Tuesday, June 14, 2016

My Visit to CEC in Walker, Michigan on April 2016

CREATED on TUES 06/14/2016 at 10:30am EST!!
P.S., I can't believe that this CEC in Walker, MI was a former ShowBiz Pizza!!!!

Chuck E. Cheese's of "Alpine" Walker, Michigan, U.S.A.
(formerly ShowBiz Pizza Place since The 1980's!!!!)
Michael here on Pizza Time Bancy:
I remember my first visit to that one CEC on Alpine Avenue in Walker, Michigan, U.S.A. during The 21st Birthday of my engaged female fiance Hannah "Savannah" Garcia and, for one thing, I thought that this one was a former CECPTT but I was WRONG when CEC of "CenterPointe" Grand Rapids, MI is actually a former CECPTT because CEC of "Alpine" Walker, MI was a former ShowBiz Pizza!!!! CEC of Walker, MI had their CU 3-Stage (formerly "The Rock-Afire Explosion" since the 1980's!!) but the staff of CEC in Walker, MI had already replaced their 3-Stage in 2002-03 with a new Garner Holt-made "Studio C Beta" animatronic show which for one thing I thought that "Garner Holt WRECKED Creative Engineering" but I WAS WRONG!! I WAS REALLY WRONG!!!! Forget "Frozen" because I hated that movie for why Disney wanted to stop using 2D traditional hand-drawn animation techniques for their later films but we are SAVED when the 2D animation on Maui's tattoos and the 2D/3D integration animated short film "Inner Workings" has made the Disney animation executives' suggestions to bring back 2D animation to the big screen!!!!
Too bad that CEC of Walker, MI has already gotten rid
of their 3-stage in favor of the Garner Holt-made Studio C
Beta animatronic show!! I HATE FROZEN!!!!!!
I was very upset to see that Studio C Beta has replaced CU 3-Stage just like when CEC of Dearborn got rid of their CU 3-Stage as they replaced them with a new Circle of Lights stage with used Studio C Chuck animatronic from Plano, Texas!! I BLAME JOHNNY TEST AND I DON'T CARE!!!! I THOUGHT I WAS ABOUT TO SEE THE CU 3-STAGE IN ACTION AT CEC IN WALKER BUT, UNFORTUNATELY, I WAS TOO LATE BECAUSE STUDIO C BETA HAS ALREADY REPLACED THEM!!!!!!!!!! Good Thing that CEC of Southgate, MI and CEC of Flint, MI are both keeping their CU 3-Stages (Southgate's 3-Stage was in nearly-poor condition but Flint's 3-Stage remained A-O.K.!!!!)

Sorry about my ELECTRONIMATED Rant but that Is all I wrote for today!!
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Friday, June 3, 2016

My visit to Huckleberry Junction on May 2016!!

Created on Friday June 3rd, 2016 at 10:23pm EST!!

Sorry about the month-long hiatus folks but Pizza Time Bancy is BACK!!!!
Right Now, in this blog post, We're talking about how I revisited Huckleberry Junction Playhouse Theater in Genesee, Michigan, U.S.A. on May 2016, well, similar to ShowBiz Pizza/Chuck E. Cheese but is an actual single independent family fun pizzeria with Sally Corp's "Daniel and the Dixie Diggers w/ Jethro P. Hogg" animatronic show and good pizza for cheap prices plus fun and games and prizes!!!!

Huckleberry Junction Playhouse Theater in Genesee, MI...
...CURRENTLY SERVING ICE CREAM AS PART
OF THE NEWLY-EXPANDED MENU OPTIONS!!!!
I had a great time at Huckleberry Junction Playhouse Theater on the middle of May 2016 and when I walk up to the entrance door, I noticed some flashing spotlights inside and I rushed into the building and in front of the Daniel and the Dixie Diggers animatronic show and I filmed them performing the "Tiger Rag" just in time!! Then I filmed more videos of Daniel and the Dixie Diggers then some videos of Jethro P. Hogg on my iPhone 6 smartphone device and, yes, they have free wifi like at most Chuck E. Cheese's locations everywhere!!!! Besides all that pizza and cheese bread and ice cream, I played the best ticket redemption arcade games possible like the Big Bass Wheel, the Candy Crane machine, the new Skee-Ball Classic 2010 Deluxe Model (from Skee-Ball, Inc., NOT ICE BALL!!), Fruit Ninja the Ticket Redemption Video Arcade Game and many other ticket redemption arcade games with a big hand from my brother Sebastian and my peer buddy Dustin "DJ Loopy" Looper as they win a whole lot of tickets from the "Piano Duet" ticket redemption video arcade game and I won big prizes which include My own Green Plastic Crayon Bank, My own Uncle Sam hat, some more Candy besides some from the Candy Crane and, yes, that was it!!
The Alternate Three-Character Version of Sally Corp's
"Daniel and the Dixie Diggers" animatronic show which
includes...: Daniel T. Bones on piano,
Scratchmo on trumpet and, yes,
Colonel Buford T. Beauregard III the sheepdog on banjo!!
I'm so happy that I finally got to revisit Huckleberry Junction Playhouse Theater for nearly eight years ago after my very first visit to that place in 2007 when I was in my middle school years! Originally they sold Coca-Cola soft drinks from the time they opened in 1982 until the beginning of 2008 when they replaced their Coca-Cola products with Pepsi products!! Good thing I drank some Diet Pepsi along with some Crush Orange Soda to start my big pizza lunch before winning tickets out of arcade games then Ice Cream then back to winning big tickets for prizes for Billy Bob's sake!!!!

While I claimed my prizes, I took my last photo of my rediscovered middle school-era place, this time, of the Crazy Maze indoor soft-contained playground which has already gotten newly refurbished while Huckleberry Junction Playhouse was closed for rearranging and remodeling and refurbishing for a while back in 2010!!

The Crazy Maze Indoor Soft-Contained Playground at
Huckleberry Junction Playhouse Theater in
Genesee, Michigan - Circa Mid-May 2016!!!!
Yours Sincerely,
MICHAEL "Mooter" IGAFO-TE'O
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Saturday, March 19, 2016

Remembering ShowBiz Pizza Place of Jackson, Michigan...

UPDATED on Saturday, March 19th, 2016 at 6:26pm EST
P.S., I can't believe that THIS ShowBiz Pizza had already closed down for a brand-spanking new @$*%!? Big Lots store for Billy Bob's sake!!!!!!!!

Billy Bob is rooting for some kid who while
that exact same kid playing a video arcade game
(SOURCE - M-Live Jackson News Blog)
Pizza Time Bancy will like to make a special "THROWBACK" post,...

We Remember when Jackson, Michigan used to have a ShowBiz Pizza.   In the words from the M-Live Jackson News Blog Article on "ShowBiz Pizza" in Jackson, Michigan;
Billy Bob and Looney Bird at ShowBiz Pizza Place
in "Argyle Road" Jackson, Michigan, U.S.A. Circa 1982
ShowBiz Pizza Place, 1050 Argyle St., wasn't around very long, but it left its mark on the county's teen scene in the early to mid-1980s.
ShowBiz Pizza Place was the competitor of Chuck E. Cheese's, a child's paradise of pizza, games and electronic puppets.
In late November 1982, Jackson kids rejoiced when one opened in the former 12,000-square-foot Great Scott supermarket that had closed in 1978. The 300-seat restaurant had about 60 arcade games, including video games like Pac-Man and Space Invaders, and coin-operated rides. There was a room with a big-screen TV for sports and a "quiet room" for parents to escape the noise of the games. But the restaurant's most unique feature may have been the "Show Room," which was described in a Citizen Patriot "Dining Out" column as, "the nearest thing I've seen to a dimly lit night club for the younger set." 
The Rock-Afire Explosion at ShowBiz Pizza Place
in "Argyle Road" Jackson, Michigan, U.S.A. Circa 1982
The "show" was "The Rock-afire Explosion," which featured a stage lit up by "Billy Bob," an animated singing and guitar-strumming hillbilly bear in overalls, "Looney Bird", and the rest of the animatronic band featuring "Fatz Geronimo," a gorilla on the synthesizer keyboard, "Dook LaRue,", a doggone dog on the four-piece drum set, "Beach Bear," a polar bear on the rock 'n roll guitar, "Mitzi Mozzerella," a common gray mouse that is the show's female singer, and "Rolfe and Earl," the common gray wolf-and-yellow fuzzy puppet comedic act duo.  The band had a repertoire of 13 songs, including a medley of Elvis numbers.  The ShowBiz menu was pretty basic — pizza, deli sandwiches and a salad bar. However, there were some uncommon combinations, including the Pizza Royale, which included corn kernels as a topping. 
Teen Night at ShowBiz Pizza Place in
"Argyle Road" Jackson, Michigan, U.S.A. Circa July 1984.
By 1984, Jackson's ShowBiz Pizza Place had established itself as a teen hangout, which upset some patrons who didn't like that kids were being dropped off there by their parents. Fearing these kids were driving customers away, management began strictly enforcing a rule barring persons younger than 18 from entering unless they were accompanied by an adult. Employees even checked identification at the door after 6 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays. We want to be a family restaurant, not a hangout," Jeff Schlaud, manager, told the Citizen Patriot at the time. As a compromise, in July 1984, ShowBiz began offering dances from 9 p.m. to midnight on Fridays for teens age 13 to 18. They were chaperoned by employees dressed in top hats, bow ties and red vests. 
ShowBiz Pizza Place in "Argyle Road" Jackson, Michigan TODAY!
PHOTOGRAPHED on Saturday, March 18th, 2016
(Special thanks to my brother, Sebastian Igafo-Te'o, for taking
this iOS photo of what "Jackson" ShowBiz looks like now as of 1987!!!)
Attendance was limited to 472 teens at a time. They usually had a sell-out crowd, with some lining up as early as 7:30 p.m. to get in and others waiting outside for teens to leave so they could finally get in.  It all came to an end in 1985 when a merger combined ShowBiz Pizza Place with its rival Chuck E. Cheese. The Jackson store was closed that year and the building sat vacant until Big Lots, which still occupies the spot today, moved in during 1987. It's a doggone crying shame that they didn't even convert ShowBiz Pizza's Jackson, MI location into a Chuck E. Cheese's around 1990-92 after keeping Jackson ShowBiz open instead but that backfired and now it's gone forever thanks to "Big Lots" in Jackson! (Also, it's too bad that I don't like the new "Wabbit" show (featuring Warner Bros. Cartoons/Termite Terrace/Warner Bros. Animation's Bugs Bunny as the title character!) for ruining the American broadcasting of seasons "three" and "four" of Aardman Animation's popular British stop-motion plasticine animated HDTV series "Shaun the Sheep" on Cartoon Network!!)

However, Here are some FASCINATING TIDBITS mentioned on the M-Live Jackson News Blog article on the "ShowBiz Pizza Place" in Jackson, Michigan THAT WASN'T!!:
  1. Chuck E. Cheese had considered the Jackson spot ShowBiz Pizza Place claimed for its restaurant, but abandoned the idea, saying the location was too large for the size of store it wanted in town.
  2. When it spent $1.8 million to gut and reconstruct the old Jackson supermarket, ShowBiz was in the midst of a building boom. By the time the Jackson restaurant opened in 1982, a new ShowBiz was opening about every three days someplace in the country.
  3. In January 1983, Jackson's ShowBiz Pizza Place installed two educational computers and offered time on them at no charge to school classes from 9-11 a.m. weekdays. The computers were programmed to play 10 games covering such subjects as math, spelling and economics.
  4. In February 1983, Jackson's ShowBiz Pizza Place acquired a liquor license that had been held in escrow for four years by Catherine E. Alspaugh, owner of the former Silver Foam Tavern, 1442 Cooper. The tavern was destroyed by a natural gas line explosion in February 1979.

Yours Sincerely,
MICHAEL "Mooter" IGAFO-TE'O - 
Autistic Animation Hobbyist since 2007 and Part-Time Audio-Animatronics Fan with Autism since 2004!!!
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Friday, March 18, 2016

Our Very First "Pizza Time Bancy" Video on YouTube!!!

CREATED in Friday, March 18th, 2016 at 8:26am EST

Finally,....

























...OUR FIRST "PIZZA TIME BANCY" YOUTUBE VIDEO IS FINALLY POSTED LAST NIGHT!!!!!



Enjoy!

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Tuesday, February 2, 2016

Welcome to Pizza Time Bancy THE BLOG!!!

Created on Tuesday, February 2nd, 2016 at 5:46pm ET/4:46pm CT
P.S., Hello, All CEC/RAE/Audio-Animatronic Fans Everywhere!!!

Billy Bob and Looney Bird at Snap's Blast to the Past Museum
in Florida, well, before the "accidental fire" in 2010!
(Photo Courtesy of ShowBiz Pizza Dot Com!!!)
Welcome, Everyone, to my new blog dedicated to the upcoming launch of BancyToon Podcast's "Pizza Time Bancy" on YouTube!!! Michael here: We're glad to post everything related to Chuck E. Cheese/Rock-Afire Explosion/Disney Imagineering such as my own DVD Showtape Reviews old and new (including the CyberStar DVD ones by Gabriel "Big Time PizzaCam" Vasquez that I've bought four DVD copies of old CyberStar/CEC-TV Showtapes from him back on December 2015!) and Local Family Entertainment Center Tours on Video and Photos, Reviews on Audio-Animatronic Theater Shows Old and New, Reviews on Family Entertainment Centers Old and New, History on Audio-Animatronic Theater Shows and, yes, Many More Yet to Come!!! However, I will start with uploading my 720p High-Definition "Video Tour" of the Airport Lanes Arcade in Jackson, Michigan, U.S.A. that my brother, Sebastian "Bashy" Igafo-Te'o, and I videotaped using Bashy's iPhone back on Late January 2016 even though I already made the final cut on iMovie using my MacBook Pro Laptop Computer! (NOT Final Cut Pro!!! Sorry!) However, I will not be around this blog for a while because I will be on my February 2016 vacation trip to Northern Michigan to see my engaged female fiance Hannah "Savannah" Garcia
Don't Be Shy (or Scared) because it's only
the 1980's-era Cyberamic Chuck E. Cheese!
He wants to say hello to you anyway! :)
(Photo courtesy of CaptSlappy!!)
from Friday, February 12th, 2016 trough Tuesday, February 16th, 2016 just in time for Valentine's Day 2016 and, don't worry! I'll be back home after a good trip up north!! However, I did post this welcoming post on Tuesday, February 2nd, 2016 for "Billy Bob's Sake"!!!

That's All I Wrote to welcome all you RAE/CEC/Audio-Animatronic Fans of Blogger right here!
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Yours Sincerely,
MICHAEL "Mooter" IGAFO-TE'O
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