On the day that Sophie and her family visited Creative Engineering, Sebastian was painting the Rock-afire mural and Fips was tearing it down.

We ve been working towards our performance at Riot Fest for months as we waited for Riot Fest execs to get time to talk to us about their offer to have us play there this year. Alas, they didn t have time to talk to us until it was way too late for us to perform at Riot Fest. We can t just take the characters and thrown them in a van and run up to the show as they thought we could. It s a shame because, as you know, they asked us if we would be willing to do Riot Fest back in January, which would have given us time to prepare had they listened. We need months to prepare and I did what I could in expectation that we would come to a deal. So, as Riot Fest opens in Denver without the Rock-afire, I am giving the fans who are upset that we aren t there, this song on YouTube which was to be our finale for one of our sets on the Riot Fest stage. In the above paragraph I told you that this song was prepared for an adult crowd who would attend Riot Fest where our show would have performed had the deal been finalized. However, some of you can t understand that, so let me give you more information: Why do the characters use adult language on this video? Because when I made this show, 3 decades AFTER the Rock-afire played to children in Pizza restaurants, all our Rock-afire Kids had grown up and there were virtually no children who were fans of the Rock-afire. This show was designed for a rowdy bunch of foulmouthed drunks who go to rock festivals. I had accepted the fact that I was going to play to an ever aging demographic (like the Rolling Stones) and that those adults are the ones who I was playing to now. Then, suddenly, after releasing this song wherein the cuss words were actually on the background music tracks provided by CeeLo Green himself and not actually anything I put there, all lot of kids started liking the Rock-afire. So, I had a brief stint as an adult rock band playing to adults who, use way too much profanity in the every day lives,, but have gone back to programming that everyone can enjoy as you may note by the productions I have released over the last couple of years. However, I am not ashamed of the use of the words in my adult videos. This video parodies the use of cuss words by young adults by refusing to use the "F" word, but replacing it with "Poo". I have stayed true to myself and to my characters and the fans, so I will probably not take this or my other adult oriented videos down unless you can prove to me that you are not encountering any cuss words, or violence, or sexual implications in any other work that you can easily find online. I also will note that the Muppets television show which you may think was just for kids, was very, over the top "adult oriented". Many songs I have recorded have had adult content and situations and implications. But, if all your brain is able to digest is the actual use of a cuss word, and that sends you seeking shelter in your safe place, then, I would appreciate it if you would not subscribe to my channel and not give me your opinion of my work. I would also suggest that your mommy should stop you from using the Internet.

This is a speech by Aaron Fechter at Freeplay Florida on Nov. 21st, 2014, with the true story of Aaron s first game, The Whac-a-Mole. For the 1st time in 38 years, Aaron speaks to and teases Bob Cassada, the man he alleges stole the IP of the Whac-a-Mole from him 38 years ago. Indeed there have been many knockoffs of the game since then due to its popularity, but Cassada is the only one who is trying to take the credit for inventing the game, rightfully belonging to Aaron, even if Aaron wasn t smart enough to protect the IP. If Cassada continues to claim he is the inventor of the game, then let him tell the story of that invention so we can finally discredit him, once and for all. And, while we wait for that, let s see what Aaron has up his sleeve for his arcade game comeback in 2015.

This is for all my Rock-afire fans and supporters. Bashy Bug™ could not be fixed before the IAAPA convention. So, that s life, right? Well, I decided to unveil it anyway, so that we, the Rock-afire Kids who need this game to support the Rock-afire Explosion® could talk about it and figure out what to do next. I m glad I went to the IAAPA convention so I could be reminded about how little this convention really contributes the success of a product launch these days. There were very few real buyers at the show anyway. We re going to have to fix the game and get the word out another way. The IAAPA is about as relevant these days as a Blockbuster Video Store.

My second attempt to lay up a Gooney Bird mask for Super Fan Patrick. You saw on my last video that there are substantial problems getting a latex mask to form inside a fiberglass mold. But that s how we used to do it in the 70 s, before we discovered plaster mold making techniques. We made all our masks out of latex in fiberglass molds, but I just can t seem to get it to work.

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Nearly 40 years after Dook first sang this song, it s still as beautiful and as much of a Rock-afire Christmas classic as ever.

The Robinsons have the distinction of having been the last family to get a tour of the birth place of The Rock-afire Explosion. This is even though there has been a huge reorganization and preparation for our move to our new shop. I considered it an important enough event to personally video tape this event and will put it up in pieces. Here s Part I of The Robinson s Tour, June 3rd, 2022.

Part II of the Robinson s tour on June 3rd, 2022. Since this is the last of hundreds of tours in more than a decade, I m not editing too much out. This tour is a historic conclave, so, get ready for lots more of The Robinsons at Creative Engineering.

Continuing with Part III of The Robinson s Tour, and the last tour I expect to give at Jefferson St., I m trying not to leave anything out. Chris and his family are asking great questions that should reverberate in the minds of all the fans who never got to take their own tour and ask many of these same questions. All of this matters, or nothing matters.  I am not able to say.  All I can do is capture this, and give it to you for your consideration.

This is the last part of the last tour before we go into the show room and play the last performance of The Rock-afire Explosion. So, in this episode, I show the Robinsons the rest of the basement as it is in the middle of packing everything up, and how we re collecting all the museum pieces together in the hopes that we will establish a Creative Engineering museum in our next life. After this episode, there will be one more episode of The Robinson s Tour where I just shot the show as they watched. I have never been as impressed with the mechanical longevity of The Rock-afire Explosion as I am right now.  It seems like everything I am testing as I pack up, whether it is a tape deck, a cassette player, an amplifier, the fork lift, my stored cars, drills, air tools, hydraulic press, monitors, computers, disk drives, equalizers, video games, mixer boards, the garage door opener, the fluorescent lights, the copy machine, printers... EVERYTHING IS BROKEN!  Everything, that is except my 100 year old elevator, my 40 year old lathe and milling machines, the air conditioner in my little kitchen, and my Rock-afire Explosion.  Those are the things that work perfectly.  Isn t that strange?   This whole move has been a slap in the face, awakening me as to how long it s been, how much time 45 years actually is, what can survive 45 years and what can t.  Many of the people I knew have not survived.  Most of the equipment I thought I would have and use forever has not survived.   But, my love for inventing has survived, and the enjoyment of sharing all of this has survived.  If we get to build a museum, it will be a lot of fun.  We ll force the Hard Luck Bears and the Wolf Pack 5 to survive.  It will be more amazing than I used to think it would be to see these things rocking again, now that I know how everything ages and dies, except me, of course.

Here s the end of The Robinson s Tour. I didn t want to stop showing them shows. I knew this was the last tour, and the last show and I wished we could keep watching the show all night. But, as all good things must end some day, so must this phase of my life and giving tours and shows at "Ground Zero", the birthplace of The Rock-afire Explosion. So, we played a couple of the epic show tapes from our history and, lastly, an appropriate "Rock-afired" song, "Baby When The Lights Go Out".

This project has been in the works for 6 years. I met Ashley and Darren from WHOAA, also known as "Ring" and "Dolla", way back in 2016 when we started planning this video. We actually shot the footage in the Summer of 2018, and, after the many delays and setbacks, including an unplanned pandemic, this official music video was finally released in 2022! The video is taking the industry by storm as exactly the kind of fun music we need after being locked up and lied to for so long by the political forces that don t want us to have any fun! Enjoy more of this terrific duo and these links to industry press: SUBSCRIBE to Their Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiFN... Saturday Fun is the first single off of Music Duo WHOAA s upcoming Retro-Pop, debut album "The Day It All Changed" Stream "Saturday Fun" by WHOAA and ADD it to your Playlist🎧 Spotify :: https://open.spotify.com/album/1tJ2KJ... Apple Music :: https://music.apple.com/us/album/satu... Itunes : https://music.apple.com/us/album/satu... FOR Everything WHOAA :: 😍 https://linktr.ee/Whoaa CONNECT with WHOAA:: Tik Tok : https://www.tiktok.com/@whoaamusic Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/saywhoaa/ Facebook: https://facebook.com/wearewhoaa Twitter: https://twitter.com/wearewhoaa Website: http://www.saywhoaa.com Check out the Behind The Scenes For This Music Video https://youtu.be/iR8vTTJN6LU

From the Wolf Pack 5

This is the lyric video produced by WHOAA featuring the Rock-afire Explosion s complete performance. SUBSCRIBE to Their Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiFN... Saturday Fun is the first single off of Music Duo WHOAA s upcoming Retro-Pop, debut album "The Day It All Changed" Stream "Saturday Fun" by WHOAA and ADD it to your Playlist🎧 Spotify :: https://open.spotify.com/album/1tJ2KJ... Apple Music :: https://music.apple.com/us/album/satu... Itunes : https://music.apple.com/us/album/satu... FOR Everything WHOAA :: 😍 https://linktr.ee/Whoaa CONNECT with WHOAA:: Tik Tok : https://www.tiktok.com/@whoaamusic Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/saywhoaa/ Facebook: https://facebook.com/wearewhoaa Twitter: https://twitter.com/wearewhoaa Website: http://www.saywhoaa.com Check out the Behind The Scenes For This Music Video https://youtu.be/iR8vTTJN6LU

This reaction video had to wait for quite a few months until I had time to make it. In fact, to be sure my reaction was genuine, I had to prevent myself from watching the video or any part of it until this night that Marcus and I sat down to make this video, which was tormenting to say the least. But, finally sitting down to view the video, Marcus and I also played, for the first time, the "Behind The Scenes" video that WHOAA has posted on their YouTube channel, and we continued our reaction video to include the BTS video as well. The link for that is down below. SUBSCRIBE to Their Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiFN... Saturday Fun is the first single off of Music Duo WHOAA s upcoming Retro-Pop, debut album "The Day It All Changed" Stream "Saturday Fun" by WHOAA and ADD it to your Playlist🎧 Spotify :: https://open.spotify.com/album/1tJ2KJ... Apple Music :: https://music.apple.com/us/album/satu... Itunes : https://music.apple.com/us/album/satu... FOR Everything WHOAA :: 😍 https://linktr.ee/Whoaa CONNECT with WHOAA:: Tik Tok : https://www.tiktok.com/@whoaamusic Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/saywhoaa/ Facebook: https://facebook.com/wearewhoaa Twitter: https://twitter.com/wearewhoaa Website: http://www.saywhoaa.com Check out the Behind The Scenes For This Music Video https://youtu.be/iR8vTTJN6LU

I am sending this out as a public video to announce to everyone that my channel has been restored!  It was hacked, as you know and taken from me by tricksters who I thought were real collaborators wanting to sponsor my channel.  I ll go into more specifics as to how they tricked me later, but for now, I just want to warn everyone not to talk to "Channel Collaborators". The channel is not completely back to normal yet as most of my public videos were unlisted by the hacking, which I will eventually get fixed.  Also, it appears that all the comments on all my videos have been lost but I have hope to get those back too, which I ll explain more about later. For now, here is a video showing the latest happenings regarding the move from my Jefferson St. building to my new Palatka building, and my wishes to all my subscribers to have a Merry Christmas, and to get ready for a great New Year!!

I am releasing this Premium Video to all fans to stay in touch with you while I am moving and to show you a bit of what my Premium Channel subscribers see at least once a week. I work hard to keep my Premium subscribers up to date with everything going on behind the scenes. If you would like to join, the price is $65/year. Write me at aaron@starsof.com and say "I want to join Premium". I ll send back instructions to join. In this video we re loading up the museum characters like the Wizard of Oz show, Bubba the Gorilla, the loose mijjins, a couple of Klunks and more.