Scott Andrew Hutchins

Here is some 16mm footage of the Enchanted Voyage. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SGRlwJnEAc. It seems my memory about the clown being flat were mistaken, and you can only barely see the whale. Gulliver's dog evokes memories that Gulliver doesn't. The giraffe looks much cartoonier than I remember, and I also remember the light being very bright in the last portion, but it certainly does not appear to be here. I still wish they hadn't taken it away. I imagine a lot of the parts got sold or cannibalized rather than trashed.

http://www.waxapple.org/brad/blog/archives/57 I always called it the "Scooby Doo boats", not the "big man" ride. I don't remember the song, but by the time you got to the clown, all I remember is the mechanical sound.

The Smurf version had a small drop. It may have originally been right before the clown face, but I was probably around 4 the last time I rode it, so it's tough to remember if it actually was.

The Enchanted Voyage was my favorite ride on my early visits to Kings Island as a small child. I also enjoyed the Smurfs Enchanted Voyage and Phantom Theatre, but not nearly as much. Does anyone have any pictures? Those booklet scans were quite a refresher. I definitely remember the elephant with the hammer gag now that I'm reminded of it. I basically remember an essentially 2-D image of Scooby and Scrappy on the back of a whale fishing, which moved up and down at an angle. I also remember the carnival at the end of the ride. Before entering it, a yellow wall with a gaping clown maw laughed at the rider, its teeth appearing ready to slice the rider, which terrified me the first time through, only to see the teeth stop laughing and stay open for the boat to enter. Upon entering, a model giraffe in a cage hung its head before the rider, which invoked my fear of heights. I always wondered what happened to the giraffe. My fascination for this ride kept leading me to demand my parents take me back to it over and over, and obsessing over it when I got home, trying to remember all the different things I saw. At one point, my mind saw it in four basic section, but even as a child, my memory of the first section was pretty much nil. My mom remembered it depicting groups of children. I suspect that may be the Gulliver in Lilliput characters depicted above. I don't remember H-B doing a Gulliver's Travels riff, though. I don't remember any part of the ride being exterior except the circling up of the boats at the front that signaled to me that the Smurfs Enchanted Voyage must be a revamp of the ride I remembered.