Ride. The ride system was designed by Australian Electric Vehicles and controlled by ASI systems from Anitech Systems Inc. The ride had easily spotted sensors that would trigger the animatronics' movements and voices when a boat passed them from below, and its fourteen boats catered for 16 riders distributed in rows of 4. The ride's first pre-show room's walls were themed after the 1981 jigsaw puzzle The Looney Tunes Characters. Village Roadshow Theme Parks approached many companies about designing animatronics for the ride. Each company was asked to produce a "test/demonstration Bugs", and then Village Roadshow Theme Parks would decide on the company to go with the Bugs Bunny animatronic that they produced. Greg McKee, Matt Ward, John Cox and Chris Chitty designed a demonstration Bugs Bunny animatronic in just a few weeks. This animatronic could sing the Warner Bros. Cartoon Cavalcade version of The Bugs Bunny Shows "This Is It", followed by his catchphrase, "Eh, what's up, doc?" McKee, Ward, Cox and Chitty contacted Keith Scott directly to voice the Bugs animatronic when he says, "Eh, what's up, doc?" He wasn't well known internationally at the time for Looney Tunes voices, and the exposure from doing voices for Warner Bros. Movie World helped him get further voice credit with Warner Bros., and he went on to do narration voiceovers on George of the Jungle, George of the Jungle 2, The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and others. The animatronic won McKee, Ward, Cox and Chitty the multi-$1,000,000 contract to design the animatronics for Warner Bros. Movie World in 1990, including the 91 audio-animatronics (which used actuators and pneumatics) featured in Looney Tunes River Ride; and was sufficient to strip it away from German animatronic company Heimo and one other company. No one had ever made life-sized three-dimensional versions of the Looney Tunes characters before. Cox had to reconcile all of the poses from the individual character model sheets into a 3D sculpture that looked accurate from every angle. It turned out to be very difficult with quite a few of the characters. Cox used coloured plasticine to replicate the colours of each character. This helped enormously with getting the lines correct, and also made it easy to see the finished character come together in the sculpt. McKee, Ward, Cox and Chitty made plaster waste moulds of the sculptures and then laid 8 millimetres of dark green plasticine into the