Quest for Adventure

Quest for Adventure, also referred to as Quest for Safety, is a Jonny Quest parade float that was part of the 108th Tournament of Roses Parade on January 1, 1997 in Pasadena, California, USA.
The float was entered into the parade by the City of Alhambra and built by Phoenix Decorating Company.
A ride on the float was a grand prize for a safety contest.
== Overview ==
The float features Jonny in a jeep being chased by a rampaging elephant. It is styled from art originally done for The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest and included in the series' style guide.
Official description of the Quest for Adventure float from the official 1997 Tournament of Roses Parade program:1997 Tournament of Roses Parade program, page 75. Note: The program misspells his name as "Johnny" instead of "Jonny".
The Jeep had green camo "paint" with bales in the back. The elephant was brown with lighter and darker brown stylizations, and brown eyes. The elephant's tusks and front nails were white with purple flair. The elephant chased the Jeep over a field of pink, red, yellow, and purple flowers. The front of the float had the name Quest for Adventure, and both sides read City of Alhambra.
The float had three riders who sat in the Jeep portion. One rider was a person dressed as the Jonny Quest character,KTLA 5's website page for the float lists "Jonny Quest (character)" as a float rider. who stood in the Jeep with a foot on the windowsill. Jonny wore blue jeans, a black turtleneck, a brown leather jacket with the JQ logo on the sleeve, brown boots, and blue gloves. He also had a face mask and a blond wig. The other two riders were a blond woman, who sat in the middle, and a man in a baseball cap, who was in the driver's seat.CBS's coverage of the 108th Tournament of Roses Parade. January 1, 1997. The winner of the Quest for Safety contest apparently did not ride in the float.
== Safety Contest ==
In 1996, The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest was part of a promotional safety contest. First prize included riding on the "Quest for Safety float" in the parade.Kidscreen, "News Briefs" by Kidscreen Staff, November 1, 1996. Retrieved April 8, 2021. Archived at QuestFan.com.
The winner was announced to be Stephanie Hagan of Atlanta, Georgia.Around Alhambra, January 1997, 'Quest' Preview Was an Adventure. However, it appears that she did not ride in the float.
== Media coverage ==
KTLA 5 had a website documenting the floats, and this was their entry on the Jonny Quest float:
Around Alhambra had an article about the float in its December 1996 issue:
The float was again documented by Around Alhambra in its January 1997 issue:
== Gallery ==
Quest For Adventure from Tournament of Roses Parade archives.jpg|Official image from the Tournament of Roses Parade archives
Quest For Adventure preview art.jpg|Preview art from the parade program
Quest for Adventure elephant.jpg|Part of the float showing the elephant
KTLA Quest for Adventure float.jpg|Part of the float and the Jonny Quest character, from KTLA's website
== Notes/trivia ==
* The float was the 54th in march order in the parade. It was after The Congress of Fancy Range Riders from the Roy Rogers & Dale Evans Museum, and it was followed by the Pickerington Tiger Marching Band from Pickerington, Ohio.
* The Jeep's driver's seat is on the left side, unlike in the episode which has the driver's seat on the right.
* Despite an eye-witness account reporting that one of the Jonny Quest voice actors, either J.D. Roth or Quinton Flynn, also rode in the float,Per fan Questina the Water Elf on the JQML (Jonny Quest Mailing List), who saw the float. Her accounts are documented on Questfan.com. neither actor was present in the CBS coverage of the parade.
* Some sources note with the Quest for Adventure float description that it's the winner of the 1996 Tournament of Roses Volunteers' Trophy,KTLA: archived page but this is in reference to the City of Alhambra, who entered the float, not the Quest for Adventure float itself. The City of Alhambra won the Volunteers' Trophy for their float "Easter Egg Hunt" in the previous year's Tournament of Roses Parade.Los Angeles Times, Rose Parade Trophy Given to Wrong Float, March 2, 1995. Also archived on ProQuest (accessible with some library cards). Excerpt: "So within a week, judges recrunched their numbers and came up with the true winner, Alhambra's "Easter Egg Hunt" float. The trophy was awarded to Alhambra last Monday." The 1997 Tournament of Roses Parade's Volunteers' Trophy went to the city of South Pasadena for their float "A Honey of a Day."Los Angeles Times, "THE 1997 TOURNAMENT OF ROSES; The Winners" (paywall), January 2, 1997. Also archived on ProQuest (accessible with some library cards).
== External links ==
* Tournament of Roses official website: TournamentOfRoses.com
* Phoenix Decorating Company official website: phoenixdeco.com
== References ==
Category:The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest