Dothan, AL (3400 Ross Clark Circle)

3400 Ross Clark Circle was a Showbiz Pizza Place/Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza in Dothan, Alabama that opened in December 1983 (Unknown Day) and closed on April 23, 1998. This is not to be confused with the current location on 1001 Commons Dr that opened on August 19th, 2004 with a Small-Town Studio C and is still open to this day.

History

Dothan opened sometime in December 1983 as the eighth or ninth Showbiz Pizza Place in Alabama as a franchised-owned store. Dothan originally featured the Rock-afire Explosion, as all other Showbiz locations did. they would have it for a few years, until around 1991/1992, when they would receive Concept Unification and the 1986 SPT Remodel Program. Not long after the store received Concept Unification, the store was featured in the CEC cast member highlight reel alongside 8 other locations (Dothan was the only Alabama location to be featured in the highlights). It is unknown of the store received the Phase 1 or Phase 2 game packages. (but since Pizza Kastle had a CEC branded 1996 air hockey machine, it can be assumed they did.) The store would remain this way until they closed on April 23, 1998. Sometime after CEC closed, the store was converted to a knock-off Willy Wonka themed FEC called 'Chunk-A-Wonkas Pizza Factory', most likely due to copyright issues the store was converted into Kidz Kastle, which would later be converted into Pizza Kastle. By 2010, Pizza Kastle closed and would remain vacant for years until sometime in 2022 when the building was converted into a bank. There was once a plan to build a hotel on the site and change the address to 3394 Ross Clark Circle, but never happened.

Stages

Originally, Dothan featured a Rock-afire Explosion, as all other Showbiz locations did. In 1991, they would undergo Concept Unification, turning the Rock-afire Explosion into the 3-Stage. They would have the 3-Stage until the store's closure on April 23, 1998.

Stage	Installed	Removed	Notes
Rock-afire Explosion	1984	1991/1992	8th or 9th Showbiz Pizza Place in Alabama.
3-Stage	1991/1992	April 22, 1998	One of seven in the state of Alabama to undergo Concept Unification.

Animatronics

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

Videos

Link	Description	Filming Date
https://youtu.be/mqkHGgMxIKQ?t=372	The only known footage of Dothan in a brief clip from a CEC cast member highlight reel (The store was featured alongside Wilmington, NC, San Jose, CA (2445 Fontaine Rd), Albuquerque, NM (4418 Wyoming Blvd), Mesa, AZ (856 S Alma School Rd), Harrisburg, Erie, Tallahassee, Merced, & Tracy) . This footage shows the 3-Stage sometime after Concept Unification.	Mid 1992