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Bugs
Bunny Land
1988-2004
Originally opened as Kiddie Kingdom
two years after the park opened, Bugs Bunny Land underwent
many transformations in its lifetime.
The early 80's saw it become Shirt
Tales Land, with then state of the art climbing nets and
interactive elements alongside the rides.
When the Looney Tunes became Six
Flag's mascots, the area was modified to become Looney Tunes Land,
with the rides and play areas given new names.
In 1988, the park transformed the
area into Bugs Bunny Land when they renewed their focus on being a
"family park" updating the look and feel of the area with new
modern structures and a new theatre along with a new layout. This included
padding under the new climbing structures and "Magic Hands"
booths installed throughout which had sound, light an motion dioramas
which were activated by kids hands.
Over the years, some things
were removed and changed, including removal of the Tweety's Ball Crawl,
Cargo Nets (Wile E.
Coyote's Wild Web), the
Elmer Fudd Fun Factory, Tunnels (Pork Pig Pipeline),
Diggers (Yosemite Sam Sandbox)
and Roller Racers (Sylvester's
Scooters). Added
during this time were Daffy's Ducaneer, and Speed Trap.
The Fun Factory was turned into a birthday pavilion, and the Ball Crawl
became the Season Pass Holder Entrance. |
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| The
Looney Tunes characters as part of a photo shoot in 1988 |
The
original entrance in 1988 |
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| The
giant tree stump entrance was added after BBL was opened a few years |
Guests were
often confused by appearance of Scream Machine at the back of BBL |
Looking
through the tree stump |
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| The tree
was an impressive entrance |
The center
of BBL had a large shade structure which covered 3 of the rides |
Pepe Le
Pew's Pleasure Cruise (boats) |
At the
center of the shade structure was a tree, with leaves painted on the
canvas covering |
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| BBL
also had a pair of climbing structures placed over a spongy mat |
Speedy
Gonzalez's Tijuana Taxi (Scrambler) |
Petunia
Pig's Love Bugs (see
them now!) |
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| Another
view of the climbing structure through the shade |
The sign
announcing the closure of Bugs Bunny Land at the end of 2004 |
The
Tasmanian Devil Tornado |
Tweety's
Roundup |
The
Bugs Bunny Land Theatre was also covered with a sun shade |
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| Bugs Bunny
Barnstormers |
Bugs Bunny
Great Western Railroad |
Road
Runner's Beep Beep Buggies |
The show
was very popular with families |
Bugs
Bunny and his pals put on a singing & dancing interactive show for the
kids |
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| Bugs Bunny
Great Western Railroad |
The
Looney Tunes Log Jam bumper cars |
Daffy's
Ducaneer |
Daffy Ducks
Magic Motorcade |
The Space
Chase mini-ferris wheel |
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| The
Speed Trap (whip ride) |
The
Season Pass entrance was originally a ball crawl |
The
Elmer Fudd Fun Factory was originally an interactive play structure under
a roof, with climbing nets and pipes |
