Showbiz Pizza!

[robo_rob]

Any of you remember Showbiz Pizza? You know the place that was like Chuck E Cheese and eventually became Chuck E Cheese?

Some guy just opened a new one, kinda.
Showbiz Pizza Zone

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It's in Phoenix City Alabama, which is about 2 hrs away from me. I'm so going.

[Pub Lover]

I hope to see lots of pictures of you high-fiving people when you get back, Robby.

[robo_rob]

Originally Posted by Pub Lover

I hope to see lots of pictures of you high-fiving people when you get back, Robby.

I might get kicked out for hugging the robots.

[Pub Lover]

Only hugging?

[b_squared]

Those are the scariest robots I have ever seen in a pizza resturant. Is it still Christmas in Alabama?

[robo_rob]

possibly

[Esuohlim]

I've never heard of Showbiz Pizza and because of this I'm going to lock this thread and ban you forever

[kahljorn]

My wife always watches these videos that have the showbiz pizza fucks programmed to various pop/rap songs. It's kiiiinda cool. It was on youtube

[kahljorn]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ur8AwQHusZw

[robo_rob]

Originally Posted by kahljorn

My wife always watches these videos that have the showbiz pizza fucks programmed to various pop/rap songs. It's kiiiinda cool. It was on youtube

yeah I've seen them

[Mockery]

Damn, I've never been to a showbiz pizza before. Looks like a nightmare :O

Thanks for posting about that place. This is exactly the kind of stuff I love learning about.

[Zomboid]

I loved Chuch E Cheese so much as a kid

Isn't Showbiz Pizza pretty much just a proto Chuck E Cheese.

[darkvare]

looks like the chuck e chesse's rip offs they show on cartoons with faulty robots and mean and old waiters

[DevilWearsPrada]

Like that one episode of dexters lab

[robo_rob]

Showbiz pretty much is a ripoff Chuck E, but a better Chuck E.

Basically after Chuck E Cheese first opened, it's first franchisee decided to void the franchise agreement and open his own chain after seeing a better animatronic companies work. He opened Showbiz and the two companies were head to head competitors. After the arcade business started falling, Chuck E Cheese filed bankruptcy. However Showbiz bought Chuck E and at first ran the two stores separately. Eventually the company merged the two and went with Chuck E as it's mascot. The company who made Billy Bob kept the rights and sold the animatronic shows to other companies. Basically this new Showbiz is where a Showbiz fan with a set of the animatronics and his friend opened up the store.

I'm planning a trip down there sometime this summer, I doubt it will be just as good as it used to be, but looks like a fun weekend.

[Kitsa]

That gorilla thing always creeped me right the fuck out.

There was a mouse with a green and white cheerleader costume to the left of the gorilla (if you're facing the stage). Her name was Mitzi Mouse and I always got a kick out of how the only thing she really did was extend stiff arms up and down to shake the pompoms. I have a naked Mitzi Mouse doll somewhere.

The pizza was unbelievably shitty, but I was always really good at skeeball and kept myself well-stocked in fruit-scented pop-a-pencils.

[DirtySanchez]

i thought i remembered that but now that i think of it, the one i used to go to was called circus town pizza. same deal w/ the robots and ball pits. i remember towards the end, the place started falling apart and there were nails and staples sticking out through the kids climbing toys. anyone know if circus town was a chain or just some local rip off?

[Supafly345]

That place isn't nearly as nice as show biz pizza was. Everything was nice and covered in laquered wood. This place looks like a school classroom.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

We used to have a Major Magics which was THE place to have a birthday. Ninja turtles arcade game, simpsons arcade game, ghostbusters arcade game and tons of skee ball.

RIP Major Magics

[Kitsa]

old-school showbiz pizza looked almost EXACTLY like that Ziggy Piggy place in Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure:



I remember that one-person ferris wheel thing very well.

[whoreable]

those robits where creepy as fuck when i was a kid.

still i wanted to buy one of those bands when they were on ebay a few months back. i just short like 20k

[Tadao]

Originally Posted by Kitsa

old-school showbiz pizza looked almost EXACTLY like that Ziggy Piggy place in Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure:

I think that was based off of Farrels.

http://www.farrellsusa.com/

[kahljorn]

those robot things are actually kind of cool when they are programmed right. The ones in that video i posted are in-synch with the music.

the wolf with the puppet is the best part

[Kitsa]

Oh, that does look like it...I just meant, the general atmosphere and especially that Ferris Wheel thing.

We didn't have a Farrels, so it was the nearest mental comparison I got to make.

(Ella's Deli in Madison is also similar)

[Tadao]

Farrels was insane. Many children wept when ours closed.