OH! I didn’t know the documentary was on YouTube.
It is a great watch.
Fun follow-up: The creepy warehouse / factory where the animatronic robots were made burned down in a spectacular fire; the eccentric inventor was experimenting with alternative energy fuel source.
Send them back to Mom’s Robot Training Center for Reeducation and Reassignment.
It’s the biggest thing we’ve done for the look and feel of Chuck E. Cheese
I don’t want to ever see, hear, or in any way contemplate the “feel” of Chuck E. Cheese.
Is this really new news?
The last kids’ birthday party I went to there was over half a year ago, and even then they had gotten rid off the animatronics and just had cartoon characters in video on a few screens and one person in a Chuck costume (and one or two non-costumed employees too).
This wasn’t in the Texas and Missouri markets as in the news story, but the San Francisco Bay Area, where I assume they have a greater presence.
No. I am not going to go to other locations nearby to see if they have all ditched the animatronics.
You must. report back with the ratio of functioning animatronics
There’s always a lot of scope-creep in generation labels.
The Baby Boomers were originally well south of me, but kept pushing north as they aged but didn’t want to admit it, and marketing wanted to keep the band together.
I noticed the same thing, and that in many ways the decades don’t really follow the calendar, as far as many attitudes and social and cultural movements go. Like, the early Sixties were actually the tail-end of the Fifties, the early Seventies were actually the tail-end of the Sixties, etc.
I like the generational breakdown they use on hilowbrow.com.
Looks to me like you young’uns are off to a decent start…
Get back to me when you finally get around to killing religion, deranged political parties, absurd worship of ‘sports’ and poorly plotted comics. Then we can party
It won’t be long before someone turns some sport into a fully fledged religion.
Of the new religions of Japan, Perfect Liberty Kyodan (kyodan means church in Japanese) is one of the most successful. Generally known as PL to its members, it is also called the “Golf Religion” because several PL churches feature rooftop driving ranges so members don’t have to travel to practice self-expression. The nickname was bestowed by outsiders, but the church accepts it, believing that by stirring curiosity, the name attracts converts to the fold.
Sumo is from the Shinto ways of the gods.
Also “Millennial” as described are how recent college grads have been for generations. I’ve seen it, they grow up and magically become Gen X or Yers.
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