Blog

This cartoon is about a year old, but I thought I’d post it anyway. While it doesn’t represent my own political views, I do love it because a coin operated kiddie ride is the prop that makes the whole cartoon funny.

This is an illustration of a little kiddie ride bobblehead we’re looking at possibly manufacturing. This was created by one my designers. If you have any thoughts on our little bobblehead horse ride concept, please contact us with your feedback!

Look for one of our airplane kiddie rides in Zombieland starring Woody Harrelson that comes out this October. The film studio rented the plane ride from us which we sent to Atlanta for the filming.

This is the little horse ride in the lobby of NJ-based ad firm 1 Trick Pony - www.1trickpony.com. As you can see, the little horse ride fit perfectly with both their color scheme and also the pony logo. This is just another example of a creative firm creatively utilizing a coin-op ride!

This is a funny little scene sent to us by one of our fans paying tribute to Steve “The Crocodile Hunter” Irwin after his unfortunate passing a few years ago.

“Our store, the Sag Harbor Variety Store, has been in operation since 1922. My family purchased the store in October 1970. Sag Harbor is a resort town in the famous “Hamptons” on Long Island, but we have a great year round population as well. Our rides, the firetruck and horse, are a fixture on Main Street. The rides are only 25 cents…so most people treat the kids to at least 2 rides on each!” - Lisa Field

This is a picture the Wells Fargo Bank Museum in Los Angeles just sent me. Beverly Smith, VP of Historical Services at Wells Fargo, said, “Dozens of kids enjoy the stagecoach kiddie rides each week in our museums. Parents are really happy to know their is something in the museum for little kids to enjoy.”

This is one of several stagecoach rides we restored for the Wells Fargo Bank Museums - http://www.wellsfargohistory.com/museums/ . Obviously, the ride fit perfectly with the corporate theme! WF sent their custom colors and we even programmed the sound box to play a WF jingle. The ride at the Los Angeles location also appeared on the feature THE TODAY SHOW did on our company.

Restoration process…

As I have said many times, one of the fun things about Kiddie Rides USA is seeing all the fun and offbeat reasons why people purchase coin-operated rides. Below is a video sent to us by one of our friends, Martha, who is a dog trainer in CT. In addition to cute pictures, she says that having a dog be on and around a ride really helps in obedience training. www.smartydog.com

I couldn’t resist getting on this kiddie ride in Jerusalem on our recent trip to Israel. It was located in front of an arcade in the Old City near the Church of the Holy Sepulcher.