Earlier this week, America’s most popular rat-fronted pizza restaurant and entertainment venue announced a plan to phase out some of its animatronic performers, and admirers of Chuck E. Cheese’s ...

BALTIMORE (WJZ) -- If you grew up going to Chuck E. Cheese's, the pizza restaurant and arcade chain popular for children's birthday parties, you know the Pizza Time Players. It's the animatronic band ...

Damon Breland, 43, stands aside in the doorway of Smitty’s Super Service Station, a former country convenience store that has been in his family for generations, and pulls open a heavy blue curtain.

One of the longest-running musical acts in show business may be over. Chuck E. Cheese’s is phasing out its iconic animatronic band, the larger-than-life ensemble that has performed at the kid-friendly ...

NORTHRIDGE, Calif. — If anyone was going to throw a fit at Chuck E. Cheese on a recent Saturday, it was going to be the adults. After the "eatertainment" franchise announced it would be getting rid of ...

The Kansas City area’s last Chuck E. Cheese mouse doesn’t do much these days. He slowly turns his animatronic matted, gray head a few times a minute — scanning the empty stage. His earlier ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — After 40 years rocking out, Chuck E. Cheese is working to phase out its famous animatronic music shows. If you've been inside a Chuck E. Cheese, or even a now-defunct Showbiz Pizza ...

The upcoming animatronic horror film Five Nights at Freddy’s (opening in theaters and on Peacock today!) and the video game of the same name on which it’s based, take their inspiration from a wave of ...

“Five Nights at Freddy’s” isn’t half as scary as one or two of the parent-vs.-parent brawls I witnessed a few years ago at Chuck E. Cheese’s, but that’s another story, too intense for any storytelling ...