The Rock-afire Explosion, the Glossary
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.[1]
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62 relations: Aaron Fechter, Alcoholism, Animatronics, Anthropomorphism, Apple IIe, Bankruptcy, Barboursville, West Virginia, Bass guitar, Boo-Boo Bear, Brown bear, Cheerleading, Chuck E. Cheese, Classic rock, Country music, Degersheim, Differential Manchester encoding, Disco, Documentary film, Drum (container), DVD, Fan mail, Fats Domino, Film festival, Frank Sinatra, Garfield (character), Gorilla, Gulliver's Kingdom, Gulliver's Land, Gulliver's World, Incheon, Invention, ITunes, Kansas City, Missouri, Kmart, Michael Jackson, Minnesota, Missouri, Mongrel, Mouse, Naperville, Illinois, Orlando, Florida, Palatka, Florida, Pendleton, Indiana, Polar bear, Pop music, Ray Charles, Rock and roll, Sandy Hook, Mississippi, Santa Claus, Schaumburg, Illinois, ... Expand index (12 more) »
- Animatronic robots
Aaron Fechter
Aaron Fechter (born December 22, 1953) is an American mechanical engineer, entrepreneur, voice actor, singer, and musician who owns and operates Creative Engineering, Inc. (CEI).
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Alcoholism
Alcoholism is the continued drinking of alcohol despite it causing problems.
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Animatronics
An animatronic is a mechatronic puppet controlled by a machine to move in a fluent way.
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Anthropomorphism
Anthropomorphism is the attribution of human traits, emotions, or intentions to non-human entities.
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Apple IIe
The Apple IIe (styled as Apple //e) is the third model in the Apple II series of personal computers produced by Apple Computer.
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Bankruptcy
Bankruptcy is a legal process through which people or other entities who cannot repay debts to creditors may seek relief from some or all of their debts.
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Barboursville, West Virginia
Barboursville is a village in Cabell County, West Virginia, United States.
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Bass guitar
The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass is the lowest-pitched member of the guitar family.
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Boo-Boo Bear
Boo-Boo Bear is a Hanna-Barbera cartoon character on The Yogi Bear Show.
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Brown bear
The brown bear (Ursus arctos) is a large bear native to Eurasia and North America.
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Cheerleading
Cheerleading is an activity in which the participants (called cheerleaders) cheer for their team as a form of encouragement.
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Chuck E. Cheese
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 in 1977 by Atari's co-founder Nolan Bushnell.
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Classic rock
Classic rock is a radio format that developed from the album-oriented rock (AOR) format in the early 1980s.
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Country music
Country (also called country and western) is a music genre originating in the southern regions of the United States, both the American South and the Southwest.
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Degersheim
Degersheim is a municipality in the Wahlkreis (constituency) of Wil in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland.
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Differential Manchester encoding
Differential Manchester encoding (DM) is a line code in digital frequency modulation in which data and clock signals are combined to form a single two-level self-synchronizing data stream.
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Disco
Disco is a genre of dance music and a subculture that emerged in the late 1960s from the United States' urban nightlife scene.
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Documentary film
A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional motion picture intended to "document reality, primarily for instruction, education or maintaining a historical record".
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Drum (container)
A drum (also called a barrel) is a cylindrical shipping container used for shipping bulk cargo.
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DVD
The DVD (common abbreviation for digital video disc or digital versatile disc) is a digital optical disc data storage format.
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Fan mail
Fan mail is mail sent to a public figure, especially a celebrity, by their admirers or "fans".
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Fats Domino
Antoine Dominique Domino Jr. (February 26, 1928 – October 24, 2017), known as Fats Domino, was an American singer-songwriter and pianist.
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Film festival
A film festival is an organized, extended presentation of films in one or more cinemas or screening venues, usually in a single city or region.
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Frank Sinatra
Francis Albert Sinatra (December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American singer and actor.
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Garfield (character)
Garfield is a fictional cat and the protagonist of the comic strip of the same name, created by Jim Davis.
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Gorilla
Gorillas are herbivorous, predominantly ground-dwelling great apes that inhabit the tropical forests of equatorial Africa.
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Gulliver's Kingdom
Gulliver's Kingdom (also known as Gulliver's Matlock Bath) is a theme park aimed at children aged 3-13 in the Derbyshire town of Matlock Bath, England.
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Gulliver's Land
Gulliver's Land is a children's theme park in Milton Keynes, England.
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Gulliver's World
Gulliver's World is a theme park located in Warrington, England, loosely based on the world of Lilliput from Gulliver's Travels.
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Incheon
Incheon (or Inch'ŏn; literally "kind river"), formerly Jemulpo or Chemulp'o (제물포) until the period after 1910, officially the Incheon Metropolitan City (인천광역시, 仁川廣域市), is a city located in northwestern South Korea, bordering Seoul and Gyeonggi to the east.
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Invention
An invention is a unique or novel device, method, composition, idea or process.
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ITunes
iTunes was a media player, media library, mobile device management utility developed by Apple.
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Kansas City, Missouri
Kansas City, Missouri (KC or KCMO) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri by population and area.
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Kmart
Kmart, formerly legally registered as Kmart Corporation, now operated by Transformco, is a department store chain, and an online retailer in the United States and operates six remaining Kmart big-box department stores — 3 in the US Virgin Islands and one each in Kendale Lakes, Florida (Miami postal address); Bridgehampton, Long Island; and Tamuning, Guam.
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Michael Jackson
Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and philanthropist.
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Minnesota
Minnesota is a state in the Upper Midwestern region of the United States.
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Missouri
Missouri is a landlocked state in the Midwestern region of the United States.
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Mongrel
A mongrel, mutt, or mixed-breed dog is a dog that does not belong to one officially recognized breed, including those that result from intentional breeding.
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Mouse
A mouse (mice) is a small rodent.
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Naperville, Illinois
Naperville is a city in DuPage and Will counties in the U.S. state of Illinois.
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Orlando, Florida
Orlando is a city in and the county seat of Orange County, Florida, United States.
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Palatka, Florida
Palatka is a city in and the county seat of Putnam County, Florida, United States.
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Pendleton, Indiana
Pendleton is a town in Fall Creek Township, Madison County, Indiana, United States.
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Polar bear
The polar bear (Ursus maritimus) is a large bear native to the Arctic and nearby areas.
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Pop music
Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form during the mid-1950s in the United States and the United Kingdom.
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Ray Charles
Ray Charles Robinson Sr. (September 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004) was an American singer, songwriter and pianist.
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Rock and roll
Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll, rock-n-roll, rock 'n' roll, rock n' roll or Rock n' Roll) is a genre of popular music that evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s.
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Sandy Hook, Mississippi
Sandy Hook is an unincorporated community in Marion County, Mississippi, United States.
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Santa Claus
Santa Claus (also known as Saint Nicholas, Saint Nick, Father Christmas, Kris Kringle, Santa, or Klaus) is a legendary figure originating in Western Christian culture who is said to bring gifts during the late evening and overnight hours on Christmas Eve.
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Schaumburg, Illinois
Schaumburg is a village located mostly in Cook County and partly in DuPage County in northeastern Illinois, United States.
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ShowBiz Pizza Place
ShowBiz Pizza Place, often shortened to ShowBiz Pizza or ShowBiz, was an American family entertainment center and restaurant pizza chain founded in 1980 by Robert L. Brock and Creative Engineering (CEI).
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Spider-Man
Spider-Man is a superhero in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
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Spin (magazine)
Spin (stylized in all caps as SPIN) is an American music magazine founded in 1985 by publisher Bob Guccione Jr. Now owned by Next Management Partners, the magazine is an online publication since it stopped issuing a print edition in 2012.
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St. Joseph, Missouri
St.
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Surfing
Surfing is a surface water sport in which an individual, a surfer (or two in tandem surfing), uses a board to ride on the forward section, or face, of a moving wave of water, which usually carries the surfer towards the shore.
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Tennessee
Tennessee, officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States.
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Tinley Park, Illinois
Tinley Park (formerly Bremen) is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States (with a small portion in Will County), and is a suburb of Chicago.
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Ventriloquism
Ventriloquism is an act of stagecraft in which a person (a ventriloquist) speaks in such a way that it looks like their voice is coming from a different location, usually through a puppet known as a "dummy".
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Video game crash of 1983
The video game crash of 1983 (known in Japan as the Atari shock) was a large-scale recession in the video game industry that occurred from 1983 to 1985, primarily in the United States.
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Volo Auto Museum
Established in 1960 by the Grams family, the Volo Auto Museum (since renamed simply the Volo Museum) is an automobile museum and collector car dealer in the Chicago suburb of Volo, Illinois, US.
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Wolf
The wolf (Canis lupus;: wolves), also known as the gray wolf or grey wolf, is a large canine native to Eurasia and North America.
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Yogi Bear
Yogi Bear is an anthropomorphic animal character who has appeared in numerous comic books, animated television shows, and films.
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See also
Animatronic robots
- AIBO
- ASIMO
- Big Mouth Billy Bass
- Geoff Peterson
- Gus the groundhog
- John Gilmore Riley House
- Kota the triceratops
- Laffing Sal
- Lucky the Dinosaur
- Muppet Mobile Lab
- Pleo
- Porton Man
- QRIO
- Teddy Ruxpin
- The Rock-afire Explosion
- Tradinno
- WowWee Alive Chimpanzee
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rock-afire_Explosion
Also known as Concept Unification, Dook Larue, Fatz Geronimo, Rock afire explosion, Rock-afire, Rock-afire Explosion, Rockafire Explosion, The Rockafire Explosion, The rock-afire, VegaNova.
, ShowBiz Pizza Place, Spider-Man, Spin (magazine), St. Joseph, Missouri, Surfing, Tennessee, Tinley Park, Illinois, Ventriloquism, Video game crash of 1983, Volo Auto Museum, Wolf, Yogi Bear.