Chuck E. Cheese's interior
Chuck E. Cheese's #39 (10,253 square feet)
5612 Albemarle Road, Dollar Tree Plaza, Charlotte, NC
Opened in November 1991; originally Milton's Clothing Cupboard (October 1984-March 1986)/Jesse Brown's Outdoors (November 1984-1986)/Leaf 'N Petal (November 1984-spring 1987), later Cloth World (July 1987-February 1991)
This Charlotte store is actually somewhat special: it's one of very few locations on the East Coast outside of Florida with a Road Stage! This was CEC's first in-house iteration of the Munch's Make Believe Band format; the band was introduced in 1990 as a reskinning of the Rockafire Explosion characters at converted Showbiz Pizza restaurants, but this was the first time CEC implemented it on their own Cyberamics as a replacement for Balcony, Porch, and Rocker stages of the 1980s. The design, which lasted from 1990 to 1991, is sort of a prototype for the more refined 2-stage and 1-stage formats that followed. Chuck E. is the only full-bodied character here, with the other four placed within individual boxes that cover their nonexistent bottom halves. I was excited to finally see this stage in person, but that's about the only positive thing I can say about it...
Chuck E. Cheese's interior
Chuck E. Cheese's #39 (10,253 square feet)
5612 Albemarle Road, Dollar Tree Plaza, Charlotte, NC
Opened in November 1991; originally Milton's Clothing Cupboard (October 1984-March 1986)/Jesse Brown's Outdoors (November 1984-1986)/Leaf 'N Petal (November 1984-spring 1987), later Cloth World (July 1987-February 1991)
This Charlotte store is actually somewhat special: it's one of very few locations on the East Coast outside of Florida with a Road Stage! This was CEC's first in-house iteration of the Munch's Make Believe Band format; the band was introduced in 1990 as a reskinning of the Rockafire Explosion characters at converted Showbiz Pizza restaurants, but this was the first time CEC implemented it on their own Cyberamics as a replacement for Balcony, Porch, and Rocker stages of the 1980s. The design, which lasted from 1990 to 1991, is sort of a prototype for the more refined 2-stage and 1-stage formats that followed. Chuck E. is the only full-bodied character here, with the other four placed within individual boxes that cover their nonexistent bottom halves. I was excited to finally see this stage in person, but that's about the only positive thing I can say about it...