Hanna-Barbera - CoasterBuzz

Does Paramount currently own the Hanna-Barbera characters, or do they just license them. I ask because SFGAm has a Jetson ride in their Camp Cartoon Network area. I was under the impression that Taft was the owner of the Hanna Barbera characters at the time they owned the parks.

Six Flags could get rights to Hanna Barber characters if they wanted to. Hanna Barber is owned by AOL Time Warner, just like D.C. Comics.

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Hanna Barbera owned by AOL Time Warner? I should think that the Six Flags would get control of the Hanna Barbera characters. I guess their Looney Tunes characters give them enough.

HB characters are in Paramount parks (scooby doo), Six Flags parks (Spacely Sprocket's Rocket), and Universal parks (Funtastic World of Hanna Barbera). My guess is that there is no "exclusive" licencing arrangement
jeremy
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I believe, I read somewhere, that Paramount has rights to Hanna Barbera characters through 2009,which they assumed when they purchased King Island in the fall of 1992.

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In 1992, North American Financial (Carl Lindner) sold Kings Island to Paramount, and sold Hanna-Barbera to Turner Entertainment. That sale enabled Turner to launch the Cartoon Network. Then, in the biggest media merger to that point, Time/Warner merged with Turner Entertainment. That was when Scooby Doo started showing up in Six Flags parks.
Then, of course, Six Flags sold out to Premier Parks, so there's no telling who has rights to what anymore. :)

--Dave Althoff, Jr
Who should mention that North American Financial bought Kings Island from KECO just a couple of years before selling to Paramount. Paramount bought the other parks from KECO.

Speaking of Hanna-Barbera, does ANYONE remember a small theme park north of Houston called 'Hanna-Barbera Land'? I fondly remember going, as a child. It had a single coaster, themed to Scooby-Doo, and a Smurfs themed pizza joint. Please tell me someone else remembers this place!! The property is now Splashtown USA, I believe.

Wonderland Sydney used to be owned by Paramount & has a Hanna-Barbera area that is still there today.

Taipan said:
"Wonderland Sydney used to be owned by Paramount & has a Hanna-Barbera area that is still there today."

I think Wonderland was actually owned by Kings, which was then bought out by Paramount after Wonderland was sold
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Home Park: Wonderland Sydney, Australia

So is that Kings Island's Zodiac at Wonderland Sydney?

I do believe that we are refering to Paramount Canada`s Wonder land outside of Toronto Canada.
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super7 said:
So is that Kings Island's Zodiac at Wonderland Sydney?

Wonderland Syndey did get the zodiac from a US park, basically they said you can have if you come and get it!
I'm unsure of what park it came from, it may have been Kings Island.
(The Zodiac is a pivoting two umbrelled ferris wheel)

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Home Park: Wonderland Sydney, Australia

Yes it was from Kings Island, it was removed one year before opening in Australia.

Wonderland was part of Kings, but never adopted the Paramount bit in front, and remained as Australia's Wonderland until about 1999, after Sunway bought it out in 1997.

In fact, most of Wonderland's flat rides came from Kings Island; in 83 and 84, KI removed many flat rides, which were transfered to Australia.

Time-Warner does own rights to Hanna-Barbera, they bought it mainly for the Scooby Doo movie. Time-Warner doesn't own Six Flags, formerly Premier Parks, do they?

Actually, The two Village-Warner parks in Australia are now using Hanna-Barbera characters, such as the Cartoon Network's Cartoon Beach or the new for 2002 Scooby Doo dark ride. It looks odd having at one end of the park Movie World, DC Comics characters, at the other end Looney Tunes and in the middle; Hanna-Barbera!

Paramount still holds rights to them as well, seeing as they obviously bought them before the Turner, Warner merger.

Richard

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