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| Manufacturer | Allan Herschell Company | ||||||||||
| Product | Jolly Caterpillar | ||||||||||
Oruga was a Jolly Caterpillar built by US manufacturer Allan Herschell Company previously located at Six Flags Mexico in Mexico City, Mexico.
History:
The ride originally opened at Six Flags AstroWorld when the park opened in 1968. It was originally located in the park's Children's World section at opening. By 1980, the Children's World area was rethemed to The Magical World of Marvel McFey and the ride's train was painted yellow and it's track and supports dark-green and named Darvey's Dizzy Doddlers.[1] In 1984, the Children's World area was closed to make room for XLR-8 and all of the children's rides were relocated to a plot of land vacated adjacent to the European Village area on the former Le Taxis site. A new children's area opened, known as Enchanted Kingdom featuring all these children's rides.[2] As a result, Darvey's Dizzy Doddlers was renamed to The Fudd Mobile after the character Elmer Fudd some point around 1985 when the Marvel McFey characters were replaced by the Looney Tunes characters following Six Flags acquisition of the rights from Marriott upon acquiring Six Flags Great America in 1984.[3] By 1995, the Enchanted Kingdom area was renamed to Bugs Bunny World and The Fudd Mobile was renamed to The Peasant's Rotten Apple Ride.[4] In 1996, Bugs Bunny World was renamed to Looney Tunes Town and the ride was renamed to Granny's Apple Cart Ride, it being repainted light-green, dark-green and orange.[5][6] It would continue to operate until Six Flags AstroWorld closed on October 30, 2005.[7]
Six Flags would relocate many of the park's rides to other properties, including the children rides in Looney Tunes Town. Granny's Apple Cart Ride was relocated to Six Flags Mexico in 2006. It was installed in the El Circo de Bugs Bunny (Bugs Bunny's Circus) children area and was renamed Oruga. It was repainted completely orange.[8][9] It would operate there until 2018 when it and majority of the rides in the area were removed as part of the area's retheme into Bugs Bunny Boomtown and the addition of another children's area known as DC Super Friends. It was then scrapped.[10]
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- ↑ "Shane's Amusement Attic". Theme Park Review. 2007-12-23. Retrieved 2024-07-10.
- ↑ "AstroWorld". Theme Park Timelines.
- ↑ "Shane's Amusement Attic". Theme Park Review.
- ↑ "Shane's Amusement Attic". Theme Park Review.
- ↑ "Shane's Amusement Attic". Theme Park Review.
- ↑ "Shane's Amusement Attic". Theme Park Review.
- ↑ ""For AstroWorld, the ride is over"". Chron.
- ↑ "Six Flags Mexico". Theme Park Review.
- ↑ "Kids Rides". Six Flags Mexico. Archived from the original on 2016-11-06.
- ↑ ""New Kids Areas Coming to Frontier City and Six Flags Mexico"". Coaster 101.
