While visiting Knotts Berry Farm last March for the Berry Festival, I got to meet Roxie Coyote who stopped to pose for a photograph. She was a great sport, and really good at mugging for the camera in between sessions of stealing pies in the "Bear-ry Tales" adventure ride.
We rode the adventure twice that day, which really fulfilled my "Funny Animals" quotient for that day.
We rode the adventure twice that day, which really fulfilled my "Funny Animals" quotient for that day.
Category Photography / Portraits
Species Coyote
Size 750 x 1000px
File Size 240.6 kB
I corrected the character's name when "MadHentaiRabbit" below pointed out the character's actual name. (Sighs.) My memory ain't what it used to be... It was originally a IBM 350 RAMAC disk drive with Electromechanical relay chains. FA somehow rigged it up to autocorrect to the proper name.
My dad used computers BEFORE the RAMAC. I have a sales handout for the NEW ADVANCED RAMAC http://ferretronix.com/march/ibm_publications/
It looks like "Moxie" is the character's actual name, based on this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8QAj7vE5HY
And yes, she's original to the park; she and her brother Brawny are the kids of the original Crafty Coyote from the "Knott's Bear-y Tales" ride which ran from 1975 to 1987, when it was replaced by "Kingdom of the Dinosaurs." (Which lasted until 2004, and then the building sat unused until 2015(!) when it reopened as the interactive 3D ride "Voyage to the Iron Reef", which lasted less than five years before closing in 2020.) People have been asking the park to bring the Bear-y Tales ride back ever since it closed, and the park finally brought it back as "Knott's Bear-y Tales: Return to the Fair" in 2021.
And yes, she's original to the park; she and her brother Brawny are the kids of the original Crafty Coyote from the "Knott's Bear-y Tales" ride which ran from 1975 to 1987, when it was replaced by "Kingdom of the Dinosaurs." (Which lasted until 2004, and then the building sat unused until 2015(!) when it reopened as the interactive 3D ride "Voyage to the Iron Reef", which lasted less than five years before closing in 2020.) People have been asking the park to bring the Bear-y Tales ride back ever since it closed, and the park finally brought it back as "Knott's Bear-y Tales: Return to the Fair" in 2021.
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