THE FILM ALSO BROKE THE RECORD FOR LONGEST END CREDITS. Roger Rabbit held the designation until July 1991, ultimately falling to Terminator 2: Judgment Day, which cost $100 million. It topped the previous record holder, Rambo III (which had come out less than a month earlier), by about $12 million. IT WAS THE MOST EXPENSIVE MOVIE EVER MADE.Īt the time of its release on June 22, 1988, Who Framed Roger Rabbit boasted the highest budget of any film to date: a whopping $70 million (nearly $150 million in today's dollars). Here are a few interesting nuggets about the cartoon-live action classic, on the 30th anniversary of its release. A similar Benny vehicle was showcased in Episode 7 of the Disney+ series Prop Culture.As both a groundbreaking feat for the world of animation and an enjoyable crime comedy, Who Framed Roger Rabbit stands in a class all its own. In 2019, both the paddy wagon and Benny buggy were removed from the restaurant to make room for more "table space". The same Benny vehicle was used for filming another Robert Zemeckis production, Back to the Future Part III, during the scene where Marty's character is dragged by a horse. holding a prop wheel, while the real driver (stuntman Charles Cromwell) did all the maneuvering in the back end. How it was filmed was that Bob Hoskins would sit in the front of a custom buggy vehicle pretending to drive the vehicle. That said, him and Roger can be seen in the attraction's first show scene where they spiral out of control due to a puddle of Dip dumped onto the road by the Toon Patrol.įor a short while, one of two vehicles that were used to film the Benny the Cab sequences of Who Framed Roger Rabbit were displayed in the Echo Lake restaurant Backlot Express along with the Toon Patrol's Dodge Humpback paddy wagon that he was briefly locked up in. The ride vehicle cab is not Benny, bur rather his cousin Lenny, who was specifically created for this attraction. Shelby" he comments back at Bambi while flashing his headlights in front of him after commenting on how Baby Shelby looked like a "deer in the headlights" before he turns off his headlights apologizing to him.ĭisney Parks Roger Rabbit's Car Toon Spin In " Max's New Car", Goofy offers him oil, later he drives O'Malley and the Alley Cats away after Max crashes Mickey's car. Santino, and some human policemen about what Eddie found out about Judge Doom and rejoicing over the discovery of Marvin Acme's will.īenny also made frequent appearances in the Roger Rabbit comics.īenny is notably the only character from the film to have made any appearances on House of Mouse. He is last shown at the end of the film in the Acme factory, listening with Dolores, Lt. He drops him off at the Acme factory and drives off to find help. After Eddie and Jessica are taken hostage, he lies still, recovering, and joins up with Roger when he happens to pass by in Eddie's car, taking over the job of driving and explaining to Roger what's just happened. He later appears when Eddie and Jessica Rabbit are trying to flee from the Toon Patrol and again tries to help them out, but this time, the dark and cruel Judge Doom spills Dip across the road he drives along, injuring him and making him skid off the road and crash into a pole. They free him and he helps them get away, taking them to a movie theater to hide. Benny is a slender, anthropomorphic yellow taxi cab with white tires.īenny is portrayed as a gruff, outspoken, middle-aged character who doesn't take kindly to slow drivers.Īppearances Who Framed Roger Rabbit īenny first appears when Eddie Valiant and Roger Rabbit escape from Judge Doom and the Toon Patrol in the bar and then encounter him locked up in their paddy wagon for driving on a sidewalk, despite going for a few miles as claimed by him.
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