The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera (ride) (Johnsonverse)

The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera is a simulator ride at Johnson World. The story line tells that Dick Dastardly and Muttley have kidnapped Elroy Jetson, Yogi Bear and Boo-Boo give chase and the audience is in for the ride of their lives. The attraction opened in 1990.
It was created and executive produced by Peter N. Alexander and directed by Mario Kamberg with William Hanna (founder of Hanna-Barbera, animation producer and creator) as creative consultant. It was the first ride film to predominantly use computer-generated imagery, with the characters created using traditional cel (digital in later versions) animation techniques and optically composited.
==Attraction==
===Queue===
The facility which houses the ride features several areas in which the guests are moved throughout. The outside queue area, where people wait in line, features several televisions that show Hanna-Barbera cartoons on a loop. When the ride first opened, the queue videos consisted of whole short episodes of Hanna-Barbera's "three-shorts" shows such as Huckleberry Hound and Yogi Bear as well as extended clips from Hanna-Barbera's well-known full-length story shows (The Flintstones, The Jetsons, etc.). In the years after, clips and commercials from modern Hanna-Barbera cartoons such as SWAT Kats, Dexter's Laboratory, Johnny Bravo, and The Powerpuff Girls have played on the monitors interspersed with the classic shows. The guests are then taken into a preshow area where the storyline for the ride is revealed.
===Pre-show===
Inside the preshow, there are three projection screens: two oval screens and a regular square screen. On one of the oval screens, Yogi Bear appears 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 (live-action) appear on the square screen and begin talking about how they create animated cartoons, leading to Barbera 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 Dastardly's airplane (in this case, a spaceship).
Dastardly and Muttley soon show up from inside the spaceship's depths, requesting that they be a part of Hanna-Barbera's next project. However, Hanna and Barbera inform them that the Jetsons are next (coincidentally, at the time of the ride's opening, the release of Jetsons: The Movie was only several weeks away) followed by The Flintstones and Scooby-Doo. In a fit of rage, Dastardly kidnaps Elroy by forcefully pulling him into the computer using the suction of a toilet plunger gun, claiming "If I'm not the star of the next project, then no one will be! I'm taking Elroy where you'll never find him!" The computer begins to self-destruct and Hanna and Barbera flee the studio. Yogi and Boo Boo, feeling they should do something, go (with the ride guests) into a rocket ship (the main theater) to go save Elroy from the evil plans Dastardly and Muttley have in store for him.
===Ride===
When the riders enter the main theater, the riders are seated in a rocket ship with Yogi as the captain. The power source is a large rubber band that fires the rocket via a giant slingshot. The force is so strong everyone ends up going back in time to Bedrock. The riders fly off a cliff and through Mr. Slate's construction site before flying into the main city. Yogi and the riders chase after Dastardly through the streets, dodging cars, residents of Bedrock (including Wilma Flintstone and Betty Rubble), and Yogi ends up chasing Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble (who are driving Fred's car) down a street by accident. The riders fly up after Dastardly into the skies, and through a vortex. The riders end up chasing Dastardly through a cemetery in the middle of the night, and the riders are on a near-collision near the Mystery Machine that Scooby-Doo and Shaggy are driving, leading them into a castle where they encounter ghosts. The riders fly around the haunted house looking for Dastardly down hallways and corridors, dodging Scooby and Shaggy who are left hanging on a chandelier when the riders chase after Dastardly into another vortex.
This time the riders end up in the future into Orbit City, dodging flying cars and buildings. It's not long before Elroy's family (except Judy and Astro who are absent from the ride) appear and see Elroy captured, (after which he jumped from Dastardly's ship in a bold move aiming to get caught by one of his parents standing nearby, just to be pulled back in Dastardly's ship by the suction of a toilet plunger) and chase after Dastardly with the riders, going into a futuristic amusement park.
The riders fly on a roller-coaster track after the villain, and end up going down a steep drop when Rosie the Robot (flying with the Jetsons) extends her arm and lifts Dastardly and Muttley from their rocket, allowing George to save Elroy. Dastardly and Muttley then get surrounded by thousands of flying cop cars, and both are arrested and dropped in a flying jail cell. The Jetsons thank them, and the riders fly back home through a vortex and crash land back at the station on a giant inflated bumper reading "END". Yogi gives them a farewell message. "So folks, thanks for joining in the ride, I'll see you on the outside!" A lamp comes down from the top, from which Yogi pulls the light switch which makes the screen go black, ending the ride with the attendants congratulating the riders on a job well done for saving Elroy.
There is a 40-inch height requirement for the simulator, requiring smaller children to sit in a non-motion seat. Expectant mothers, people with motion sickness, heart problems, back or neck problems, are all encouraged to sit in a non-motion seat. Occasionally people on the ride would panic because of the intense motion, and the ride would be stopped by one of the operators. The ride consists of 12 bases, each of which hold 8 people for a total of 96 riders. The front row consists of a bench in which people who do not want a motion seat can enjoy the show.
==== Later versions ====
Over the years, characters from modern Hanna-Barbera series have been added to the show, making cameo appearances. These have included Dexter and Dee Dee from Dexter's Laboratory, Johnny Bravo, Little Suzy and Carl from Johnny Bravo, Blossom, Bubbles, Buttercup and Professor Utonium from The Powerpuff Girls, Grim, Billy and Mandy from Grim & Evil and The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, Mac and Bloo from Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, Chowder from Chowder, Steven, Garnet, Amethyst, and Pearl from Steven Universe, and TBA.
===Post-show===
After the show, guests are escorted into an interactive area where they can interact with various technologies geared towards children.
===Hanna-Barbera's Store===
Following this area is a gift shop where Hanna-Barbera merchandise can be purchased.
==Voice cast and crew==
===Voice cast===
====Original====
* Greg Burson as Yogi Bear
* Patric Zimmerman as Elroy Jetson
* Michael Bell as Dick Dastardly
* Don Messick as Boo-Boo Bear, Muttley, and Scooby-Doo
* Joseph Barbera as Himself (live-action pre-show)
* Henry Corden as Fred Flintstone
* Frank Welker as Barney Rubble, Dinosaur, Robot
* Jean Vander Pyl as Wilma Flintstone, Rosie the Robot Maid
* B.J. Ward as Betty Rubble
* Casey Kasem as Shaggy Rogers
* Jeff Bergman as George Jetson, Ghosts, Police Chief
* Penny Singleton as Jane Jetson
* William Hanna as Himself (live-action pre-show)
=== Later versions ===
* Christine Cavanaugh as Dexter
* Allison Moore as Dee Dee
* Jeff Bennett as Johnny Bravo
*Brenda Vaccaro as Mama
* Mae Whitman as Little Suzy
* Tom Kenny as Carl
*Cathy Cavadini as Blossom
* Tara Strong as Bubbles
* E. G. Daily as Buttercup
*Tom Kane as Professor Utonium
*Greg Eagles as Grim
*Richard Steven Horvitz as Billy
*Grey DeLisle as Mandy
*Sean Marquette as Mac
*Keith Ferguson as Blooregard Q. "Bloo" Kazoo
*Nicky Jones as Chowder
*Zach Callison as Steven Universe
===Crew===
==History==
===Production===
=== Later revisions ===
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