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cec080
07-25-2010, 05:50 PM
http://www.toledoonthemove.com/entertainment/story.aspx?id=479175
I was planning on going there this week! :((

Did anybody ever get a copy of there birthday show? It's gotta be on reel to reel I think.

[QUOTE=cec080;53570]http://www.toledoonthemove.com/entertainment/story.aspx?id=479175
I was planning on going there this week! :((


Here's an article in the toledo blade as well! http://www.toledoblade.com/article/20100708/BUSINESS03/7080368
Partyhog
07-25-2010, 07:38 PM
Uhhh, Major Magics has been closed for quite some time now.
captslappy
07-25-2010, 08:17 PM
I was going to say, hasn't this place been gone for a very long time?
Rockafirecheese
07-25-2010, 11:26 PM
I didn't know that they closed! their website is still up. Though I looked at it before I wrote this and saw it hadn't been updated in a while. Good thing I know now because I was planning to go their in the fall.
VegaNova
07-26-2010, 07:41 AM
According to the article, they just finally closed up earlier this month. I thought they had a couple of locations - maybe it was the other stores that closed much earlier?

Not unexpected to see with the current economy, but still sad to watch another FEC disappear into history :(
cec080
07-26-2010, 08:21 AM
According to the article, they just finally closed up earlier this month. I thought they had a couple of locations - maybe it was the other stores that closed much earlier?

Not unexpected to see with the current economy, but still sad to watch another FEC disappear into history :(

Yep Veganova they had the Madison Heights Michigan location too but it closed in 2008. Anybody want to meet there and go dumpster diving!! LOL!!!!
dheineCECfan
07-26-2010, 09:38 AM
R.I.P. Major Magic's 1980's-2010.
dheineCECfan
07-26-2010, 03:46 PM
According to the Toledo Blade article about the closing of Major Magic's, the Toledo area had 5 pizza/video game entertainment chains in the early -mid 1980's. Besides Major Magic's and CECPTT the Toledo area might have had for the other 3 ShowBiz Pizza Place and/or Tex Critter's and/or Bullwinkle's. (Farrell's Ice Cream Parlor, which used to have a location in Franklin Park Mall in Toledo, Ohio from the 1970's to about the early 1980's doesn't count)
CEC3066
07-26-2010, 04:01 PM
wasn't their Birthday show just the band lypsynching to "Beatles Birthday"
cec080
07-26-2010, 04:27 PM
Danny you might have something there! about the birthday show. hmmm.... ;)
raebigc
07-26-2010, 07:19 PM
RIP Major Magic's *plays Taps on the trumpet*
menutia
07-26-2010, 09:41 PM
Here is a great write-up about the animatronic band and it's creators.

http://www.machinegunthompson.com/2009_04_19_archive.html

Scroll down until you see this pic...

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_lFtHzeOal_c/Sg4JAV5J1VI/AAAAAAAAAVo/JbkJejFiWSo/s400/foxrobot.jpg
CEC3066
07-27-2010, 12:22 AM
Danny you might have something there! about the birthday show. hmmm.... ;)

well after reading that article menutia linked to, now i'm not so sure
dheineCECfan
07-27-2010, 05:23 PM
Here is a great write-up about the animatronic band and it's creators.

http://www.machinegunthompson.com/2009_04_19_archive.html

Scroll down until you see this pic...

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_lFtHzeOal_c/Sg4JAV5J1VI/AAAAAAAAAVo/JbkJejFiWSo/s400/foxrobot.jpg

Nice photo of Barbara Stringband (R&R Rebellion) and Major Magic robotics!
joeyt
07-28-2010, 07:44 PM
The Showbiz Pizza in Buffalo didn't switch over to a Chuck E Cheese, it left and Major Magics took it's place. Although I didn't like it as much as Showbiz, I thought it was better than the Chuck E. Cheese characters.
dheineCECfan
07-28-2010, 11:38 PM
The Showbiz Pizza in Buffalo didn't switch over to a Chuck E Cheese, it left and Major Magics took it's place. Although I didn't like it as much as Showbiz, I thought it was better than the Chuck E. Cheese characters.

I didn't know there was a Major Magic's in Buffalo, NY in the 1980's besides the few in Michigan and 1 in Toledo, Ohio!
cec080
07-30-2010, 06:24 AM
I didn't know there was a Major Magic's in Buffalo, NY in the 1980's besides the few in Michigan and 1 in Toledo, Ohio!

Pretty cool! I know when I went to the one in Livonia before! the show room was so full and noisy I sat in the game room! Business was booming in the 1990's I myself prefered the Chuck E. Cheese in Southgate Michigan the best!!!
CECPizza
07-31-2010, 12:24 PM
Does Major Magics ever attempts to make an franchise nationwide(across the U.S)?!?
cec080
08-02-2010, 08:37 AM
Does Major Magics ever attempts to make an franchise nationwide(across the U.S)?!?

as far as i know corporate Major Magics don't even exist any more. hence no showtapes no improvements etc. Toledo was the last known Major Magics to be in existance. The former one in Madision heights was doomed back in 2005 when Chuck and his pals came along in Troy Michigan! so i'd say no franchise,across the usa.