Arlington, TX (3200 Justiss Dr)

The site in 2015

3200 Justiss Drive, Store #859 was a Showbiz Pizza Place/Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza that opened on July 21, 1982 with a Rock-Afire Explosion, and closed in Summer 2001 with a 3-Stage. It was located east of the Six Flags Mall.

History

3200 Justiss Drive opened on July 21st, 1982 as a Showbiz Pizza Place, later Chuck E. Cheese's In around the 1990's. This location received the Phase 1 and Phase 2 game package upgrades in their respective years and remodeled only twice as it was a Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza. It is unknown if they ever remodeled to the 1990s remodel, but evidence shows they may have.

They would remain unchanged after until their closure in the Summer of 2001. Later on the property was sold and converted into a night club once in the 2000s, a rodeo club in the mid-2000s, and another night club in 2020. This location is regularly confused with Dallas, TX (13125 Montfort Dr) due to many similarities to each other. The closure reason was due to the fact they wanted to relocate to a new store in Grand Prairie, and that Six Flags Mall was dying, as the area in the following years would close most of it's businesses.

Despite this store being sold to several businesses the past 22 years they have been closed, many remnants of the store would be left behind. This includes things like wood paneling, the walls from where the 3-stage was placed and gutted, the walls as a whole, and the black and white tiles at the counters. The exterior is also intact, despite the entrance being expanded and changed out.

Stages

Originally when the store opened, they had a Rock-Afire Explosion like every other Showbiz location. In 1990, they would become the second ever location to undergo Concept Unification, the process used to convert the RAE characters into the Chuck E. Cheese characters. This was one 17 Showbiz Pizza stores in Texas to receive Concept Unification.

Stage	Installed	Removed
The Rock-afire Explosion	July 1982	1990
3-Stage	1990	Summer 2001

Animatronics

Animatronic	Serial Code	Whereabouts
Chuck E. Cheese / Rolfe DeWolfe	10-81 1-17	Unknown
Pasqually / Dook Larue	10-81 2-17	Unknown
Mr. Munch / Fatz Geronimo	10-81 3-17	Unknown
Jasper T. Jowls / Beach Bear	10-81 4-17	Unknown
Helen Henny / Mitzi Mozzarella	10-81 5-17	Owned by Gabriel Bartlett
Billy Bob	10-81 6-17	Unknown
Pizzacam / Looney Bird	10-81 7-17	Unknown
Munch Jr. / Choo Choo	10-81 8-17	Unknown
Building / Sun	10-81 10-17	Unknown
Moon	10-81 11-17	Unknown
Antioch	N/A	Unknown
Wink	N/A	Unknown

YouTube Videos

Link	Description	Filming Date
Link	Arlington Justiss featured in Segment 2 of Spring Training 1993	1993

References

TODO