Major Magic's (fictionalized)

Major Magic's (formerly known as Major Magic's All-Star Pizza Revue) is a family entertainment center (FEC) chain that is part of Carwardine Parks' Family Entertainment Center Division. It is currently headquartered at Carwardine Dept. 3 in Virginia Beach, Virginia alongside Carwardine's other FEC chains.

History
Carwardine acquired the chain in 1993 and relocated the chain's operations from Detroit to Virginia Beach, Virginia. Shortly after, Carwardine added new, larger kids play areas to Major Magic's All-Star Pizza Revue, Circus Playhouse & Food Emporium and Tex Critter's Pizza Jamboree to better rival Discovery Zone, Chuck E. Cheese's Obstrom, and McDonald's Ronald's Playplaces, they also began outsourcing animatronic production to Advanced Animations to cut costs on animatronic production and recast the characters. However, Jim Newton, who had been voicing Major Magic and Rock the Croc for a while, returned to those roles after managers and franchisees showed dissatisfaction with Ken Randolph's voices for the characters, with Newton traveling from Detroit to Virginia Beach every 2 months or so to record several shows' worth of new material.

In 1995, Carwardine made numerous changes: they replaced the instrument characters on stage right with three new characters known as the "Magic Gang" - Gabby the rabbit, JoJo the poodle and Max the ferret, shortened the chain name to simply "Major Magic's" and gave the chain a image overhaul.

In 1997, Jim Newton left the roles of Major Magic and Rock the Croc after he moved to Toronto. He was replaced by Eric Linney, who previously voiced Marcello until his retirement, as both characters. Linney still voices Major Magic to this day, while Rock was voiced by Tony Stoicheff from 2000 to 2013 and has been voiced by Joseph Becks since 2013.

In 1998, Garner Holt took over animatronic production.

In 2018, Circus Playhouse, Tex Critter's and Major Magic's introduced the "PlayCard" cashless payment system, which utilizes Semnox card readers.

Current Cast

 * Eric Linney - Major Magic (1997-present)
 * Dan DeForest - Sgt. Pepperoni, Flash the Lion (1993-present)
 * Amaya Carwardine - Barbara Stringband (1993-present)
 * Joseph Becks - Rock the Crocodile (2013-present)
 * Robert Hynds - Burly Hives (1993-present)
 * Kenneth Hannula - Singin' Sam (2000-present)
 * Valerie Castagna - Gabby (2003-present)
 * Caroline Mairesse - JoJo (1995-present)
 * Daniel C. Joel - Max (2009-present)

Former Cast

 * Jim Newton - Major Magic (1988-1993, 1993-1997), Rock the Crocodile (1986-1993, 1993-1997)
 * Ken Randolph - Major Magic (1993), Rock the Crocodile (1993), Killa the Gorilla (1993)
 * Eric Linney - Marcello (1993-1995), Rock the Crocodile (1997-2000)
 * Tony Stoicheff - Rock the Crocodile (2000-2013)
 * Anthony Lee Rafaeli - Singin' Sam (1993-2000), Nickelodeon (1993-1995), Ludwig Von Drum (1993-1995)
 * Zee Paluszkiewicz - Vladimir Von Trunk (1993-1995)
 * Alexa Brunton - Gabby (1995-2003)
 * Tommy Lee Carlsen - Max (1995-2009)