The Theme Park History of The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera (Universal Studios Florida)
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- The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera was a motion simulation attraction that opened at Universal Studios Florida on June 7th, 1990. Inspired by the iconic cartoon characters created by animators William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, guests join Yogi Bear and Boo-Boo in a wacky and wild adventure to save Elroy Jetson from the devious duo of Dick Dastardly and his sidekick Muttley.
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Title Theme & Ending (Beta Mix) - The Flintstones: The Rescue of Dino & Hoppy - • Title Theme & Ending (...
Crash Twinsanity Music - N.Sanity Island • Video
Hanna-Barbera - Tunes From The Toons - The Flintstones Underscore • Hanna-Barbera Tunes Fr...
Back To The Future (From "Back To The Future" Original Score/End Credits) • Back To The Future (Fr...
Cuphead Official Soundtrack - Carnival Kerfuffle • Cuphead OST - Carnival...
The Jetsons: Invasion of the Planet Pirates Music - Stage 1 • The Jetsons: Invasion ...
Wacky Races Video Game Soundtrack - Boss Theme • Wacky Races Video Game...
Wacky Races Video Game Soundtrack - Battle Theme • Wacky Races Video Game...
Wacky Races Video Game Soundtrack - Main Theme • Wacky Races Video Game...
Jetsons: The Movie Score - Meet The Jetsons • Jetsons: The Movie & J...
Jetsons: The Movie Score - Elroy and Judy Meet the Grungies • Jetsons: The Movie & J...
The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius • Jimmy Neutron theme so...
The Jetsons (Instrumental) • The Jetsons (Instrumen...
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Boomerang Theater Bumpers • Boomerang Theater bumpers
Universal Studios Florida Souvenir Video: Experience the Magic of Movies (1994) • Universal Studios Flor...
Universal Studios Florida TV Commercial (1990) • Universal Studios Flor...
Star Tours - Disneyland Paris Backstage by phobos45300 • Star Tours - Disneylan...
Star Tours Ride Through Experience, Disneyland (2010) by William Moe • Original Star Tours Ri...
Jimmy Neutron's Nicktoon Blast at Universal Studios (in HD) by Dennis Hansen vimeo.com/39280370
The Funtastic World of Hanna Barbera - Universal Studios Florida (1990) • The Funtastic World of...
Universal Studios Florida Home Video (1992) by Adam Fair Land • 1992 - Universal Studi...
Yogi Bear Ride at Universal Studios (1993) by ABHTV • Yogi Bear ride at univ...
YTP: The Team Fortress 2 Gang Rides The Funtastic World of Hanna Barbera by greenth1ngReturns • Video
The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera 25th Anniversary Tribute by Last Rat Standing Productions • The Funtastic World of...
Retro Universal Studios 1993 - Kongfrontation, Ghostbusters, Hanna Barbera, Backlot Tour by jonnythecroww • - Retro Universal Stud...
Funtastic World of Hanna Barbera Ride (1991) • Hanna Barbera Ride - 1...
The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera Post-Show 1998/2002 Universal Studios Florida by Last Rat Standing Productions • The Funtastic World of...
Scooby-Doo! | Unmasking Classic Villains Compilation • Scooby-Doo! | Unmaskin...
Paramount Parks Commercial • Paramount Parks Commer...
Cartoon Characters Dancing at Universal Studio Florida: Woody Woodpecker, Scooby Doo, & Yogi Bear by Theme Park Family World Wide • Cartoon Characters Dan...
Never-Before-Seen '90s Nickelodeon Studios Commercial (2016) • Never-Before-Seen '90s...
Universal’s Islands of Adventure VHS (2000) • Universal studios Isla...
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Quick correction: Shaggy was voiced by American Top 40 Host *Casey Kasem* not NFL quarterback and Vikings legend *Case Keenum*
Sorry about the mixup!
@Theme Park History, I think that Universal Studios Should Bring Back This AWESOME Ride, Because It Looks AWESOME.
Grace Martin Agree
He also voiced Robin on the Super Friends.
@Vyond 4Life William Hanna was still alive before 2001, and considering this ride was based on his work, he was able to appear in the pre-show. It was recorded footage, not live.
Another correction,
Paul winchell still voices dastardly in fender bender 500.
I was the art director on this ride. There were a lot of interesting things that transpired during the production that you have not touched on. I also have a digital master from the original negative of this attraction.
Can you upload it?
UPLOAD IT, PLEASE!!!
Upload this please
Please upload
@@MickeyMouse-lw9hgback at universal studios hollywood and Florida ride before the election was looking for TV show episode season start show hollywood story life look back at full house knows all about it WB studio's same thing as being back
The Boomerang intro brought me back to my childhood, I watched a lot of that channel.
People who watched boomerang had a good childhood
i miss the old boomerang wenn there did reruns of the old Hanna-Barbera cartoons now not anymore i loved the cartoons on it
Yeah, to be honest new boomerang is awful. Its basically where CN shoves their old/failed cartoons to die
The channel has some shows on there now that feel very out of place like Care Bears for example.
It never will be the same to be frank
Not sure if I’ve said this about this ride before, but the very squishy animation of Don Bluth & the stylized designs of Hanna-Barbera compliment each other so well.
I love The Fantastic World of Hanna Barbera, I wish it was still at Universal Studios.
The play area after the ride was fun AF
So much nostalgia, not just for Hanna Barbara but also for the Boomerang Theatre opening, makes the new Boomerang look like a fan TH-cam Project.
Very cool.
Not sure why the Hanna-Barbera characters' popularity were declining in the late 90's when they're still remembered by the masses to this very day.
Raphael Marquez I wonder if it’s cuz the majority of their catalog was only being used as stock footage or parody by the Adult Swim crew. They’ve kind of poisoned the well for using those series again (for instance, the comic reviving their action shows had a bunch of people in reviews & on places like TV Tropes complaining they weren’t referencing Space Ghost Coast to Coast or doing a Venture Bros prequel), and as someone who likes H-B’s stuff, it’s kind of annoying.
Well yes and no. Obviously if kids today watch the Boomerang app, they'll be acquainted with the H-B characters, but from a marketing standpoint, they really don't measure up to characters like Mickey Mouse, Bugs Bunny or Snoopy, which is why you don't see them being licensed for much in the way of merchandise or theme park attractions. Outside of Pebbles Cereal or Flintstones vitamins, or the Jellystone Campgrounds, you don't see H-B characters get much attention these days (Scooby-Doo is really the only exception).
@@caferreri11 How come they don't measure up to characters like Mickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny as you say?
@Dennis Mitchell If that were the case, then the anime boom from the 90's wouldn't be as here in the U.S. because it too uses cheap cheap animation as those old Hanna-Barbera cartoons.
@@melasnexperience I actually didn't really like Birdman as a lawyer. I grew up with him as a superhero.
So many years later and I still mourn the passing of this attraction.
Halloween is coming up, might be thematically appropriate to cover the Ghostbusters Ride at Universal Studios.
This was one of my fave rides at the park and I was so disappointed when it was gone.
I wish Warner Bros could buy the rights to this attraction, and put it in their theme parks.
TwilightLink77 yeah I want a Warner Bros. Theme park
@@maxmusic5380 six flags....
Jordan Gingold They haven’t been WB property in 20 years.
TwilightLink77 Yeah! I’d wanna see more Warner Bros. simulator rides!
Carmine Crincoli There’s Justice League WarWorld Attack that is similar to Transformers, and Spider-Man along with Batman Knight Flight similar to Harry Potter and the forbidden journey.
Hanna-Barbera also produced a series of 33-1/3 LPs around 1965. They had the HB characters of the time, and would sometimes mix them with real life actors from popular TV shows at the time. Like Bill Dana as his Jose Jimenez Astronaut character travelling thru time and meeting The Flintstones. Or The Flintstones or Jetsons and some weird society name with lots of S's and Q's about preserving Barber Shop Quartets. My Uncle in LA worked either worked for HB or was a sales rep for these records and mailed us a box of around 32 or so of these albums in December 65.
You deserve an Oscar for the Boomerang bumper in the beginning, hit me right in the nostalgia
The reason why I love Hanna-Barbera is that is wacky and my childhood
I miss this ride
Absolutely love to hear that Crash Twinsanity music in the first 3 mins
Please do Jim Henson’s Muppet*Vision 3D!
I must ask, why are the muppets so big lately?
@@overactiveimagination9647 they're... not? I mean the recent series that was supposed to come out was cancelled. The only thing happening recently was the Dark Crystal series on Netflix.
@@FreakinSweet1987 true. Im just seeing ALOT of muppet stuff lately
Overactive Imagination Just because Defunctland is doing it, doesn’t mean it’s big. Get your facts right.
@@HBarnill that isnt what I meant. I have just been seeing and hearing alot of the muppets this year, especially Dark Crystal
I would take either of the previous iterations over Minions. They missed the point by basing it after only one franchise, especially one with so few unique characters.
I loved that ride. It was one of the first rides when entering the park, so it would often be the first ride we would go on whenever we would visit. Hanna Barbera and Back to the Future The Ride were the OG simulators
There was a Hanna-Barbara Land at Kings Island years ago. You could possibly do a show about that.
Sadly, my favorite Birdman wasn't in it.
Did it have my favorite superhero team of all time, The Impossibles?
@@crystalgemgirl731 Sadly, no. Space Ghost and Moby Dick _could_ have gotten rides according to old concept art from the '70s. In that case, Space Ghost would've been the first superhero to get a ride, not Batman.
Do the cat in the hat ride.
The intro reminded me of the “Let’s all go to the lobby” commercial
It was my favorite ride at Universal Orlando. I still hate it's gone
Love this video! You left out my favorite line. Right before the ride starts, an attendant says “Ladies and gentlemen, please fasten your seatbelts. Yogi bear is not the world’s greatest driver.”
I definitely remember that line, but the ride didn't use seatbelts, but instead used lap bars & this was full line that was said:
"Captain Yogi, you are cleared through Cartoon Control for your mission to rescue Elroy. Hold on tight, everybody because Captain Yogi is not our best pilot!" 😀
@@TheatreFanatic1982 Yes... I remember that line all too well. I REALLY WISH I WENT ON IT!!
I remember going on this ride as a child, skipped the Jimmy Neutron era and took my kids very recently on Minion Mayhem. Brought back many childhood memories of my own.
I don’t remember when the Jimmy Neutron retheme came but my family and I went in February 1999 and I LOVED Funtastic World! However, when we came again in February 2003, Dora The Explorer had a presence in the park and she was my most hated cartoon character at the time! I got so enraged whenever I saw ANY Dora imagery and when my parents and brother actually saw a park employee in a Dora costume, the 3 of them teamed up in keeping me from seeing said employee, as they were worried I’d turn violent and get all 4 of us banned from the park!
Spongebob 4D! I have terrible memories but I’d love to know the history.
That is so cool of how one of the creators of An American Tail (one of my favorite movies of all time), also made this awesome Hanna-Barbera ride! I also love Hanna-Barbera along slide Fievel!
One thing driving me nuts, upon watching this video (I was directed here by a friend, btw): the ride essentially has the exact same plot/theme going on as the Back to the Future ride. Almost like it's the same ride, but with a different "skin", so to speak...and both were at the park from the start. Interesting..
Oh this video took me back, I remember watching those cartoons. Man time flys when you wanna go back to those days. The attraction may be gone, but the cartoons, the characters, the universe and the legacy they left will not be forgotten.
And speaking of which, Halloween is coming. I hope you got something scary planned for next month.
This was a great ride. It also illustrates the one bad thing about Universal Studio’s. They mainly use licensed third party IP. Which means for pretty much any given ride, it’s going to eventually be closed and refurbed into something else entirely different. The rides seemingly have 10 year life cycles where Universal decides if it’s worth renewing. Disney has a small amount of this, mostly in Hollywood Studios (the reason Great Movie Ride closed. Also Rockin Rollercoaster is licensed.) But most of what they have they own outright and don’t have to renegotiate every few years. So they can decide to keep centerpiece classics without the licensing complications. (How much of Universal is Disney owned IP’s now, since the Fox merger?)
The only IPs in the Universal Studios parks owned by Disney are Marvel & The Simpsons. But from all accounts, the Marvel contract is basically permanent as long as they maintain the attractions & continue to include these characters in the park. Whether the contract for The Simpsons is the same is unknown.
Universal has plenty of attractions based on licensed IPs though; however, they benefit from most of the licensers not having their own U.S. theme parks, or at least on the level of Universal / Disney...think Paramount owned Kings Landing at one point in time (if they don't still) but its not like they could build a ride like Transformers.
@@michaelbednar7301 I think the Marvel license is for 100 years if I remember correctly? So yeah effectively permanent. As it predates Disney owning Marvel. Not sure on the Simpsons? But Universal's literal centerpiece theme Harry Potter is Warner Brothers. That might be an issue as Comcast NBC Universal goes head to head with AT&T Warner Brothers in the streaming wars. Universal just announced their NBC Peacock service.
@@michaelbednar7301 Kings Landing?? So there's a Game of Thrones theme park now???
Despicable Me isn't third party, Illumination is owned by Universal. Also a 4th one is coming out next year, the franchise for better or worse is still very popular.
I wish they’d make a new live action The Flintstones
I wonder what the CGI Dino would look like with today's technology.
Shaggy was voiced by Casey Kasem right? From the weekend radio show.
Yeah, I think he got him mixed up with Case Keenum, the NFL quarterback.
Yeah, I think he just got mixed up.
Yeah, he did Shaggy for a while.
He did! Matthew Lillard voices him now, and in Scooby Doo: Mystery Incorporated, Casey Kasem made a cameo appearance as Shaggy’s father!
Thanks for doing this video! As a latter day millennial this ride was a MAJOR part of my youth. Nostalgia at its best!
I'm an early Gen Z, and I used to watch this ride on TH-cam all the time when I was 11 or 12.
Sad Fact: The majority of the cast is dead
F. N. Lorter WELL THANKS FOR MY CRYING SESSION TODAY
F. N. Lorter darn it! Ur gonna make me cry now, that scooby is dead!
If there was going to be a reboot of this ride, their Harvey Birdman voice actors would do the trick.
Jeff Bergman, Patric Zimmerman, B.J. Ward, Michael Bell and Frank Welker are the only members of the cast still alive
@@jackielantern6 Yeah but they’re elderly. Like they can’t voice act much anymore.
Bruh it would definitely sell if they redid the ride! But more upgraded! I would die for that.
I miss this ride I love it
all your videos basically screams my childhood..seeing all these videos and photos from the ride really make me emotional
If I ever opened my own theme park I’d make a ride like this using video game franchises
I really want to see you do Snow White's Scary Adventure (Magic Kingdom Version)!
This was my childhood!!!!
Excellent video! Brought back a lot of childhood memories! Wish I could take that ride one more time...
Oh, the childhood memories! I loved this ride as a kid! I rode this ride back in 2006 when I was 9 years old and I remember bringing an origami gun with me to The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera and I'd pretend to be a secret agent sent on a mission to rescue Elroy Jetson from Dick Dastardly and Muttley and I'd pretend to shoot at the second and third with my origami gun. I even remember humming the Mission: Impossible theme loudly while pretending to shoot at Dick and Muttley during the ride, and my mom had to calmly lecture me that I cannot be loud in motion simulators because they have the same rules as movie theatres. I loved pretend-playing that I'm a secret agent, and most of all, I'm proud that James Bond and Mission: Impossible are a vital part of my childhood!
I went on this ride in 1999 on my one and only trip to Florida and I loved every second of it. I seem to remember that when you exited they had photo opportunities with some of the Hanna-Barbera vehicles. I definitely remember being in The Flintstones car
I don't know about the rest of you. But given Universal's partnership with Nintendo to make a section of their park with Nintendo themes and characters, THIS is something they could potentially do with it! I mean think about it, a ride where you join Mario and Luigi in a wild chase after Bowser or Wario and Waluigi who have captured princess Peach through the worlds of Super Mario Bros, Legend of Zelda, Metroid, Kirby, Donkey Kong Country, etc. With a potential pre-ride presentation with Mr. Miyamoto himself!
The fact that the ride acknowledged the people and work that made the animation possible, makes it a proper tribute to the medium of animation. Something I haven't seen in any other theme park attraction since. Personally speaking, I would take Hanna-Barbera and Nicktoons over the Minions any day. Relevance be danged.
The intro is so cute! And the Boomerang theatre intro brought back memories
Your usual awesome job of documenting contractors and designers. Thanks again.
I remember when Kings Island used to have Hanna Barbera Land and Nickelodeon Universe, back when it was owned by Paramount
The film SCOOB! is basically this ride but a movie because Dick Dastardly is the villain and It's Hanna Barbera infinity war.
YES! Loved this ride, thank you!
Is there anyone else on here besides me that is excited that the Flintstones are coming to the MeTV channel on September 30?
I am. I love The Flintstones.
Im ready for the Jetsons on MeTV
@@pollypocketfan7837 Me too!
Can you maybe do Muppet Vision 3-D?! I love that show and it has a intriguing and unique history that I would love to see covered by you.
I would’ve loved going on this ride if it still existed .
It apparently existed at Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom, but I didn't even know about it.
i loved this ride as a kid!
Loved this attraction! Great video!
0:53 Oh, hey. Look. It's me!
Awesome intro with the drawing and great video as always.
I really wish Universal Studios Florida (a.k.a. Universal Orlando Resort) still had that ride, plus, I really wish they also still had Meet-and-Greets with the "Hanna-Barbera" Characters, like they used to have!
:'(
I like that idea.
I remember riding this ride in a dream. Too bad we never got an HD version of the ride footage.
This took me right back to my childhood. In fact most of this series takes me back to my childhood. And sometimes it makes me sad knowing that these on e great rides are no longer here.
I loved the Jetson’s movie! Would have loved to ride this! Thanks for the all the edutainment!
This was very interesting to see! It’s amazing how far ride tech has come since then. What i really want to see is a Theme Park History of Space Mountain!
From the behalf of DragonDave LTD, thank you so much for putting my request name on screen and reviewing the Hanna-Barbera ride on your show!!!
I have memories of this ride and it being one of my favorites but I can't remember ever seeing Nick studios :( Thanks so much for this video!
Please do WaterWorld at Universal Studios Hollywood!!!
Yes! Thank you for doing this!
As always, the video was great😁.
I MISS THIS RIDE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I used to go on this ride so much as a kid
Could you do jimmy neutrons nicktoon blast? It used to be my favorite ride til it closed at universal, it was also the first ride I ever rode there
I believe technically he already did
Austin Burras no he hasn’t
@@brandonthetoyandgamecollector really maybe just talk about it another video or maybe that was the defunctland
That was Yesterworld.
R.I.P The funtastic world of Hannah Barbara (1990-2002) 😢
I hope they'll come back to Universal Studios Japan
Do Ghostbusters spooktacular please
Another interesting history video
Do Fantasmic! My favorite attraction at Disneyland. The original one.
Timofei Baranovsky YES IVE BERN SAYING THIS FOR A WHILE
Excellent video! I love Hanna-Barbera cartoons! Thank you so much for sharing this. 😀🙌🙌🙌
Who else remembers watching boomerang when they were a kid
Me!!
Another great video!!!! ❤
Plz Do The Great Movie Ride Plz
Kenny D yes yes yes
I like how you used the grandad theme at the beginning of the video
Please do history of WaterWorld at Universal Studios Hollywood.
Love those videos of the cast during their performances. I’d be scared witless trying to do those stunts and neat seeing their enthusiasm even when they are behind the proverbial curtain.
Do jimmy neutrons nicktoon blast
Great Video
Great video! What a fun ride.
Small correction though, regarding its run at the Paramount Parks (at least at Kings Island, although I'm fairly confident all of them): SpongeBob 3D (not 4D) did not replace the Hanna-Barbera film after it ran. SpongeBob 3D started playing in Side A of the Paramount Action FX Theater in 2003, and The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera was added in Side B in 2006 while SpongeBob continued to play in Side A.
Nice . I have been waiting for this !! I loved that ride .
MeTV is now carrying The Flintstones. Might there be a Hanna-Barbera revival of this scope?
They should bring this to Six Flags Parks. Six Flags already have a relationship with Warner Bros the owners of Looney Tunes and DC Comics Characters who owns Hanna Barbara I think it would be easy for them to get this in their parks.
They HAD Hanna-Barbera at Six Flags Great America, then they terminated the license. :(
0:48 I’m in the top left corner.
If The Funtastic World of Hanna Barbera return in Universal Studios Japan
Hello from Kings island and Hanna Barbera land!
And other parks.
Who knows maybe this ride could comeback Scooby Doo is getting a crossover film that features characters outside of the Scooby-Doo franchise like Captain Caveman, Blue Falcon & Dyno Mutt & Dick Dasterdly & Muttley.
I have Frankenstin Jr and The Impossibles on DVD, on my third watch of it and it won't be the last. Rally Ho!^^
I have Birdman on DVD and Space Ghost on Blu-Ray (replacing an older DVD of it I had since 2007.)
@@YuukiTakemoto1996 Cool.^^
At least Dick appeared in the Scoob movie, though he’s a major antagonist.
I worked on this ride from 96-98!
Welcome back. I missed your channel
Wait a minute. I rode a similar ride like this one when I was little at Great America in California
The movie/show also became a simulation ride in rialto at enchanted kingdom in the philippines
The world of Sid and Marty Krofft Amusement Park. It wasn't there long, but it did look interesting.
16:14
That is actually kinda sorta inaccurate. The ride didn't get replaced by Spongebob 4D because it was already existing in the same theater on the other side. All the Paramount Parks had 2 motion simulator theaters in the same building, originally their first two incarnations had the same film played on both sides to help with capacity, but by the 2000's they had separate films playing inside both theaters. When Cedar Fair bought the Paramount Parks, the second theaters were decommissioned for seemingly unknown reasons, leaving the side that already had Spongebob to begin with open. So HB didn't get replaced by Spongebob, it just shut down basically. I know this because I have been visiting Great America during the Paramount days, and yes I have been on the HB ride when it was there.
They just wanted a Wacky Races movie ;-;
Memories 💓
When I was a kid, I once thought that this ride was called The "Futuristic" World of Hanna Barbera!" I mean, they're flying around in space ships, it made sense to me!
The closing of this video reminded me of my childhood watching the Hannah Barbera cartoons on Cartoon Network I'd love to hear about the history of Rocky & Bullwinkle in the parks I know they had a show at Universal Studios Florida back in the early 90's.
I love Rocky and Bullwinkle