When ShowBiz pizza sold to Chuck E. Cheese, the Rock-afire Explosion characters were replaced with Chuck E. and friends. Creative Engineering lost its biggest customer. Once over 300 employees ...

However, ShowBiz Pizza merely licensed the Rock-afire characters from original creator Aaron Fechter's Creative Engineering Inc. So, as the company gradually rebranded all ShowBiz Pizza locations ...

Cheese. The attraction’s name was even inspired by the Billy Bob character from Showbiz. Here, the Rock-afire Explosion ...

Rock-afire's animatronic robot band features original characters from the 1980s, including Fatz Geronimo, a keyboard-playing silverback gorilla. Shane Keyser [email protected] "You didn't know ...

Surprised by the viral video’s success, Fechter realized he had lost “control of what the Rock-afire would perform…as well as the future value of the copyrights” to the characters.

Posted by the Rock-afire's biggest fan ... they consider a piece of their childhood while highlighting memorable characters, Whitcomb and Thomason focused their film on Thrash, a working-class ...

The irony was that the fans saving the Rock-afire from obscurity were able to accomplish the one thing no corporate restaurant chain could. They had taken control of the characters out of Fechter ...

Also known as "the ShowBiz Pizza band," The Rock-afire Explosion — an animatronic band featuring iconic characters Fatz Geronimo, Mitzi Mozzarella, Looney Bird, Dook LaRue, Beach Bear ...

When ShowBiz pizza sold to Chuck E. Cheese, the Rock-afire Explosion characters were replaced with Chuck E. and friends. Creative Engineering lost its biggest customer. Once over 300 employees ...

The band was known as The Rock-afire Explosion. The band and Showbiz burned brightly for a quick moment, but faded quickly as the chain expanded too quickly and the video game craze went away.

However, ShowBiz Pizza merely licensed the Rock-afire characters from original creator Aaron Fechter's Creative Engineering Inc. So, as the company gradually rebranded all ShowBiz Pizza locations as ...