1990s Whittaker Brothers Coin Operated Truck Kiddie Ride - Park Ranger

Filmed at Merrivale Model Village, Great Yarmouth on June 9th 2021. Manufactured by Whittaker Brothers of Oldham, this safari truck ride was released in the early 1990s. It came in several different versions. Firstly, it was available either as a one or two seater ride (with or without an animal passenger on one of the seats). The animal was either a lion or tiger cub. There was also a cub placed on top of the vehicle. On the one seater version, the roof cub would always be painted as the opposite species to the passenger cub. (So tiger in the passenger seat, lion on roof or vice versa) This is obviously the two seater version with a tiger on the roof. Later versions saw the entire van's colours changed and the ride renamed "Big Top Circus" or "Toytown Zoo". This unit is the original version though, complete with original soundtrack of "Daddy's Taking Us To The Zoo Tomorrow". Having been part of our sister channel Skylark24 since 2010, The History of Coin Operated Rides finally has its own YouTube channel! Subscribe for ride videos, documentaries, interviews and more! Look out for a new video every Monday and Thursday at 6pm GMT! If you have any old photographs or video footage of coin operated rides which you wouldn't mind sharing with us, please email coinoperatedrides@hotmail.com Thank you! Connect with us on social media! Facebook:   / coinoperatedkiddierides   Instagram:   / the_history_of_kiddie_rides   Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/1479266... This video was originally published on Skylark24 on November 4th 2021. It had 5182 views at the time of deletion!