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Chuck E Cheese TV commercials from 1979
Topic Started: May 5 2015, 07:48 PM (3,828 Views)
CECArizona
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I heard that there was such thing as Chuck E Cheese commercials in 1979. So if we look very hard, we might find a short 3 second clip of the portrait animatronics.
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The franchise brochure mentions TV spots, so yes there were commercials back then.

I don't think there's any video online however.
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There's a good chance they're lost by now. VCRs existed but were very expensive so most people didn't own them.
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Patrick Boots CEC

(We already have a 2 sec clip of them in the training Video, but it's not the same..)
And also what they said.
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May 6 2015, 06:35 AM
(We already have a 2 sec clip of them in the training Video, but it's not the same..)
And also what they said.
Can you upload a link to the training vid you mentioned.
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May 6 2015, 05:20 AM
There's a good chance they're lost by now. VCRs existed but were very expensive so most people didn't own them.
There's a good chance some of the original video tapes still exist, somewhere. Not talking about tapes recorded by consumers, but the commercial tapes sent to the TV stations.

Out of all the commercials I've been able to date, this one is definitely the oldest. Too bad it's incomplete.



It has Harmony which would put it around 1981. They used that kid chorus jingle in their advertising for the first couple of years in the '80s. I heard it so often as a kid it bored its way into my brain to the point where I could remember it almost 35 years later, even before FNAF rekindled my interest in CEC.
Edited by 80sgirl, May 6 2015, 04:06 PM.
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May 6 2015, 07:54 AM
Patrick Boots CEC
May 6 2015, 06:35 AM
(We already have a 2 sec clip of them in the training Video, but it's not the same..)
And also what they said.
Can you upload a link to the training vid you mentioned.
I would want him to do the same thing.
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Patrick Boots CEC

MUWAHHA! You'll have to be digging! But, you should look at some of the older topics. Just don't Reply... ;)
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I don't see why one wouldn't re-post the link here. This forum is for all of us who love PTT and it's not Mr. Munch's Maze after all :-)
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Patrick Boots CEC

Eh. I'm just tired Looking for it. Search Chuck E Cheese Training Tape into YouTube.. ;)
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From what I can find searching for "training video" this is the clip in question:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TPfyUAdZCI

Not 100% sure on that but it's the only clip fitting that description also purporting to have 1977 footage.

This claim is almost certainly false. While the footage at the beginning shows the outer facade of a PTT with a very vintage style which perhaps did date back to the late '70s or very early '80s, I do not believe the footage is quite that old because: 1) the automobiles in the parking lot look like they are from the early to mid '80s and are not '70s. 2) The footage blends seamlessly into showing Showbiz Pizza with the same film grain, and Showbiz Pizza did not open until the early '80s. If I had to guess I'd say 1982 but that's just conjecture.

I do not see any footage in the video of the portrait/shelf show. All of the Chuck E. in this clip is from the balcony era or a later balcony show with mixed elements from other eras.

Let me know if anyone else finds footage claiming to be from the '70s era.

Edited by CyberamicNYC, May 7 2015, 10:45 PM.
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Actually, I think this is the video Patrick was referring to.



The portrait bots appear very briefly at the 6:24 mark. It's not vintage footage, it's from when they were on display at headquarters before some idiot threw away Jasper and Pasqually. Chuck and Crusty eventually ended up with Travis.

Incidentally, does it bug anyone else when the company says something like "when we opened the first Chuck E. Cheese's"? PTT was pretty much dissolved during the merger and AFAIK very few of their employees above the restaurant level were kept on. Showbiz bought them out and pretty much crawled inside their skin. It would be like if Disney went bankrupt, then Warner Bros. bought them and said they created Disneyland.
Edited by 80sgirl, May 8 2015, 03:40 AM.
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Patrick Boots CEC

Yeah, but that's really the Only Portrait 'footage' we have seen other than Travis'..
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May 8 2015, 06:37 AM
Yeah, but that's really the Only Portrait 'footage' we have seen other than Travis'..
TRAVIS HAS FOOTAGE!?!? Well I did make a GIF of the animatronics.
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Patrick Boots CEC

Well other than Travis s robots. Sand laptop pressing enter.
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May 5 2015, 07:48 PM
I heard that there was such thing as Chuck E Cheese commercials in 1979. So if we look very hard, we might find a short 3 second clip of the portrait animatronics.


We might be able to find some in the future. Their current whereabouts are unknown...
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It looks like there was a commercial leaked on the internet but it might not be there anymore. I found this old archived page of the Showbiz Pizza Forums. It said that there was one on the internet.

http://web.archive.org/web/20070519210750id_/http://www.showbizpizzaforum.com/forumdisplay.php?s=1100e7ca12cb52d03e4b62bb0e1a42d6&f=17
Edited by CECArizona, Sep 14 2015, 10:16 PM.
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May 8 2015, 09:33 AM
TRAVIS HAS FOOTAGE!?!? Well I did make a GIF of the animatronics.
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Okay, cool, I had no idea Pasqually was that terrifying, cool.
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May 8 2015, 03:20 AM
Actually, I think this is the video Patrick was referring to.



The portrait bots appear very briefly at the 6:24 mark. It's not vintage footage, it's from when they were on display at headquarters before some idiot threw away Jasper and Pasqually. Chuck and Crusty eventually ended up with Travis.

Incidentally, does it bug anyone else when the company says something like "when we opened the first Chuck E. Cheese's"? PTT was pretty much dissolved during the merger and AFAIK very few of their employees above the restaurant level were kept on. Showbiz bought them out and pretty much crawled inside their skin. It would be like if Disney went bankrupt, then Warner Bros. bought them and said they created Disneyland.
You're joking right? Please be joking!
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May 8 2015, 03:20 AM
Actually, I think this is the video Patrick was referring to.



The portrait bots appear very briefly at the 6:24 mark. It's not vintage footage, it's from when they were on display at headquarters before some idiot threw away Jasper and Pasqually. Chuck and Crusty eventually ended up with Travis.

Incidentally, does it bug anyone else when the company says something like "when we opened the first Chuck E. Cheese's"? PTT was pretty much dissolved during the merger and AFAIK very few of their employees above the restaurant level were kept on. Showbiz bought them out and pretty much crawled inside their skin. It would be like if Disney went bankrupt, then Warner Bros. bought them and said they created Disneyland.
Yes, it bugs me too and it's not just you. :) They've kind of swept the real history of the companies under the rug by this point.
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