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 ...
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 ...