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The Rock-afire Explosion (RAE) is an animatronic character band designed and manufactured by Creative Engineering, Inc. (CEI) for use in ShowBiz Pizza Place restaurants in the 1980s and early 1990s. The band's characters were various anthropomorphized animals, including a brown bear , a grey wolf and a silverback gorilla . [ 1 ]
He is best known as the creator of The Rock-afire Explosion, an animatronic show featuring a variety of characters created primarily for Showbiz Pizza Place restaurants throughout the 1980s. A fallout between Showbiz and CEI, along with the chain's dwindling revenue, led to the show's decline and eventual removal by the early 1990s.
ShowBiz Pizza restaurants entertained guests through a large selection of arcade games, coin-operated rides, and animatronic stage shows. The two companies became competitors and found early success, partly due to the rise in popularity of arcade games during the late 1970s and early 1980s.
The band came nine years after the establishment of The Rock-afire Explosion, the animatronic band in ShowBiz Pizza Place, a restaurant chain that closed in 1992. Williamson, who was previously ...
ShowBiz Pizza was founded in Kansas City in the 1980s. The home of cult-favorite band Rock-afire Explosion, it burned bright then burned out. Flashback Friday: Gen X grew up at ShowBiz Pizza, home ...
Hoo-Ha's Jamboree, an animatronic band at Hoo-Ha Owl's Pizzamatronic Jamboree, and a parody of The Rock-afire Explosion of ShowBiz Pizza Place, which consist of Hoo-Ha the Owl (guitarist, and lead singer), Cheerleader , Beaver (guitarist), Rat in a Barrel (two same animatronics sit on either side of the stage), Cowboy Frog (bongo player), and ...
Chuck E. Cheese (formerly known as Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza Time Theatre, Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza, and simply Chuck E. Cheese's) is an American entertainment restaurant chain founded on May 17, 1977, by Atari, Inc.'s co-founder Nolan Bushnell. [1]
Cyberstar, the animatronic and video controller for Chuck E. Cheese's and Showbiz Pizza Place Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Cyberstar .