currently thinking and obsessing about the fact that my dad very likely went to an Australian version of Chuck E. Cheese called Charlie Cheese back in the early-to-mid 80s when he was a kid and how fucking COOL that is!!!
the fact that were was a whole balcony stage show with a Warblettes animatronic, a Madame Oink AND a Dolli Dimples in my country is absolutely amazing to me and i'm having so many thoughts about it. where are they now? do they still exist? did they have other rotating guest characters or was it just Madame Oink? were there any differences to the showtapes (such as name changes or localisations)? there's also this incredibly rare and adorable Charlie plush and i love him SO MUCH i'm rotating him around in my head right now
i'm kinda surprised that CEC had locations here at all back in the 80s because animatronics aren't really a big thing in Australia, at least not as much as they are in America. we never really had that big animatronic pizza craze over here and animatronic shows are a pretty rare sight here apart from the occasional big amusement park chain (but even then, they're not very common at all). but yeah i think it's fucking awesome that my dad went here as a kid as he recalls quite a lot of details about the show and the animatronics up on stage!! he specifically remembers the Grundy's location, that there was "a giant rat" and the cheese wall maze underneath the animatronics and it's SO COOL to me as someone who has a love for these old retro pizza animatronics!!! no joke one of my biggest dreams is to just see either an 80s cec animatronic or a rockafire animatronic irl one day and the fact that my dad got to see a cec show is amazing!! :D
P.S. here's a video i found of the Charlie Cheese show at Grundy's performing!!! it's at the 38 second mark and there's footage of Dolli Dimples performing too!!
“Are you dumb? Fnaf was inspired by Showbiz pizza not Chuck E. Cheese” “actually fnaf was based off of criticism of Scott’s old games saying that they looked like creepy animatronics”
Ok I’m gonna say it:
1. Yes fnaf was influenced by that criticism but it is noteworthy that Scott took some of the designs from cec/rae for the characters
2.fnaf was influenced by both Showbiz and Chuck E. Cheese
fnaf did not primarily have influence from the rock afire designs, they did take some influence from cec too
>Big bulky animatronics with similar body types
>guitarist on the left side
>chicken lady on the right side
>main character wearing a hat and bowtie is in the middle
one pizza robot hill I will die on is that the most likely crossover friendships between the rae/mmbb are:
helen & mitzi, who bond over cheerleading, being the featured singers in their respective bands, and constantly having to babysit a bunch of grown men
dook & munch, who meet due to the former’s obsession with outer space and the latter’s extraterrestrial origin (dook really wants munch’s input on the spaceship he’s building out of scrap metal, munch barely knows how tie his shoes)
jasper & beach bear, who get along great and regularly team up to sass the others until a heated debate over garth brooks vs bruce springsteen transforms them into mortal enemies
and finally
rolfe & pasqually, who realize that they’re two peas in a pod, form a comedy duo and proceed to make it everyone’s problem (especially earl’s)