Beach Bear

As the lead guitarist for the Rockafire, Beach Bear is a huge fan favorite character in the animatronic fandom, and one of my favorites too!! He was originally voiced by Aaron Fechter (the fool of a creator) who did a goofy and annoying voice for Beach Bear. Thankfully, around '82 or '83, he began to be voiced by Rick Bailey, AKA my favorite singer in literally the entire WORLD HIS VOICE AND MUSIC IS JUST SO BEAUTIFUL! Fun fact, his first appearance voicing a character in the Rockafire was actually him voicing the Moon! Beach Bear's origins begin in the Wolf Pack 5, with the character of the same name haha. Since the WP5 played 50's and 60's music, the WP5 Beach Bear was likely a nod to the Beach Boys and surf rock in general. In the early years of the Rockafire, he was given luscious golden locks but a goofy himbo surfer personality, which was shown through his animatronic in how he was the only character along with Looney Bird that could cross his eyes, and how He could frantically kick his legs around. When Rick Bailey began voicing him, the character's personality did a complete 180. Beach Bear was painted as sarcastic, smart, and somewhat of an older brother type in my opinion, but like, a college graduate and gives good advice older brother and not a mountain dew chugging general rascal 2000's type older brother. In "My Woman My Woman My Wife" as Dook dedicates the song to his mother, Beach wonders "what Freud thinks of all this." The other members are like "who?" and he's like "Yeah Freud. That guy. He works just down the street." He also notably gaslights Dook in the Christmas cyberstar show, insisting along with Fatz that they DID NOT tell him he could perform his "original Christmas song," assuming it would be bad. When Mitzi tells them to stop lying and open the curtains, Beach goes "Oh no. The curtains are opening. And we're gonna bomb." He also does something similar in the Michael Jackson tribute, starting it off with announcing they'll honor MJ by "butchering one of his songs." Beach Bear was also notably the first Rockafire character I touched, hugged, and got a picture with :D. It was the extra Beach they had at the front of Billy Bob's Wonderland, which has now been sold to a furry. I don't think he could be in better hands :). In the New Rockafire Explosion, Beach Bear was put on stage right, on a beach scene with an animated coconut that would bonk him on the head. He also wore a shirt (completely off character. he would never.) During Concept Unification, Beach Bear traded eyes with Rolfe and was retrofitted into Jasper T. Jowls.