kobun37, I dont think you mentioned it, (and if you did , apos for asking again) but how did you get bitten by the Chuck E Cheese collecting bug? What first drew you to it?
And your 2 new animatronic figures look to be in great condition, too. 
Are both fully functional?
I've always thought animatronics were cool, but I actually got started collecting CEC stuff about three years ago when the indie game Five Nights at Freddy's came out. I grew up in the early 80s, so I remembered seeing these guys in the stores. As I looked into the history I ran across old video recordings and got to see some of the skits from the early, early days. Back then the company made an effort to write the material for both kids and adults, since the adults were left to watch the show while the kids played video games. The characters say suggestive stuff that went right over kids' heads but they could never get away with now. Plus I find Chuck hilarious because he's kind of a snarky asshole. I got hooked up online with a bunch of other collectors who are a group of awesome and amazing people and it just kind of grew from there.
Collecting CEC stuff is a lot like collecting rare movie posters. There's also kind of a treasure hunt aspect. A few of the things I have (such as the neon sign) are "only one known." The company is generally indifferent to the collector market. They don't target mass merchandise toward collectors, and as I've mentioned before they have a strict policy of destroying things used to decorate the stores, mascot suits and animatronics. Just like the film distributors required theaters to destroy or return old posters. In CEC's case, competitors have bought out that stuff when the stores closed and shipped it down to Mexico and other places where copyright laws are less strict and opened competing restaurants. So there is a sound economic reason for the policy, but that doesn't make the collectors any happier.
Mix in stuff given as gifts to executives and as employee awards, franchisee convention merchandise, short-run redemption prizes and there is some really neat and seriously rare collectibles out there. Getting what you want is often a waiting game, and stuff even long-time collectors have never seen before comes up every now and then. I get jealous of people with collections where everything is always available and who can just save up and buy whatever they want when they have enough money.
The animatronics are functional, but I need to buy the hardware to split the air line so I can run both of them off the same compressor. The first Chuck bot had good cosmetics but needed a lot of cleanup and repairs on the mech inside after 20+ years of service. The second bot was in much better shape mechanically because he was only in service for about 5 years, but his cosmetics were in horrible shape. Full of holes and absolutely filthy from sitting in storage. The store had them dressed in Halloween costumes right before it closed and Chuck was dressed as Dracula with a black wig that went down the sides of his head. Some idiot tech put the pieces on with hot glue instead of pins like they were supposed to and there were globs of it all twisted up in the fur and fabric on his snout. That pink fabric is no longer made and impossible to get, so replacing it wasn't an option. What you're seeing the results of literally hundreds of hours of cleaning, stitching and mechanical restoration work. There are still some minor things left to do, but I've worked on them so much they are almost members of the family.
