What was the name of the animatronic house band at ShowBiz Pizza Place?
Chuck E. Cheese wasn't the only place where animatronic animals sang to children while they inhaled pizza in the 1980s. ShowBiz Pizza Place had a gorilla on keyboards, a polar bear surfer on guitar, a dog in a space suit on drums, and a cheerleader mouse on vocals. What was the name of the animatronic house band at ShowBiz Pizza Place?
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Correct Answer: The Rock-afire Explosion
(Source)Aaron Fechter founded his company to build fuel-efficient cars and somehow ended up designing robot animals that lip-sync pop songs in pizza restaurants. The Rock-afire Explosion was ShowBiz's answer to Chuck E. Cheese in the 1980s pizza wars, and when the two chains merged, the animatronics were physically retrofitted into Chuck E. Cheese characters. Same robots, new costumes. When the conversion team tried to destroy the old Rock-afire sign, they ran it over with a van and couldn't break it. The band still performs at Billy Bob's Wonderland in West Virginia, so the robots turned out to be just as indestructible.
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