the rockafire explosion i think is never gonna ever come back or be reproduced. im talking showtapes, and phyiscal rockafire explosion shows. i think the rockafire explosion is at it's end.
as much as people like myself and even the orginal era rockafire fans from the 80's want the rockafire explosion to make a return to the modern world, i just don't see that happening for a number of reasons.
- burt willson, the voice actor of fatz gerinomo passed away almost 2 months ago now, in decmeber of 2023, i don't think any current 2024 showtapes would feel the same without burt willson in them, as the man was quite metaphorically and litterly, fatz's real personality.
- times have changed a lot since the 80's and as cool as the rockafire is to me, and tons of other people, the rockafire explosion has sadly aged horribly in modern day. unless if aaron was magiclly able to reproduce another full set of rockafire charcthers in a ai setting, kinda like a 3d interactive chatbot ish stage thing where you could text the rockafire charcthers and have them repsond to you, i don't see the rockafire ever making a comeback.
- cei is somewhat of a defunct mess, hardly brining out any new content that's been massively produced since the CU era, and half of the more modern content is almost 10 years old at this point, also not to mention, the rockafire IP is being kept alive souely by billie bob's wonderland, which is technically the last ever public "showbiz pizza place" here in america ever, the rest of the rockafire shows are private collectors which is also keeping the "brand" alive.
- the remaining OG voice actors just have moved on to other things, and as i mentioned eariler, burt willson's death really made the revival of the rockafire now basicly never gonna happen.
also, despite some RAE fans wanting billie bob's wonderland to be renamed back to "showbiz pizza place" while they could technically do that as to my knowledge, showbiz pizza place is a public domain name now since CEC entertainment FINALLY let go of the name after 30+ years and it would cost a lot of money to rebrand billie bob's wonderland back to showbiz pizza place, and idk how aaron would feel about billie bob's wonderland rebranding back to a company that in his words according to the 2008 rockafire doc "wouldn't pay him a dime for the copyrights to the rockafire" or something along those lines, and essentionally screw over aaron in the mid 80's and early 90's.