Visiting the Last Animatronic Shows in the US

[@Cyberstar_Entertainment]

It was a BLAST meeting you!

[@CaseytheCalifornian]

Lucky ass

[@warpeduck9807]

Lucky

[@2kidsandadog782]

200th like

[@RockProductionsYT]

Why do people post shit like this

[@Funimationthegroup]

Why you a hater

[@ItzaRob]

Very cool to see you visit these places! I’ve had the blessing over being able to visit all three of these in person (with me living close enough to Pineville to go every once in a while), so it’s great to see you visit them too! Also, fun fact, but the Pizzacam currently at Pineville actually originally came from Fairfax, Virginia (which we know based off its serial tag). It was sent to Laurel at some point and replaced their original Pizzacam, and then got put into storage and installed at Pineville like you said.

[@GamerGod2024]

Nice

[@Fredbear_and_Friends1983]

Super excited to see Billy Bob's Wonderland to get an official overhaul.

[@feduwtc]

6:41 is cool how they have fnaf merch, instead of not permitting any single reference to it in the restaurant like chucky & cheese

[@horrorjunkii666]

One of the staff room doors is covered in Rae/fnaf art

[@Personiguezz]

I think they also played the fnaf song (the first one by living tombstone)

[@Goobygoob12]

Chuck e cheese not chucky & cheese

[@spingleboygle]

chuck e cheese should give it up and smile

[@weewoo5486]

same lmao, i feel like fnaf is a huge buisness opportunity ((since it brought in more animatronic fans)) but chuck e's missed out hard

[@FourtyFiftyEighty]

4:57 Billy bobs wonderland actually had an obscure "3rd" location in Spokane Washington. They had a rockafire until around 2016 but that show was sold to scadia golf and games for parts. The location is now called “wonderland family fun center” but they still have a few Billy bob items left such as the walk around costume. Pretty interesting that not a lot of people know about it. Edit: Added quotes around 3rd since I dont think the first 2 location owners had any part in this place. There is very little history on it

[@cycl0ne]

while its true wonderland had a rock afire explosion at one point and had a similar name, they weren't owned by the same owners of billy bobs wonderland lol, that's just straight up misinformation

[@FourtyFiftyEighty]

@@cycl0ne Interesting. I am pretty certain It was called billy bobs wonderland for a time. It opened in 1993 according to all the sources I can find. Their old tickets also used to say billy bobs wonderland on them. Although its possible it just was a common name for these places even though the original owners of the well known BBW may not have been the original owners here. I remember them having plastic cups for coins that also said billy bobs wonderland on them. Not trying to spread missinfo

[@CECPACIFIC]

Fourty Fifty Eighty?! The Fire Alarm guy?! Wassup bro

[@marissasalee2440]

I came here to say this! I grew up in Spokane in the 90s and we would go to Wonderland for SO many birthday parties, soccer team parties, summer days, etc. Back then it was called "Wonderland Golf n' Games" but the Rock-afire Explosion show was alive and well at the time. I was enamored with these characters throughout my childhood and would run to the little podium with the buttons where you could select a song, though I was also slightly frightened at times when I would peek under the curtains and see them sitting still, especially as they started to fall into disrepair...

[@SammyinVR]

It was a very fun time meeting you Sully I hope the best for your restoration of your rockafire

[@feliciteacup]

i have been out of the rockafire fandom for like 2 years so it's such a shame seeing billy bob's wonderland go back to being in bad condition after it was so recently restored... the masks look AWFUL, and mitzi's hair being in curlers during operating hours is wild. i heard about the volo museum having a show in storage but i'm so glad to see they're actually showing them to the public now, and they look really good

[@Troy-jc2ko]

@feliciteacup This was posted before the big restoration at Billy Con. By the way, glad to see I’m not the only Animatronic and MLP fan!

[@MamaStylus]

I got a chance to finally see the Rockafire at the Volo and I nearly cried. They were so wonderfully restored and moving so fluidly. I'm beyond happy to see them in a place where they will be taken care of and appreciated for years to come. The show tape they were running didn't have Rolfe originally, but they altered the show just a little so he made a silent guest appearance and hit his cymbal in time with the music. It was appreciated getting to see them all! I fell in love with the band 10 years ago and never thought I would be able to watch them perform in person, and so so perfectly too.

[@bikeyy2714]

I was there for Volo's Rock-afire unveiling! The energy was amazing and I plan on going back again and again!

[@RyeRye29]

Had fun meeting you sully!

[@vivianaacosta2714]

hi rye rye

[@CaseytheCalifornian]

W

[@loganwhite8094]

I remember seeing my local Chuck E. Cheese take down the animatronics there, super disappointing when it happened. Glad to see there are still some locations that have their animatronics.

[@beasley1232]

Today, only 4 Chuck E Cheese locations still have their animatronic band. 1 in North Carolina 1 in Springfield, Illinois. 1 in LA, California And 1 in New York state.

[@rolfeslefthand]

it was so rad meeting you my guy!!

[@NotTelling-xs4rv]

You are doing amazing work explaining this to non-animatronic enthusiasts!

[@EliaBill]

In Switzerland there is also a Rock afire explosion show, in the Dream factory.They still work and look perfect

[@just_E_xoxo]

The Lego noises while they were disassembling the Rock-a-Fire animatronics got me rofl

[@abitofgrey]

i had such a wonderful time chatting with you man, it was truly a pleasure. if you ever come down to pineville again don't hesitate to let me know, we just got a brand new bunch of shows that debuted at our reopening that i would love for you to see!

[@1kart]

It was very cool to meet you at Billy Bobs Wonderland! Great video!

[@comeforthepizza]

HELPPP I WAS WORKING THE DAY WE HAD TO SWITCH BILLY BOB OUT FOUR TIMES (Hi, I was the employee standing with my head down on the stage because I was so done!) I was recruited very last-minute to paint the masks and after painting two for Billy Bob and neither of them fitting well, I was ready to throw the towel in. 😭 Luckily, we were able to borrow an original Billy Bob mask that looks better. I also fixed Dook after that unfortunate Crispy Dook incident. I was so frustrated I could have cried lol As for the refurbs, we're working closely with Aaron getting that up and running! We're hoping to get new official cosmetics AND fix air flow issues so they don't tear up as quickly. There's also going to be a lot of mechanical refurbishments in the coming months. We're running on what we have for now, but we have people here who care SO MUCH about the band and want it to work the best it can. I'll also defend BBWL with my dying breath. Getting new parts and things is not as easy as it seems, since at the end of the day, we're still a locally owned business in a poor state. There's only so much that can be done on a tight tech budget. I beg everyone to have some patience- trust me when I say, again, that we want it to run perfectly just as much as you all do! At this point, it's not a matter of neglect because we pay a LOT of care where we can, it's a waiting game until the new refurbishments can start.

[@jubjubbly9793]

Don't mind me, just copying your route for my bucket list. Shame my closest 3-Stage (Springfield) doesn't have the memorabilia Pineville has, but good to know! Road trip time!

[@user-pg2ij6mv7e]

Wife and I just visited Volo museum just for the rockafire explosion exhibit. Thankful to live a so close to the legacy location chuck e cheese in Springfield IL

[@airfried._.airfryer]

That up close shot of Mitzi with her curlers still in is so silly to me. Looks like she just wanted a girls night but she had to come to work and they weren’t done yet.

[@S.J.C._Entertainment]

I remember asking if you’d ever show your animatronics on a twitch live a few years ago. Really cool to see that they’ve become a staple of this channel!

[@showbizcec4985]

6:30, from what I have gathered through the grapevine, I believe this agreement has fallen through.

[@Framed_Niner]

That would be a shame.

[@dcscruz2970]

Damn dude is so hard to please

[@S.J.C._Entertainment]

Aw poo.

[@PsychicDetective-ly6ri]

That's so cool! I didn't realize how many were left until this video, thanks for spreading the word!

[@MuddyCar35]

Yey another animatronic video!!! (I’m gonna watch this video while eating my lunch)

[@StarDoge210ACIOfficial]

really hope we get to see more of this content! would love to also see footage of your show eventually!

[@JesseScott2016]

Some of the earliest KZbin videos I remember watching were about these animatronics. Thank you so much for sharing!

[@v22ospreyenjoyer]

i nearly SCREAMED watching the volo museum appear on my screen. i used to live less than an hour away, in wauconda, so its awesome seeing it make an appearance here. very glad they're keeping the legacy of rock-a-fire alive !!

[@b94823]

The masks looked good at BillyCon 2024 when I was there

[@tonylicatajr]

Man, talk about seeing my childhood flash before my eyes. Great video!

[@steveille1428]

Because of this video my wife and I took an impromptu trip to Illinois to see the Volo museum. It. Was. Incredible. I highly recommend visiting especially if you have an interest in animatronics or automated instruments. In addition to the Rock a Fire band they also have a working "the beagles" setup and a ROOM of drum organs and player pianos. Not trying to sound like an ad for the museum, but if not for this video I would have never known such an amazing collection existed near me.

[@GamerGod2024]

They is one in the UK Gulliver's Kingdom with the rock afire explosion

[@Purpie_Slurpie]

seeing the chuck e cheese design I know being in the old signage collection hit me like a truck oml

[@deannahagberg3085]

I just went to the Volo Museum today! It was awesome to see the band! I wanted to go all summer and finally had the chance!

[@ShrimplyWonderful]

i remember being a kid and my parents throwing me a birthday party at chuck e cheese and hiding under the table because the show started and the animatronics scared me to death. i'd give anything to see them now that i have a kid, she loves stuff like this! thank you for your videos!

[@qwenck8610]

I love the editing style of this one-- reminiscent of 90s TV documentaries for me.

[@AnyMation-vd6xp]

There’s a Chuck E. Cheese pizzeria some where in my town that still has active animatronics except chuckie is missing an eye and has his head cracked open

[@illioptopede]

10:06 LOOK GARY THERE I AM!!!!

[@gurgungarungabunga1268]

Which one are you

[@bragg_15]

Watching your animatronic videos to you uploading one today was unexpected love you sully

[@justinludwig3995]

At billy con the masks looked phenomenal.

[@XxKyriinxX]

I work as the shuttle driver at a local theme park where I live and I commonly ask if people miss the animatronics at CEC and unsurprisingly everyone says yes

[@ProudOrbit217]

Thank you for going around to these states to come and show them for us and telling us the history CEC (imo) is being super careless with their marketing choices when it comes to the animatronics I’m at least glad we have those few locations left and happy to still a Billy bobs wonderland still in operation

[@melgalsue8792]

MOM, GET THE CAR! WERE GOING TO NORTH CARILINA!!!!!

[@Juel13]

That was me, but to my daughter. "Hey kid! Let's go!" lol

[@beasley1232]

​@@Juel13I've heard that Pineville, North Carolina will keep their animatronics BECAUSE of local demand. Here in Chicago, all remaining animatronics were decommissioned.

[@SPTT6457]

Great vid! But you probably should’ve went to Billy Bob’s Wonderland during or after the con. You may not have been as disappointed lol

[@hsdinoman2267]

6:41 fnaf merch

[@refusefntk]

Thanks for persevering the history, I still take my child to the samw Chuck E Cheese that I went to and I try to explain to her how cool the animatronics were. The place got a recent remodel and the last Animatronic of just Chuck E and the swan ride were removed.

[@ethanlittlejohn2536]

3:40 that upside-down car edit is insane! nice chroma key!

[@edward5735]

Love this video!!! It was amazing meeting you!!

[@TheFnafGuuy]

I actually went to Billy bobs recently and they are in GREAT condition

[@josephcurvin9937]

Well, looks like I'm going to North Carolina boys

[@Mr.GameWatch1980]

OH BOY SULLYS BACK

[@NumberFriends]

Are used to watch your videos but then I quit and then this is the first ever video I watched in November

[@Bmgill114]

Did bro flip is car for a sponsor???

[@Faygobath]

i went to billy bobs wonderland on july 25th n save to say the gang has been fully restored :] love the vid !! 💕💕

[@Draidenfriday]

I live right outside of pineville, I always went to the one in Gastonia as a kid though, who knew something so cool was one town over

[@nastehdawg]

oh my god :((( i used to live really close to billy bobs and it was a huge part of my childhood, i didn't know most shows were gone until i was around 9, seeing them in such awful condition breaks my heart, i hope they get better restorations soon :(

[@CheesyLizzy]

I was watching this while making lunch So I accidentally watched the entire Morgan and Morgan ad upside down, but I feel like that's in the spirit of car accidents

[@Chuck_eCHEEZE]

NEW SUBSCRIBER!! I love animatronics

[@AtticPartiers]

I need to go to Pineville, it looks so good!!

[@g_way]

I'm so glad you visited Billy Bob's and gave them the publicity they needed! The new owner is quite awful and I hope someone nice takes over lmfao

[@BlueTrainProductions-ew8gg]

This video needs more views. This is great.

[@layneschristmascollection8389]

During Billy Con 2024 the show in West Virginia looked great as fans brought in their own masks for the characters but after it was over they had to refit the old ones back on.

[@Zoopop13]

im about 2 hours from volo! wish i had the chance to meet you. my parents just visited last wednesday.

[@SillyLasagna]

That is awesomely cool!

[@Mad24680]

I’m a simple woman. I see animatronic videos, I click. 😂❤

[@KirbyLinkACW]

Sully trying to hide that he's not an animatronic.

[@moshibass]

0:36 nice shirt I want one anyway FINALLY SOME ANIMATRONIC CONTENT (jk) very fascinating stuff and so cool that you actually went in person to make this video!

[@tsivilsඞ]

I need to go to the Pineville location! My local Chuck e cheese had the rockafire conversion 3 stage ones, and I'm very partial to those designs. Chuck e cheese looked his best on rolfe's skeleton 😂!

[@Vector_clone002]

I remember when I was a kid I loved the rockifire explosion animatronics

[@Ship.nerd.735]

I just got to see them today at volo they are awesome in person and huge

[@PigDan]

Really high quality! It would be.. uh.. great to meet you!!! I totally would meet you? Why has everyone in the comment section met you?!

[@khit007]

It closed down in 1983!?!? We all know what happened that caused that! I wonder how they were doing in 1987?

[@deezwaffles558]

Would be cool if someday you get to go to creative engineering and meet the creator of the rockafire explosion

[@NintegaDario]

I had no idea you attended the grand reopening, I would've said hi. 😂

[@01Haven]

please come to the UK and come show the 2 open hard luck bear shows at Matlock Bath, and Warrington

[@somebodythatiusetoknow2027]

This looks so neat!

[@VictorHryniv]

HE’S BACK

[@princessmarlena1359]

I’m going to miss them, but I am glad there are a few left. I remember when I was seven, I decided to be a little naughty and sneaked behind the curtain and up on stage at a birthday party held at a Chuck E. Cheese. I danced on stage with them as the show began. As a result I got banned from that location, though it closed down.

[@thecatthatposts]

I thought this video was already released

[@projectsmash600]

god damn it sully i was gonna do that

[@Samscooking-ib9wb]

Hey sully? There are like 4 locations in ca with either 1 stage c shows or cyberamic 1 stages with all the 4 characters working and I got a mouth lever!

[@HallyPorter]

Growing up, Mom never let us have a party and invite friends but she did take us there. It was always a disaster where we'd leave crying because we hadn't spent all our tokens, she had no interest in video games and was probably getting a headache, had seen the show at least twice already with the last of the pizza. I had to be dragged away with 5 unused tokens from a Baby Pac Man machine, as we wanted to stay there for the rest of our lives.

[@RockOnForever1980s]

Country Bear Jamboree? Now Country Bear Musical Jamboree - granted it costs an arm and a leg to see it 🤣🤣🤣🤣. But it is an animatronic show. The very one that influenced Nolan Bushnell in the first place!

[@theonlyjaspertjowls]

Great video man!, I wish I could have met you but it’s alright

[@probablyjustsnails]

I am living for this content 🤧

[@discussingwhattodo5381]

Theres also one in ocean city New Jersey called the man and dog show. They’re retrofitted Chuck E. Cheese animatronics. The man and dog show are probably some of the best condition 80s animatronics in the world right now that are still in business. However this is the last year they’ll be there since the theme park shuts down in October :( The animatronics have been there since 1993

[@Smileydude123]

Hope some day chuck puts the cigarette back in his mouth and brings back the animatronics world wide

[@giraffeo9722]

I'm watching the preimere

[@MaxAmiga]

The Chuck E Cheese in Springfield Illinois still has a Munch’s Make Believe Band animatronic shows. It’s one of only five left in the US.

[@MountainboTools]

I once heard about a person called Chris Thrash, who owns a private Rock-Afire-Explosion in pristine condition. Maybe he still has it operating! UPDATE: Chris sold this show back to Aaron do to financial problems. And apparently, he was depressed after it and started doing drugs, since his show was his only escape from reality (As he said in the documentary). He's okay now, he works as a manager in a McDonalds restaurant. He started rebuilding his show as he bought the burned Rock-afire show from Snap's Blast To The Past Museum. He's collecting parts, rebuilding his show almost completely, then he stopped and gave up for unknown reasons. His show rests now in storage.

[@miku_isthe_bestvargas5243]

THIS CONTENT IS SOOO AMAZING PLZ KEEP THIS GOING ON

[@MaxEverywhereSystem]

haha cool video- THE MUPPETS MAYHEM (2023) MENTIONED???

[@backyardmachinery]

It's so interesting to see this. I hope someday that genuinely, the Rockafire Explosion can be in the public where I am again. Not to give details where I am ofc because this is the internet, what I can say is that they're in a warehouse as far as I know rotting away. Either that or are still on stage abandoned in the place that they were. The issue was is that I'm not sure if the place that had the robots (it wasn't a showbiz place but it was somewhere that got the rights to use the band there) ever sold it to another place with robots that ripped them for parts or not. I hope deep down, and ofc this is just hope, that those robots are still somewhere out there preserved or at least in tact as much as they can be. It would be years of rotting to restore, however. The place closed down about a decade ago and last I heard the building they were housed in was just abandoned. No closing, no nothing. Just abandoned and no one has bought it again nor has anyone gone in to gut the place as far as I'm aware of.

[@weewoo5486]

as a colorado fella in a small town, i miss my fort collins chuck, its why i hope animatronics becomes a revived hobby thanks to fnaf lol, i hope we get something oldschool down here again or i gotta make it lol

[@MaxtherealmTC3421]

TheRealSullyG travel video!

[@Battleforklipslinger]

Wait you got to see Billy Bob!!!

[@Juel13]

Roadtrip! But for real, I think the IL location would have something for everyone in my weird little family.

[@_SillyBoy813_]

I’m a big fan of this channel but I’m not sure how I feel about how he basically disowned Billy Bob’s Wonderland

[@Troy-jc2ko]

@_SillyBoy813_ I agree, but to be fair, the RAE was is pretty bad condition at that time. At least they fixed the band up in time for Billy Con.

[@the_void_screamer777]

To be fair..the place isn't the best😭

[@Troy-jc2ko]

@the_void_screamer777 Considering its crazy history from being a Showbiz to all of their Animatronic troubles, “Yeah I gathered.”

[@invaderjessea]

So happy I had my 21st birthday at the Pineville location!

[@Queen_of_chaos]

Very very cool!! ❤w❤