Creative Engineering (Johnsonverse)

Creative Engineering, Inc. is an American engineering company based in Orlando, Florida. Founded in 1975 by inventor Aaron Fechter, the company is most famous for creating The Rock-afire Explosion for ShowBiz Pizza Place in 1980.

During the 1970s and 1980s, the company had a number of employees creating animatronics, before downsizing in the 1990s to only having Fechter himself as its employee. Since the revival of ShowBiz in 2015, however, the company has grown to have more employees than in the 1980s.

History
In 1975, a young inventor named Aaron Fechter founded Creative Engineering to market a three-wheeled car known as the Jutta, which would get approximately 90 miles on a gallon of gas. When he was unable to find investors, Fechter turned to producing animatronics.

The CEI building space was expanded to incorporate the building next to it, which was acquired by Johnson in December 2013 to save it from demolition and handed to CEI shortly after, while an expansion was constructed as a CEI museum. The existing CEI building was renovated inside and out throughout 2015, as it was in a dilapidated state.