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Monster Mansion
Monster Mansion (formerly Monster Plantation and, originally, Tales of the Okefenokee) is a mill chute ride at Six Flags Over Georgia located in Austell, Georgia. Aboard six-passenger boats, riders pass through nine scenes along the 700 foot-long flume, passing by over 107 original animatronic characters.
From the park's opening in 1967 until 1980, the building that currently houses Monster Mansion was home to one of the park's original attractions, a boat mill chute-type ride called Tales of the Okefenokee: The Old Plantation Legends, with theming inspired by the Uncle Remus stories of Joel Chandler Harris.
The 1967 version of Tales of the Okefenokee has minimal documentation, though has been confirmed to be designed by Gene Patrick. An instrumental figure in numerous theme parks and entertainment ventures (including the now-defunct Six Flags AstroWorld, Carowinds, and Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza Time Theatre to name a few), Patrick had previously designed the Spee-Lunker's Cave dark ride for Six Flags Over Texas. The end product contained an array of detailed murals and scenery. However, these ultimately clashed with the small-scaled character figures, dissatisfying Six Flags founder Angus G. Wynne. Wynne's criticisms regarding the 1967 Okefenokee were reportedly toward Gene Patrick's figures in particular, stating they were "too small" and "looked like window displays."
The following year, the original Tales of the Okefenokee attraction was redesigned by puppeteers Sid and Marty Krofft, whom Six Flags had worked with previously on puppet shows for both Six Flags Over Georgia and Six Flags Over Texas. Six Flags Over Georgia had opened with a 1,000 seat puppet theater hosting "The Krofft Circus" puppet show. Most of the original sets from the previous iteration remained the same, with the Kroffts' focus being more on the animated figures, sound, and music. The second incarnation of Okefenokee was loosely inspired by Walt Disney's 1946 film, Song of the South, as well as the Little Golden Books based on the film, with many cartoonish elements lifted from the works of Jay Ward, Hanna-Barbera, and Rankin/Bass Productions. Voices for the 1968 version of the ride were provided by Lennie Weinrib, Joan Gerber, and Marty Krofft, all of which were involved with the Kroffts' television series H.R. Pufnstuf at the time.
The Krofft's Tales of the Okefenokee is the only incarnation of the original attraction to be properly documented in terms of storyline.
After taking a seat inside of a fiberglass boat themed after an Indian craft made of animal skins, the boat moves on. Ahead, an entrance to the ride has two cutouts of anthropomorphic rabbits holding signs that read "Keep hands inside the boat" and "Do not feed the bunnies".
Going into the entrance, guests are surrounded by a large colorful environment of various artificial plants, including bushes and large trees with Spanish moss hanging from the branches. Rounding the first bend, guests see their first sign of activity, with owls blinking and hooting in the branches above them, and a quartet of crows sing a song in perfect harmony, welcoming their new "neighbor".
After receiving their welcome, guests float past the Okefenokee Swamp's fishing hole, located in the ruins of an old Civil War era plantation home. Mr. Rabbit, Mr. Fox, and Mr. Bear are all fishing with hooks and bait, while a bullfrog is working on his suntan and a raccoon fumbles with his picnic basket. In one corner of the scene, a turtle rocks himself to sleep on the back of his shell, as if it were a cradle, while snoring.
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Monster Mansion
Monster Mansion (formerly Monster Plantation and, originally, Tales of the Okefenokee) is a mill chute ride at Six Flags Over Georgia located in Austell, Georgia. Aboard six-passenger boats, riders pass through nine scenes along the 700 foot-long flume, passing by over 107 original animatronic characters.
From the park's opening in 1967 until 1980, the building that currently houses Monster Mansion was home to one of the park's original attractions, a boat mill chute-type ride called Tales of the Okefenokee: The Old Plantation Legends, with theming inspired by the Uncle Remus stories of Joel Chandler Harris.
The 1967 version of Tales of the Okefenokee has minimal documentation, though has been confirmed to be designed by Gene Patrick. An instrumental figure in numerous theme parks and entertainment ventures (including the now-defunct Six Flags AstroWorld, Carowinds, and Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza Time Theatre to name a few), Patrick had previously designed the Spee-Lunker's Cave dark ride for Six Flags Over Texas. The end product contained an array of detailed murals and scenery. However, these ultimately clashed with the small-scaled character figures, dissatisfying Six Flags founder Angus G. Wynne. Wynne's criticisms regarding the 1967 Okefenokee were reportedly toward Gene Patrick's figures in particular, stating they were "too small" and "looked like window displays."
The following year, the original Tales of the Okefenokee attraction was redesigned by puppeteers Sid and Marty Krofft, whom Six Flags had worked with previously on puppet shows for both Six Flags Over Georgia and Six Flags Over Texas. Six Flags Over Georgia had opened with a 1,000 seat puppet theater hosting "The Krofft Circus" puppet show. Most of the original sets from the previous iteration remained the same, with the Kroffts' focus being more on the animated figures, sound, and music. The second incarnation of Okefenokee was loosely inspired by Walt Disney's 1946 film, Song of the South, as well as the Little Golden Books based on the film, with many cartoonish elements lifted from the works of Jay Ward, Hanna-Barbera, and Rankin/Bass Productions. Voices for the 1968 version of the ride were provided by Lennie Weinrib, Joan Gerber, and Marty Krofft, all of which were involved with the Kroffts' television series H.R. Pufnstuf at the time.
The Krofft's Tales of the Okefenokee is the only incarnation of the original attraction to be properly documented in terms of storyline.
After taking a seat inside of a fiberglass boat themed after an Indian craft made of animal skins, the boat moves on. Ahead, an entrance to the ride has two cutouts of anthropomorphic rabbits holding signs that read "Keep hands inside the boat" and "Do not feed the bunnies".
Going into the entrance, guests are surrounded by a large colorful environment of various artificial plants, including bushes and large trees with Spanish moss hanging from the branches. Rounding the first bend, guests see their first sign of activity, with owls blinking and hooting in the branches above them, and a quartet of crows sing a song in perfect harmony, welcoming their new "neighbor".
After receiving their welcome, guests float past the Okefenokee Swamp's fishing hole, located in the ruins of an old Civil War era plantation home. Mr. Rabbit, Mr. Fox, and Mr. Bear are all fishing with hooks and bait, while a bullfrog is working on his suntan and a raccoon fumbles with his picnic basket. In one corner of the scene, a turtle rocks himself to sleep on the back of his shell, as if it were a cradle, while snoring.
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