For sale: (1) Chuck E. Cheese's animatronic band

There’s a wonderful low-rent documentary, “Rockafire Explosion!” about the creation, salad days, and strange afterlife of the robot bands.

In the course of the documentary, a die-hard fan is seen buying one of the two remaining units direct from the factory, which was* a creepy frozen-in-time picture of the firm in its heyday, featuring tools left of worktables when word of the layoffs came through, and pools of toxic sludge.

The Visalia unit looks like a re-dressed band.

*The remaining employee, the owner, blew the place up while working on a synthetic fuel.

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