My Trip to Looney Bird's - June 1998
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- A childhood trip to the famous Looney Bird's restaurant in Orlando, FL, started by Aaron Fechter. That’s me, the little one-year old boy with the blondish-white hair! This place was a HUGE part of my early childhood, and originally sparked my interest in animatronics. This restaurant also housed the rare "New Rock-afire Explosion" show, which was created in 1992.
Off topic AF. I think it's cute how the employee is singing the ABC's with those two children. So precious!
Edit: Plus, you can tell he loved his job. He was so cheerful and amazing towards the children.
I would so love to work there I love working with audio animatronic and kids
@@patricianoonan489 Especially the kids *licks lips*
@@rhys896 *Yuck*
he was also playing with them and running around
@@rhys896 Pete Foxx ? 😳
That guy definetley loved his job.
This is some pretty amazing footage of Looney's. Wish it was still around :(
The website still exists and towns can purchase shows so there is a possibility it could come back and this was a test restaurant to see if people would like it
I was there...Not in this video but I visited this place when I was younger. I loved it. It makes me so sad to see how the animatronics look today. I started to cry watching this video it reminded me of my 7th birthday which I had here in 1998 in July. All kids have now is Chuck E. Cheese. I miss this place ): R.I.P Looney Birds.
And billy bobs wonderland when I go there's 1,000 kids having a party
The employee was doing such a good job!! You could tell he was really having fun, haha!
Nice! This is like the only Looney's footage we have.
Patrick Boots CEC nah there’s tones
there is more footage when they do the macarena dance
Thanks for sharing this, really cool to see how Looney Bird's looked back in the day!
I wish i was born back in the rock a fire days. Now the only thing I can rely on is Billy Bobs Wonderland!
I know
Same.
What about Smittys super service
Smitty’s Super Service Station in Mississippi? Didn’t they close down?
@@emmarose4234 no
That is one cool and good conditioned show. I'm impressed at how the tech really cared about that show!
Gosh, I very much recall this place! My father (if I recall correctly) was hired to make the sign for the place (or do the casting or something.....I honestly don't recall the details) and I remember the dozen or so times my sister and I would hang out there. I still drive by that corner store front everytime I drive to the airport, almost on purpose every time, just to remember what once was! Thanks for the memories!
I love this video. Would you mind if I published it on the official Rock-afire channel?
Hi, Aaron. I love this video too. I wanted people to appreciate how much magic your Looney Bird's concept brought to many children, and that it inspired my interest when I was only months old. You absolutely may post it.
I can't believe you got 75,000 views! How did you do that?
Yes, when you're ready to discuss a date, write me at aaron@starsof.com. Thanks!
Aaron Did this place still exist?
Yes and no,Now that Location is a Bar (and also the stage has gone)
The little girl singing ABC almost killed me XD
It's amazing for me to think that this was filmed the same year I was born. I wish Looney Bird's was still around. It looked really awesome!
KentuckyWallChicken Yes! And, interestingly, I am still good friends with her!
+Julian Cerda. You have an excellent point there.
I like how the younger girl said q like this QA
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Wish ya luck.
KentuckyWallChicken tt
I REALLY miss when the workers would sing with kids. I hate that about Chuck E. Cheese's. The workers never sing with kids.
James Hutcheson They still do. Really depends on location and staff.
CEC Florida Well on a general basis, not before 2012.
I-i cant. This video is too amazing.
The guy in the Looney Bird suit is probably thinking "I hate my job".
Same.
Same
Nah
given how much fun the other employee is having, i doubt it. as someone who's fursuited before, the mask is likely just a little hard to see out of, which is why he tilts his head down and is moving slower- though it does give the impression he's uninterested
This place is a lot more interactive than Chuck E. Cheese
Looney Bird: Well, that really beats anchovies.
I'd love to go there. Such a bummer it ended up closed early. I can imagine having lot of fun in there, especially since there's the New Rock afire Explosion there. I love the Myjn style Rock afire Explosion as much as the original classic style Rock afire Explosion.
3:48 okay we get it Mitzi XD just sing or something.
XD
I LOVE THIS SONG :)
Before everyone was like omg five nights at freddy's animatronic will kill me omg
Exactly but I'm one of those kids that have an interest in animatronics.
Chucky Cheese has nothing to do with this quality of animation and character desing!! Long live Rock-Afire Explosion!!!
@Emontre waters Just to fix my comment now I'm with Chuck E. Cheese because the Rock-A fire Explosion creator is a damn fascist Trumpist xDD
That employee absolutely LOVED his job and you can tell
the guy in Looney birds costume looks bored
it's not a guy
Ya think?
@@verge-youtube BILLY bobs wonderland lemme guess
Yea XD
Especia bruh furries can do fucking dancing competition in suits
6:34. “Don’t be scared” straight from a horror movie
OMG what a time capsule, they’re singing the macarena! 😂
this new animatronics are good but... they design... i don't like it, i prefer the classic style
and where is Rolfe? he is my favorite ;-;
he's not in the new rock afire Hes a traveling character and Aaron never knew he had that many fans
The new version doesn't have him only on the TV screen
...Rolfe...gone...reduced to atoms...
his wife- @@coolcrawford
@@RadicalSharkRS yes they got together way after the nrae was made. Aaron has admitted rolfe was supposed to be the character you were to hate, but everyone loves him.
This video shows the evolution of the Chuck E. Cheese/Showbiz restaurants. You see that light coming in all those windows? You could count yourself lucky to even *find* a window at my local Showbiz back in the early 80s. In the gaming area I think they liked to rely on a few track and spot lights only while letting the games provide the rest of the illumination. By about 1990 they finally had the place lit up pretty good and eventually added a few windows over the next two decades.
I want the Looney bird costume so bad!!!
Ohh I have a photo!!!!
Cool. I like how that is the first good
nrae stage in the public
I got to see the NRAE mechs in person today :3 so cool!!!!
Showbiz CEC where at
Tinley park IL!! They were fixing them! So I looked under the curtain and it was just mechs!!!
I realized how fluffy and soft BeachBear looks
I wish you had footage of the Wizard of Oz show at Looney Bird’s
Wait , the wizard of Oz show was at looney bird's ?
@@MrGoatfarmer Tin man was featured at this location of Looney Bird's
@@sementaldela11 bubba the gorilla was also there
I think Aaron wants more places like this to open to compete with Chuck e cheese. I read an article about this and I'm extremely interested in this! What he wants is for you to open a looney birds in your town and e-mail him if your interested! And I am!!!
Beaglejuice jasper No, we both are... (Turns to the corner and makes a horrifying evil laugh)
Scientist Looney Bird Well can you blame him for wanting to compete with CEC? He was literally threatened by the people he used to be friends with that ran Showbiz/CEC through the 80s into giving up the rights to the Rock A-Fire Explosion and not to have a say in what CEC did to the band or the band would be replaced with Chuck E and friends. It only makes sense for him to want to compete with Chuck E Cheese.
Aaron? He hates Chuck e cheese, and he wasn't threatened the only time he was threaten was by billy bobs wonderland. He did make showbiz pizza Chuck e cheese to save money
Scientist Looney Bird I was saying pretty much threatened since CEC's people wanted him to give the rights to the RAE to them or the band would cease to exist, That's essentially a threat.
Oh, it wasn't a threat just the facts!
They had a looney bird costume ? Wow!
2 there was one of him in a barrel with wings and legs poking out of the barrel
0:17 awww! The little baby is so cute!
That's CEC Florida as a kid, read the description
Man I remember 5 or 6 year old me watching this when It came out
1:43 - 2:20 Grandma's got some moves! lol
You can tell Aaron voiced Mitzi and Beach Bear.
Yup
3:26 I was laughing at that part- "QR”
Bro when the worker was talking to looney it was so funny lmao
Damn.... these robots have ALOT of movement! Almost lifelike.
You can tell that this is the 90s by this guys pants 4:49
Cec And Fnaf Jr .-.
Cec And Fnaf Jr I can tell you don't get the joke
Pizzaguy121 Lol
FlyerCoolMan33 *facepalm* Another person does not get the joke
:)
Fun fact, I own that looney on desk in this video
Mitzi: The only word that i know: I Love This Song
xd
Does anybody notice that the camera IS WAY AHEAD OF IT'S TIME?!?
Cough time travel cough
Not for 1998, it was pretty good though
Showbiz CEC no this is a cam Corders quality. They were around in the nineties just VERY expensive
this new rock afire explosion is like 7 times as expensive as a studio c stage because the animatronics are like the studio c
So upsetting that in the 90s everyone actually LIKED the animatronics. 😣
Yes. The 80's and 90's were different in so mant great ways!
Hey Cec florida.
This was located of curry ford rd right?
Why is it bad that they like them I like them??
@CEC Memes When you said everyone actually liked the animatronics, do you mean that as a good thing or a bad thing?
I Can't Believe Looney Bird Actually Hugged Somebody! 😃
dang I wasn't born in 1922 I was born in 2003 and now they have crappy chucky e cheese
rock-afire exposin thank you.....
You were the cutest kid i've ever seen that must of been great i'm pretty sad that i was born almost 12 years later and I wish I was able to go see the New Rockafire or the Classic Rockafire welp sucks to be me
This is funny and brings back memories , one second you see a drunk new rockafire singing working on the railroad , and the next minute ..... 5:25
those girls singing the ABCs were SO cute
Imagine if they called it Helen’s and placed her in the middle of the balcony stage.
Wow so this is how they used to be..... I wonder how Aaron got the Mijins to turn on the turn table for the rock-afire stage.
6:44 How can a kid not notice a somewhat giant ostriche-bird flying? LOL
Lololololo
HAHAHA funnnny.
So Adorable
"I love this song"
I was calibrating why duke looked different......it’s because he had no hat
mitzi actually has hair! and a flower crown?
"He sees you but you don't see him."
That's just a bit disturbing.
wait so when concept unification happened to the original rock afire explosion there was looney birds?
Did you actually go there or was this someone else’s trip?
I wonder how the air lines and wires didn't get all tangled up while all the stage and characters rotated.
This new rockafire is in better condition then oddesey fun world
1:43 eyyyyyy Macarena ayeeee
im gonna cry i wonder if his mom is still alive if she's not im gonna cry in the corner forever
this was the late 90s, she's probably like... in her 50s now, relax
@@chimeramanticore yeah exactly what a wierd comment
Hey I remember showbiz pizza 🍕 place Fatz Geronimo and his band the rock afire explosion 💥 sang happy birthday to me when I was a kid
Congratulations Looney bird I didn't know you had your own restaurant
Guess he decided to get out of his barrel and do something with his life
OMG childhood before I was born was so sweet I wish lonny birds was still around (nitzi sounded a bit akward but XD) the chicken dance almost KILLED ME litterly awesome I hope she had a fun birthday I knew I would of XD I got up aand danced to the macarana XD
+brittney kelly sorry I ment looney XD sorry also I love the birthday I cried and when my aunt listen to it she said I rember those day XD
Cool!!!!
omg those haircuts back then!!
When Looney Bird drinks to much oil 6:05
He droonc! O-_-o
3:48 I lOvE tHiS sOnG
To me , they sound like there drunk . ( I'm not making fun of the rockafire by the way . )
Dang there condition now is terrible seeing this makes me feel bad about these animatronics edit: I'd love a Looney bird mascot!
0:04 fatz looks like he is jumpscareing
😢
I was born the month this was made o-o
0:39 Cute the baby! Who was he?
THAT'S CEC FLORIDA!
Happy birthday to you
1:02 what is the song?
Happy birthday medley
At Odessy fun world they have these ones the one with beach bear & looney bird
Why does Mitzy sound like Mini from the Wolf Pack 5 in this version?!! It's really weird...
It's an older tape. It's before a woman voiced her. Aaron voiced early Mitzi and Mini
Not event woman it was 11 year old shalisa!
But that was aaron.
Yeah. I'm really late, but Beach Bear sounds like his old Wolf Pack 5 version.
i like looney bird alot
Tapped on June 16 1998
My brother was born this year.
Nice!
Beaglejuice jasper irl, around 30. But in like rp...
I'm around 19, same with beach bear and mitzi
Billy bob....I dunno
Looney bird...I DUNNO
fatz is like 20
Rolfe is 23
Earl is a puppet
So yeah
Fats is 20? He looks like 40.
Christopher Santos I honestly thought he might be like 30
Bat Munch well my voice actor was about 30 so that makes sense
Bat Munch *_SO DO I_*
i thought the mini rock a fire explosion never went into restaraunts
Wait is this a 2 gen Mitzie? Because of the movements
No, these are actually called "Mujins", and they were newer versions of the characters with alot more movement in the early 90's. They didn't really last long though since people prefered the original Rockafire show. XD Aaron is actually working on restoring the Gen. 2 Dook and Mitzi from what I know, but I'm not sure when he's gonna end up finishing them.
@@princesspeachfan100 Mijins*
Nice
The baby is cute!!!!!!!!
I like dukes Voice
Is loony birds still open
Dang I was born in 1998
The song was Birthday melody
I HAVE BEEN TO ROCK_AFIRE EXPLOSEN
Hey CEC Florida, how did you get the original Happy Birthday Medley? Was it from Creative Engineering?
ArchBonnie Yes, I have the clean audio in my personal collection of show audio.
+CEC Florida what is the song at 4:12
I've Been Working On The Railroad.
So looney bird remembered that child?
I Like The Dook From That Location Better.
Epicccccccc
I wish I was born
It is a little sad because all characters are voiced by Aron and that means original RAE voice actors were fired by 90s
The baby tho 😳
I don’t get it like I like the characters but the staff that are in the rockafire walk around suits he looks depressed or grumpy like I don’t get ps I like the rockafire