History Main / TheKiddieRide

** A Chinese/Taiwanese kiddie ride company also spawned an unlicensed Thomas ride, with the eighth season theme tune and... laser and bombing sounds. (This is real. [[note]]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tolIyBA8neU[[/note]])

* ''Franchise/{{Cars}}'': Lightning [=McQueen=], courtesy of EMT. Merkur has re-released [=McQueen=] with a different facial expression and a new soundboard and has also spawned Tow Mater and Lightning [=McQueen=] again, but this time, in his Dinoco paint job. Also spawned unlicensed rides of [=McQueen=], Mater and the rest of the cast.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}'': Cinderella's pumpkin carrige, made by EMT.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King|1994}}'': Made by Coinstar [[labelnote:Explanation]]Coinstar at one point produced kiddie rides as well as owning a few imported rides, but later sold off their amusements business to National Entertainment Network Inc. in 2009 to focus on their coin-cashing business.[[/labelnote]], based off Pumbaa. One could argue that they missed an opportunity to produce a cub!Simba ride, or even an adult!Simba one, given the numerous adult Simba knockoffs in Asia (and that Bafco UK and Whittaker Bros. respectively produced their safari jeep and safari, zoo, and circus truck rides with a lion cub that looked suspiciously like cub!Simba on it).

** A Chinese/Taiwanese kiddie ride company also spawned an unlicensed Thomas ride, with the eighth season theme tune.

* ''Series/BarneyAndFriends'': At least four different ride designs are known to exist (a car, a train, a tractor, and a vehicle carousel). The train model was made by [=Fun2Learn=] in the late 90s or the 2000s, while the car was made by Kiddy Rides Australia in the 2000s and the tractor was made by Jolly Roger in the early 2000s and the carousel was made by Ausride Amusements Co Ltd shortly after.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Bing}}'' has one with Bing pushing the Talkie Taxi by Jolly Roger.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'': Rides include Fred Flintstone (Flintmobile) and Barney Rubble's (Loggin Continential) cars along with Dino, made by Kiddie's Manufacturing in 1994. The ride license has changed hands to Memopark of Italy however, and revamped versions of the Flintmobile and Dino has been released, along with a new interactive hydraulic glider ride featuring Fred and Wilma.

* Jolly Roger made [[https://live.staticflickr.com/8428/7790390452_a713f3bd76_b.jpg a school bus kiddie ride]] based on the obscure British cartoon ''Little Monsters''. A few have popped up in the USA, despite the show never airing there (but it did get some DVD releases there).

* ''Franchise/MyLittlePony'': Based on ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTales'', by Jolly Roger. The default design is based on Starlight, although customers could order one in a different color. Notable in that the ride frequently mismatches the cutie mark and the colors of the pony, largely because Jolly Roger offered the ride in several different colors, but with the same cutie mark.

* ''WesternAnimation/PostmanPat'': The post van (PAT 1) (which has been redesigned twice over[[note]]The original van was built by OMC Electronics in 1992 (prototyped in 1991). The license then went over to Mitchells for a while, where they produced a limited run of a version of the van with a modified design and a rolling road display, before finally landing in the hands of [=Fun2Learn=], which revamped the whole ride design and released three versions[[/note]] ), the Special Delivery Service Helicopter (PAT 3) from ''Postman Pat: SDS'' (Amutec), and a ride where you get to sit on a sack of mail next to Pat and Jess (OMC). The signature van design is a pretty common ride all over the UK. It even appeared in the ''Series/MrBean'' episode "Mind The Baby."

* WesternAnimation/{{Bing}} has one with Bing pushing the Talkie Taxi by Jolly Roger.

* ''WesternAnimation/Bing'' has one with Bing pushing the Talkie Taxi by Jolly Roger.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King|1994}}'': Made by Coinstar [[labelnote:Explanation]]Coinstar at one point produced kiddie rides as well as owning a few imported rides, but later sold off their amusements business to National Entertainment Network Inc. in 2009 to focus on their coin-cashing business.[[/labelnote]], based off Pumbaa. One could argue that they missed an opportunity to produce a Simba cub ride, or even an adult Simba one, given the numerous adult Simba knockoffs in Asia (and that Bafco UK produced a safari van ride with a lion cub that looked suspiciously like Simba as a cub on it and also Whittaker Bros. have spawned the Park Ranger, Big Top Circus and Toytown Zoo in the 90s featuring the Simba cub lookalike on the roof too).

* ''Series/BearInTheBigBlueHouse'': Two versions were made by [=Fun2Learn=], both of them feature Bear, Pip and Pop on a boat. The first version, released in either the 1990s or the early 2000s, had boat sounds (could be something to do with licensing) and no start message, whilst the second version, released in October 2002, had boat sounds as well as the theme tune and a start message. Both versions feature Noel [=MacNeal=] as the voice of Bear. In Welling Tesco, there does exist a Bear in the Big Blue House ride with the sounds muddled up.

* ''Series/SesameStreet'': [=Kiddie Ride Enterprises (Kiddie's Manufacturing)=] manufactured three rides in the U.S. in 1997-1998; a race car featuring Elmo and Zoe, a fire truck featuring Ernie and Bert, and an airplane featuring Big Bird and Little Bird. A few other rides based on the show, particularly prevalent in other countries, were manufactured by [=Fun2Learn=], featuring Oscar the Grouch, Bert and Ernie, Cookie Monster, Big Bird & Elmo in various vehicles.

* Toys/Shopkins has a ride based on Motor Melon from the Cutie Cars range, released by Jolly Roger.

* ''Toys/Shopkins'' has a ride based on Motor Melon from the Cutie Cars range, released by Jolly Roger.

* UsefulNotes/McDonalds once had a carousel featuring some pretty strange figures for its playland. It also had a Birdie kiddie ride.

*** There's even a knockoff version of the single seater car, made by an unknown company.

* ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'': An Obelix see-saw, courtesy of EMT (the makers of the Lightning [=McQueen=] and the offensive Donald Duck and Marsupilami rides).

* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': With Spidey in either a helicopter, motorcycle, or sports car. There is also a Spider-Man vehicle carousel, courtesy of Ride On! Entertainment. Ital-Resina has also spawned a ripoff Spider-Man motorcycle, which can be found in Walton Pier.

** Northern Leisure/Kiddy Rides UK, has secured the license to produce new rides based on the 2012 series.

* ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'': Two models exist; one with Garfield driving a taxi, the other design is Garfield himself which the rider sits in, plus one unlicensed rip-off of the latter model, complete with a bow on Garfield's head. The licensed rides were made in the 1990s by Jolly Roger, the same company that put out Stuart Little, Clifford, Arthur, Bob the Builder and Peanuts rides. Aside from that, the license was recently reassigned to Memopark, who put out a Garfield airplane with a video screen.

* ''Franchise/{{Cars}}'': Lightning [=McQueen=], courtesy of EMT. Merkur has re-released [=McQueen=] with a different facial expression and a new soundboard and has also spawned Tow Mater and Lightning [=McQueen=] again, but this time, in his Dinoco paint job. Also spawned unlicensed rides of [=McQueen=], Mater and the rest of the cast. Motoi made a "Phantom Plane" ride with the same colour and face as Mater.
* ''WesternAnimation/Cars2'': Spawned a twin ride featuring Lightning [=McQueen=] and Mater, courtesy of Cogan. There was also a race car simulator ride made by Ital-Resina in 2016 which resembles the A-Team van and shows clips while the ride is in motion.

* ''Franchise/{{Frozen}}'': There is a carousel ride featuring sleds with the different characters on the side. One of the sleds has Olaf riding on the back. And before anyone asks, yes it does play Let It Go.
* ''WesternAnimation/IceAge'': A jumbo Manny ride by Cogan. The website incorrectly states the movie as a Disney/Pixar movie.[[note]]However with the acquisition of 21st Century Fox's entertainment assets in 2019, it is now technically a Disney film.[[/note]]
* ''WesternAnimation/LadyAndTheTramp'': One unlicensed kiddie ride exists, featuring Lady and Tramp in a cup, courtesy of Ital-Resina. The ride plays "Who Let the Dogs Out?" while the ride was in motion. The ride even featured a few quotes and sound effects from the movie!

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Minions}}'': Created by Jolly Rodger. This ride is decorated to look like the Minion sized car seen in [[WesternAnimation/DespicableMe1 the first Despicable Me film]], and contains Bob the Minion riding in the booster seat.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Planes}}'': Dusty Crophopper, courtesy of Italian kiddie ride maker Cogan.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'': A school bus ride was made by Jolly Roger in the United Kingdom in the early 2000s. The other characters are just stickers on the ride.

* ''Literature/MrMen'': Three models (Mr. Funny's shoe car, Little Miss Sunshine's pink car, and Mr. Bump on a see-saw) were made by Jolly Roger in the 1990s. The Little Miss Sunshine car is particularly rare. The Mr. Bump see-saw's design is the same as Mr. Blobby's. There was also Mr. Happy on a train that was made in limited numbers, apparently by Kidzstuff.
* ''WesternAnimation/NoddysToylandAdventures'': Noddy rides are just as popular as the Postman Pat rides, and it shows. Almost a dozen designs exist (including one version that plays back a UsefulNotes/LaserDisc video onto a monitor positioned in front of the ride; courtesy of Bell Fruit), and the ride manufacturer license has changed hands several times, from Bafco, to Photo-Me, to Northern Leisure/Kiddy Rides UK, to Amutec. From Make Way for Noddy, we have Noddy and Tessie Bear in the car, which was released by Mitchells and later, Jolly Roger. Some of the JR versions feature a video screen. From Noddy in Toyland, there is a carousel by Jolly Roger featuring Noddy and Mr. Plod, which plays the Make Way for Noddy theme tune and a button that makes horn sounds when the ride is in motion. Perhaps unsurprisingly, all the rides feature Noddy's little yellow car. The rides have also been exported worldwide- one has been seen in a UsefulNotes/{{Walmart}} in Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA, of all places.

** The first one was made when ''Literature/TheRailwaySeries'' was at the height of its popularity in 1975/

** A Chinese kiddie ride company also spawned an unlicensed Thomas ride, with the eighth season theme tune.
** There's also a Korean kiddie ride, which plays the Korean version of the "Engine Roll Call" song.
* ''Franchise/WinnieThePooh'': No less than five designs exist, including a rotating honey pot (Coinstar), a carousel (EMT) and a log-see-saw (EMT). There is also a Tigger boat and carousel ride, also by EMT.

* ''Series/BarneyAndFriends'': At least four different ride designs are known to exist (a car, a train, a tractor, and a vehicle carousel). The train model was made by [=Fun2Learn=] in the late 90s or the 2000s, while the car was made by Kiddy Rides Australia in the 2000s and the tractor was made by Jolly Roger in the early 2000s and the carousel was made by Ride On! Entertainment shortly after.

* ''Series/LazyTown'': One was made by Northern Leisure/Kiddy Rides UK in 2010. The ride vehicle is a contraption made specifically for the ride called a "[[http://www.kiddyrides.uk.com/products/product/96 flypod]]", featuring Sportacus. In 2016, some of these were converted into "Afterburners" flypods.

* ''Series/PlaySchool'': The Australian version, at least, spawned a carousel, by Kiddy Rides Australia.

* ''Series/MrBlobby'': A see-saw and a boat, manufactured in 1994 by Jolly Roger. However, on the boat, the coin slot and start/sound buttons appear to be on ''Mr. Blobby himself''. The see-saw design was later re-used for the Mr. Bump see-saw. During Christmas times in the '90s, some see-saws had Mr. Blobby replaced with Father Christmas/Santa Claus.

* ''Series/RosieAndJim'': We have the Ragdoll by OMC Electronics (John Cunliffe), and later an updated version by Amutec (Neil Brewer) that features two options: one with a peekaboo window featuring Rosie & Jim and one with a LCD display showing four clips that's probably a modified version of the Peekaboo window ride (the latter being rare; good news: Joseph Isted and Amber The Fangirl found one in Skegness, but some buttons don't work and the audio is mute).

* An unknown company produced several Toys/HotWheels branded car rides. Date unknown.
* A Franchise/{{Barbie}} ride also exists.

* ''WesternAnimation/BobTheBuilder'': Scoop and Roley, courtesy of Jolly Roger. Scoop was one of the biggest kiddie rides of the early 2000s, and is quite common around the United Kingdom and United States. Also, Ride On! Entertainment spawned a carousel featuring Scoop, Lofty and Muck. Unfortunately, there's also a knockoff version of Scoop made by an unknown company (one was made by Automaty Kupper), which looks and acts almost like the real thing. In a unique variation of AdjustableCensorship, operators could order Jolly Roger's Scoop and Roley rides with either the U.S. dub's theme song or the original British theme song. That didn't stop some Scoops and Roleys from making it to the U.S. with the British theme song intact and vice-versa.
* ''WesternAnimation/BudgieTheLittleHelicopter'': The titular helicopter and the Black Rock Lighthouse, both courtesy of Mitchells. There were also two versions of Budgie, both made by Kidzstuff in 1997. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lc-C_NAS4Fw Oddly enough, a Mitchells Budgie was found at a mall in South Carolina, USA]].

* ''WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer'': Northern Leisure/Kiddy Rides UK has gotten the rights to produce a ride based on the series.

* ''WesternAnimation/FiremanSam'': One of Jupiter by OMC Electronics. There was also a Northern Leisure version and a Mitchells version featuring Sam and Penny.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'': Rides include Fred Flintstone (Flintmobile) and Barney Rubble's (Loggin Continential) cars along with Dino, made by Kiddie's Manufacturing in 1994. The ride license has changed hands to Memopark of Italy however, and a revamped version of the Flintmobile and Dino has been released, along with a new interactive hydraulic glider ride featuring Fred and Wilma.
* ''Horrid Henry'': Northern Leisure/Kiddy Rides UK has gotten the rights to produce a ride based on the series.
* ''WesternAnimation/JayJayTheJetPlane'': From [=Fun2Learn=] (the same team that brought us Postman Pat and the Sesame Street rides), we have Jay Jay and Snuffy, which were released in 2003. Also, Coinstar spawned several models; their versions of Jay Jay and Snuffy with a different soundboard and dashboard, along with the red Latino plane, Lina.

* Jolly Roger made [[https://live.staticflickr.com/8428/7790390452_a713f3bd76_b.jpg a school bus kiddie ride]] based on the obscure British cartoon ''Little Monsters''. One was oddly seen in the USA, despite the show never airing there.

* ''WesternAnimation/MrBean: The Animated Series'': Northern Leisure/Kiddy Rides UK has gotten the rights to produce a ride based on the series.

* ''WesternAnimation/Paddington1975'': an open-top blue taxi by OMC Electronics in 1993 based on the 70s stop-motion series, and later, a regular taxi by Jolly Roger (which comes in two colors - dark red and black) which was based on the 1997 Creator/{{Cinar}} series, ''The Adventures of Paddington Bear''.

* ''WesternAnimation/PeppaPig'': two models of Daddy Pig's car (one with a monitor and one without), a space rocket and two models of a carousel (comes in two-seater and three-seater variants) both by Northern Leisure/Kiddy Rides UK There is also a "dome" ride as well as a two-seater carousel, both courtesy of Memopark. Northern Leisure/Kiddy Rides UK distributed Memopark's ''Peppa Pig'' rides in the UK in an joint attempt by both Memopark and Northern Leisure to block grey-market imports of Memopark's ''Peppa Pig'' rides. There was also an unlicensed Peppa Pig rocket ride featuring a video screen, courtesy of Ital-Resina. The unlicensed rocket ride can be found in Italy and in the Circus Circus arcade in Great Yarmouth.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Pingu}}'': Spawned a rather weird half-barrel-half-sled thing featuring Pingu and Robby, designed by OMC Electronics. This ride references the episode "Barrel of Fun". The ride plays "Woodpeckers from Space" (with the audio taken from the episode "Pingu Looks After the Egg", sound effects included) and the original instrumental ''Pingu'' theme tune.
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePinkPanther'': At least three designs were made by Jolly Roger in the 1990s: a police van featuring both the Panther and Clouseau and a see-saw (which could be a modified Mr. Blobby design) featuring the Panther which were both made in 1994; and a train with both the Panther and Clouseau again, made later in 1998. Aside from that, there's an older ride of the Panther pulling a classic fire engine, the exact age and manufacturer of that ride is unknown, although the ride is thought to be from the 60s or the 70s.

* ''WesternAnimation/RoaryTheRacingCar'': The titular racing car has been made into one by Jolly Roger, featuring four phrases spoken by Roary.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters'': From Kiddie's, now you can drive Ecto-1! There is also a fire truck, also made by Kiddie's.

* ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'': Kiddie's Manufacturing released two models of rides featuring Tom and Jerry in the mid 1990s. One with the two riding a motorcycle , and a "Cheesemobile" car with 5 buttons that make strange sounds. Some versions of the Cheesemobile are labeled as "Kiddie's Cheese Rider" on the platform. Recently the license was passed to Cogan of Italy which is producing a new version of the motorcycle ride under the name "Tom & Jerry Chopper".

* ''Literature/ADogOfFlanders'': Somewhere in Japan there is a [[https://youtu.be/Eja7sTwByXM?feature=shared kiddie ride]] of Bello and Pastrache. Book made you feel sad? Sit with them, give Nello a hug and you'll feel better!

** The ''Waku Waku Sonic Patrol Car'' and ''Sonic Cosmo Fighter'' are two early kiddie rides made by Creator/{{Sega}} themselves back in the classic Sonic days. These rides also featured built-in monitors that played out a basic "game" while the ride is in use, blurring the line a bit between them and arcade games. (The ''Segasonic Popcorn Shop'' from the same era worked similarly, though it was a vending machine rather than a ride.). As per usual with many Japanese licensed rides, these rides were not officially exported, although grey-market imports can be found in several parts of the world. Ironically tho, some have reported that they've seen English versions of the ride being placed at high-tourist traffic locations in Japan, suggesting that Sega may have considered exporting them at one point.
** There's also a modern Sonic ride based on Sonic's car in ''VideoGame/SonicAndSegaAllStarsRacing'', again built by Sega themselves. Unlike the other Sonic attempts, this one is a straight up kiddie ride. And unlike the classic Sonic rides, this model is being exported worldwide. This ride features a pushbutton with lots of classic sounds.