Chuck Statue- Musician (Shelf Item)

The Chuck Statue- Musician was a Artifact Shelves item created for Chuck E. Cheese's locations around 1994-1995.

Production

The statue would be produced by Peeler Rose Productions^[1] for the 1990s Major Remodel around 1994-1995, alongside the Tux, Director, Coach, Baseball, Football, Hockey, Basketball, Cowboy, and Liberace statues. All the statues shared the same head and hands.

The statues were produced with a multitude of materials. The body was a single block of wood glued to a wooden square base- with a half cut egg-shaped section of Styrofoam hot glued to the front stomach area.

The shoes were also smaller half-cut Styrofoam eggs on the front, and a half-sphere for the back, with spandex hot glued on top of them. The arms were metal wires stuffed with fiber fill stuffing and encased in the outer clothing layer, all hot glued together.

The head was a molded piece of hard plastic set on top of the body frame, which can be easily removed. The hands were also molded plastic. Both were painted with cel vinyl paints.

Prototypes

Production pictures of the statue heads and hands unpainted or without teeth have been found.

Generic Unpainted Statue Head
Generic Statue Hands
Generic Statue Heads
Generic Statue Head
Generic Body Frame^[2]
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Releases

In the original release to stores, the shoes were Styrofoam with hot glued spandex. Some time late within the production of the figure, the shoes would switch to shiny molded plastic much like the hands and head. Very few plastic shoe variants exist compared to Styrofoam shoes.

Design

The statue is Chuck E. Cheese wearing black nondescript shoes, jeans, a green shirt, a black jacket, and a red paisley bandana headwrap. His arms are posable to be in a multitude of positions.

The statue came with no instrument, but a multitude of stores and second-hand buyers outfitted theirs with toy and miniature instruments to hold.

Gallery

Chuck w/ Sousa Band branded harmonica
Chuck w/ Sousa Band branded harmonica
Chuck w/ Sousa Band branded harmonica
Matt Rivera's Chuck w/ Toy Works branded guitar.
Matt Rivera's Chuck w/ Toy Works branded guitar.
Chuck w/ no instrument.
Chuck w/ no instrument.
Chuck w/ no instrument.
Chuck w/ no instrument.
Chuck w/ Microphone
Sun Valley, CA (8375 Laurel Canyon Blvd) Chuck w/ Trumpet
Sun Valley, CA (8375 Laurel Canyon Blvd) Chuck w/ Trumpet

References

[1] ttps://www.facebook.com/peelerrosestudios/photos/pb.100063533323960.-2207520000./861447533887433/?type=3

[2] ttps://www.instagram.com/p/CswW5ESh3uj/?igshid=YTUzYTFiZDMwYg%3D%3D

[3] ttps://www.instagram.com/p/CswW5ESh3uj/?igshid=YTUzYTFiZDMwYg%3D%3D

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