Gulliver's World Stage

Gulliver's World has a retrofitted Rock-afire Explosion show renamed to 'The Hard Luck Bears' and is located in its own theater. the character positioning is the same to the original Rock-afire Explosion set-up except the characters themselves feature different clothing and all have replacement bear masks.

History

TODO: go in depth The show was installed by Creative Engineering Inc. in 1992 and ran off its own custom programmed showtape produced by Gulliver's and programmed by Creative Engineering Inc.

Restoration

On 27 February 2022 Instagram user 'xan_rock_afire_fan' announced that he would be restoring all 3 of Gulliver's Hard Luck Bears shows.⁽¹⁾ The restoration included a full mechanical restoration, a switch to the 'BlueBox' control system and the same year the show had a soft-opening for Christmas.⁽²⁾ (Though during this soft-opening the characters weren't 100% mechanically). In November 2023 internet user BensProjects created a new dress for Mitzi this features a red shirt with snow flake patterns and a white overall-skirt, she was also given blue pom-poms. On 2024/05/26 the show began to go through a wiring re-vamp changing its power system to fully run of 50HZ European power and not using a step down power converter. This also included the process of changing every light to LED instead of the original Halogen lights.

Animatronics

Animatronic	Serial	Manufacturing Date	Origin
Rolfe & Earl	N/A	N/A	Creative Engineering Inc
Dook Larue	N/A	N/A	Creative Engineering Inc
Fatz Geronimo	N/A	N/A	Creative Engineering Inc
Beach Bear	N/A	N/A	Creative Engineering Inc
Mitzi Mozzaerlla	N/A	N/A	Creative Engineering Inc
Billy Bob	N/A	N/A	Creative Engineering Inc
Looney Bird	N/A	N/A	Creative Engineering Inc
Choo Choo	N/A	N/A	Creative Engineering Inc
Sun	N/A	N/A	Creative Engineering Inc
Moon	N/A	N/A	Creative Engineering Inc
Antioch	N/A	N/A	Creative Engineering Inc

Character Changes

Todo: Describe outfits

Earl Schmerle

Rolfe Dewolfe & Earl Schmerle (Animatronic) is unchanged from his original Rock-afire Explosion design.

Rolfe DeWolfe

Rolfe Dewolfe & Earl Schmerle (Animatronic) is using the bear mask of previous Creative Engineering character Repete Thornsberry.

Dook Larue

Dook Larue (Animatronic) uses the character mask is of previous Creative Engineering character Billy Boy. His drum set has the snare and kickdrum replaced with wooden prop drums.

Fatz Geronimo

Fatz Geronimo (Animatronic) has many cosmetic changes his hands and feet have been replaced with bear claws and his character mask is of previous Creative Engineering character Billy Bill. Fatz Tune Machine organ has a wooden covering with a custom logo.

Beach Bear

Beach Bear (Animatronic) remains mostly unchanged compared to his Rock-afire Explosion design, instead having plad shorts and using a lighter colored Billy Bob Guitar.

Mitzi Mozzarella

Mitzi Mozzarella (Animatronic) wears the character mask is of previous Creative Engineering character Pete Thornsberry.

Billy Bob

Billy Bob (Animatronic) is unchanged from his original Rock-AFire Explosion design, he features his '1990's standard' character mask.

Looney Bird

Looney Bird (Animatronic) is unchanged from his original Rock-AFire Explosion design.

Prop Characters

All prop characters are unchanged from the original Rock-AFire Explosion designs. ( Sun (Animatronic) , Moon (Animatronic) , Choo Choo (Animatronic) , Frog, Birthday Bird & Antioch (Animatronic) ).

Trivia

The frog prop which was removed off the show in 2010 was found on 2024/05/24 in a 'Farm ride' on the other side of the park.⁽³⁾ The address for Gulliver's World is; Shackleton Cl, Old Hall, Warrington WA5 9YZ - United Kingdom.