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Remodels and store closings in the future
Topic Started: Nov 12 2017, 02:55 PM (1,915 Views)
PaulKTF
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I think we're going to see a lot of remodels and also a lot of store closings in the next 5 years. Stores will either be remodeled to at least Phase 5 (and probably the full 2.0) or otherwise closed. Within the next 5 years they will remodel and update all of the stores that are still stuck at Phase 3 (especially) and Phase 4.

As they do this, they will pull out whatever animatronic show happens to be there and replace it with the Live Dance Floor (sorry guys, I know you don't like that but that's what I see happening). The animatronic stages will become more and more scarce over the next few years as they get phased out.

I also think they'll encourage stores to buy the newly redesigned walkarounds of the other four characters and do more Live and Birthday shows with all of the characters present to really liven up the Live shows! That should be really fun.

Underperforming and smaller stores will close to cut back on expenses, and that money will be funneled into remodeling profitable stores, and opening new locations in better areas.

This is all just an educated guess on my part... I really think CEC 2.0 is going to be the future and within 5 or 6 years it's going to be what almost all of us see when we walk into our local CEC.
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CECArizona
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Nov 12 2017, 11:12 PM
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Nov 12 2017, 08:40 PM
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Nov 12 2017, 08:23 PM
This is all true. 2.0 is doing well according to the Conference call. If a store is too small and can't remodel, it will probably close and relocate within the same area if it's in a highly populated/performing area.

The other thing is that stages are being trashed instead of sent back already. San Antonio, Military and Springfield, MA have trashed their stages. And it wasn't an accident, Corporate TOLD them to throw them away.

We've lost the fight to save our shows, all we can do now is attempt to get the company to allow removed stages to be given to fans. It's that or nothing.
Well, wasn't Burlington just moved? If stages are being sent back, shouldn't Burlington have been junked? And look at Guatemala, who made their old 3 stage into a display piece!

I don't think shows will be junked IMMEDIATELY. I think if the show is in good shape, it gets sent to Corp, but then sent out for new stages. Bad shape= dumpster.
I do know that Burlington's show was saved only to replace Springfield's show so it could be destroyed. Military's show was in excellent condition. And Guatemala locations are franchises, so they can do whatever they want.
No, it's actually because the show is too far away to ship back. If it was a franchise here in the states they would be shut down immediately. I've talked to several franchise owners and if the bots aren't in CEC and they don't want to keep them, they must be destroyed or they could possibly be sued by CEC ent for giving off their copyrighted material. The stuff that escaped years ago is history, that stuff can stay outside of CEC. I believe it's less strict with Corp owned CECs because no one owns their property as a franchise owner. It could possibly happen if someone slips a show out without telling anyone. Franchises are not allowed to do whatever they want. They must follow CEC copyright rules and maybe internationally it's different but US franchises as you can see are very strict with their rules and act just like corp stores. The Hawaii stores are technically considered international so that's why they are still doing that stuff. If one of my stores did that corp would shut them down right away.
Also about the whole relocating thing, Arizona stores most likely won't be able to relocate once they are gone. I'm guessing we've got another five or so years before corp wants us gone. We are really struggling with our PPP situation. Phoenix seems to handle it fine but the other stores are losing employees. I've talked to some of them and they said that PPP seems to have better spots open for them. I know Ben knew some people that left the Ahwatukee store (before closing) to go to PPP.
Cyberhawk
Nov 12 2017, 06:26 PM
PaulKTF
Nov 12 2017, 06:22 PM
Big Chuck
Nov 12 2017, 06:16 PM
PaulKTF
Nov 12 2017, 06:06 PM
The animatronics will all eventually be trashed. Most of them are 20+ years old at this point (and the Studio C's are getting up there in age too).
It's gonna be a few years 'til they are "trashed". And most of them go back to corporate or are recycled, not trashed. Silver Spring's Munch went to Glen Burnie.
Well yes, now they're recycled to other stores, but at some point they will stop doing that as fewer stores have or need the animatronics. I mean you can really only do so much with 25+ year old animatronics that have been run into the ground and (mostly) not maintained.
spt apparently has a room full of studio c bots that they refuse to send out to stores
It's because corp dismantled all of them for parts instead. A more than half of the 3-Stage population is in disrepair. Those stages are the toughest to keep up with. We are running out of cosmetic parts and corp won't take cosmetics from removed locations. The best thing is to keep your 3-Stage cosmetics as long as possible even if they only have a few minor cracks. If it's completely destroyed then it should be replaced but it shouldn't be replaced for minor stuff.
Edited by CECArizona, Nov 13 2017, 06:37 PM.
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Chuck_E_Fan
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If CEC Merges into PPP Wouldn't there be PPP stores all over the Us?
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MMfan365
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Um...there is no way ALL of the New England stores are closing, especially not anytime soon.

Our stores are HIGHLY capable of being remodeled and they are wayyyy to popular over here to be removed!!
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Looney Bird CEC
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^^^ I completely agree!
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RPCEC
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me too ^^^

We have some good stages up here. One of our Studio Cs is one of the six with the orginial 1998-2000 Eyelashes made of a Rubbery Latex. Wonder how Warwick ended up with them, probaly New England's first Studio C? Their store looks boring without decor on their show. Attleboro decorates, why not Warwick?
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Studio Stage
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What's so special about the original eyelashes? I get that they're rare, which is kind of cool I guess, but they're ugly. I much prefer the later Studio C eyelashes, the originals are too big in my book.
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Also Richland WA is relocating and one of the Charlotte stores will have the last Road Stage with the 90's Helen. One the new store opens, our stage list needs an update.
Edited by RPCEC, Dec 12 2017, 10:06 PM.
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PizzaCade and the CyberStars
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This is surely the land of confusion.
I was sad that Orem's bots were just dismanteld into parts and the rest was destroyed. They had :munchjr: ('s mech in the back) and both moon and :building: for crying out loud!
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