{"id":2616,"date":"2024-05-31T13:32:21","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T18:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/count-gregula.com\/count-gregulas-crypt\/?p=2616"},"modified":"2024-05-31T14:51:30","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T19:51:30","slug":"the-rock-afire-explosion-unveiling-at-volo-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/count-gregula.com\/count-gregulas-crypt\/index.php\/2024\/05\/31\/the-rock-afire-explosion-unveiling-at-volo-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rock-afire Explosion Unveiling at Volo Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/showbizpizza.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Rock-afire_Explosion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Rock-afire Explosion<\/a>&nbsp;(RAE) is an&nbsp;animatronic band that played in&nbsp;ShowBiz Pizza Place&nbsp;restaurants across the United States from 1980 to 1993. The pioneering show featured life-sized characters capable of advanced movement and facial expression. Created and manufactured by inventor&nbsp;Aaron Fechter through his company&nbsp;Creative Engineering, Inc.&nbsp;(CEI)&nbsp;in Orlando, Florida. In addition to overseeing the production of the animatronics, Fechter also provided the voices for several characters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The RAE at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.volocars.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Volo Museum<\/a> vill be only the second fully-operational public show in the entire country! This amazing animatronic show is a core memory of nostalgia for former kids of Generation X. Today,  there is still a huge cult following and a new generation of superfans that vill finally get to hear the catchy musical medleys and hilarious comedy bits live and in person at Volo Museum! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Team Gregula is hex-cited to be granted official media access in order to cover this momentous occasion in animatronic history! I&#8217;ve been a major fan of the RAE since the beginning in 1980. It has been over 30 years since I have seen them perform in public. So, I can&#8217;t vait for the band to play again!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Volo Museum is located at 27582 Volo Village Rd. in Volo, Illinois.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Note: Due to rain, the official unveiling has been postponed and rescheduled to 12PM on June 2, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>THIS JUST IN: Aaron Fechter vill be making an appearance via Zoom during the unveiling of The Rock-afire Explosion.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> For more info and to purchase tickets, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.volocars.com\/volofun\/Rockafire\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.volocars.com\/volofun\/Rockafire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Connect vith Count Gregula\u2019s Crypt<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Like us on&nbsp;<a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CountGregulasCrypt\" target=\"blank\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Subscribe to us on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@CountGregulasCrypt.\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"815\" data-id=\"172\" src=\"https:\/\/count-gregula.com\/count-gregulas-crypt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Count_Gregula-s_Crypt_Logo-1024x815.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/count-gregula.com\/count-gregulas-crypt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Count_Gregula-s_Crypt_Logo-1024x815.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/count-gregula.com\/count-gregulas-crypt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Count_Gregula-s_Crypt_Logo-300x239.jpg 300w, https:\/\/count-gregula.com\/count-gregulas-crypt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Count_Gregula-s_Crypt_Logo-768x611.jpg 768w, https:\/\/count-gregula.com\/count-gregulas-crypt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Count_Gregula-s_Crypt_Logo-1536x1223.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/count-gregula.com\/count-gregulas-crypt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Count_Gregula-s_Crypt_Logo-2048x1630.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/count-gregula.com\/count-gregulas-crypt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Count_Gregula-s_Crypt_Logo-1568x1248.jpg 1568w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rock-afire Explosion&nbsp;(RAE) is an&nbsp;animatronic band that played in&nbsp;ShowBiz Pizza Place&nbsp;restaurants across the United States from 1980 to 1993. The pioneering show featured life-sized characters capable of advanced movement and facial expression. Created and manufactured by inventor&nbsp;Aaron Fechter through his company&nbsp;Creative Engineering, Inc.&nbsp;(CEI)&nbsp;in Orlando, Florida. In addition to overseeing the production of the animatronics, Fechter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[151,171,173,30,170,5,167,169,168],"class_list":["post-2616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-event","tag-151","tag-aaron-fechter","tag-creative-engineering","tag-illinois","tag-showbiz-pizza-place","tag-team-gregula","tag-the-rock-afire-explosion","tag-volo","tag-volo-museum","entry","has-media"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/count-gregula.com\/count-gregulas-crypt\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/count-gregula.com\/count-gregulas-crypt\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/count-gregula.com\/count-gregulas-crypt\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/count-gregula.com\/count-gregulas-crypt\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/count-gregula.com\/count-gregulas-crypt\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2616"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/count-gregula.com\/count-gregulas-crypt\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2625,"href":"https:\/\/count-gregula.com\/count-gregulas-crypt\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2616\/revisions\/2625"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/count-gregula.com\/count-gregulas-crypt\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/count-gregula.com\/count-gregulas-crypt\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/count-gregula.com\/count-gregulas-crypt\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/count-gregula.com\/count-gregulas-crypt\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}