The Rock-afire Explosion (Carwardine Colony installation)

History
It was installed in 1991 as part of a larger deal between Carwardine Parks and Creative Engineering, replacing a Hard Luck Bears installation (the Billy Wilbur animatronic was refurbished into a "backup" Billy Bob; the "backup" is distinguishable from the main one as it has slightly darker shades of red and yellow on its overalls).

In 1998, the original ElectroMotion unit that controlled the installation was going to be converted to run on floppy disks, but the plan was cancelled due to the slowing sales of floppy disks, along with memory limitations with programming multiple characters at once, so, the first ever ElectroMagik unit was produced.

In 2008, the CRT video TVs were replaced with LCD flatscreen TVs. This includes the rear-projection TV on Rolfe's stage being replaced with a standard 1080p HDTV.

Trivia

 * Due to the relocation of CEI's headquarters and manufacturing shop in the Summer of 2022, making an annual replacement of parts near-impossible, parts from the Chuck E. Cheese in Buena Vista, VA's former 3-stage were used instead, along with parts fabricated in-house at the Carwardine Colony fabrication shop and remaining parts leftover from the Hard Luck Bears installation it replaced.