Newington, CT (3075 Berlin Tpke)

3075 Berlin Tpke, Store #470 is a Chuck E. Cheese’s location located in Newington, Connecticut. This location opened on October 29, 1991, as the sister store to Norwalk, CA (10949 Firestone Blvd).

Stages

This location opened up on October 29, 1991, as the first location in Connecticut since the closures of New Britain, CT (222 E Main St) & Orange, CT (260 Bull Hill Lane) in 1985 with a Road Stage and was converted to a 1-Stage sometime in 1995. The 1-Stage is different than normal 1-Stages as it has the 2-stage props (which was the only one of its kind in New England as the other 1-Stages in New England has the finalized design). In January 2011, the Tuxedo & Derby was replaced with the Avenger outfit. Chuck's cap was removed in September 2013. The Munch’s Make Believe Band sign was removed in around 2016. The sign was never replaced after that. The Avenger outfit would be replaced by the Rockstar outfit in March 2018. Munch's hat was removed around July 2022. It remained this way until they received the 2.0 Remodel.

Stage	Installed	Removed	Notes
Road Stage	October 29, 1991	1995	Only Road Stage installed in Connecticut.
1-Stage	1995	September 2022	One of 3 1-Stages installed in Connecticut. The last cyberamic stage and the last animatronic stage in Connecticut.
|Dance Floor + Video Wall	September 2022	Still In Use	Currently the only stage type in Connecticut as of installation date.

History

The store received the CEC 2005 Remodel in the Fall of 2005. In August 2022, they started their 2.0 Remodel which removed the 1-Stage and placed the Video Wall on the right side wall where some of the 2005 remodel posters once stood. This was one of the five New England locations that were open after 2006 that did not receive the Cool Chuck outfit. Those other four were Warwick, RI (650 Bald Hill Rd), North Dartmouth, MA (412-418 State Rd), Waterbury, CT (650 Wolcott St), & Attleboro, MA (287 Washington St).

Animatronics

Animatronic	Manufacturing date	Status
Chuck E Cheese (Cyberamic)|Chuck E. Cheese (Cyberamic)	Unknown	Destroyed.
Helen Henny (Cyberamic)	Unknown	Destroyed.
Mr. Munch (Cyberamic)	Unknown	Destroyed.
Jasper T. Jowls (Cyberamic)	Unknown	Destroyed.
Pasqually (Cyberamic)	Unknown	Destroyed.
Wink (Cyberamic)	1991	Destroyed.

Videos

Links	Description	Filming Date	Published Date
Link	Earliest known video of Newington, as of June 2023, not too long after opening playing the first show they played (September 1991)	November 1991	August 20, 2018
Link	Birthday Extravaganza from the Road Stage. The last known video of their Road Stage as of April 2024.	December 1991	October 5th, 2011
Link	Earliest video of Newington's 1-Stage performing Mony Mony	1997	November 8, 2011
Link	Video showing Newington in the late 90's with the late 90's remodel, performances of Chuck E Says and Birthday Star '95, and briefly shows the show playing May '98.	September 5, 1998	February 17, 2021
Link	Video of the Animatronics performing Birthday 2002.	October 23rd, 2004	November 10, 2020
Link	Newington a few years after the 2005 update of the 2003 'Cool Chuck' Reconfiguration / Major Remodel Initiative|CEC 2005 Remodel Program remodel.	February 28, 2009	June 26, 2011
Link	A News video about The Women pulling out a Gun incident.	Early February, 2013	February 5th, 2013
Link	The store being featured in a Sensory Sensitive Sunday Article (And yes, there is a video in this article).	March/April 2018	April 8th, 2018
Link	Store during the COVID-19 shutdown back in 2020.	July 2020	July 31st, 2020
Link	The Final Performance of the Animatronics Recorded before Removal	August 2022	September 5th, 2022
Link	Store Tour during 2.0 after stage removal.	September 2022	September 2nd, 2022
Link	Store Tour after 2.0 Remodel is completed.	October 2022	October 17th, 2022
Link	News mentioning about the 2.0 Remodel in Newington	November/December 1st, 2022	December 1st, 2022
Link	A news video checking out the 2.0 Remodel at the location.	November/December 1st, 2022	December 1st, 2022
Link	A Birthday Party taking place at Newington.	May 30, 2023	May 30, 2023