The Funtastic World of Hanna Barbera (ride)
The Funtastic World of HannaBarbera was a simulator ride at Universal Studios Florida, and one of the parks original attractions. The story line was that Dick Dastardly and Muttley have kidnapped Elroy Jetson, Yogi Bear and Boo Boo gives chase and the audience is in for the ride of their lives.
The facility which housed the ride featured several areas in which the guests were moved throughout. The outside queue area, where people waited in line, featured several televisions that showed HannaBarbera cartoons on a loop. When the ride first opened, the queue videos consisted of whole short episodes of HannaBarberas threeshorts shows such as Huckleberry Hound and Yogi Bear as well as extended clips from HannaBarberas wellknown fulllength story shows The Flintstones, The Jetsons, etc.. In the years after, clips and commercials from HannaBarberas modern cartoons such as SWAT Kats, were played on the monitors interspersed with the classic shows. The guests were then taken into a preshow area where the storyline for the ride was revealed.Inside the preshow, there wereprojection screens. Two oval shaped screens and a regular square screen. On one of the oval screens, Yogi Bear appeared pestering guests for food, Boo Boo shows up to inform him that the guests are here for an animation demonstration by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera. The two liveaction appear on the square screen and begin talking about animation, leading to drawing Elroy Jetson, who magically comes to life and jumps out of the paper three dimensionally. Hanna goes on to talk about computer animation using Dick Dastardlys airplane in this case, a spaceship. ........
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