second half of the video, yet you are spamming this comment everywhere. Literally missing the whole point of the argument
As someone who works at a Main Event as a technician, I can attest to the fact that maintanence and repair of attractions takes a lot of money, especially depending on what broke. If it's a lane, generally the parts are gonna be expensive due to the wear and tear they need to endure and how big they are, and with how pricey bowling is, they get paid for on that alone as bowling next to dining and scheduled events are the big money makers. Games on the other hand have to pay for themselves due to their high initial cost, and make their revenue based on who plays them throughout the day via game cards or tokens. If a part on a game breaks down, the cost of the part comes from how much it makes, so if a coin pusher breaks a motor, and the motor is $130 and the game makes $1000 a week, than it's an easy buy. If a shooter game has its gun break down and the gun is $900 but the game makes $500 a week, it's a lot harder to justify keeping the game, especially if its an old one. Another example would be if te game promotes a gimmick that contributes nothing to gameplay and is purely fun/cosmetic, if thst breaks down and te revenue the game brings in isn't enough to justify fixing the gimmick but the game works regardless, than it can be left operable just without that flashing light, more so if the gimmick continuously breaks. I imagine with big animatronic characters this kind of logistics is applied even more so, as they are an attraction but don't necessarily bring in their own revenue, they're just for show like a tv and rely on what the resturant earns to keep their upkeep in check.
Dude I believe you described my dream job ♡ can I ask you how you got into that field? Where you started? I don't know just solving those types of problems in machines and overall working in the entertainment industry sounds really fun
Mainly got my start with the Transformers franchise, would always take the figures apart and put'em back together, also helps with figuring out how engineering and physics worked. From there did the same with my GameBoy and Nintendo DS and kept going till I made my first PC in 2017, that really helped with understanding what's required to make a computer run (more so in making GTA 5 run at the time lol) and eventually got into the field in 2020 after leaving the movie theaters as a general employee to a different entertainment place who had the same attractions as ME pretty much, just worse management. From there eventually went to ME and they've been great ever since. Training is a tad steep for begineers but it's a great field to get into as it can lead into the trade of car maintanence and such, and having spent 3 going on 4 years of doing this it is absolutely my dream job, I can tell you that. It's tough and challenging at times due to the issues that can arise with diagnosing an attraction and certainly dangerous on the bowling machines, so safety is absolutely the most important thing to remember and push for, but it is also fun and rewarding to understand how it all works and can be a great step into a life-long career. Hope this to-long of a comment answers some of that lol.
@@fer3671good luck. Working at Main Event can be sick but a lot can come at you at once. My center had 16 corporate events this Saturday, 7 kids birthday parties and a bar mitzvah (I think were the center with the highest revenue in December though)
I think it was actually really smart of them to take advantage of all the Hype around the FNAF movie, and make it look like this is WHY they got rid of the animatronics. It gave them the excuse they’ve been wanting for years and brought more attention to the brand, however, I think they need some long term solutions or they’re going to have to ride out the wave and wait until our generation (heavily focused on nostalgia) comes back with our own kids.
I am genuinely surprised chuck e cheese is still in business. the health code violations, the bankruptcy, and an actual attempt to make a bootleg of the fnaf movie. how is it still open?
I worked for Chuck E. Cheese about 2 years ago and it’s been an ongoing thing that they’ve been removing animatronics from several restaurants. Almost a year and a half ago it was confirmed that they were actually removing them from EVERY restaurant
I think that once someone creates longer lasting animatronic parts that aren't too costly it may pick back up again. I wonder if Aaron Fecter (who created the Showbiz Pizza's The Rock-a-fire Explosion animatronics of the early days) would be interested in creating such products. But we must make certain that he gets the credit that he deserves (got the shaft for the creation of the Whack-a-mole). He's in Florida but had to let go of the old building recently. He has his own UA-cam channel.
@@slowstone72 I just now thought of Boston Dynamics. According to how confident they are with their robotic dogs to be out on the streets, they must have figured it out but you have to have military grade servos and mechanisms. I don't think that the price range would be reasonable for the lay person. I guess Disney doesn't want to cough up the dough in order to make their animatronics work for a longer duration. BTW, what do you have against Aaron Fechter?
@@yasterday5377 That was a temporary installation that was basically a haunted house. It's very different from having an actual restaurant open indefinitely.
Creepy fact: If you were living under a rock, in 2020 there was a report on 5 kids going missing at a CEC location and parents complaining of a weird stench coming from the animatronics... They also made the staff wear mascot masks so that the animatronics didn't think that they were intruders...
Me being an employee at the billings CEC I completely agree with this! Our characters here in billings are 1 of the last 5 original 3 stage sets and no one i work with including the managers, want the characters gone. So im all for this. We as the fan base just need to step up and save the animatronics we all know and love!
Definitely agree with the thoughts about Rainforest and Dave & Busters. I went to a Rainforest Cafe in Orlando in 2015, and I felt like I paid more for the, objectively bad, experience of having to yell across the table to talk to people, as opposed to the food. Dave & Busters used to have fun arcade games when I was growing up, but they've been replacing them with oversized versions of mobile apps.
Can you do a theory on restaurant special sauces? I’m not usually a fan of them, but from my experience, a lot of them look and/or taste the same, despite being “unique” special sauces. I wonder if there’s something behind that? Edit: wow this comment got a lot of likes fast
That would be interesting, maybe. It seems like they're all just a mix of mayonnaise, ketchup, and mustard with a bit of different seasoning sometimes.
I have an unofficial theory about this (including the “special sauces” at places like Hibachi Grills). I’m 90% positive all of them are mayo based, use some kind of vinegar to break down the thickness of the mayo (anything from Asia probably used rice vinegar which, to me, taste a tiny bit sweet because wrapping a sushi role in regular vinegared rice sounds awful), paprika for the various shades of orange to red, and probably completely emulsified onions or something similar to give it a different kind of a bite. Did you watch the Burger theory an episode or two back? Where Sanchi (I completely butchered his name I’m so sorry >.< ) told MatPat that there _isn’t_ Thousand Islands dressing in BK’s burgers? Same thing: I think it’s probably some mayo derivative with other stuff added in but it’s all the _same_ stuff just in different amounts. So it tastes similar but is just slightly varied enough that A) no one can sue, and B) it complements the food it happens to be on. (Also I’m operating from ancient memories of any special sauce that has paprika in it because I discovered the very hard way I’m allergic to that family of plants >.
I think a eating location mixed with animatronics, arcade games, horror and maybe even a interactive mystery to solve for the guests that the employees were in on would be a big hit attraction. Either way, animatronics are a part of entertainment history. They deserve to be preserved, at the very least for others to learn about.
Mat, Scott and markiplier all equally important. Of course it wouldn't exist without Scott, but wouldn't be as popular without the let's plays and theories.
As a Chuck E. Cheese fan, this episode title sure did make me curious on how this topic would be covered LOL Tbh I think a large portion of factors can be mentioned in regards to the animatronic band removal but it's still pretty tragic They used to have a slogan that said "Make magic, without it we're just another pizza place!" and now that feels bitter because of them removing the one thing that REALLY set them apart from anything else It's honestly quite a shame and as nice as it is that they're keeping the band at Northridge, that band has several issues that I doubt they'll fix anytime soon I hope more stores keep their band [or more reopen with the band as a retro store gimmick] however it's all unpredictable at this point, tbh wouldn't surprise me if the brand itself dies within the next decade
Retheming their animatronics to give a horror experience would definitely be a bigger draw than dancing/music (plenty of other options for that). I think they should have attempted to adapt to that angle no later than 4 or 5 years ago. It might be too little too late now...they could even keep the face of the franchise (Chuck) as kind of the 'good guy' character trying to protect the kids from his robotized friends.
4:47 let's not forget that before the pandemic a certain youtuber with a big following made a theory about there pizza. I'm sure that also did damage to chuck e cheese.
No matter the reason, I think it's really sad that they're retiring the animatronics. Chuck e cheese was such a big part of my childhood and it won't be the same without them, even though I thought the animatronics were creepy back then
I would definitely prefer that we keep some tactile stuff like these animatronics around, there's just simply no comparing a screen and a physical robot the latter is WAY more fun, but uh I don't think fully going in on horror is the move here.
i honestly can't blame chuck e cheese or scott for not wanting to make a "real freddy fazbear's", because as insanely cool as it would be and how much money it would bring in, it takes just one person wanting to "recreate" the games for a real life tragedy to happen
Glad you mentioned the experience vs material... I mentioned wanting to take my wife and 2 kids to Disney world.. tickets and hotel came to about 4k... I'd rather drop that much money on my children having those memories over anything material...
Man I really want a colab like this to happen. maybe it will be with FNAF's 10th anniversary and the FNAF 2 movie on it's way. Chuck,E and Scott got a lot of potential with this one :D
I have a Question........... Why DOES THE LAZER TAG AREA IN MAIN EVENT LOOK LIKE FAZERBLAST FROM FNAF SB AND WHY DOES EVERYTHING ELSE LOOK LIKE IT..... My question prob fits the Answer 5:48
Im allergic to cheese, so I never ate at a chuck e cheese but went regularly. So its always confusing to me when people refer to the place as a restaurant.😂 My whole childhood, it was always an Arcade first to me.
Random, but I love how even now you and/or your editors still put a random but on-topic image at the end of the videos. Not only for the novelty of it, being how you've done it after what I can only assume is over a decade by now, but because sometimes the images you guys pick genuinely make me chuckle.
I'd LOVE to see Chuck E. Cheese take on a horror adaptation. This might sound silly but, growing up, I was terrified of that place, the animatronics, and the ppl in the suits- VERY similar to FNAF- and that's what attracted me to FNAF in the first place. Since Scott doesn't want to open restaurant or amusement park, C.E.C has a HUGE advantage because they already have that + the history of creepy animatronics! I would go just for the nostalgic fear and unease I felt as a kid.
Also as a sidenote, I've heard that the digital Mickey n Minnie ride actually breaks down and falls out of sync fairly often, and I just personally hate when they project digital faces onto an animatronic. The Elsa animatronic with the digital face scares me more than tarantulas, and I have severe arachniphobia so idk that might say something about how janky their half digital-half robot tech is right now
Don't take my word for truth on the ride break-downs, I'm not laying down facts or sources, I might be relaying older info since I haven't been researching this topic before commenting
map pat what you said isn't true they have been removing stages since 2019. what they did announce is they would keep a stage right after the fnaf movie
I think more mature themed restaurants are a ting that would be awesome! One thing I think would be cool would be a DnD style fantasy tavern, with a wanted board full of strange characters, character actors, maybe a few puppets, and coming I'm character is encouraged. Just things like this built to feel like a real place from an imaginary location would be awesome!
I actually remember that Disney tried to make a Star Wars experience styled as an intergalactic cruise with roleplay moments. It's biggest fault was that it was mistaken as a hotel that was Star Wars themed rather than the full on Star Wars experience that it was.
Now that would be cool. I had a dream one night of an idea of an interactive theater where anyone could come in and improv/choose your adventure becoming a temporary actor, or opt to be part of the audience. All with the level of special effects that Disney or universal had. You would have the main actors that keep the story going and a conclusion. You as the audience and the actors. A dream for theater kids probably.
13:54 "Don't say: 'Yeah, the characters look kind of similar, huh? Wait until you see them when we're closed! Whoa!'" I'd definitely be fired because this is exactly what I'd say to everyone.
i really think chuck e cheese should double down on fanf’s reputation and go all in on the animatronics, and make the creepier, and change the target audience to fnaf fans, because that’d be epic and everyone can reenact fnaf scenes edit: i wrote this before watching the video. guess I predicted the theory. neat.
Just as a quick note about the Mickey cartoon ride, I do find the idea of actual cartoons being timed to simpler physical things happening (and even your own interaction maybe, I don't know, I haven't been on it) to be a much more fun and immersive idea than any kind of animatronics
Sooooo fun story: Chuck E. Cheese was definitely selling beer back in the early-mid 90s because that’s the only way we could convince my great-grandmother to go with us! I can’t remember where for sure (my dad’s job moved us around a lot as kids) but it was either in Tampa or Jackson, MS. The thing I do remember though is having my tiny mind blown when my great-grandmother ordered herself a pitcher of beer and told my parents that was the only reason she would tolerate being there!
Uh, CEC has always served alcohol though, that isn't a recent thing. Also, I will have you know that I AM going for the pizza, they actually have pretty good pizza at some locations. I always liked going in, getting some pizza, watching a Studio C Alpha Chuck perform and then maybe checking out the prizes to see if it was worth playing any games. A nice day out is just not the same as playing a game at home. Going out lets you spend time with others and make memories, playing a game alone just isn't anything special. But yes, for years they have been skipping out on partnering with FNAF, when we have all been saying for years that at Halloween, they should really be doing a FNAF event. If the resurgence in people visiting CEC because they were into Fnaf back in 2014 and 2015 wasnt enough of a clue to them, I don't know what would get them to understand. But it still deeply saddens me that CEC is DESTROYING their bots instead of putting them in like storage or a museum like they said they would.
Let's be honest, FNAF didn't _make_ animatronics creepy, it just brought that sentiment to the forefront.
Nuh uh
Yes yes. Animatronics were a bit creepy by themselves. Might be the way they move, might be how when they get older they break down frequently and look creepier and creepier.
Kinda like how "It" brought creepy clowns to the forefront.
In my opinion, the fnaf animatronics are much less creepy than the chuck e cheese ones.
I 1000% no doubt about it agree. Chuck E cheese animatronics are HORRIFYING@@ayten-linux
I remember going to chuck e cheese with my uncle as a kid. He worked with all sorts of technology so we always stayed after the place closed while he talked to the staff about the robots, lights, and sound system. I remember being right there on the stage and looking at the animatronics up close, and even being able to look at the ways they hid some of the animatronics that weren't working without removing them from the stage altogether.
It is one of my favorite memories and I am truly saddened by the fact that they are getting rid of the animatronics
Elizabeth?
Charlie?
Cassie?
That's really cool mate
Me too
3-stage? Im guessing you're talking about mr.building and the moon. Who can be hidden behind the backdrop?
Maybe the oldest animatronics or secret animatronics we haven’t seen before on stage but got out order
3:47 bro got so young he stopped existing
💀
I actually have fond recent memories of taking my Niece to Chuck e Cheese, and her being absolutely enraptured by the Chuck e Cheese animatronics. They really don't need to get rid of them, just update them with modern technology.
film theory idea: how long would the the bad guys ACTUALLY be in jail/what are the fines they would have to pay or any other punishment they'd have to endure
The whole reason Chuck E. Cheese's in Northridge CA is keeping their animatronics, is because of my best friend. He started a petition to save the animatronics 2 years ago. (Before the movie even came out) Chuck E. Cheese has been removing the stages for years. The movie had nothing to do with it.
Matpat literally spying on me... I was talking about dave and busters... like "I dont wanna play a 4 foot tall fruit ninja, i had it on mobile"...
AM I THE ONLY ONE THAT GETS SO EXCITED WHEN I SEE ANYTHING FNAF RELATED ON ALL THE THEORY CHANNELS?!
I’m pretty sure I heard about them getting rid of the animatronics and replacing them with dance floors a few months before this movie even came out.
iv comes and goes throughout the years and matpat did address that albeit unclearly.
@@darkdest6664 Yeah, but I heard about this incident specifically from a channel called CrowRanaBurger around 6 months ago, and he described the renovations exactly how Mat described them.
I still can't figure out why there are no real FNAF Restaurants with FNAF Animatronics. Like they would make SO much money. I would love to go there!
Billybobs Wonderland in Barboursville, WV has a fully operational Rockafire Explosion show. I just spoke with the owner when I was there and they plan on having a haunted animatronic attraction in the future! He even met with Aaron Fechter at the most recent IAAPA. They have pictures up on the wall of FNAF characters that fans have drawn and brought in, a whole door with pictures of FNAF, and they even have FNAF plushies at the prize counter!! They’re embracing it and I think that’s going to work in their favor!!! (Also, their pizza was actually delicious AND they had fried pickles!!)
Exactly, things like this take quite a while to happen. From approval to actual removal
I mean honestly, those Chuckie E. Cheese animations were already pretty creepy, even when I was 8, I was scared of them; I thought they were old news in the 1st place....
And besides that, Scott got partly inspired by those animatronics anyways; Those guys just needed to be retired, They are an old and outdated idea of the future and very old technology, They needed to go...
Ngl, bc of FNAF, I'm now into animal animatronics, which got me into fnaf, showbiz, circus jamboree, etc., its why I've heavily considered going back them just to see the animatronic shows, I even considered (and applied) to work there as my first time job but am now SUPPER upset they the one near me doesn't have them anymore! While leaning into the horror aspect might be more appealing to teens, there are little kids who are fans of fnaf who I'm sure would love that.
I feel like as a kid the animatronics were only ever used once in a blue moon. Almost every time I ever went there the entire section with the animatronics was closed. Us kids didn't really care. We just wanted to play the arcade games and gamble our tokens away. Even without an animatronics show, if they just partnered with fnaf for some branding crossover, that would be enough for kids to be interested. Name some arcade games after fnaf characters and kids would be all over it.
I miss the days of hurtling down a twenty-foot slide and getting kicked in the thigh by a twelve-year-old on their way down after me at Monkey Joe's. Oh, to be young, free, and in extreme, sweaty pain.
0:12 this is actually incorrect, Chuck E Cheese was already removing their animatronics for months before the FNaF movie was released for their 2.0 remodels. and most locations already lost their animatronics even before the fnaf movie released too
Exactly, mat pat better not disappoint again
He is living under a rock
They've been removing the animatronics since 2012 / 2013
@@Burning_Gojira_1995 no?
@@SlushysSecret circles of lights my friend
The backpack I bought 3 years ago it still looks nice
The most interesting thing in this video is at the 12:46 mark he showed items that people like, and one of them was a Megumin doll from Kunosuba, which is a very under rated anime. Good going MatPat.
“underrated” ok pal
Yo I got this underrated show called Dragon Ball Z, real obscure.
@@cv5870 it is, I have seen plenty of other anime on t-shirts, collectibles, top 10/20 list, but never really seen Kunosuba. I am not saying it isn't popular, I am saying it's underrated compared to most other ones. I have been looking for some collectibles for that show and yet to find any.
Well in fnaf 6 there is the Rockstars
Did anyone else all of a sudden notice chucky looks kinda like Freddy, and Chika looks like the chicken, and Munch looks like Bonny
Okay, but NOBODY was dealing with the full animatronic band, especially Moon, Pizza Cam and Munch Jr. Those guys were never cared enough about to repair, so that really doesnt matter. Also, even then, most places didnt have all the band anyway, theybusually just had a Studio C set up, either a 32 movement or a 16 movement, so it would only be 1 animatronic really needed to maintain for most locations. Plus, I have heard from employees that the darn dancefloor breaks down at least once a wesk anyway, so they are still making idiotic financial decisions, not that THATS a surprise since they axe the bots rather than sell them minus the cosmetics to collectors. Those endos go for like 3 grand a pop when destroyed on Ebay. I know in tact ones that have sold for 10 grand. We CEC fans are willing to pay and arm and a leg for these guys to be preserved, and CEC is just literally destroying and throwing them away, along with OLD WALL ART which we fans ALSO buy, usually for a couple hundred dollars. They are throwijg away free money that could help with their debt and they wonder why the fans arent happy.
REMEMBER FOLKS! Dumpster dive near your local CEC if it is legal and save what you can find when they get the dreaded 2.0 updates, because we fans WILL buy that stuff right up from ya.
15:45 is that who I think it is?
I love MatPat but this is a prime example of how he ruins childhoods. I loved Chuck E. Cheese! Still an interesting video though 😅
Simple answer : yes
Being 26, I will always remember my birthday at my first Chuck E Cheese (I was in the single digits then); it had the singing animatronics on the stage(two actually), a disco dance floor(with a camera setup on the dance floor that broadcasted children on the dance floor all around the restaurant periodically), and sky tubes that stretched over the entire restaurant 😂😅
And Mat, we did in fact love those Dance floors😂
I was actually heartbroken when we moved to Georgia and the those here couldn’t even come close to the one in Orlando
I used to work at chuck e cheese and I couldn't bring it up to the people else I get fired
I worked at Chuck E Cheese as a manager for 2 years and it was a daily question, "Where is the Animatronics?" "is it true kids got stuffed in them?" "Do you know Fnaf?"
I'm surprised people ask those questions
I got a question
Is the 1987 bite incident true?
And... were the missing children conspiracies of 2020 really true?
Bro made an entire essay about why Chuck E Cheese removed its animatronics, plain and simple: Adaptation
@@Deviljhoslayersure it was the frontal? Or was the occipitol 👀 or was it... both
@@Deviljhoslayer You know FNAF isn't real, right?
For those wondering, Scott said he wouldnt make FNAF a real thing as a park, restaurant, or anything like that because he's scared someone would make the games real to become famous or something
That’s probably for the best
I love that he said that I never knew. There are demented people out there.
To be fair someone already made a real live FNAF game so too late
Bro made an entire essay about why Chuck E Cheese removed its animatronics, plain and simple: Adaptation
Valid. Copycat killers are a thing and I'm convinced someone would be crazy enough to try be the real William Afton minus the genius intellect in making sophisticated animatronics.
You know FNAF has messed you up when Matpat tells the story of a real guy and you treat it like a lore theory.
Chuck E. Cheese's merging with Showbiz IS LITERALLY the same as William's and Henry's restaurant combining LOL
@@Vibing_Colors no :P (I’m sorry I’m a huge fan of irl animatronics and I don’t really like it when people compare them to fnaf ☺️)
@@Vibing_Colorsvery big difference. Afton robotics was always independent of Freddy’s or was the company that provided Fazbear ent with its robots(atleast originally)
@@Ealais76 Oh yeah, I forgot about that! Thanks for the clarification
why?@@ShockwaveFurbyOfficial
The only thing stopping Scott from making a real world Fazbear Pizzeria is his fear that someone will copy what William did to the 5 kids.
I don't blame him with all the messed up folks out there in the world Scott shouldn't chance it.
@@BurningFlamesofDivineDragonafter the real life squid game incident,i dont blame him
Yeah he shouldn’t.
@@darling.............. Real-life Squid Game incident? Not sure I follow? What happened?
The only one I heard of was when those girls stabbed another girl over the Slenderman video game thing. That was years ago and thankfully she is OK now.
@@BurningFlamesofDivineDragon i hadnt heard of that.
i am familiar with netflix making their own IRL SquidGame Gameshow...and are now being sued for contestant injuries
I think the main mistake a lot of "family friendly" companies are making is that they put way too much focus on being unoffensive to the parents. Theyre so careful not to give the parents any reason to *not* bring their kids to their restaurants, that they completely neglect to give the *kids* any reason to *want* to go in the first place. Would a FNAF event at Chuck E Cheese upset some parents? Sure. But kids would be *begging* to go check it out, and that would drum up so much more business than theyd potentially lose
Ye
I agree, there are times when I feel like we never truly got out of the moral panics of the 20th century that claimed things like Dungeons and Dragons and Pokemon were "evil". It really doesn't help that most of these companies, especially in the United States, are ran by the older generation (what we call "boomers"), who is largely stuck in a pre-internet world as to what is and isn't socially acceptable, and only care about upholding the status quo as to avoid controversy and lawsuits.
There's a Chuck E. Cheese about 30 or 40 minutes away from me that I always played in as a kid, but it was when they still had tokens to play those games. Now, they switched to cards which I do not trust one bit in comparison to tokens.
In my mind, tokens have more value as it's usually one token or two tokens to play per game along with the opportunity to find random tokens on the ground to play more games for "free" and you can save leftover tokens for the next visit. Not to mention the paper tickets which you could also save.
With those cards, the credits per game makes me feel like I'm not playing as many games as I could while the "tickets" is also a no go. If I lose the card then I lose both my chance of playing games and getting prizes. Not to mention, you can't find a random card on the ground that gives you the chance to play more games for "free".
Without a doubt. Kids being involved with the newest indie horror because it's cheap and accessible in the new digital era is the norm, and they should adapt with it. My 5th grade students all went to see the most recent adaptation of IT when it came out. My little brother is 10 and is *obsessed* with mascot horror - has been since he was 4. Businesses have to be willing to embrace that, just like they had to embrace my generation becoming fascinated with anime and other like mediums, and that sort of adaptation is sink or swim for the most part.
@@Masterge77 I mean; I'm Still not going to buy another D&D Material; Because
1. My Parents would find out; and they WOULDN'T be OK with it
2. THERE are Literal DEMONS in the world of D&D; Including The Tieflings; and I'm NOT fond of Anything that's Openly & Blatently Demonic; Like Helluva Boss, Hazbin Hotel, The Owl House, Shin Megami Tensei, etc
Chuck E Cheese's was already on its last legs back in the mid-2000s. Frankly, I'm amazed it's even lasted this long.
At his point, they are laying on a hospital bed begging to be released.
At his point, they are laying on a hospital bed begging to be released.
It’s been dead to me ever since it took over the discovery zone location my parents frequented with me in tow as a kid.
Bro made an entire essay about why Chuck E Cheese removed its animatronics, plain and simple: Adaptation
Same
So in this video we learn that the FNAF lore is basically just an overcomplication of the real history of Chuck E Cheese.
Originally a robotics engineer was amazed by animatronic shows, started an own pizzeria with them and was ripped off with a superior brand, then had to merge with that to survive.
Now just like in the FNAF lore, the key to the franchise‘s survival is turning the old kid‘s pizzeria into a horror attraction. All of this is happening exactly like in the lore, in 2023.
Wow! Scott Cawthon predicted the future!! Jk
The fact that the Fazbear Frights attraction (the FNaF 3 location, I mean) takes place in 2023 makes this even crazier.
I think matpat said something about this, where he said that fnaf lore was heavily inspired by what happened real life with chuck e cheese
I mean that's the theory matt made while heavily using Chuck E Cheese's real life history to help the fnaf lore fit into a cohesive timeline. He even says in the lore video he made that a lot of that is based on Chuck E Cheese's history and speculation of the fnaf lore.
I know at least one of the books portrayed Henry and William as business partners from the very beginning but there are too many books now and they don't fit with the game lore so doesn't really matter.
Minus the dead kids
Thing is, I think Chuck could still make it if they KEPT their animatronics. The issue isn’t FNAF, it’s that the old animatronics haven’t had any design updates really since their inception. If they used new technology not only for their food but for their Animatronics they really could have Disney Imagineer level animatronics that aren’t scary to kids.
This isn't fully true actually. If you rlly dig into CEC history you'd know that Chuck n the band have gone through a lot of iterations. Especially Chuck, as for a while they made a ton of new versions of him while they were trying to downsize from the full band. The newest ones are incredibly child friendly.
I don't think any amount of rebranding is going to save them. MatPat's take is honestly what people have been asking for forever. In terms of relation between generations, Gen Alpha and Gen Z have the most overall interests in common that we've seen between generations in a while. Horror is one of the most popular subjects even amongst young children in today's day and age, to the point where horror games such as Poppy Playtime and Baldi's Basics are literally being turned into slop shoveled in to low quality childrens advertisements. I think a rebrand, not even necessarily an official collaboration between fnaf, in the FNaF style would help sky rocket their sales. Better yet, maybe just turn it into a weekly thing. Maybe every Saturday night, after hours, a special horror themed day could be a thing.
I work at a Halloween costume store and one of the popular costumes was indie horror game characters like FNAF and Poppy Playtime. And it was for kids sizes.
It’s also that they never really did much with the opportunities they’ve been given
Here’s what I mean by that: When CEC merged with Showbiz and got their animatronics, it was a big deal. The Showbiz animatronics were leagues more capable in movement compared to the cyberamic ones that they originally had.
When concept unification finished, CEC had THEIR characters on WAY better robots, capable of so much more, but after only a bout a year or so, they just went back to using the animatronics in stiff ways, instead of the full-of-life ones they inherited.
This is the problem; they never fully take advantage of their opportunities, it’s not that the robots are bad, they’re just not doing anything with them when they very well could
Tell me you didn't watch the video without telling you didn't watch the video
As a kid in the 90s the Chuck E Cheese animatronics were barely working and they were scary to me. Timeskip to now, and as someone who loves FNAF I would love to see a collab between FNAF and Chuck E Cheese. Heck I'm sure the kids going to Chuck E Cheese love FNAF
They do! The little kids on my school bus are obsessed with fnaf
Chuck e cheese: you’re just a knockoff
Fnaf: Oh no no no, I’m the upgrade
My mind is boggled. Old people like fnaf too?
@@Jar.Jo.Binx96 yea my mom likes fnaf
They have to invest and the kids will move on soon. And there aren't enough hardcore FNAF Fans to make it profitable.
Plus would you go to a place with screaming kids????
I actually had a recent idea that Chuck E Cheese could do their normal thing during the day, then convert just before sunset to a FNAF style attraction
If you said that in an interview, the interviewer would laugh in your face.
Duuuuude, this would be awesome!
GENIUS
There ripping fnaf off with a bad movie five nights of fun and other stuff
@@RealTuxChuckthey’re not making a movie😭😭
I think the problem they want to avoid is if they lean TOO HEAVILY into the fnaf side then some psycho might attempt to recreate the games irl. That’s exactly why Scott has said he doesn’t want really pizzerias.
Feel like the best approach would be to just add something like pirates cove to their restaurants with just foxy, and then start selling fnaf merchandise. It would keep the Chuck E. Cheese brand
Not the bite of 2024
Really? You seriously think someone will want to recreate the game lore?
@@alexjustalexyt1144 people can be twisted in the head dude
That’s exactly what I was going to say.
Remember that Chuck E. Cheese was the actual main reason why FNAF happened in the first place. So I think the best thing Charles Entertainment could do is not only Collaborate Chuck E. Cheese with FNAF, but also possibly make a trip down memory lane to FNAF’s history and most Chuck E. Cheese’s history as well.
They just need to add hot thicc chicken and dilf bear animatronic and see the money flow.
not gonna happen, seeing how scott does not want irl william aftons
@@normalchannel2185 Yh, as a FNAF fan a collab would be exciting, but as a FNAF fan I agree with Scott & wouldn't want to take the risk.
It'd make for a helluva Halloween event for CC.
@@normalchannel2185 it wouldn’t be a real fnaf location though, scott has had horror events where we see the animatronics,
It is fully possible
My mom worked at chuck-e-cheese as a teen and when she was watching the FNAF movie with me, especially right when they enter for the first time, she kept pausing and telling me about how much it looked the same. The employee video, the rack, apparently even the layout of the games!
Honestly if the real life FNAF franchise made a theme park or a restaurant attraction of some sort, it would probably be a major hit and I would go.
[EDIT] Just something fun to theorize about bc I'd love to go to a real-life mega pizzaplex as seen in security breach yknow but there are too many Aftons in the world \:
Chuck E. Cheese should of sold to fnaf
I would go, but I think someone would do a bit of aftoning. aka doing the lore
me2
somebody would try to cause the bite of '87 or something i bet
some crazy guy is probably gonna do a bit of trolling cuz of the story.
It’s actually interesting that Chuck E. Cheese was starting to file for bankruptcy similar to how FNAF kind of did it mostly in the first game. This possibly states that Chuck E. Cheese is now officially FNAF but in real time.
And then it burned down for some reason
Even the 2 competing animatronic restaurants merging like in FNAF
Yall aren't ready for 2027...
@@dustifiez"Was that the bite of 27?!"
"... Why were the animatronics removed? What happened to them? Why did we replace them with a disco floor? If you get asked these questions, answer with this: Chucke does not exist. His band doesn't exist. Nothing happened to anyone."
I actually think it would be really cool if Chuck E Cheese came up with their own non fnaf related scary restaurant. Maybe with a meow wolf style story that you can figure out by looking around.
Oh that's a rad idea! An omega mart chuck e cheese! Someone HAS to pitch this
Some Chuck E Cheese locations used to have interactive consoles where kids could look at different camera feeds placed around the restaurant. They should have kept those around to appeal to FNAF fans.
There is actually 1 of those left at the Chuck E. Cheese's in Bridgewater, New Jersey
I’m glad someone finally said it. I have young cousins who love fnaf, and I would totally love to take them to a chuck e. cheese if they created some sort of partnership with fnaf. Heck, I would personally go there to celebrate my birthday with my friends at my grown age! I feel like horror unites all ages, so this would be a great opportunity for everyone involved. I’ve been thinking about this a long time, but I’m glad Matpat put it out there!!
There's always Dave and busters
Bro made an entire essay about why Chuck E Cheese removed its animatronics, plain and simple: Adaptation
I think instead of a partnership with FNAF, CC should invent their own game with their own lore and a fresh backstory.
@@GOJOSATORUWILLIVEYou clearly didn't watch the second half of the video, yet you are spamming this comment everywhere. Literally missing the whole point of the argument
@@GOJOSATORUWILLIVEbro wasted precious moments of their life on making useless comments
No..Carrot Topp from the Radioactive Chicken Heads did😂
I was just about to say this🤣
As someone who works at a Main Event as a technician, I can attest to the fact that maintanence and repair of attractions takes a lot of money, especially depending on what broke. If it's a lane, generally the parts are gonna be expensive due to the wear and tear they need to endure and how big they are, and with how pricey bowling is, they get paid for on that alone as bowling next to dining and scheduled events are the big money makers. Games on the other hand have to pay for themselves due to their high initial cost, and make their revenue based on who plays them throughout the day via game cards or tokens. If a part on a game breaks down, the cost of the part comes from how much it makes, so if a coin pusher breaks a motor, and the motor is $130 and the game makes $1000 a week, than it's an easy buy. If a shooter game has its gun break down and the gun is $900 but the game makes $500 a week, it's a lot harder to justify keeping the game, especially if its an old one. Another example would be if te game promotes a gimmick that contributes nothing to gameplay and is purely fun/cosmetic, if thst breaks down and te revenue the game brings in isn't enough to justify fixing the gimmick but the game works regardless, than it can be left operable just without that flashing light, more so if the gimmick continuously breaks. I imagine with big animatronic characters this kind of logistics is applied even more so, as they are an attraction but don't necessarily bring in their own revenue, they're just for show like a tv and rely on what the resturant earns to keep their upkeep in check.
Dude I believe you described my dream job ♡ can I ask you how you got into that field? Where you started?
I don't know just solving those types of problems in machines and overall working in the entertainment industry sounds really fun
Mainly got my start with the Transformers franchise, would always take the figures apart and put'em back together, also helps with figuring out how engineering and physics worked. From there did the same with my GameBoy and Nintendo DS and kept going till I made my first PC in 2017, that really helped with understanding what's required to make a computer run (more so in making GTA 5 run at the time lol) and eventually got into the field in 2020 after leaving the movie theaters as a general employee to a different entertainment place who had the same attractions as ME pretty much, just worse management. From there eventually went to ME and they've been great ever since. Training is a tad steep for begineers but it's a great field to get into as it can lead into the trade of car maintanence and such, and having spent 3 going on 4 years of doing this it is absolutely my dream job, I can tell you that. It's tough and challenging at times due to the issues that can arise with diagnosing an attraction and certainly dangerous on the bowling machines, so safety is absolutely the most important thing to remember and push for, but it is also fun and rewarding to understand how it all works and can be a great step into a life-long career. Hope this to-long of a comment answers some of that lol.
@@fer3671good luck. Working at Main Event can be sick but a lot can come at you at once. My center had 16 corporate events this Saturday, 7 kids birthday parties and a bar mitzvah (I think were the center with the highest revenue in December though)
huh, thank you for the insight.
So basically the plot of wreck it Ralph
13:49 if you read the Chuck E. Cheese poster it says “a special appearance by everyone’s favorite purple guy” I mean come on
lol i didnt even notice that, they were really leeching iff of fnaf huh
I think it was actually really smart of them to take advantage of all the Hype around the FNAF movie, and make it look like this is WHY they got rid of the animatronics. It gave them the excuse they’ve been wanting for years and brought more attention to the brand, however, I think they need some long term solutions or they’re going to have to ride out the wave and wait until our generation (heavily focused on nostalgia) comes back with our own kids.
I am genuinely surprised chuck e cheese is still in business. the health code violations, the bankruptcy, and an actual attempt to make a bootleg of the fnaf movie. how is it still open?
It's old, and still eh fine
My guy, you're asking us why Chuck E Cheese is still open, when you should be asking why Fazbear Entertainment is still open-
@@ukaszwalczak1154Fazbear Entertainment is fictional, Chuck E Cheese's is a real company
@@ukaszwalczak1154 Stopped asking that a long time ago, something about faz-goo and cancer babies idk.
@@basically_boringthat, as well as the fact that they are literally getting subsidized by Chuck E Cheese’s.
I worked for Chuck E. Cheese about 2 years ago and it’s been an ongoing thing that they’ve been removing animatronics from several restaurants. Almost a year and a half ago it was confirmed that they were actually removing them from EVERY restaurant
It was actually confirmed In 2019 after 2 years of tests then put on hold due to COVID but now it’s back in full swing
As a engineering major, it is sad to see the decline of animatronic, that was part of the reason I wanted to become an engineer.
I think that once someone creates longer lasting animatronic parts that aren't too costly it may pick back up again. I wonder if Aaron Fecter (who created the Showbiz Pizza's The Rock-a-fire Explosion animatronics of the early days) would be interested in creating such products. But we must make certain that he gets the credit that he deserves (got the shaft for the creation of the Whack-a-mole). He's in Florida but had to let go of the old building recently. He has his own UA-cam channel.
@@slowstone72 I just now thought of Boston Dynamics. According to how confident they are with their robotic dogs to be out on the streets, they must have figured it out but you have to have military grade servos and mechanisms. I don't think that the price range would be reasonable for the lay person. I guess Disney doesn't want to cough up the dough in order to make their animatronics work for a longer duration. BTW, what do you have against Aaron Fechter?
SAME!!!
Isn't Scott hesitant to make a real Freddy's because he thinks someone will try to "re-create the story of the games"
Yes and i fully agree with that.
Yes. . . That's the VERY Reason He's not going to create a Real Life Location; To Prevent someone from Recreating Afton's Serial Killing Spree!!
Wasn't there an irl location in LA to promote the movie tho?
@@New3DSLuigi364yes the thing is. It’s very unlikely to actually happen in real life because there will be a lot of security unlike in the story
@@yasterday5377 That was a temporary installation that was basically a haunted house. It's very different from having an actual restaurant open indefinitely.
The fact matpat still remembers fnac(five nights at candy) and mentions it is amazing
Wow....what a waste....they had the perfect opportunity to have it as SNAC and all they had to do was add an extra day. This disappoints me...
make this the most liked reply on youtube
Yeah. . . It's pretty much one of ONLY 2 Games to avoid ANY Controversy within the FNAF Fandom; alongside The Joy of Creation!!
Bro made an entire essay about why Chuck E Cheese removed its animatronics, plain and simple: Adaptation
@@williamklemp3764Six Nights At Candy's Cave: SNACC
It’s all fun and games until Chuck E Cheese gets a Missing Persons report out of spite.
And a murderer on the loose.
Creepy fact: If you were living under a rock, in 2020 there was a report on 5 kids going missing at a CEC location and parents complaining of a weird stench coming from the animatronics...
They also made the staff wear mascot masks so that the animatronics didn't think that they were intruders...
@@Moonlight_0419Both of those are fake.
@@Moonlight_0419 Yeah, I was living under a rock back in 2020 then-
Me being an employee at the billings CEC I completely agree with this! Our characters here in billings are 1 of the last 5 original 3 stage sets and no one i work with including the managers, want the characters gone. So im all for this. We as the fan base just need to step up and save the animatronics we all know and love!
I think instead of a partnership with FNAF, CC should invent their own game with their own lore and a fresh backstory.
I’m so messed up I thought you mean Crying Child.
*CEC
I thought you meant the crying child
And yes, they should
*CEC
They should either make it an ARG or mobile game that appeals to a wider audience.
Definitely agree with the thoughts about Rainforest and Dave & Busters. I went to a Rainforest Cafe in Orlando in 2015, and I felt like I paid more for the, objectively bad, experience of having to yell across the table to talk to people, as opposed to the food. Dave & Busters used to have fun arcade games when I was growing up, but they've been replacing them with oversized versions of mobile apps.
I love the subtle yet poignant distinction between kids and grown up kids at 6:16
Funny how this theory could've been on food theory, game theory, AND film theory now that the movie is finally out
It could also go on Style Theory if we look abit sideways.
@@VillainDeku1yup- probably similar to the fung shue vid
Can you do a theory on restaurant special sauces? I’m not usually a fan of them, but from my experience, a lot of them look and/or taste the same, despite being “unique” special sauces. I wonder if there’s something behind that?
Edit: wow this comment got a lot of likes fast
That would be interesting, maybe. It seems like they're all just a mix of mayonnaise, ketchup, and mustard with a bit of different seasoning sometimes.
Yeah that would be a good episode
I have an unofficial theory about this (including the “special sauces” at places like Hibachi Grills).
I’m 90% positive all of them are mayo based, use some kind of vinegar to break down the thickness of the mayo (anything from Asia probably used rice vinegar which, to me, taste a tiny bit sweet because wrapping a sushi role in regular vinegared rice sounds awful), paprika for the various shades of orange to red, and probably completely emulsified onions or something similar to give it a different kind of a bite.
Did you watch the Burger theory an episode or two back? Where Sanchi (I completely butchered his name I’m so sorry >.< ) told MatPat that there _isn’t_ Thousand Islands dressing in BK’s burgers? Same thing: I think it’s probably some mayo derivative with other stuff added in but it’s all the _same_ stuff just in different amounts. So it tastes similar but is just slightly varied enough that A) no one can sue, and B) it complements the food it happens to be on.
(Also I’m operating from ancient memories of any special sauce that has paprika in it because I discovered the very hard way I’m allergic to that family of plants >.
Probably old sauces getting ready to expire along with any seasonings/other sauces etc about to expire within a certain time frame.
I think a eating location mixed with animatronics, arcade games, horror and maybe even a interactive mystery to solve for the guests that the employees were in on would be a big hit attraction.
Either way, animatronics are a part of entertainment history. They deserve to be preserved, at the very least for others to learn about.
And make it adult entry only so no one would try to recreate the games
Matpat is the most important person in fnaf after Scott cawthon
Idk why but I laughed at that for 10 minutes
I feel like Markiplier and living tombstone should be a honorable mention, but matpat is the largest UA-camr keeping fans lore afloat rn.
@@THEJPIndustrywhy was it funny though? I don’t get it.
Mat, Scott and markiplier all equally important. Of course it wouldn't exist without Scott, but wouldn't be as popular without the let's plays and theories.
@@hilosky ur right but i think mat is l bit more important cus he did very very very much for the fnaf community
Who is re watching after the goodbye internet video was up
Bro i was here after he left
I remember when Chuck E Cheese issued a DMCA on a creepypasta reader for a video taking place there. Good times.
As a Chuck E. Cheese fan, this episode title sure did make me curious on how this topic would be covered LOL
Tbh I think a large portion of factors can be mentioned in regards to the animatronic band removal but it's still pretty tragic
They used to have a slogan that said "Make magic, without it we're just another pizza place!" and now that feels bitter because of them removing the one thing that REALLY set them apart from anything else
It's honestly quite a shame and as nice as it is that they're keeping the band at Northridge, that band has several issues that I doubt they'll fix anytime soon
I hope more stores keep their band [or more reopen with the band as a retro store gimmick] however it's all unpredictable at this point, tbh wouldn't surprise me if the brand itself dies within the next decade
Ironically they became just another pizza placr
As a kid I was more afraid of Chuck E. Cheese than fnaf 😂
me too lol
Yeah, I don't think FNAF could mess with Chuck E Cheese in real life.
Same and I was already 20 when fnaf came out
lol yess
The Chuck E. Cheese animatronics were WAY more threatening and unnerving to me than the Fnaf ones.
Retheming their animatronics to give a horror experience would definitely be a bigger draw than dancing/music (plenty of other options for that). I think they should have attempted to adapt to that angle no later than 4 or 5 years ago. It might be too little too late now...they could even keep the face of the franchise (Chuck) as kind of the 'good guy' character trying to protect the kids from his robotized friends.
So sorta like glamrock freddy?
4:47 let's not forget that before the pandemic a certain youtuber with a big following made a theory about there pizza. I'm sure that also did damage to chuck e cheese.
No matter the reason, I think it's really sad that they're retiring the animatronics. Chuck e cheese was such a big part of my childhood and it won't be the same without them, even though I thought the animatronics were creepy back then
Its not like youre ever going back for yourself 🙄 your nostalgia doesnt matter
@@Caterpillartears well that's a bit aggressive and uncalled for
I totally agree, I loved Chuck E. Cheese as a kid
Who hurt you?@@Caterpillartears
@@Paradoxcity10Chuck e Cheese racially profiled him
Style Theory is the only channel to have yet escaped the grasp of Freddy... but not for long
Wait till he makes a theory on his own FNAF merch🤣
nah he made FNAF licensed merch awhile ago
@@riptyurass302yea but he hasn’t made a theory yet, just wait tho
Soon™
Do springlock suits count as fashion?
I would definitely prefer that we keep some tactile stuff like these animatronics around, there's just simply no comparing a screen and a physical robot the latter is WAY more fun, but uh I don't think fully going in on horror is the move here.
i honestly can't blame chuck e cheese or scott for not wanting to make a "real freddy fazbear's", because as insanely cool as it would be and how much money it would bring in, it takes just one person wanting to "recreate" the games for a real life tragedy to happen
Glad you mentioned the experience vs material... I mentioned wanting to take my wife and 2 kids to Disney world.. tickets and hotel came to about 4k... I'd rather drop that much money on my children having those memories over anything material...
FNAF was Scotts way of getting revenge on Chuck E. Cheese for causing him childhood trauma woth their animatronics
Why did I laugh at "FNoF" 13:40
Man I really want a colab like this to happen. maybe it will be with FNAF's 10th anniversary and the FNAF 2 movie on it's way. Chuck,E and Scott got a lot of potential with this one :D
Removing animatronics from Chuck E Cheese is literally removing the reason they are open in the first place.
I have a Question........... Why DOES THE LAZER TAG AREA IN MAIN EVENT LOOK LIKE FAZERBLAST FROM FNAF SB AND WHY DOES EVERYTHING ELSE LOOK LIKE IT..... My question prob fits the Answer 5:48
Most laser tag places look like that, and fnaf didnt invent laser tag
Im allergic to cheese, so I never ate at a chuck e cheese but went regularly. So its always confusing to me when people refer to the place as a restaurant.😂 My whole childhood, it was always an Arcade first to me.
Same here my family never liked eating there lol!! But always for chuckkee and to play arcade games with my family
Random, but I love how even now you and/or your editors still put a random but on-topic image at the end of the videos. Not only for the novelty of it, being how you've done it after what I can only assume is over a decade by now, but because sometimes the images you guys pick genuinely make me chuckle.
Wasn't his first theory video about Fnaf about events mirroring a real life incident at a Chuck E Cheese location. This came full circle huh?
Been curious if in a survival situation, can we survive out of pet foods?
Yes
Yes,but it would be gross.🤮
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Fnaf is literally the boogeyman of theorizing
@PatronaKati-od5kxgoddammit
Yeah, I’m only 0:01 into the video and I already know Matt pat is gonna do another drug endured FNAF theory for his FNAF addiction
Fnaf is also the bogeyman for pizza companies with animatronic mascot members
9:55 Matt has entered his full on dad phase
12:47 idk Mat, that megumin figure kinda fire
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I'd LOVE to see Chuck E. Cheese take on a horror adaptation. This might sound silly but, growing up, I was terrified of that place, the animatronics, and the ppl in the suits- VERY similar to FNAF- and that's what attracted me to FNAF in the first place. Since Scott doesn't want to open restaurant or amusement park, C.E.C has a HUGE advantage because they already have that + the history of creepy animatronics! I would go just for the nostalgic fear and unease I felt as a kid.
Well, there's always this fangame called "Five Night's Chuck E. Cheese's" which is like Fnaf, but with Chuck E. Cheese characters of course.
Also as a sidenote, I've heard that the digital Mickey n Minnie ride actually breaks down and falls out of sync fairly often, and I just personally hate when they project digital faces onto an animatronic. The Elsa animatronic with the digital face scares me more than tarantulas, and I have severe arachniphobia so idk that might say something about how janky their half digital-half robot tech is right now
Don't take my word for truth on the ride break-downs, I'm not laying down facts or sources, I might be relaying older info since I haven't been researching this topic before commenting
Love watching your videos matpat
map pat what you said isn't true they have been removing stages since 2019. what they did announce is they would keep a stage right after the fnaf movie
I think more mature themed restaurants are a ting that would be awesome! One thing I think would be cool would be a DnD style fantasy tavern, with a wanted board full of strange characters, character actors, maybe a few puppets, and coming I'm character is encouraged. Just things like this built to feel like a real place from an imaginary location would be awesome!
I actually remember that Disney tried to make a Star Wars experience styled as an intergalactic cruise with roleplay moments. It's biggest fault was that it was mistaken as a hotel that was Star Wars themed rather than the full on Star Wars experience that it was.
Now that would be cool. I had a dream one night of an idea of an interactive theater where anyone could come in and improv/choose your adventure becoming a temporary actor, or opt to be part of the audience. All with the level of special effects that Disney or universal had. You would have the main actors that keep the story going and a conclusion. You as the audience and the actors. A dream for theater kids probably.
13:54 "Don't say: 'Yeah, the characters look kind of similar, huh? Wait until you see them when we're closed! Whoa!'"
I'd definitely be fired because this is exactly what I'd say to everyone.
😅 that rainforest cafe at 7:50 is the only one I’ve ever been to. I recognized it immediately
i really think chuck e cheese should double down on fanf’s reputation and go all in on the animatronics, and make the creepier, and change the target audience to fnaf fans, because that’d be epic and everyone can reenact fnaf scenes
edit: i wrote this before watching the video. guess I predicted the theory. neat.
....excuse.
Wouldn't that scare away lil kids
From what I’ve heard the Latter is why Scott wouldn’t want to open an IRL Freddy’s
No thanks we don't need a real life purple guy
@@jennypickle🤣
Are you sure😢
Just as a quick note about the Mickey cartoon ride, I do find the idea of actual cartoons being timed to simpler physical things happening (and even your own interaction maybe, I don't know, I haven't been on it) to be a much more fun and immersive idea than any kind of animatronics
Matt Pat is the real life nerd emoji but cool😂
3:55 I do hate the Glamrock name😂. The fact that there is a Rockstar AND a Glamrock Freddie. And they're TWO DIFFERENT ANIMATRONICS
Sooooo fun story: Chuck E. Cheese was definitely selling beer back in the early-mid 90s because that’s the only way we could convince my great-grandmother to go with us! I can’t remember where for sure (my dad’s job moved us around a lot as kids) but it was either in Tampa or Jackson, MS. The thing I do remember though is having my tiny mind blown when my great-grandmother ordered herself a pitcher of beer and told my parents that was the only reason she would tolerate being there!
Uh, CEC has always served alcohol though, that isn't a recent thing. Also, I will have you know that I AM going for the pizza, they actually have pretty good pizza at some locations. I always liked going in, getting some pizza, watching a Studio C Alpha Chuck perform and then maybe checking out the prizes to see if it was worth playing any games. A nice day out is just not the same as playing a game at home. Going out lets you spend time with others and make memories, playing a game alone just isn't anything special. But yes, for years they have been skipping out on partnering with FNAF, when we have all been saying for years that at Halloween, they should really be doing a FNAF event. If the resurgence in people visiting CEC because they were into Fnaf back in 2014 and 2015 wasnt enough of a clue to them, I don't know what would get them to understand. But it still deeply saddens me that CEC is DESTROYING their bots instead of putting them in like storage or a museum like they said they would.