Skytubes

BlThe Skytubes are an attraction found at select few Chuck E. Cheese's locations; These are bright, multi-colored tubes that kids can crawl around in, with slides and formerly ball pits

History
In the early 90s, Discovery Zone and Chuck E. Cheese's were starting to become competitors in the Children's Entertainment Market. With this ever-growing conflict, CEC started to install more tubes and slides into the ball pits. This also led to the redesign of Chuck E. Cheese, giving him a sports outfit and later updating his look to be more mouse-like.

This competition between CEC and DZ led to a major expansion of the tubes with the Phase 1 (1994) games package and given the name of "Sky Crawl". Then after the initial tests in Phase 1, the Sky Crawl was given a new name, The "Skytubes". The Skytubes started being downgraded every update or remodel, as they were originally able to take up an entire game room, but after 2005 it only took up a corner of space. Eventually they were slowly phased out in the 2010s then removed from many other stores in 2020 due to the Coronavirus.

Design and Features
Originally, the Sky Crawl had a marquee that read "Chuck E. Cheese's" in front of the tubes, a ball pit area for toddlers, and "The Chucksters' Lean Mean Cleaning Machine". There were also tubes with gradients and spots with small vehicles people can go in. Select locations had up to three layers of tubes, sometimes with more than one slide. Some went as far as to let skytubes go over or into certain areas where skytubes usually wouldn't be, like the kid check area or the showroom. For a few locations in the late 90s, there was a rope under the tubes that when hung onto you can swing to the other side of the tubes.

Curves

 * Curve, Single Window (Yellow, Blue)
 * Curve, Triple Window (Blue, Pink, Red)
 * Curve, Large Window (Yellow)
 * Sharp Curve, No Window (Green, Pink, Purple)
 * Sharp Curve, Double Slit Windows (Blue, Pink)

Straight Tubes

 * Tube, Large Window (Green, Yellow)
 * Tube, Double Window (Blue, Green, Purple)
 * Short Tube (Green, Pink, Turquoise, Yellow)
 * Ball Tube (Pink)
 * Geometric Window Tube (Yellow)

T-Junctions

 * T Junction, Double Window (Green, Pink, Yellow, Turquoise, Blue, Purple)
 * T Junction, Large Window (Blue)
 * T Junction, Double Mesh Window (Purple, Blue, Red)
 * Short T Junction, Geometric Window (Pink)
 * Short T Junction, Large Window (Green)

Elevation

 * Downward Slope (Purple, Turquoise, Green)
 * Upward Slope, Single Window (Green, Yellow)
 * Slide Slope (Turquoise, Green, Pink, Purple, Blue, Yellow)
 * Slide End (Pink)
 * Slide Long End (Pink)
 * Climbing Start Piece (Green)
 * Climbing Tube (Green)
 * Climbing T-Junction (Pink, Yellow)

End Pieces

 * Window End-Piece (Yellow, Pink)
 * Race Car End-Piece
 * Police Car End-Piece
 * Net Cage End-Piece (Black, Purple)
 * Cockpit End-Piece (Purple, Yellow)
 * Train End-Piece (Black)
 * Plane End-Piece (Yellow)
 * Helicopter End-Piece (Purple)
 * Ventilation End-Piece (Yellow, Blue)
 * Wooden Cage Piece (Purple & Green)

Corners

 * Corner, Large Windows (Green)

Decorations

 * Skytubes Logo
 * Train Wheel
 * Structural Support Cone (Purple, Blue)
 * Skytubes Entrance Arch
 * Chuck E's ClubHouse Entrance Arch