Bullwinkle's Restaurant

Bullwinkle's Restaurant, also known as Family Fun Center, is a chain of family entertainment centers. Locations feature a sit-down restaurant, complemented by arcade games, go-karts, bumper boats, mini golf, laser tag, a ropes course, a zip line, and small rides for children. Games and activities are generally themed around the company's namesake, The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show.

The Bullwinkle's Restaurant Wilsonville, Oregon, location

Arcade

Bullwinkle's features a card swipe and/or token-operated amusement arcade section featuring over 100 popular video games and redemption games, such as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time, The Simpsons Game, Terminator 2: Judgment Day arcade game. More traditional arcade games, such as skeeball and basketball, are also available. Tickets can be redeemed for various prizes.

Restaurant
Bullwinkle's Restaurant dining room

The restaurant section of Bullwinkle's has a log cabin feel, inspired by the Dudley Do-Right cartoon. The restaurant's main fare usually includes pizza and burgers, as well as wraps and salads. The animatronic show featured the likes of Bullwinkle, Rocky, Boris Badenov, Natasha Fatale, Dudley Do-Right, Underdog, Tooter Turtle, Hoppity Hooper, and at one location Tennessee Tuxedo and Chumley, but nowadays only Bullwinkle, Rocky, and Boris and Natasha are featured.[1] The music and dialog for the animated musicals were recorded by Bill Broughton, featuring reprisals from Bill Scott, June Foray, and others being impersonation voices.

Locations

Family Fun Center & Bullwinkle's Restaurant currently operates 2 known locations in the United States: in Wilsonville, Oregon and Tukwila, Washington. A third location re-opened in Upland, California on December 10, 2021 after being closed for 2 years.

Former locations

A location opened in Cary, NC in 1999-2000.[2] An article announcing its opening at the time referenced existing restaurants in California, New York and Myrtle Beach, S.C. There also was a location in Richmond, VA in the 1980s. There was a location in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada from 1984 to 1994.

There was a location in Myrtle Beach,[3] as mentioned above, that featured animatronics, arcade games, and the signature restaurant. The location appears to have closed sometime near 2008,[4] being transformed into a Japanese restaurant named Mykonos. El Cerro, a Mexican-focused restaurant, took over the space left vacant after that one closed.

Calgary, Alberta, Canada had a location on MacLeod Trail in the south of the city.

Medford, New York had a Family Food 'n Fun location that opened in May 1999 featuring Go-Karts, Bumper Boats, a train ride around the park, and more. The location was purchased by Palace Entertainment in 2001 following an incident where a mini swing ride tipped over,[5] injuring 9 people. It was renamed Boomers! Long Island shortly after. This location operated until September 29, 2019. The park has not been updated since, although their Facebook and Website are still up.[6] The park is now sitting abandoned, with most rides removed and relocated.

References
  1. "Bullwinkle's Restaurant | Things To Do | Family Fun Center & Bullwinkle's Restaurant - Edmonds, WA". Family Fun Center. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
  2. ""Moose and squirrel" to make Cary landing". www.bizjournals.com. Retrieved 2023-04-04.
  3. "Bullwinkle's Family Food 'n' Fun – Mozingo + Wallace". Retrieved 2023-04-04.
  4. "Google Maps". Google Maps. Retrieved 2023-04-04.
  5. "Amusement park ride tips over, injuring nine". Arizona Daily Sun. Retrieved 2023-04-04.
  6. "Boomers! long Island".

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