Not their fault, someone said no more shows, and if he wanted to save the things he had to give the characters away and Chuck E. Cheese was always a separate company, but until it happened.

@@Toppled. Yeah

Touchy and awesome beautiful story! My respects to you! :) (I also grew up at Showbiz pizza at Guadalajara México)

I agree that the cec characters should burn in the 🔥

Just the costumes not the mechanics

We need to make a petition on change.org for Showbiz Pizza to make the comeback it's always deserved. Who knows! Maybe Aaron Fechter can make an updated Rock-afire Explosion with newer technology and stuff.

There are some open but most of the animatronics are I ruff condition

Showbiz Pizza Place was purchased by Apollo Globle Management in February 2014

If you go to creative engineerings website there are tours with working animatronics in good condition in orlando florida

you could have went to chuck e cheeze before corona

He's selling it now because he no longer has a choice.

@@zippymufo9765 : ( omg

@@zippymufo9765 he didn’t have to, it was more so he wanted to do cleaning up and wanted to downsize to a smaller location

@@BeastlyCoop That's not what I read. Some people have looked up local Florida records and he's been sued for not paying his debts a few times. He probably sold it because he needed the money.

@@BeastlyCoop yea and with so much stuff in his old warehouse i can see why

Yeah

How much is it

CEC Bama not sure

I dunno, I think maybe anywhere from 25,000 to 100,000.

Samantha Kuznik IMA BUY THAT SHOW

germanicus fink.... CMON GUYS LETS GET CREATIVE!!!!!!!!

Yeah, i almost crowded my entire basement covering a box with tape once.

WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE IDEA!!??

The One Time To form a cover band wearing the costumes! I wanna be the drunk garbage can bird, my instrument the jug of course.

@@phoradio1277 MINE IS BEING CREATIVE!!!!

Theatre Nerd well I am I watch them everyday

I’m interested I just ask my mom to go there because of them and so you know I’m talking about Chuck E. Cheese’s

R.o.b da robot 🤖 showbiz is better but that’s your opinion and this is mine

Yeah I think it’s better to honestly LOL

I sure am! ^^

Chris Thrash tried to open his own Showbiz, went bust, lost his house, and had to sell his Rockafire set. Sad to see him so happy about regaining his childhood and then hearing he lost it.

@@zippymufo9765 That's a bummer. Kind of wish that I didn't know that.

Aaron Fechter's show is still in his Warehouse and still works good and Aaron makes videos on his KZfaq channel therockafire. But we haven't heard from Chris thrash in years. All we know is that he had a show at one point, try to open a pizza place which was a horrible idea, went out of business lost all his money, lost his house, and had to sell his rockafire explosion set.but there is a lot of other people that have rockafire shows, like at Smitty's super service station in Mississippi, and Goofy gas filling station in Indiana. So I would say that they're pretty alive right now except Aaron is just kind of unstable. Lol. That's basically where they are now. Oh and Chris thrashes set is kind of deteriorating in a theme park in Korea so that's kind of sad

Aaron Fechter went total looney tunes in the wake of the 2016 presidental election and alienated the fanbase to the point where Travis (a.k.a. the fansite guy in this) straight up disowned Aaron, and this film. Chris Thrash tried to open his own restaurant, failed, sold his show, tried buying another one and restoring it, went nuts and last I heard is off the radar.

@@daniexists6 nah, he didnt go nuts, he got depressed and started doing drugs, wonder what happened to sandy thrash? (his wife)

the opposite for me, it started sad and gross then turned bittersweet

Dude, they aren't fnaf fans, they just miss the band. Chill the fuck out.

GiantBanana first of all there are not small far from small second one of them isn’t a dude

im a fnaf fan but i like fnaf for a different reason it does have a similar feeling to the rocka fire if you know the full story to fnaf . fnaf haters should shut up its tearing me up really. its more to do with the story then jump scares people dont know what they saying. its poor when they say. oh its just jumps scare NO ITS NOT ITS SOOOOOOO MUCH MORE . sorry i went to far i came here because of nostalgia and even tho i never grow up at show biz in the 80s but i wish i did . but its a good thing we have a Documentary . thats what matters

NGTV Especially that birthday song when he talked about how Sal passed away. I genuinely wanted to cry during that scene.

Slowpoke85 same

They would have turned him into some kid skateboarder. 🤮 Thank you, Aaron, for keeping the RAE with you!

Me too

Thank God we had Chuck E Became ing a skateboarder Mouse kid instead

@therockafire, oh, now I get it. Probably not him. The real therockafire has been on here for many, many years. He’d never say that.

PsyintZ, now, which company saved CEC in the mid-80s? :)

Shut up kid. Chuck E. Cheese at least TRIES. Acting like your opinion is objective is stupid and immature of you.

@@mrmemepro5249 they dont try, because they don't care.

@@thechaoplushproductions4144 they did at one point. But now I can kinda see it. Also I made this comment a while ago.

1. Showbiz owns Chuck E. Cheese. 2. Chuck E. Cheese used to be the parents of pizza Showbiz (the original name of Showbiz) until they broke the contract and opened the first showbiz. Chuck E. Cheese will always be apart of showbiz

Wow that is sad

@@tammygouletschrader8785 it’s now in Wolmi theme park in korea, practically playing themselves into the ground. The more recent the videos of it, the worse the condition gets. The whole Rock-afire story is so amazing yet so sad.

@@Balootoyoutoo where can I see the video?

@@tammygouletschrader8785 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/a8WPfLR6xqypYmw.html

@@Balootoyoutoo Well, the whole Rockafire brand has basically been dead since the 80's. Fechter always wanted someone to put money behind it and make cartoons and movies and rides and the like, but it's never happened. I went to Showbiz often as a kid in the 80's but I was never into the RAE because the music was turned up too loud and it was hard to talk, so I ate my pizza and then took off for the arcade.

yes!!

lol I did too I actually went up on stage behind the curtain a very very feeling

+Explosive Candy who hasn't done that

+Explosive Candy who hasn't done that

spacekitt3n your mom

yeah :'(

Llp

Showbiz outsold Chuck E. Cheese, those asshole's tried to screw Fechter over, but he has fan's and even his factory and animatronics appeared in Keanu.

Yeah

Zazzy Z-man I know authority sucks.

Chris Sutton King of Kong fistful of quarters is decent.

What I think I'm an animal and My fake baby are really good!

There is another Rockafire video where the creator gives a tour of an old Rockafire warehouse.

The defunctland documentary on haylx is a good one

@@squishlez I agree!

What did the people in the doc do?

@@FormulaFanboyTravis schafer who is in this documentary has defended a pedophile in the community and doxxed/ harassed several minors as well as done other slimy no good things. Some of the fans formed the rockafire “mafia” and use some of Aaron’s copyrights and such without his blessing

Justin Perlman he was the reason aderall was invented

He took a radio apart at age 4. He put it back together at age 5. He started a TV repair business at age 11 (but quit because he couldn’t lift the sets). Need any more proof?

He is also a genius

He’s also an asshole

@SublimeHawk6 oh to be innocent. You can find a bunch of evidence on the internet

i laughed at your moustache

spacekitt3n Gus Sorola's mustache*

+Martin McDonnell A roosterteeth AND rock afire fan? Hella.

):

Uhmm.

Don’t worry, with security breach’s DLC, and a movie on the way, more fans are coming.

I hope they throw this guy a bone and and get him to make some Customs to promote any FNaF films, PR etc. he made a genre and it broke the poor guy. (although if he's not doing factory tours where everything is supposed to be shut down, but the tour guide gets pulled away to answer a call... then the lights flicker and half an animatronic opens the door he is missing a trick)

Ima kid and I like animatronics, engineering and blah blah but I hate when someone brings up fnaf when I’m talking about animatronics.

@@bethaltair812 Doubt it, Fechter's tech is pretty ancient compared to modern animatronics. He might have been cutting edge in 1980 but he hasn't kept up with advances.

@@bethaltair812 Fechter also didn't "invent a genre", animatronic musical acts have been around since the 60's. He also didn't invent Whack A Mole, but that's a different story.

O h n o

When saying us to sit but now we're stress out

When our moma sang us to sleep but now were stressed out

"just imagine if your (I'm guessing single) parent decided to leave you alone at a pizza restaurant for hours MULTIPLE TIMES as a child... I think that would be enough to have you create a rather strong attachment to some fictional characters." Wow. That actually makes a TON of sense. I had always struggled to understand why anybody liked (much less LOVED) those hideous clanking Island of Dr. Moreau-looking freaks. But now that you mention it... there WERE kids I knew whose mothers used Chuck E. Cheese as a kind of cheap babysitter while they ran errands or worked a half shift. You'd never get away with that shit now, but that was common back in the 80s.

@@Gj23jk2 I geuss you could get away with a lot of shit In the 80s

nowadays, he get more nutrition from drugs, because he is depressed. :) (im actually being serious)

@@thechaoplushproductions4144 holy shit thats so depressing

@@eliahnnalopez1040 yep.

Let's see maybe they'll come back one day

P TC Well they exist in they creation place

P TC they exist at Billy Bobs wonderland in West Virginia. They have a working show you can watch.

Don't go to Billy Bobs wonderland lol. They look like complete shit (see carpetbaggers video on it).

Funpaws TFM yeah most of the masks are fake and it just sucks (saw from carpetbagger too)

I'm 17, I too find these characters very fascinating.

@@NoU-pf8fc Same

I grew up right next to Tinley and loved Odyssey Funworld. That too is just a shell of what it once was

@@satanicXcultXrosary and it's long gone now

I'm old enough to remember both. But never knew Odyssey ended up with RAE.

Wow that’s close to me

2 years ago oh man, one year younger than me now XD

Your a year older than me

Wow you're the same age as my sister now

you're just a year younger than me, my friend. i feel it. not a fan of aaron fechter, but the rockafire explosion was a big part of my childhood

Hey you I was born in 2004 too so we are the same age and I have to agree with you 100%

Also, at some 3-stages, doesn’t Pasqually have the Dook drum set front? 💥

@@emmarose4234 yuh

Agreed.

***** Let's be nice, everyone has a right to their opinion.

+Eternal The Wolf clearly he was born in the 2000s

+Eternal The Wolf that's y he likes chuck e cheese

Jimmy Gigles have they had any accidents like Chuck E. Cheese where the anamictronics grab someone?

69 likes lol

Ya I’m gonna start being honest I’d rather go back in time to see the rockafire explosion and warn past Aaron that Chuck E. Cheese is gonna take the rights for the rockafire explosion and help him stop them because Chuck E. Cheese characters don’t even lip sync all they do is sit there deactivated all day chuck d cheese doesn’t even try as hard as Aaron did and I respect that highly while Chuck E. Cheese doesn’t deserve anything for ruining millions of childhoods

Hey :)

jackievongrimm this is 2008

r/lewronggeneration

90s was just as good as the 80s. 90s was basically a upgrade of he 80s it took everything a level higher and crossed lines. then 2000 came and everything went to shit basically. the only thing i hated about the 90s was there was more violence

He’s totally gone to the head now though. I think spending all that time in the warehouse alone has gotten to him, bc now he’s a big ass shitty bigot…

He's a weirdo

+Madison Chevy Fan I almost did.

+Cec Stages And I still cry just thinking about it. I really wish I could see the Rock afire explosion

+Madison Chevy Fan Me too, my goal is to go to CEI one day.

Cec Stages me too

+CEC Stages It costs $225.00 to get a Tour at CEI.

Am I the only one who used to and still gets freaked out by all sorts of animatronics?

Am I the only one who used to and still gets freaked out by all sorts of animatronics?

Rio 2016 TURKEY-TÜRKİYE you only

Beth Di Bartolomeo my childhood was chuck e cheese not this so I'm new to the rock of fire

Jack & Kar Bleh Man if you childhood was chuck.e I suggest a lot you See the rock afire explosion!

Osomatsu-san Trash -Couldn't have said it better 👍🏻👌

Bully Bob's Wonderland

Mikasa Ackermann as much as we’d all love that we can’t cause Chuck E. Cheese has the rights to the rockafire explosion Aaron doesn’t so it’s impossible

Chuck E. Cheese does NOT own the Rock-Afire Explosion.

^Chuck E. Entertainment Actually, they bought Showbiz out and took over the business.

+TheBlueEyedFox This documentary was made a couple of years ago so Fnaf wasn't made yet.

+chunkeychimp 627 Okay, wasn't too sure...well then, FNAF will probably be the thing that brings his animatronic band back officially.

+TheBlueEyedFox I know what your saying, I had no knowledge of the Rockafire until I looked up real Aniamatronics and the Rockafire poped up

+TheBlueEyedFox i think i remember you

+TheBlueEyedFox Yeah, I do believe Fnaf had a great impact on these guys. It's annoying when you see "OMFG DIS IZ FIVE NEGHTS AT FREDDEHS" But it's great when they get into it. You know? Younger people really love the rock afire and I think it's amazing. They may NEVER be as huge as they were again, But I would love to see the ShowBiz Fandom really grow and become really popular.

cindy the cat Chuck E. Cheese is bad now it used to be good

Dude same here I had no idea they took the rock afire kid's childhood away and replaced them with less cool characters. In 2008 I first discovered the rock afire explosion, I thought they were cool and funny. But I do like one chucky cheese character, and that's the dog. But other than that I like rock afire explosion way better, their way funnier.

Thanks but don't pity us! Things were more creative then because there was no internet. We had to create unique things to amuse ourselves! The result was better music, cartoons, toys & movies. Now it's all about special effects & computer-generated everything. Prettier to look at, but no soul. =)

Jane Doh I agree with you, being an 80's kid myself things were much more creative then.

Heck, even growing up in the 00s I'll say that. Even compared to now and I was growing up using message boards, AIM, IRC, all that stuff that FNAF girl would probably go "what the heck is this guy even talking about" Still creative types out there but the kids growing up nowadays have to force them self into creative endeavors more than even my generation had to. Distractions are just a click or a tap away now. For us it was a bus ride away.

Same, but I'm 13. I've been pretty into since I was 10 or 11. I wish we had a showbiz pizza growing up, but we just have stupid chuck e cheese.

Sheriece Sowells Yeah is a special function of beach bear he have that since the Wolfpack 5! band!!! and notice closely Duke larue also move he foot(feet) to make the cymbals up !.+.!.!.! And a thing i have seen in thosee days.... Is BIILY BOB AND BEACH BEAR they have the same arm movement

That's awesome :D

Yeah! It’s super awesome. It makes him look like he’s having a lot of fun. He and Looney Bird both have an eye mechanism that lets them cross their eyes like that.

@@tabbiexcat that makes sense. That is the best idea for them. Seems to bring their personality more to life.

kobun37 Oh, wow. This is all valid information?

Woah, why? What happened?

kobun37 Woah woah woah! That's crazy! What?

kobun37 Link your sources?

ScootsNB Same. Yes, please!

hes mot anymore unfortunately

you people realize aaron is a POS, right?

I love the Aaron bot comments SO MUCH

Thats when you say, " Hey Aaron!? Want some taffy!" Mitchell hedberg joke

Also doesn't it seem like she was like 14 and he just scooped her from Boston? I thought she was just a really strange paid actress but now I just really hope she was

@@charitystolarz4615she was working at chuck e. cheese in her early 20s and that’s when she was introduced to the rockafire… as explained in the doc itself… the girl who played Mitzi is a different person

CEC was around before RAE

+Christopher Morano: Not really. Yes, the characters were, but it was called PTT and they were half-stage characters, not 3-stage.

RAE bought out CEC

@@TherealRNOwwfpoohnot to sound rude, that doesn't change the fact that showbiz still came after chuck e and was essentially a ripoff. On a related note aaron is a POS who got what he deserved (just needed to get that out as far too many people are sympathizing with this psychopathic racist manipulative POS)

@@FreeSpiritPaulette No, he didn't. If he would've sold the RAE to Showbiz Pizza Time (the name of the merged company before rebranding back to Chuck E. Cheese following "Concept Unification" [as in, taking off the RAE cosmetics & putting face masks and costuming of the Pizza Time Players onto the 3 stage RAE mechs under the new moniker of Munch's Make Believe Band while also getting rid off all of the previous Showbiz branding]; Although, this only lasted until CEC corporate decided that the animatronics by themselves simply weren't pulling in the audiences in the wake of competition like Dave 'n Busters, so the chain greatly reduced the number of animatronics to just the standalone Chuck E. - formerly Rolfe De Wolfe - animatronic & apparently scrapped the rest of the physical band in order to install a background backsplash featuring multiple TVs simultaneously running the corresponding Show Tapes that still featured the walk around versions of the band acting goofy as cover versions of popular songs played in the background when the lone animatronic left on stage wasn't appearing to use the main physical TV in conjunction with the otherwise forgotten Uncle Klunk phone line prop disguised as a computer hookup to loosely interact with 2D animated versions of the other band members in a homage to Skype/FaceTime/Zoom & other social media tools, with this rather truncated version of the show being renamed to Studio C, until CEC management's been toying with the idea of just gutting the Show Room entirely in favor of installing a public dance floor & leaving only the walk around version of Chuck E. as the only indication of what once was due to the leftover animatronics being sold off or junked for spare parts]), no doubt the exact same thing would've eventually happened to the Rockafire Explosion without Aaron Fetcher's voice work (he voices Billy Bob Brockali [named after Bob Brock], Looney Bird, Fatz Geronimo [this is due to Burt "Sal" Wilson exiting the role due to mounting tensions growing over Burt Wilson accepting a job offer as a character actor on Saturday Night LIVE after feeling stiffed on payments for doing Fatz], and comedy relief duo Rolfe De Wolfe & his heckling Muppet-like partner Earl Schmerle) & creative input that ultimately befell Munch's Make Believe Band once it was converted to Studio C, only with another character supplanting the hipster rodent (perhaps Billy Bob's mech getting relocated to the left stage since Billy Bob was Showbiz's mascot or maybe the left stage & central stage getting their characters removed altogether whilst leaving Billy Bob along with Looney Bird on the far right stage where they were stationed when the 3 stage setup had been the full Rockafire Explosion band, although had Billy Bob replaced Chuck E. as the public face of the company, the actual company itself would've likely taken to being nationally referred to Billy Bob's instead of reverting back to the Chuck E. Cheese name, so either way, Showbiz Pizza Place & Pizza Time Theater would have become relics of the past, no matter which mascot became the public face of the company).

jesus christ lol

There are worse fates...

@@michaelqp It was actually pretty great. Much better than either of the two films they reviewed looked. Plus it opened my eyes to the incredible world of The Rock-afire Explosion covering totally inappropriate songs. To whit: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/iMiegZmC0srWeGg.html

@@lracseroom8286 Yeah, I agree. I was happy when I saw it was free on here and watched it right away. While I don't really relate to having an emotional attachment to animatronics myself, I love documentaries that show people or hobbies I would never have thought of. Slice of life stuff, y'know. For example, Carts of Darkness which is about Canadians that ride shopping carts down steep hills lol : kzfaq.info/get/bejne/sM9dmcJ7m866XZs.html Surprisingly engrossing.

@@michaelqp bro, you need to watch "King of Kong: A fistful of quarters" right the fuck now.

@@lracseroom8286 Hey man, Thanks for the recommendation. It was right up my alley and very interesting. Cheers

And then his dream became a nightmare

@@zippymufo9765you had to ruin the mood didn’t you?

@@ragegamer4302 It's just reality. He tried to open his own Showbiz, got into serious debt, lost his house, had to sell his Rockafire set back to Fechter, and wound up addicted to drugs.

I discovered rockafie explosion when I was 9 but now im 12 and I still love them billy bob is my favorite

and dook larue

Cool as impossible as it is I really do hope that the rock afire one day shows that mouse and his friends who's boss

+Super Mario Iggy yeah team rock afire explosion will show that mouse and his dumb friends

Can't wait to see the future of the Rock afire explosion

You outta see his kiwifarms thread, real shit show there lol

@@LKDAnimatronics Yea, what kind of person would potentially kill somebody over staining carpet (Yes, that actually happened. And there's a creepy asf video to prove it)

Narcissist. He's playing the victim in the weirdest scenario ever and I can't look away

Chuck E. Cheese World, I LOVE your comment. It is so heartful, and you love BOTH CEC and RAE. You are the type of person I am looking for.

❤at least not with Peter Piper pizza

I love the puddle that they haven't "analyzed" yet

@Jws0127 3 no that’s not true lolll

@Jws0127 3 ohhh but it might have been like 20,000 it depends

Turns out he sold the show back to Arron. Now it’s in South Korea

@Retrogamer Dell no, he opened Showbiz pizza zone. (As seen in the video) and it closed due to financial issues 2 years after it opened. (2008-2010)

@@cec_long_island9457 shut up you party pooper asshole

I think he's the problem

@@charitystolarz4615 that so disrespect to say be a little more respectful in my replies, thanks

Seriously. This movie is a regular "feels-fest".

Yes it was, I still remember the smells of the new arcade cabinets and pizza that is one awesome smell like a movie theater or an old movie rental store "pure nostalgia" the 80s was a very special time to be a kid..

seb Chuck E. Cheese Sucks.. :/

Tiffy Cantrell I know.

There's a Rockafire show in BC at a place called Scandia.