Worst Ride Sponsorships

[Howie]

Imperial Leather Bubbleworks. Should never have happened.

Likewise with Alton's flume ride. Swapping logs for bathtubs?

Having said that, I did quite like giant rubber duck in the tunnel (when it worked).

 

[JoshC.]

Dragon’s Fury and Skips crisps. What the prawn flavoured melt-in-your-mouth, maize-based snacks had to do with it is still beyond me? Maybe a connection with the queue-skipping help yourself fastrax ticket machines in the early days?

Nether of them were aesthetically jarring, they simply bugged me.

It's funny, I was thinking that the Fury / Skips combo was an example of a ride sponsorship done right. Not because they had any relevance to one another, but because it wasn't aesthetically jarring and was just 'there'. I don't remember it being around the ride at all actually, just on flyers, etc.

If a park wanted to use a big new ride to gain some extra money by selling some space to a sponsor, it probably would be my go-to example of how I'd want it done.

 

[Heth]

Imperial Leather Bubbleworks. Should never have happened.

I take mine back, THAT was much worse.

 

[Rock_N_RollBob]

Most iconic would be Monsanto & Adventure Through Inner Space. "Chemicals are great and not harmful one bit" - and the fall out of Agent Orange a few years later.

 

[Trax]

blue fire megacoaster powered by GAZPROM (that's the rides actual name!)

The Mustang Jeans sponsoring for Wodan is also pretty hard, but at least it is more subtle than blue fire.