Outside of
Scooby-
Doo, any references to anything Hanna-
Barbera left at Kings Dominion is strictly a matter of economics. Sometimes it's just cheaper to leave things the way they are. On my recent photo-taking spree at the theme park, I captured a few images of some things still hanging on from the time Yogi Bear was the park's mascot.
This sign can be seen hanging over the entrance to the Dodge Em Bumper Cars, one of the parks original rides. Here,
Mumbly shows us the proper way to secure ourselves in the bumper cars.
Mumbly was the star of his own Saturday morning cartoon around the same time Kings Dominion was built. He later appeared in the classic
Laff-A-
Lympics series also on Saturday mornings.
Mumbly looks
alot like
Muttley, another Hanna-
Barbera dog but they are actually two different characters.
At the loading station for the Blue Ridge Tollway antique car ride there still hangs a sign featuring characters from a late 60's show called WACKY RACES. These characters are so obscure,
I don't even know their names!!!
In the original kiddie section of the park, Hanna-
Barbera Land, there was a few
Flintstone themed attractions all grouped together along with some other
Flintstone landscaping and structures. The only remaining bit
o'Flintstones at the park is this kiddie bumper car building that doesn't have any direct references to the show, but it was built to look like it would have existed in the Flintstones world. The cars inside the ride are just regular looking bumper cars.
Last we have these graphics that still
remain outside of what was once Yogi's Cave. Yogi's Cave was an awesome
walkthrough attraction that we've discussed many times here at
WWoB before. It's now called Treasure Cave, and (almost) everything inside it has been removed. In fact, the contents of the Yogi-less cave are a subject for an upcoming post on this very blog. The outside of the end of the cave to this day features these Hanna-
Barbera style graphics. If you look closely you can see where some other graphics have been removed. I believe Yogi or the Ranger once stood here pointing to the
entrance to the cave. Now, it's just kind of these weird
cartoony forest sitting among real plants.
This sign can be seen hanging over the entrance to the Dodge Em Bumper Cars, one of the parks original rides. Here, Mumbly shows us the proper way to secure ourselves in the bumper cars. Mumbly was the star of his own Saturday morning cartoon around the same time Kings Dominion was built. He later appeared in the classic Laff-A-Lympics series also on Saturday mornings. Mumbly looks alot like Muttley, another Hanna-Barbera dog but they are actually two different characters.
At the loading station for the Blue Ridge Tollway antique car ride there still hangs a sign featuring characters from a late 60's show called WACKY RACES. These characters are so obscure, I don't even know their names!!!
In the original kiddie section of the park, Hanna-Barbera Land, there was a few Flintstone themed attractions all grouped together along with some other Flintstone landscaping and structures. The only remaining bit o'Flintstones at the park is this kiddie bumper car building that doesn't have any direct references to the show, but it was built to look like it would have existed in the Flintstones world. The cars inside the ride are just regular looking bumper cars.
Last we have these graphics that still remain outside of what was once Yogi's Cave. Yogi's Cave was an awesome walkthrough attraction that we've discussed many times here at WWoB before. It's now called Treasure Cave, and (almost) everything inside it has been removed. In fact, the contents of the Yogi-less cave are a subject for an upcoming post on this very blog. The outside of the end of the cave to this day features these Hanna-Barbera style graphics. If you look closely you can see where some other graphics have been removed. I believe Yogi or the Ranger once stood here pointing to the entrance to the cave. Now, it's just kind of these weird cartoony forest sitting among real plants.
I can identify the Wacky Races characters for you! The lumberjack and pet beaver are Rufus Roughcut and Sawtooth in their car, the Buzz Wagon; and the hillbilly type with pet bear are Luke and Blubber Bear in the Arkansas Chug-a-Bug. (Just another useless service I offer...)
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