For decades, Munch’s Make Believe Band at Chuck E. Cheese has performed for countless birthdays, end-of-season Little League parties and other celebrations.
There’s been Chuck E. Cheese and Helen Henny on vocals, Mr.
The band of robot puppets has been a mainstay at the colorful pizzeria-arcade chain where children run amok and play games for prizes in between bites of pizza slices.
By the end of 2024, the animatronic performances — endearing and nostalgia-inducing, if perhaps slightly creepy to their audiences — will be phased out at all but two of the chain’s more than 400 locations in the United States: one in Los Angeles and another in Nanuet, N.Y.
The departure of the band comes as Chuck E. Cheese undergoes what its chief executive, David McKillips, recently described as its largest and “most aggressive transformation.”
Persons:
Chuck E, There’s, Helen Henny, Munch, Jasper T, Jowls, Pasqually, David McKillips
Organizations:
Little League
Locations:
United States, Los Angeles, Nanuet, N.Y