Wednesday, March 31, 2010

The Monster Plantation/The Monster Mansion Part 3

The Monster Plantation featured beautiful background paintings depicting a sunny southern afternoon.  For The Monster Mansion, the setting switched from daytime to dusk.

The monster picnic is in full swing here, and we encounter all sorts of colorful characters.

A female monster has dumped her picnic basket on her male friend's head.  Note that they get their pizza from Luigi's.

A pink baby monster named Toonie stays close to his big mama, Etheleen.  She tells her baby, "Don't be frightened, child.  They're only humans."  Toonie became a yellow monster in 2009.

The Monster Scouts are getting into mischief.  A monster child is trapped by a fellow scout inside a butterfly net.  The trapped monster and butterfly were sold on eBay for charity.

A nasty little orange monster named Stotz plants an explosive device on an unsuspecting monster named Lappy.

The big coach monster (she always gets a laugh) is named Big Bertha.  She shouts at the Scouts to line up for roll call.

A trio of looney birds nearby are called the Out of Tunesters, and they attempt to sing.

Not shown from this section is a little monster playing ring toss with the tail of a another monster---a big, orange Ferdinand the Bull-like monster sniffing flowers.

Also not seen in these pictures is a trio of monsters trying to get honey from a beehive.

Our journey will continue...

4 comments:

  1. Are the Out of Toonsters monsters that just so happen to look like birds, or are they regular ol' birds that are just big and goofy-looking enough to hang out with the monsters?

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    1. I've wondered the same thing. The whole bird/dinosaur thing blurs some lines. Very progressive of the ride designers back in 1980. They were ahead of their time.

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