Matt The Franchize Tells Me The History Of Showbiz/Cec On Montfort In Dallas Texas!

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9 ай бұрын

I meet up with ‪@MattTheFranchize‬ at the CEC on Montfort in Dallas, TX and tells me the history of the original showbiz location just down the street where the Awesome Adventure Machine was located and the Current location where the Star Stage and original Circles of Light stage premiered, Enjoy!
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@TheFunArchivist 9 ай бұрын

The showroom at the abandoned Montfort location is actually still intact. If you go to the cube glass windows on the side of the store, you can see the old studio c stage!

@smokeyjoeproductions 7 ай бұрын

Any videos that show that?

@TheFunArchivist 7 ай бұрын

@@smokeyjoeproductions just look up CEC Montfort and you'll find it

@Noahvis4 Ай бұрын

@@smokeyjoeproductions None unfurtunately since it's Target corporate work offices and they are strict about taking photos or video there.

@CECWashingtonTheCECFan 9 ай бұрын

Awesome! I’m glad you met Matt once again!

@TheGemmyKidYT 9 ай бұрын

I don’t know if he mentioned this, but the 32m bot was sent to the port orange, Florida Chuck E. Cheese’s. The store got destroyed due to hurricane Ian and. So was the bot.

@dedsecpetrikov 9 ай бұрын

actually, the bot was completely fine surprisingly! i don’t recall what happened to it after but it did infact survive

@TheGemmyKidYT 9 ай бұрын

I know it survived when the store got damaged. I’m just saying, after that they demolished the store.

@JimBobJoeB0b 9 ай бұрын

This is gonna be hype! About a month ago I did some Google-Fu and Google Earth scouring to find the original Showbiz location, found out it closed in 2002 or so and was demolished not much later....the location of the doorway is now part of a parking lot 😢 but I'm still looking forward to watching and learning more! Edit: my bad, by original Showbiz you meant the original *montfort tx* one! haha

@SetsStreetsEats 9 ай бұрын

It's actually not demolished. They just repurposed it into offices but it's still there and you'll get to see it in this video!

@s_1020v 8 ай бұрын

Do you mind sharing the exact address of old original location? I've been trying to look for it.

@CECjeresy2004 9 ай бұрын

Once again what amazing video Chris and especially with Matt the franchize again! 🤩

@mikeyrodge329 14 сағат бұрын

The abandoned Montfort location was a staple of my childhood. One time I went there and one of the speakers that was hanging from the ceiling suddenly fell to the ground right in front of the stage. Didn’t injure anybody, although it could have. I’d completely forgotten about that till I watched this video.

@mateo.ham08 9 ай бұрын

Ask him for the layout!!

@parker14_ 9 ай бұрын

2 LEGENDS RIGHT HERE

@CaseytheCalifornian 9 ай бұрын

That's so cool that you saw Matt again

@chuckster7248 9 ай бұрын

I can’t wait to watch this

@miket7330 9 ай бұрын

Super interesting with nice archives!🐭

@_SillyBoy813_ 9 ай бұрын

15:12 it was on top of a wall when you visited Travis

@MystiqEevee 9 ай бұрын

Nice to see they're being a bit more lenient on not destroying everything too bad we can't say the same for all the other locations I sure hope they save atleast 1 of every type of animatronic show even if it were to just go into a museum and be put on display in a static no perform format im sure people would still go for the history and to see all the cool old stuff

@tancoplays3502 9 ай бұрын

I went to this CEC for the summer of fun Concert tour it's a pretty nice store

@jr5620 9 ай бұрын

Wonder if Dallas could become a pioneer once more as a retro store. Via the corporate owned Huntsville AL 3 Stage or something similar! Cant wait nonetheless!❤

@SetsStreetsEats 9 ай бұрын

That would be amazing!

@Cheezbat 9 ай бұрын

Huntsvilles show was destroyed so that’s impossible.

@karlgt3656 9 ай бұрын

@@Cheezbatit didn't get destroyed

@BeachKai 9 ай бұрын

@@Cheezbat The Huntsville show was taken to SPT in Kansas, minus the Building and Pizzacam if I recall

@Cheezbat 9 ай бұрын

@@BeachKai I don’t know where you got your information but from what I was told that show was destroyed

@disneydanny2 9 ай бұрын

I guess corporate stopped considering Irving a home base store once corporate relocated their offices.

@Anonymous-ru2vg 9 ай бұрын

Awesome video , would be awesome to have both you and Matt visit Chuck E. Cheese at Milwaukee Chase Ave again. Opened around 1981 and used to have a Chuck e Street zone and an underground crawl zone under the show also. The show walls are still in tact and still have animatronics also. A lot of history at that location, and rumored was they had a adult section in the far right with the King at one point

@Willkniceley654 9 ай бұрын

Hi Chris I will see you in the live

@kierstenseethaler941 8 ай бұрын

How did I not catch this one here? 😅

@ClaerisGames 9 ай бұрын

I didn't know there was more than one two story CEC lol. One of these days I'll figure out how to demo my idea for a 2.5 stage idea. It'll never happen but I really want to get the idea how there as a 'just in case' lol

@tancoplays3502 9 ай бұрын

If you ever wanna do a video on the history of past and current locations in the OKC area I'd love to help I know a lot about those locations as they are the ones i grew up going to like how the original showbiz in SW OKC burned down sometime around 2004 or 2005

@flight8371 9 ай бұрын

do you think you'll ever visit the manchester location? its an old ptt

@blueghost4121 9 ай бұрын

You need to give your guests a mic. It's hard to hear him.

@Studio17HQ 8 ай бұрын

All 3 locations in Hawaii have the skytubes still

@SetsStreetsEats 8 ай бұрын

That's very cool to hear, I'll be visiting at least one of those in February

@Studio17HQ 8 ай бұрын

@@SetsStreetsEats oh sweet! Lmk which location! I work at the Honolulu CEC!

@DreamQueenScream 9 ай бұрын

Tell me why if I win lotto I’m 100% opening my own CEC ❤😂 this location is truly wonderfully maintained

@wiseman5519 9 ай бұрын

Hey Chris I have a question have you seen a studio c stage that had the old camera to the blue room I know you don't see it anymore but it had this turning camera that you could switch to on the interact camera control

@SetsStreetsEats 9 ай бұрын

I know what you're talking about and I definitely keep my eye out for one but I have yet to see one but I sure would like to 🙂

@wiseman5519 9 ай бұрын

@@SetsStreetsEats and when you can could you try checking out the 2.0 version of the Chuck-E-Cheese in hickory North Carolina Caldwell

@SetsStreetsEats 9 ай бұрын

@@wiseman5519 I really don't do any 2.0 visits unless there's a particular historical reason and it has to be a really significant one.

@WhoDidWhat17 9 ай бұрын

@@SetsStreetsEatsif i recall correctly, the blue screen camera is only at some of the few Studio C Beta locations outside the United States.

@s_1020v 8 ай бұрын

Probably the best 2.0 location, except for Northridge CA.

@destinyberry3518 9 ай бұрын

I laugh about the first of the video

@puzh._.top66 9 ай бұрын

NOW ASK HIM ABOUT THE SHOWBIZ OF ARLINGTON

@Radicalchuckshows 9 ай бұрын

you should go to cec headquarters that will be amazing

@SetsStreetsEats 9 ай бұрын

They no longer allow tours sadly.

@AlexPlays14 Ай бұрын

April 2010? Whoa i was born in april 1st, 2010 lol

@thegreatpapyrus1518 9 ай бұрын

Is anybody gonna talk about the fact that the old booths are still here?!

@spunchbop47428 9 ай бұрын

that’s because Budget Cuts

@thefools 9 ай бұрын

2.0 with old booths?

@WhoDidWhat17 9 ай бұрын

they got the Refresh version of 2.0 (2023 version), the ones earlier in the year reused the old furniture but all the ones that I've seen pics of recently have the 2.0 booths. (Montfort got 2.0 in May 2023)

@cec_ent 9 ай бұрын

Are you ever going to dept 18

@SetsStreetsEats 9 ай бұрын

They no longer allow tours

@cec_ent 9 ай бұрын

@@SetsStreetsEats aww man :(

@holliehogan8682 9 ай бұрын

Sup

@chuckster7248 9 ай бұрын

What happened to Chris

@FurbyRocker 9 ай бұрын

Hey! Just thought I'd mention something 7:56 About the Canadian stores being Franchises, I'm not sure if this applies to stores outside of Ontario, however all Ontario CEC stores are Corp owned and we have no play places in any of our locations!! We have only 5 locations in the entirety of Ontario and all have removed their Skytubes and stuff during the pandemic I'm not really sure about the other Canadian stores personally since I haven't looked into em

@SetsStreetsEats 9 ай бұрын

Thank you for updating that information!

@SetsStreetsEats 9 ай бұрын

By the way, is the road stage still at one location and the giant Chucky statue at the other?

@FurbyRocker 9 ай бұрын

@SetsStreetsEats The huge statue is located at the 2stage location in Willowdale/North York The location turns 40 yrs old today, actually! I'll have a little Anniversary video out for it lol

@WhoDidWhat17 9 ай бұрын

all 10 locations in Canada are corporate owned (the 5 in Ontario, the 3 in Alberta, and the 1 in Sasketchewan and the 1 in British Columbia.)

@dustyclore7406 9 ай бұрын

Nooo…. I cannot wait for Halloween to be over. This should be voted worse intro on KZfaq. Music really stinks Chris.

@CaseytheCalifornian 9 ай бұрын

*sorry we don't allow haters on here get out*

@lucaleiva6021 9 ай бұрын

U hate Halloween? Or what the problem

@dustyclore7406 9 ай бұрын

@@lucaleiva6021 not Halloween. Chris cannot hold a tune. The music stinks. Chris has bad taste in music for Halloween. I like his channel, but now I hate his intros

@dustyclore7406 9 ай бұрын

@@CaseytheCalifornian The music stinks. What are you..a Karen??