I'm glad someone else out there thinks an Aquabats pin would be super rad!

I took my 4 year old to see Yo Gabba Gabba Live and there was a pack of older Aquabats fans that showed up. Long story short, another band played and they seemed super embarrassed to be at a kids concert. To add insult to injury they were also all dressed up like the band.

Haha, did you know the main singer of The Aquabats, Christian Jacobs, is the man who created Yo Gabba Gabba? He said he was tired of nothing being on for his kid.

Yeah, I'm sure it wouldn't cost too much for them to do all custom speech - in fact THEY'D probably pay the pin manufacturer - lol...

There you go, they re-themed FG as Shrek, when someone finally does Spinal Tap they can re-theme that to the Aquabats and cover a younger demographic.

My kids have no idea but I always get a chuckle when I hear the Joy Division and Billy Idol references on Radio Down.

-Rod

The only thing I know about The Aquabats! is that it was done by one of the creators of the Homestar Runner web cartoon...

Homestar Runner would make a great pinball actually. Could have some pretty good art and rules if it was done by a respected designer.

Tell your mom...tell your dad...that would be super rad.

--Luke

How about a monsters of Punk Rock pin with several bands liek what I wnat doen with heavy metal.

That would be could but I think if they did The Aquabats! pin closer to a Monster Bash style it would be super sweet.

Super Power Magic Man Wizard Mode? Sign me up!

Haven't seen them live in a while, the first time I did was EIGHTEEN years ago, first album and they opened for the toy dolls.

Damn I feel old all of the sudden.

I just went and seen them last September and it's still as great as ever. An awesome live show for the whole family.

I agree. Plus you would be hitting a good size demographic.

Really happy to see some Aquabats fans here on pinside. If they had a pin, you just know they're be tons of toys...all of which made by Gloopy.

Haha, really...how many toys have they "made" through Gloopy? There is so much stuff you can pick from that they could make a great pin for the hardcore fan.

Also when you complete wizard mode it goes into a "Look at me, I'm a winner" mode! Or that could incorporated into wizard mode

What are everone's favorite songs?

Here's a few of mine:

Pizza Day
Hey Homies
The Cat With Two Heads
Pool Party
and of course...Super Rad

--Luke

My wife and I just had Red Sweater as our exit song at our wedding.

That's funny, we had Lovers of Loving Love for the processional. A fan for 17 years.

Awesome!

I was just like, "whoah 17 years"?. Then did the math...me too, doesn't seem that long ago.

When they were touring with 2 Skinnee J's in the late 90s/early 2000s- that was always an amazing concert all around.

Would there be a cool pool party mode? Octagon?

Travis Barker used to be the drummer for the aquabats before he was the drummer for Blink 182

Huge Aquabats fan myself. I've been seeing them live for what seems like a decade or more.

They seem to be over it now, but at the time he left they had a photo of him stabbing another one of the bats in the back all drawn in MS Paint.

I was actually at the show when the change over happened. Aquabats and Blink 182 opened for Madness in Oakland way back in the day. The drummer for Blink 182 injured himself that day and Travis Barker sat in with them that night having barely practiced any of the songs. Was cool to be there but truthfully I never liked Blink 182, they were super rude on stage too and being very chauvinistic to the female fans in the audience.

It's funny you mention that. I really think Christen (aka - MC Bat Commander) took it the hardest when Travis left. I agree with them being over it. They keep posting pictures of Baron Von Tito (Travis Barker) on their throw back Thursday and even wish Travis a happy birthday today on their Facebook.

Also on their wiki page i found this

A running joke among fans is that everyone always name-drops Travis Barker when trying to show of how much they know about everything ever and forever. Mostly it goes like this: "Oh, cool shirt. You like The Aquabats? Did you know that Travis Barker played for The Aquabats?" It's happened so much that now it has become an in-joke to remind each other that Travis Barker was in The Aquabats. Did you know?

Weird, I thought that he filled in at Big Day Out in Sydney, or at least I thought I read that in a book titled "Tales from beneath your mom" about the origins of Blink.

Huh. I could very well be wrong, maybe it was one of the first few shows he did back then. I know they introduced him saying that he was just filling in and said he had just learned the songs, must not have been the very first show though. I stand corrected.

The Aquabats is a top 5 pin theme for me. MC Bat Commander is also Archie Bunker's grandson Joey...tru story.

Me with The Commander at a show a few months ago:

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