In the early 1980's the trend for children's attractions was to offer
something more than the passive rides of the past, with things like net
climbs and ball crawls offering physical challenges to engage kids.
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At the end of the
1983 season
Six Flags introduced the Shirt Tales characters in their parks including
Great Adventure. As part of the integration of these new
characters the Kiddie Kingdom area of the park was given a much needed
update to become Shirt Tales Land.
As part of the update
interactive play elements like the Net Climb and Ball Crawl were added
in order to compete with the new Sesame Place theme park which had
opened in 1980 and offered similar interactive play structures. The new
Net Climb was known as Bogey's Adventure House, named for the character
Bogey Orangutan.
The dual sided slide structure could be entered by climbing cargo nets
from both the left and right rear of the attraction. The nets led
up to an un-air conditioned room at the top with large circular windows.
Children exited the upper "hut" by sliding down one of two long yellow
tube slides ultimately landing in a padded mat in front of the
structure.
In 1985, Shirt Tales Land was rethemed to Looney
Tunes Land and the Net Climb became the Honey Bunny Hut. |
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Rear Net
Climb Names
Through the Years
1983 Bogey's Adventure House
1984-1987 Honey Bunny Hut
1988-2000 Wile E. Coyote
Wild Wild Web
2001 (Standing But Not Operating) |
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For the 1988 season Looney Tunes Land was updated to Bugs Bunny Land and the
net climb was renamed the
Wile E. Coyote's Wild Wild Web.
In 2001, the net climb was closed and the
cargo nets and slides were removed. The support structures on the
right side were removed months ahead of the rest of the attraction to
allow for the entrance path to the new Season Pass Entrance. The last of the structure was
removed between the 2001 and 2002 seasons. |
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