Showbiz Pizza Band Rock-AFire Explosion : Documentary Coming This Fall

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Independent film company Window Pictures, is releasing a documentary this fall about the animatronics band you may remember from your Showbiz Pizza days - The Rock-AFire Explosion. Creepy or nostalgic? You decide. Click the Video tab to check out the trailer.

You can visit the film's Facebook page and MySpace page to stay up to date on the pending announcement of the documentary's release date. But wait, there is more. You can cruise over to ShowbizPizza.com and join the legions of fans (yes, they really do exist) as the talk about the yearly convention on the message boards (there is a rumor that next year's convention may be very close to St. Louis), you can learn about the history of the ShowBiz and Chuck E Cheese chains at ShowBiz Pizza University (did you know the first ShowBiz was opened in Kansas City, MO in 1980), and you can buy collectibles through the site as too. It's a whole subculture.

There are ShowBiz and Rock-AFire explosion fans out there who have collected the old animatronics to preserve them in all their creepiness glory. So good are these preservation efforts that the band is now making appearances all over You Tube covering songs like Usher's "Love in This Club," Shakira's "Hips Don't Lie," and No Doubt's "Spiderwebs."

I wonder if the band is available for weddings and corporate events...?

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