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Chico, CA (966 East Ave) was a Chuck E. Cheese's that opened in July 1982 with a Balcony stage, and closed on January 11th, 2011.

Chico, CA exterior, the date this was taken is currently unknown.

This location was opened on July 1982 as a Pizza Time Theatre, and then lost the rights to continue operating under the Chuck E. Cheese's license in 2011, eventually a few months after, the entire store was closed all together.

Stages

The Chico, CA location opened with a balcony stage, and then at an unknown date, the balcony stage was converted in a c stage. At another unknown date, the c stage was converted into a 2 stage. On January 11th, 2011, the store had lost the rights to the Chuck E. Cheese's brand, meaning they could no longer use anything that was associated with Chuck E. Cheese's, so they retrofitted the characters and rid the stage of anything to do with MMBB.

History

The Last Years

During the last few years of Chico, CA operating under the Chuck E. Cheese's brand, the animatronics had completely stopped working with only some having little to no movements, it's been said that eventually they stopped using, prizes from corporate and instead replaced them with dollar store toys, it's also been said that they served frozen pizza they had gotten from a nearby vendor, which ultimately lead to corporate getting involved and revoking the franchise license.

Fun Zone & Pizza

Because the store could no longer operate under the Chuck E. Cheese's franchise, they had to improvise and went under the name Fun Zone & Pizza. This new brand was a complete former shell of what it once was, the record posters in the showroom were completely reskinned, the animatronics were retrofitted with generic mascot costumes, and the tvs were left on to play DirecTV, playing Nick Jr. shows.

Closure

This new brand wasn't pulling in a lot of money as the store owners intended, so they eventually had to close the store, they had sold everything from the store decor, arcade machines, to even the animatronics, though they would not work as their heads had been removed to fit into the generic mascot costumes.

The Later Years After Closure

The store was ultimately left to rot and sat abandoned for the good majority of the 2010s, during halloween on an unknown date, the store was converted into a spirit halloween type store, after that the store continued to be left abandoned until 2016, when the store was demolished.

Present Day

As it sits today, the original building is now completely gone, replaced by a new building, it is currently a DaVita Dialysis center.

Arcade Machines

These are just a handful of the arcade games I could spot in the footage we have currently, unfortunately it's not a lot.

DanceDanceRevolution Extreme (Bootleg cabinet)
Jurassic Park (1994)
Daytona USA
Chuck E. Cheese's Circus
Photo Ride with Chuck E. Cheese
Wonder Wheel
Caveman Clobber
Raptor Captor
Monster Wheel
Ribbit Racin'
Big Bertha (2008 model)
Spider Stompin’
Wheel of Fortune
Chuck E. Cheese's Supershot
Wheel of Fortune

Videos

Link	Description	Filming Date
https://youtu.be/mfqVbOlWI0U	Dancin’ All Night Long liveshow	2009
https://youtu.be/SBvvxhAsOJQ	Birthday Star 2001	December 8th, 2007
https://youtu.be/zUefRhKWpsA	Birthday Extravaganza 2008	2009
https://youtu.be/fGT8IAgCskk	Birthday Extravaganza 2008 (2)	November 22nd, 2008
https://youtu.be/DaCBZyrnORA	Chuck E. March 2001	November 22nd, 2008
https://youtu.be/1v5IvFhARBU	Birthday video	September 6th, 2008
https://youtu.be/W8EtubUJ76w	The Infamous No More Chuck E. Cheese video	May 2nd, 2011
https://youtu.be/S4nqebm43CI	Store Closure	September 18th, 2011
https://youtu.be/JLdBhKEfmbI	The abandoned building 4 years later	2015

Gallery

Chuck E. Cyberamic
Avenger walkaround in the showroom
Super Chuck in the showroom
Some of the Gameroom
Fun Zone & Pizza exterior
Cool Chuck walkaround, presumably taken sometime in the 90s
Avenger walkaround and animatronics
Chico's balcony stage
Some of the main counters
Chico as a Pizza Time Theatre
Birthday photo taken inside the showroom
Exterior from presumably 2011
Chico being demolished
The Gameroom
The King at Chico
A weird walkaround mix of Pizza Time Theatre and Cool Chuck
Helen, Munch, and Jasper
Another exterior photo of Chico
Chico as it stands today
Chico yelp review 1
Chico yelp review 2
Chico yelp review 3
Chico yelp review 4
Most of the Gameroom and Showroom
Chico PTT ad
Chico PTT ad for the Salad Bar

Animatronics


Animatronic	Manufacturing Date	Whereabouts
Chuck E. Cheese (Cyberamic)	???	Destroyed
Helen Henny (Cyberamic)	???	Destroyed
Mr. Munch (Cyberamic)	???	Unknown
Jasper T. Jowls (Cyberamic)	???	Unknown
Pasqually (Cyberamic)	???	Unknown
Wink	???	Unknown

References

Will be added soon.

Trivia

Tony Keser, Chico's franchise owner (1999 - 2011) owned 2 stores. Chico and Redding, CA. Redding still operates under his ownership to this day.

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	* Tony Keser, Chico's franchise owner owned 2 stores. Chico and Redding, CA. Redding still operates under his ownership to this day.		* Tony Keser, Chico's franchise owner (1999 - 2011) owned 2 stores. Chico and Redding, CA. Redding still operates under his ownership to this day.