
There will be a pit party from 4 to 6 p.m. Saturday, July 20, and noon on Sunday, July 21. “I stop short of dying my hair red,” she said. “The little kids eat it up.”īy dressing in purple, Johnson emulates the animated character of Daphne, who accompanies Scooby on adventures.

After the demise of the last Scooby cartoon The New Scooby-Doo Movies (1972) (in 1973), Jaffe got married and left. She is best remembered as the voice of the nerdy-and-intelectual Velma Dinkley in the Scooby-Doo cartoons from 1969-1973 before actress Pat Stevens picked up the role. Jaffe's career was mainly based on doing voice-over work. “He’s literally a 12-foot Great Dane,” Johnson said. Nicole Jaffe, Actress: Scooby Doo, Where Are You. This will be Scooby-Doo’s first visit to Hagerstown. “Basically, I can’t move a quarter inch in any direction, and that’s what you want.” Nicole filled in for five weeks, then returned to Tasmanian Devil for the remainder of the 2012 season.
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A custom-fit driver’s seat, for which 20 separate measurements of her body were taken, is “just like what a NASCAR driver would use,” she said.Īdditionally, Johnson wears a five-point harness and restraints for her neck and head “that bolt to the helmet,” she said. Nicole johnson scooby doo monster truck series At the March, 2012 Monster Jam World Finals held in Las Vegas, NV, Nicole was one of eight drivers selected to race the inaugural Young Guns Shootout and returned to her seat in Grinder. We cant wait for the 2016 Monster Jam season to start We have some BIG news for you guys coming soon. Johnson is the only driver for Scooby-Doo, which has been engineered to fit her precisely. How does that 'out of control, bobbling around' look actually help a Monster Jam truck land a jump Team Scooby-Doo driver Nicole Johnson gives us the 101 on suspension and BKT Tires 128. “I just fly into the venue, drive, and come home,” Johnson said.īut she doesn’t worry about danger. Born in Oxnard, California and residing in Las Vegas, Nevada, the mother of two boys is the driver of the Scooby-Doo Monster Jam truck, which is owned and. So, unless they’re performing, the trucks don’t run.
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There’s fuel and terrain maintenance, plus safety personnel, pit crew and mechanics to pay when the trucks run. “It’s very expensive to simulate the environment we have during the shows,” Johnson said. In fact, they haven’t driven the trucks much at all. She calls Monster Jam “a really comfortable summer show. Their heavy tour season runs from January to March, “back-to-back weekends, for 12 weeks.”Įxcept for some occasional weekends, including shows in Europe and South America, the rest of the year is off-time for Johnson. Monster Jam comes at a time of year when drivers are rested and ready to perform, Johnson said.

Consumer Products Scooby-Doo Monster Jam truck. By January 2013, Nicole had become one of the 'most enthusiastic and popular Monster Jam drivers' and was selected to pilot and debut the Warner Bros. “I’ve always been kind of a hambone, the center of attention,” she said. Nicole was defeated in the final round of racing by Bari Musawwir, driver of Spider-Man. But Johnson also loves meeting the crowd, at “pit parties,” where she can interact one-on-one, and take photos with kids.
