Chuck E. Cheese’s animatronic house bands may be getting the boot after years of simultaneously entertaining and terrifying young children. A handful of locations will be updated to exclude the long-running animatronic bands, and according to chief executive Tom Leverton, the company has a “strong hypothesis” that the bands will eventually be phased out at all locations. Instead, the chain will focus on live mascot performers. “It’s the biggest thing we've done for the look and feel of Chuck E. Cheese for two decades,” Leverton told CBS News (via Spin) about their new direction. “The kids stopped looking at the animatronics years and years ago, and they would wait for the live Chuck E. to come out.” Watch Chuck E. Cheese and the band perform in all their animatronic glory below.

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