Earlier this year, Chuck E. Cheese announced that it would phase out the animatronic characters that have been delighting kids since the late ’70s at all but five of its 400 U.S. locations. That was a ...

For many decades, Chuck E. Cheese’s in-house band has entertained birthday kids and families enjoying pizza, cake and sodas for celebrations — but the furry musicians with big eyes are not the life of ...

The Kansas City area’s last Chuck E. Cheese mouse doesn’t do much these days. He slowly turns his animatronic matted, gray head a few times a minute — scanning the empty stage. His earlier ...

The kids "eatertainment" chain is saying goodbye to its animatronics band. But not all are ready to let go of the fuzzy robot characters of their... Kids are losing the Chuck E. Cheese animatronics.

Saying its band will be in “residency” in California, Chuck E. Cheese’s has announced the animatronic group is being pulled from almost all of its restaurants. Munch’s Make Believe Band will be at ...

A newly remodeled Chuck E. Cheese restaurant opened this week in Gage Park on Chicago’s Southwest Side, promising all the arcade games, screaming kids and pizza-fueled mayhem that parents have come to ...

The animatronics of Munch’s Make Believe Band aren’t going anywhere from Springfield’s Chuck E. Cheese at 2369 S. MacArthur Blvd., performing on stage eternally in motion thanks to the pushback from ...

(CNN) - Good news for anyone heartbroken over Chuck E. Cheese’s decision to largely retire its animatronic bands. While the band at the pizza-and-arcade chain is still going away in most places, the ...