Dandy Bear 2.0

> **Dandy Bear 2.0** (stylized as **Dandy Bear 2.0 Kids Restaurant and Amusement Center**) is an upcoming amusement center created by Alberto Velazquez, with its concept originally created by Jorge Sauma. The store is meant to operate like a pizza place reminiscent of the 1980's and 90's, in the style of Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza Time Theatre or Discovery Zone Family Fun Center. As the name implies, it is a revival of the popular Dandy Bear Amusement Center, a chain of arcades which operated from 1992 to 2022. The first store will start constructing on January 8th 2024. The opening date is yet to be revealed when the store is done being constructed, possibly 2025. The opening and construction dates for the other three stores are still not known. The original band animatronics and props from the Kendall location will be used in the West End store. The locations of the stores are at West End, FL, Florida City, FL, Palm Springs North, FL, and Aventura, FL.
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## Animatronics

Unlike Chuck E. Cheese's, who is starting to phase out the Munch's Make-Believe Band animatronic show, Dandy Bear will be keeping its animatronics in their remodel; only adding upon the foundation they created. The Dandy Bear 2.0 remodel will see the return of the iconic Funday Band, an animated animatronic show that plays throughout the day.

**WEST END:** To save on costs, the following animatronics will be used in the new Funday Band: Kendall Dandy, Kendall Tu-Tu, Kendall Leo, Kendall Barny, Kendall Foxy, and Kendall Chicks. They will be taken out of storage and sent back to VP Productions for a complete rebuild and restoration, during which they will get their movements back and also will be modified to not look like abandoned plush toys. The band will retain their old cosmetics (albeit with some changes) and their plastic faces, so as to not avoid replacing latex masks. The rest of the band, with new members Randonio Bermacelli, Bertie the Bull, Kristina Kiddo, Oliver Piggy, Manny Monster, Mr. Froggy Pal, Orlando Ostrich, and Miss Kitty, will be manufactured by VP Productions. The West End Funday Band animatronics will all have plastic faces. This goes for Johnny and Mailbox as well, although Building and Moon will both have latex faces like they've always had.

As for Cabaret All Day, the Johnny the Joking Giraffe and Mailbox animatronics will be custom built by VP Productions, and Building and Moon animatronics from a Chuck E. Cheese's location with a 3-Stage that is still open will be put in the cityscape. Building will be modified to look like his original Concept Unification look, and Moon will be modified to look as he looks in the Madison Tennessee CEC location.

**FLORIDA CITY,** **PALM SPRINGS NORTH, AND AVENTURA:** For the second, third, and fourth, locations, the stage set-up will be identical to that of the West End band, and the main five Funday Band members along with the Chicks will be direct replicas of the Kendall Lakes bots. The rest of the band animatronics will be built using the exact same shells and plastic molds as the West End band so that all four Funday Band and Cabaret All Day sets look identical to each other. However, these two other Funday Bands will have new drum set, bandwagon, and piano set pieces built with the only difference in their design being the logo depicted on Foxy's piano. In the West End and Florida City bands it will retain the DB logo on the piano, but in the Palm Springs North and Aventura locations the logo will be replaced by a red cursive text that reads "Dandy's Funday Band" as shown in the concept art. Said concept art can be visible here. In addition, the stages will have the name of the location they are from on a plaque underneath the "THE FUNDAY BAND" neon sign.

The shows that will play in the Funday Band room are Dandy Bear shows 1-23. Shows 8-23 will be made exclusively for the new location. The old 1-7 shows from the Funday Band will be reprogrammed, and re-recorded with the new voice actors, however some segments of the original songs will remain, with the full old versions of the show being still stored in the DB Archives, never to be performed by the band again in regular service. These show segments will be divided equally amongst 5 showtapes, one of them being the Christmas showtape. There will be 5-8 Dandy Bear show segments in each tape. Johnny the Joking Giraffe will have 10 shows, which are shorter than those of Dandy's band. Instead of the Chicks being placed on the main stage, they will be perched on top of a doorway leading to the bathrooms. The Cabaret All Day and Funday Band showroom lights will be dimmed whenever their respective show starts.

## Play Facilities/Store Features

The play area will receive many new attractions, with the Funday Express now circling the whole store. The store will be 1 story tall, and will be a part indoor theme park, part arcade similar to Celebration Station or Mt. Playmore. It will also have the circle and diamond patterns and white walls with lights surrounding the building structures like the Kendall location. This goes for all four locations. At the entrance of the new stores, there will be an entrance hall when you first walk in, similar to the hall in the Kendall location. In the hall from the West End location, the retrofitted Dandy Bear animatronic from the University Park location, if it is still around, will be put on display as a static bot. It will be placed inside an area boarded up with plexiglass and will have a plaque beside it detailing information about the bot, and beneath it, a black and white photograph of the old stage at University Park. However, this will only be present at the West End location. The other three locations will instead feature a timeline of events for Dandy Bear, similar to what is done at newer CEC stores.

The plaque on base beside Dandy at the West End location reads: "DANDY BEAR CYBERAMIC: For more than twenty years, this friendly panda has stood front and center on the animatronic stage at Dandy Bear’s first location at University Park, Florida. This location was located just across the street from the Dade-County Youth Fairgrounds and the main campus of the Florida International University. (FIU) He has been performing for kids young and old, guarding the showroom and singing songs with his animated musical group, the Funday Band. Dandy is a modified animatronic from Chuck E. Cheese’s Pizza Time Theatre, retrofitted into a panda bear by the V.P. Productions company, and is now on static display for all who enter the store to enjoy and see, and to relive a piece of the history of this company. Back in 1992 we purchased a Chuck E. Cheese’s animated show from the company and sent the characters to be retrofitted into our own characters. We put some of them on display at another of our locations after the original closed in 2003, but this Dandy animatronic has not been seen by the public eye since the store closed and we are very pleased that all who enter the store can see the panda who once performed years ago for the original company. Please, do not touch or remove any décor. Thank you."

At the entrance hall there will also be token machines, a prize counter, and a place to order food at. Beside this is a reception area where Dandy's Tunnel passes and tickets to the Funday Express may be purchased. The store will also have an updated menu, now featuring all the classics as well as the Funday Juices and the Cabaret Sodas. It will also feature new additions to the menu, including new foods which have never been on the menu before, such as Spaghetti, Chicharo, and Rice and Beans.

## Hours of Operation

The place hours will be from 8:30 in the morning to 10:30 in the evening, on Tuesdays through Sundays unless there are FNAF Nights. Mondays, the place will be closed in order to maintain the animatronics and games, and to give the workers a break from work.