Imagine doing all this hard work only for it to be undone 20 years later by management putting just one animatronic on a stage next to a bunch of TV monitors
The part from 1:37 about removing Rolfe really disturbed me for some reason. Just for the fact that it says to "prepare for the night" and that it'll be a long night. Just imagine being one of the technicians that had to stay up an entire night in 1992 to uninstall an animatronic. It sounds kinda scary.
***** I found it sad because the show that was so popular was ending, well changing at least, knowing Chuck E Cheese is now the new show, and the Rocka Fire explosion would just be a past show forgotten, Kinda wish they'd kept the Rocka fire set :/
Oh man, this really kicks me to the heart: these "new" characters were the reason why I fell in love with animatronics and robotics! But to see the conversion and loss of Rock-Afire Explosion makes me kind of sad... but wouldn't have lead me to where I am today without the curiosity of what made Chuck E. moved.
Employees After "Concept Unification": Employee 1: ~Looks at the frames in the video, then looks at how crooked, jacked-up, and sloppy their results are~ Dude, I don't think we did it right... Employee 2: It's good enough. Besides, the kids won't know the difference. Employee 3: The chef's head is sliding off the mech, man. I think they'll notice.
I couldn’t watch this… I cried so hard over that…my parents had to be like, “Peanut, they’re old animatronics..” and Rolfe was my favorite, too…I always wanted to go and see these guys just to see Rolfe…I always thought he had a bigger heart than he was letting on too in terms of his character. I hope they find a way to keep ‘em around.
@peanutgolds4058 Rolfe DeWolfe: *Looks inside himself* I didn't want my friends to be replaced. Even though Earl and I were like; 1:44 Why is this happening?
I remember going to CEC once when I was younger, and I was freaked out by the guy walking around, NOT the robots. I told my sister this, and she told me that they were robots. She thought I was talking about the animatronics, but I was talking about the costumed guy. That did help me get less scared, but apparently a fully walking robot with movement in all areas that could kill you was less scary to me as a kid than a guy in a suit.
@@marlenejojo1 calling them cheap when they might not have enough money to cover it all especially this is at ALL SHOWBIZ pizza locations. So every store got this
@@chuck.echeeseconnecticuit7916 They had the money at the time but not the know how, and if they were hard up financially they wouldn't have thrown away so many animatronics. They were in a rush to recycle them to rake in even more cash with no care or creativity for that matter of their own.
CEC was demanded by Creative Engineering to destroy all signs of the RAE to avoid copyright infringement, which would end in CEC getting sued. But, most 3-stages still have Mr.Moon, so Aaron most likely has the ability to sue the company since they are using a RAE character.
Nah he couldn't have asked them to be shipped back because the head honchos at CEC were pissed they couldn't get full rights to the animatronics off of him and they would have charged him a pretty penny to get anything back. I suspect this is also yet another reason they are choosing to get rid of animatronics altogether at this point. CEO's suck and don't care what the people want, anything they can do to put a little extra coin in their pockets is what they are after. Why do people even still bring their kids to this horrible place?
@@marlenejojo1 Yeah, it's said that the animatronics are getting more expensive to maintain, kids are losing interest in them, and that "Five Nights at Freddy's" has been giving them a bad image. (Ironically, from what I've seen, "Five Nights at Freddy's" seems to actually get the kids interested in the Chuck E. Cheese's animatronics in some cases!)
This is so weird and creepy. I think part of it is because that whenever you have something animated and humanoid and you destroy it or convert it to something else, there's an unsettling feeling even if deep down you know that they are just animatronics and not living beings. It just seems so sad, even if I'm not really familiar with the Showbiz characters.
Yeah, but it was the old man sounding showbiz pizza time Rolfe at the end, he probably enjoyed watching them all suffer, just listen to the last Rolfe and Earle showtape
5:58 Even though im a HUUUUGE fan of Animatronics, showbiz, CEC this part makes me feel uncomfortable. How they just stare at the screen with dead silence (I AM NOT REFERENCING FNaF)
@@veritateseducational217 Because it's hard to have a proper conversation about animatronics without one kid starting to boast about FNAF when people don't want to hear that shit. Although I like FNAF, sometimes hearing the same references over and over while talking about REAL LIFE animatronics gets pretty annoying.
I don't get why they're saying "making sure to DESTROY the old organ front" why not "put up the old organ front for tickets with an appropriate story for why Rockafire Explosion no longer performs"
The workers aren't expected to come up with a story. They only are expected to successfully convert the old band to the new models. But yeah, it makes me sad to see them destroy all props instead of them returning it to creative engineering.
Showbiz was instructed to destroy all signs of the RAE due to copyright. If they didn't, CEI would be able to sue, considering they own all rights and trademarks of the Rock-afire Explosion stage.
yeah but now they’re being thown into the garbage where they will rot, and stand lifeless and motionless until someone might be luck enough to find them
The Chuck E. Cheese animontronics were used from the Rock Afire Explosion. Which are: Chuck E. Cheese= Rolfe Helen Henry= Mitzi Mozzarella Jasper= Beach Bear Pasqually= Dook Larue Mr. Munch= Fatz Geronimo Pizzacam= Loony Bird Munch Jr.= Choo Choo
Cool instinctual reaction, bro. When you get to high school, be sure to ask your teachers about a small concept called "copyright law". Actually, no: first, start with "When somebody gets sued and a judge issues an order that says "return or destroy all ShowTime branded merchandise", does that mean they still have to obey the order, even if I personally think the judge is a soulless animal?" PROTIP: The answer will be "Yes, because that's called being a grownup." See you then.
@Champsy 2004 Aaron did it for a reason tho. If he gave up the rights show biz would program and voice all of the shows and have total control over the characters. The show would have Been bad. Showbiz didn’t want Aaron to have any say in what happens with the show.
@@crimsondynamo615 Heh, if I had to be part of a Showbiz Pizza crew in 1991 performing the Concept Unification job, I would've joked around with the other crew members by puppeting Earl and doing his voice saying "You're a geek, you're a geek, you're a GEEEEEEEEEK!" Then I'd salvage the Earl animatronic and Rolfe's cosmetics for myself during the conversion (remember, this was before eBay, and Rolfe is also my favorite RAE character.)
I just had a thought. What if all those character bots were sentient and went into "And I Must Scream" mode when turned off? If Rolfe and Earl were disassembled last, think of what they would have experienced as they saw their best friends get essentially killed and replaced with these new people, knowing that soon this would be their fate...
hippiechik95 Yeah, I agree. I was thinking about that throughout the entire video. But the only thing they didn't change was Moon. I bet he's all like " OH THANK GOD". xD
Rolfe - Chuck E. Mitzi - Helen Dook - Pasqually Choo-choo - Munch Jr. Fatz - Munch Loony Bird - Camera Sun - Building Spider - Wink Beach Bear - Jasper Hmm...they didn't do anything with Billy Bob's body.
I wish they wouldn't have changed ALL of the Showbiz Pizza Places into Chuck E. Cheese's. That way there would still be some Rock-Afire Explosions that are in good condition.
I like this for some reason I’ve always had this thing for Chuck E. Cheese and this video just makes me feel happy I’m not sure I know I will get hate but it brings me some joy
Aaron had a falling out with Corporate. They owned the "bots"... not the characters. So choice A is to re-use the bots and convert them... or B. Throw out all the good working bots and get new ones.... If Creative Engineering and Showbiz could have made a compromise or a truce, it wouldn't have happened. I've watched lots of videos of interviews with Aaron... Rockafire is like his family... he didn't want to have anything to do with the CEC characters. He didn't want anyone other than his company to script or record for Rockafire.... Nobody won....... Corporate made the choice to use the characters they had rights to, and didn't have to pay extra royalties for.
god just watching ths made me cry ;( these were my childhood and just think they didnt even get new animatronics for the new pizzaria but they just kept the old ones that they barely maintain i mean those animatronics are probably having an existantial crisis right now they dont know who they are anymore also how many people are actually attatched to these "new" animatronics they just ripped away peoples hopes of working at showbiz pizza and being able to see those RAF animatronics its just sad
Those bastards who made chuck e cheese I mean I still can't believe they r switching them out with the same animatronics for chucky I thought they were going to switch the animatronics
+Ruby pizza time theatre was losing money! By 84 they had gone bankrupt so showbiz pizza bought the rights the didn't wAnna pay for the rights to the Rae so the just used cec because they had the rights to that
I was a cec fan until I realized they were just a knock off of the rockafire explosion. Esp seeing this video and how they pretty much just reskinned the original band to become chuck e cheese characters is quite upsetting. In essence chuck e cheese doesn't exist, hes a scam artist born from this whack conecpt video of a greedy ceo.
@PartySlime76 They may have existed first but they totally did rip off the full body animatronics from the rockafire explosion. As to why they did that I am not 100% clear but the assumption is because they were more advanced. I grew up with CEC, that is where my memories are but I am disturbed about how they refaced all the animatronics because the greedy ceo couldn't get full ownership of RAE. I know it's all business in the end, but they f-ed that guy over, and I hate anytime big ceo pulls that crap.
You should be saying Poor Rock Afire Explosion, I mean Rolfe has the sort of selfish money greedy attitude, but I still like The Rock Afire Explosions and its many well developed characters.
If CEC didn’t go out of business (because of the video game crash of 1984)There could of been a possibility that the rockafire explosion would still be in showbiz restaurants so its not CEC’s fault that the video game crash of 1984 happened so don’t go hating on something that wasn’t cec or showbiz’s fault.and also because Aron owns The Rockafire explosion.
5:49 WE SALUTE YOU ROLFE AND EARL 6:06 WE SALUTE YOU DOOK, FATZ, BEACH BEAR AND MITZI. (Don't forget Sun and choo choo) 6:37 WE SALUTE YOU BILLY BOB AND LOONEY BIRD.
Not Rolfe DeWolfe! I mean, I think Chuck E. Cheese is a pretty cool character, but that was messed up. At least there are still some surviving Rolfe DeWolfes out there, including right at Creative Engineering. (So in a way, I am glad Aaron Fletcher still owns the rights to the Rockafire Explosion, as he can keep them alive in some way!)
I've never heard of Showbiz Pizza. I do remember a place called Pistol Pete's Pizza. They had what looked like the same characters from the Rockafire show. I can't remember if it was called rockafire though.. But the show had the exact same puppets for sure now that I think of it. That all went away when Peter Piper Pizza took over the place. They put bumper cars in it's place.
I find the rock a fire explosion is the best thing that could ever happen and as I was watching this video and it’s weird seeing them being taken off their stages and stuff like that so that was a long time ago to 1998 so it’s sad to see them go and something that no one will ever see barely ever again
Man, they didn't want the Rockafire to show AT ALL. Saying to destroy all of the props and stuff, they really had no respect for Aaron or his characters.
that procedure was due to copyright. the rockafire explosion was only licensed to be used at showbiz. they asked aaron if they can have the rights to use them, but aaron said no. because of that, all signs of the rockafire explosion must be destroyed in order to avoid a lawsuit.
amen. 4-12 me: Chuckie is the best! theres no better animatronic! 13 *aka me now after discovering the story, origin and the animatronics THAT USED TO BE the true ones.* dang. I hate chuckie now. im never looking at a sky tube again.
@@pandog76 Most likely, I also think they tested the other characters as well since the Rolfe & Earl segments also replays some already made showtapes, and they played them before starting the retrofitting procedures.
Хобби
Imagine doing all this hard work only for it to be undone 20 years later by management putting just one animatronic on a stage next to a bunch of TV monitors
And then that work being undone by a dance floor
@@MikeBuff yep but hey this generation is just more soft than the last few
Tbf 20 years is a long time. Most of these showbiz’ would only be like 3-4 years old.
This is because they had no way to maintain them properly, so they basically all ran them into the floor for 20 years
20 years wouldnt be sad
I can't believe I just watched the destruction of Showbiz Pizza in three videos. It's mildly depressing.
Yea
The part from 1:37 about removing Rolfe really disturbed me for some reason. Just for the fact that it says to "prepare for the night" and that it'll be a long night. Just imagine being one of the technicians that had to stay up an entire night in 1992 to uninstall an animatronic. It sounds kinda scary.
And to warn you, here comes a bunch of Freddy Fazbear comments
Endy Plays Yes
***** I found it sad because the show that was so popular was ending, well changing at least, knowing Chuck E Cheese is now the new show, and the Rocka Fire explosion would just be a past show forgotten, Kinda wish they'd kept the Rocka fire set :/
+Brandon Hardesty Chuck e cheese is better than fnaf
+Brandon Hardesty Chuck e cheese is better than rock a fire
Oh man, this really kicks me to the heart: these "new" characters were the reason why I fell in love with animatronics and robotics! But to see the conversion and loss of Rock-Afire Explosion makes me kind of sad... but wouldn't have lead me to where I am today without the curiosity of what made Chuck E. moved.
Employees After "Concept Unification":
Employee 1: ~Looks at the frames in the video, then looks at how crooked, jacked-up, and sloppy their results are~ Dude, I don't think we did it right...
Employee 2: It's good enough. Besides, the kids won't know the difference.
Employee 3: The chef's head is sliding off the mech, man. I think they'll notice.
+RyuTora2808 LOL
You, sir, deserve a medal for this comment.
"Ehhh...dont worry it does that"
GoldenPlush56 MVP "Are you sure?"
"Yeah, it's part of the...uh....programming."
+GWR Oliver sorry
the ending of this video is creepily quiet.
It's a moment of silence to remember the Rock Afire Explosion😣😣😭😭
The silence is to reflect on the horrible act you've just watched.
Sums up this while process
I swear I think jasper moved his head just slightly during that
Brennan Wahler Woooosh!!!!
You only know you love it when it's gone.
Watching Rolfe's cosmetics and endoskeleton get removed was sad, he's my favorite...
I was crying the whole time
@@AKDProducts45 Ikr😂
@@Jaxx.A. stop with the lol emoji
I couldn’t watch this… I cried so hard over that…my parents had to be like, “Peanut, they’re old animatronics..” and Rolfe was my favorite, too…I always wanted to go and see these guys just to see Rolfe…I always thought he had a bigger heart than he was letting on too in terms of his character. I hope they find a way to keep ‘em around.
@peanutgolds4058 Rolfe DeWolfe: *Looks inside himself* I didn't want my friends to be replaced. Even though Earl and I were like; 1:44 Why is this happening?
Lemme just reverse the video so it can be the concept unifacation for Chuck e cheese
Ikr
pls do
+mcmuffin fluffy it is billy bobs wonderland
YEAH
it's you
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I remember going to CEC once when I was younger, and I was freaked out by the guy walking around, NOT the robots. I told my sister this, and she told me that they were robots. She thought I was talking about the animatronics, but I was talking about the costumed guy. That did help me get less scared, but apparently a fully walking robot with movement in all areas that could kill you was less scary to me as a kid than a guy in a suit.
@Koopa Enterprises ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww no
Koopa Enterprises Is that even happening tho?
I highly doubt anyone would team up with a company that’s 1 billion in debt.
Koopa Enterprises I don’t see Scott buying CEC.
@@MsDill66 If anything i want Showbiz Pizza back. since CEC is bankrupt.
@@HarryRollisProductions CEC is no longer bankrupt lmao
so basically they got rid of the characters, and replaced them with Chuck E Cheese characters??
even worse, they reskinned them to be chuck e cheese because they are too stupid and cheap to make new animatronics, and just threw out the others.
@@marlenejojo1don't you know how much making new robots would cost? God. People and math these days.
@@marlenejojo1 calling them cheap when they might not have enough money to cover it all especially this is at ALL SHOWBIZ pizza locations. So every store got this
@@chuck.echeeseconnecticuit7916 They had the money at the time but not the know how, and if they were hard up financially they wouldn't have thrown away so many animatronics. They were in a rush to recycle them to rake in even more cash with no care or creativity for that matter of their own.
@Mpdump we know it's only to 3 stage
God... I hate how he's like "now DESTROY the remnants of the RAE, just cuz we don't need em"
CEC was demanded by Creative Engineering to destroy all signs of the RAE to avoid copyright infringement, which would end in CEC getting sued. But, most 3-stages still have Mr.Moon, so Aaron most likely has the ability to sue the company since they are using a RAE character.
+GWR Oliver Well actually.
At this point, would he really bother?
He might as well just be saying "Destroy the memories of 80s kids" in that bored drawling voice.
Nah he couldn't have asked them to be shipped back because the head honchos at CEC were pissed they couldn't get full rights to the animatronics off of him and they would have charged him a pretty penny to get anything back. I suspect this is also yet another reason they are choosing to get rid of animatronics altogether at this point. CEO's suck and don't care what the people want, anything they can do to put a little extra coin in their pockets is what they are after. Why do people even still bring their kids to this horrible place?
@@marlenejojo1 Yeah, it's said that the animatronics are getting more expensive to maintain, kids are losing interest in them, and that "Five Nights at Freddy's" has been giving them a bad image. (Ironically, from what I've seen, "Five Nights at Freddy's" seems to actually get the kids interested in the Chuck E. Cheese's animatronics in some cases!)
This is so weird and creepy. I think part of it is because that whenever you have something animated and humanoid and you destroy it or convert it to something else, there's an unsettling feeling even if deep down you know that they are just animatronics and not living beings. It just seems so sad, even if I'm not really familiar with the Showbiz characters.
For me it's just cool to see history like this
The fact that Rolfe had to just stand there and watch his friends go through this is really sad
Mostly every billybob was probably demolished. at least the others live in some way.
Yeah, but it was the old man sounding showbiz pizza time Rolfe at the end, he probably enjoyed watching them all suffer, just listen to the last Rolfe and Earle showtape
I mean they hated rolfe
I wish I was old enough at the time to go dumpster diving in my local CEC to retrieve the 'destroyed' props.
Good idea
Kudos to the lone survivor of this transformation: the Moon!!! Still appears on 3 stage to this day! (July 2018)
3:52 Has no one noticed that they gave Chuck a left hand for a right hand? Lol-
Lol how did nobody doing the conversion notice that😂
5:42 The employees are thinking to themselves "What have we done"
Lol
They didn't give a shit 😂
5:58 Even though im a HUUUUGE fan of Animatronics, showbiz, CEC this part makes me feel uncomfortable. How they just stare at the screen with dead silence (I AM NOT REFERENCING FNaF)
RockafireCEC There Actually Testing The Lights
Why does half of the animatronic community have such an issue with FNaF, the 8 year olds aren’t even that bad.
@@veritateseducational217 Because it's hard to have a proper conversation about animatronics without one kid starting to boast about FNAF when people don't want to hear that shit. Although I like FNAF, sometimes hearing the same references over and over while talking about REAL LIFE animatronics gets pretty annoying.
Veritates Educational because the game itself is trash and they make brain dead comments
people really gate keeping the biggest entrance to animatronics and wonder why this community is small
I don't get why they're saying "making sure to DESTROY the old organ front" why not "put up the old organ front for tickets with an appropriate story for why Rockafire Explosion no longer performs"
The workers aren't expected to come up with a story. They only are expected to successfully convert the old band to the new models. But yeah, it makes me sad to see them destroy all props instead of them returning it to creative engineering.
Showbiz was instructed to destroy all signs of the RAE due to copyright. If they didn't, CEI would be able to sue, considering they own all rights and trademarks of the Rock-afire Explosion stage.
in ky thay are yay i m in ky
i love Bonnie The Bunny
Dec ikr
0:35 Rolfe’s like: "Who are you looking at!?!?"
Well it's still Rolfe but with blue eyes, because at that part of the video, Earl was still on the right arm.
I was a new fan who knew NOTHING about the RAE back then.
3:52
I wonder if they reused Mitzi’s ears for Chucky’s....
Nope, but they did kept Mitzi's ears on which if mostly to maintain the shape of Helens hair and is rarely ever programmed to move.
Rolfe has ear levers I’m pretty sure. They kept the ear levers on mitzi for helens hair.
@@The_Original_Alex_Channel I don’t think they used them, only use the ear levers when chuck looks up
This just makes me wanna get a Rock-afire Explosion tattoo.
Thank you, Aaron Fechter and CEI, for keeping them alive!
sooo, are there still Billy Bob's in CEC?
@@oldpcuser3136 no
@@squirrele.1266 ok, thanks
Aaron is a racist FYI
@@oldpcuser3136 One RAE left in a WV restaurant, one at Smitty's which is not open to the public.
R.I.P The RAE:(
At least billy bob and moon didint get to expirence concept unifacion
Actually The Moon was still used after concept unification.
What about the sun?
Galaxy the Galactic Wolf Pup he turn into mr. building
yeah but now they’re being thown into the garbage where they will rot, and stand lifeless and motionless until someone might be luck enough to find them
Concept unification? You mean the destruction of The Rockafire Explosion. 😭
Kristen Michele not its only the quit Rolf and character rock afire explosion put Chuck E. Cheese is not destroyed place
The Chuck E. Cheese animontronics were used from the Rock Afire Explosion. Which are:
Chuck E. Cheese= Rolfe
Helen Henry= Mitzi Mozzarella
Jasper= Beach Bear
Pasqually= Dook Larue
Mr. Munch= Fatz Geronimo
Pizzacam= Loony Bird
Munch Jr.= Choo Choo
Your just like me! A Chuck E Cheese/Showbiz Pizza/Toontown fanatic!
CEC Billy Bob Productions Haha yea! :3
It's kinda sad to know that billy bob isn't used anymore
+Victor Verola Yea. :(
I love mitzzy
1:17 "hey kid i got some candy in my van"
Qwertz hhhh
Where did you find that tape are you find
Qwertz dhgv
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Qwertz lol
This is sad.
They were all replaced by some CEC character..
Each spot replaced and changed.
:'c
the only one not changed was the moon...
Autumn Graas Except for Billy Bob.
This was Chuck E. Cheese revenge spp stole CEC ideas
@@foxrum7769 The moon isn't a character. It's just a moon.
"Make sure to destroy the old organ front" soulless animals
XD i wish i lived early enough to go to a rock afire explosion show
oh no problem. as do i XDD
Cool instinctual reaction, bro. When you get to high school, be sure to ask your teachers about a small concept called "copyright law".
Actually, no: first, start with "When somebody gets sued and a judge issues an order that says "return or destroy all ShowTime branded merchandise", does that mean they still have to obey the order, even if I personally think the judge is a soulless animal?"
PROTIP: The answer will be "Yes, because that's called being a grownup." See you then.
Sebastian 0113 it's a figurative speech ya nitwit, and humans are technically a animal.
Seth Horst *humans are technically a animal*
Wow, great, I TOTALLY didn’t know that
The part where they got to Earl and Rolfe I actually shed a couple of tears, so sad to see them go :(
Pause at 2:15
The thought of the star being behind a complete Rolfe is odd, but oddly feels fitting as well.
i love you rolfe...
My childhood is ruined forever. Chuck E. Cheese's is now my official enemy
Rock-afire Explosion Is My Mortal Enemy
@Champsy 2004 Aaron did it for a reason tho. If he gave up the rights show biz would program and voice all of the shows and have total control over the characters. The show would have Been bad. Showbiz didn’t want Aaron to have any say in what happens with the show.
"Prepare for this night, as it will be a long one" *moves eyebrows up and down
I know, I bet removing Earl from Rolfe's arm was one of the challenges, so as replacing the carpets, show reel machines and backdrop.
I thought some of the CEC animatronics were weird, like Building and Camera. Like WTF?
well the camera is actually called pizzacam
Some Dude There soon gunna add 2 characters! Meet grass and rock!
@@liamjmbtaandrailfan2791 but a camera lol great animatronic
This is so interesting. Especially looking at it from a historical perspective. My son LOVES all these animatronics.
This was a really cool video. This was my intended destination but a very rewarding and enjoyable nostalgic trip down memory lane.
No not Rolfe and Earl they're my favorite D,:
Rad the Rattata Rolfe is dead now
El super GTA Actully Earl Is Dead But I'm A Star Now + I Got A Lot Of Loot (Money)
Rolfe DeWolfe really
Earls last words before being disassembled was “YOU’RE A GEEK!”
@@crimsondynamo615 Heh, if I had to be part of a Showbiz Pizza crew in 1991 performing the Concept Unification job, I would've joked around with the other crew members by puppeting Earl and doing his voice saying "You're a geek, you're a geek, you're a GEEEEEEEEEK!"
Then I'd salvage the Earl animatronic and Rolfe's cosmetics for myself during the conversion (remember, this was before eBay, and Rolfe is also my favorite RAE character.)
I just had a thought. What if all those character bots were sentient and went into "And I Must Scream" mode when turned off? If Rolfe and Earl were disassembled last, think of what they would have experienced as they saw their best friends get essentially killed and replaced with these new people, knowing that soon this would be their fate...
Those Bastards!!! They just go off and destroy child hood memories..
Creative Engineering demanded that they did that.
Idk what the RAE is tho (I'm not at 90's kid)
WHAT ARE THEY FRIKIN DOING NUUUUUUUUUUU😭😭😭😭😭
hippiechik95 Yeah, I agree. I was thinking about that throughout the entire video.
But the only thing they didn't change was Moon. I bet he's all like " OH THANK GOD". xD
Sonicube21 i bet the moon has PTSD after seeing his friends getting their skin ripped off. he always seems depressed in mmbb.
Korny Kevin Films There needs to be a special tribute to the moon who has appeared in Showbiz/Chuckecheese for almost 40 years !
Rolfe - Chuck E.
Mitzi - Helen
Dook - Pasqually
Choo-choo - Munch Jr.
Fatz - Munch
Loony Bird - Camera
Sun - Building
Spider - Wink
Beach Bear - Jasper
Hmm...they didn't do anything with Billy Bob's body.
They could have removed the under fur shell and placed Crusty the Cat on the skeleton of Billy Bob + Placing a pair of black leg fur and cat paws
@@chucke.cheesesmichiganprod1254or made Billy Bob munch and fatz crusty
I used to like chuck e cheese. Until now.
THEY GO BANKRUPT
@@deadchannel7879 not anymore
I was crying the whole time! 😢
+Madison Chevy Fan me too
+Ram X3 The sad music started to play when the were taking Rolfe's cosmetics off. 😢
+KERMET TEH FORG
joel
joel
me too
I know poor Rockafire!!!
It's so surreal seeing this. This is way before my generation.
No annoying FNaF fans destroying the comments. I love it.
five night's at freddy's
SOMEONE POST THIS IN REVERSE. I WILL BE SO FREAKING HAPPY. JUST DO IT. NOW!!
Sapphire TV™ If only :c
Sapphire TV™ YEA REVERSE REVERSE
If That Happens I Will Be Pissed
now bring back all old props and bring Billy bob back and reskin the animatronics with the RAE characters
Stop ratting on Chuck E. Cheese please. Be more mature and remember that this was a corporate xecision made 30+ years ago.
I wish they wouldn't have changed ALL of the Showbiz Pizza Places into Chuck E. Cheese's. That way there would still be some Rock-Afire Explosions that are in good condition.
I like this for some reason I’ve always had this thing for Chuck E. Cheese and this video just makes me feel happy I’m not sure I know I will get hate but it brings me some joy
I’m terrified and in love with is 😳🤚
how dare they take them apart!!!!! I will sue them for emotional distress!!!!
They had no choice, it was a demand by Creative Engineering and Creative Engineering is the place that those animatronics where manufactured at.
Sad to see how my childhood was taken apart.
So the ChuckeCheese animatronics at my local pizzeria
once were the RAE?!
Yes
Well if its a cyberramic stage then no
possibly
+PizzaTimeRat it probably has a Studio C CAPpA LOL!
yes
Man, if only I was young enough to see the RAE... I bet it was even funner than Chuck E Cheese’s.
And you're right
these tapes make me sad. to see how..disrespectful they were.
WE MUST DESTROY THE OLD ORGAN FRONT!!! ITS EVIL
EVAILLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!
Aaron had a falling out with Corporate. They owned the "bots"... not the characters. So choice A is to re-use the bots and convert them... or B. Throw out all the good working bots and get new ones.... If Creative Engineering and Showbiz could have made a compromise or a truce, it wouldn't have happened. I've watched lots of videos of interviews with Aaron... Rockafire is like his family... he didn't want to have anything to do with the CEC characters. He didn't want anyone other than his company to script or record for Rockafire....
Nobody won....... Corporate made the choice to use the characters they had rights to, and didn't have to pay extra royalties for.
CupQwakey's Channel with ROCKAFIRE
Dook LaRue Showbiz and CEC AHA
I wonder what it would be like if they keep Rolf and reel and the stage with munches make believe band it would be so cool
Ikr?
They could not have because they don’t own the rights to the characters
The ending is very creepy!
god just watching ths made me cry ;( these were my childhood and just think they didnt even get new animatronics for the new pizzaria but they just kept the old ones that they barely maintain i mean those animatronics are probably having an existantial crisis right now they dont know who they are anymore also how many people are actually attatched to these "new" animatronics they just ripped away peoples hopes of working at showbiz pizza and being able to see those RAF animatronics its just sad
Those bastards who made chuck e cheese I mean I still can't believe they r switching them out with the same animatronics for chucky I thought they were going to switch the animatronics
Stop bashing Chuck E Cheese this wax actually showbiz pizzas idea to replace them Chuck E cheese inc had nothing to do with the idea
+Ruby pizza time theatre was losing money! By 84 they had gone bankrupt so showbiz pizza bought the rights the didn't wAnna pay for the rights to the Rae so the just used cec because they had the rights to that
im going to have nightmares about this. thank you for sharing.
2:24 it made me sad it's like Rolfe was saying hey what are you guys doing to us please let us go D:
0:05 *heart stops in absolute terror*
I'm supposedly a CEC fan, but this is just depressing! Poor Rolfe! :(
I was a cec fan until I realized they were just a knock off of the rockafire explosion. Esp seeing this video and how they pretty much just reskinned the original band to become chuck e cheese characters is quite upsetting. In essence chuck e cheese doesn't exist, hes a scam artist born from this whack conecpt video of a greedy ceo.
@PartySlime76 They may have existed first but they totally did rip off the full body animatronics from the rockafire explosion. As to why they did that I am not 100% clear but the assumption is because they were more advanced. I grew up with CEC, that is where my memories are but I am disturbed about how they refaced all the animatronics because the greedy ceo couldn't get full ownership of RAE. I know it's all business in the end, but they f-ed that guy over, and I hate anytime big ceo pulls that crap.
You should be saying Poor Rock Afire Explosion, I mean Rolfe has the sort of selfish money greedy attitude, but I still like The Rock Afire Explosions and its many well developed characters.
They wanted them for nothing, which showed that money & power trumps creativity & passion when it comes to corporate control, which is what occured.
why does everyone like rolfe the wolf is he amazing I like chucky and rolfe ^-^ they wasted money too on carpet sad they took the roke-afire
If CEC didn’t go out of business (because of the video game crash of 1984)There could of been a possibility that the rockafire explosion would still be in showbiz restaurants so its not CEC’s fault that the video game crash of 1984 happened so don’t go hating on something that wasn’t cec or showbiz’s fault.and also because Aron owns The Rockafire explosion.
5:49 WE SALUTE YOU ROLFE AND EARL
6:06 WE SALUTE YOU DOOK, FATZ, BEACH BEAR AND MITZI. (Don't forget Sun and choo choo)
6:37 WE SALUTE YOU BILLY BOB AND LOONEY BIRD.
Not Rolfe DeWolfe! I mean, I think Chuck E. Cheese is a pretty cool character, but that was messed up. At least there are still some surviving Rolfe DeWolfes out there, including right at Creative Engineering. (So in a way, I am glad Aaron Fletcher still owns the rights to the Rockafire Explosion, as he can keep them alive in some way!)
2:40 is that the music from one of the squimpus mcgrimpus's tapes?
Squimpus took inspiration from these
This shows you that showbiz endo skeletons were used for chuck e cheese and the animotronics became this
They screwed up Chuck E's hand buy making it backwards 😂
I've never heard of Showbiz Pizza. I do remember a place called Pistol Pete's Pizza. They had what looked like the same characters from the Rockafire show. I can't remember if it was called rockafire though.. But the show had the exact same puppets for sure now that I think of it. That all went away when Peter Piper Pizza took over the place. They put bumper cars in it's place.
now its been 5 years since this comment but. i looked it up and turns out they actually did have the rockafire explosion. neat
@@jogen906 fantastic, after 5 years I can finally sleep at night :-D
grrrrrrr my childhoods gone
Its... its... * starts crying* I MISS THEM * Crys more*
Nice to see this channel still operation al
tbh, Helen looked kind of scary to me. Idk why, maybe it's the pigtails, some longer than other models
All right just hit my rock-afire stage fixed Aaron came he wasn't happy.
Even I don't know what I was talking about when I posted this XDDD
I never got to see those anamatronic
you still can at scandia golf and games and billy bobs wonderland
+CEC Washington or you can get a tour of cei
yeah
But There Melting
Wait a second. Isn't roles stage supposed to have carpet instead of grass
The stages in many restaurants back then has their slight differences.
@Camden Grabowski excuse me what
Destroy Munch's Make Believe Band and Rebuild Rock Afire Explosion, please.
MMBB will be destroyed.
*NEITHER* will come back tho.
:)
Nah
@@beastslayer8994 Okay.
Helens the best animatronic character ever
Damn chucky cheese!!!!
So for one day it was Rolfe and Earl with Munch’s Make Believe Band. Yes I know the band wasn’t used until CU was complete
Cec is a killer
That explains Chuck e's mask and hand
1:17 the stuff of nightmares
I find the rock a fire explosion is the best thing that could ever happen and as I was watching this video and it’s weird seeing them being taken off their stages and stuff like that so that was a long time ago to 1998 so it’s sad to see them go and something that no one will ever see barely ever again
It's really creepy when the music fades out just before helen's head costume gets placed on.
wo when all was said and done, the moon was the only RAE element unchanged
Maybe i have no soul but i love all characters and i live technical side of things so find this process interesting.
Lol. "Make sure to DESTROY the front of Fatz's piano area.
omfg at 5:47 when the stock music stops that is so off putting, just mmbb staring into the void while you hear the buzz of the tape, spooky
This looks just like the stage I grew up with in Joliet IL
That place is now a Planet Fitness though it was abandoned for 22 years before the Planet Fitness. It was condemned in 2000.
Did any recorded incidents of concept unification going wrong happen?
Rolfe just stood there watching his friends getting reskined :(
Man, they didn't want the Rockafire to show AT ALL. Saying to destroy all of the props and stuff, they really had no respect for Aaron or his characters.
that procedure was due to copyright. the rockafire explosion was only licensed to be used at showbiz. they asked aaron if they can have the rights to use them, but aaron said no. because of that, all signs of the rockafire explosion must be destroyed in order to avoid a lawsuit.
Too bad our Joliet Chuck E. Cheese was dismantled as well. The new location by the Mall does not have the band.
I have lost all respect for Chuck E Cheese.
Im very sorry *but Showbiz pizza bought out Chuck E. Cheese*
Same they ditiched the animatronics.
jackievongrimm What Do You Mean They Made Me Into A Star + I No Longer Have To Deal With Earl Calling Me Names 😁
amen.
4-12 me: Chuckie is the best! theres no better animatronic!
13 *aka me now after discovering the story, origin and the animatronics THAT USED TO BE the true ones.*
dang. I hate chuckie now. im never looking at a sky tube again.
It wasn’t CEC’s fault. They were bankrupt and Showbiz bought them out.
So they kept rolfe running during this? Was this to make it seem as if nothing was going on?
Nah, they were testing him to see what air cylinders were still working and which ones would need to be repaired or replaced.
@@sethhorst6158 Sorry for so many questions but, why? Is it because chuck would be the one to preform the most?
@@pandog76 Most likely, I also think they tested the other characters as well since the Rolfe & Earl segments also replays some already made showtapes, and they played them before starting the retrofitting procedures.