Characters
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Home - Characters
The park features several mascots that appear as walk-around characters during the day:
Current
- Bernie Bernard the St. Bernard (updated look in 2017)
- Gilda the gorilla
- Heather the dog
- Toby the tiger
- P.T. Barnaby animatronic
Visiting Characters
- Tall Elvis - Brad Weston on stilts
- Tall Patriotic Guy - Brad Weston on stilts (no beard, so it's not Uncle Sam)
Retired
Some characters are no longer seen in the park.
- Bandmaster - per photo on DM Register article
- Garfield the cat was a visiting mascot in 2001.
- Henry the dog
- Jack the Giraffe - a wood sculpture
- Keystone Cop - per photo on DM Register article
- Leo the Lion
- Molly Mouse - post card called it "Mickey the Mouse" but park says it was Molly.
- TODO: List of all those other mascots from the early post cards.