More Images of That Yakko Balloon...

 So, due to this certain incident, this is why Yakko and Wakko had added whiskers in the finalized designs and in the majority for the show itself. Unless if we're gonna talk about a few certain shots that show up in "Hello Nice, Warners!" but that'll be for another day. But back in the day, there was a Yakko balloon sitting on top of the Warner Bros. water tower just to promote the show until, there was this one guy named; Robert A. Daly who was the CEO of the Warner Bros. at the time who got so mistakenly confused and freaked out that he personally thought that balloon was a certain famous Disney mouse that's not supposed to be up on the water tower! You know the one and I'll give you two words for ya: Mickey Mouse. 

Here's a few from Tom Ruegger's Cartoonatics blogging website that was posted on his side years ago in 2010 (in which we both use Blogger in this case):

This balloon was up for less than 12 hours before it was taken down since the president/CEO at the time said so. Some pictures were taken by Paul Rugg before it was taken down.

The moment where the balloon was taken down... 

If any of you two men reading this blog post of mine, I'm just a fan of the original show that you worked on that I became a fan in the middle 2010's. Hope you don't mind me posting these pictures of yours, Paul. Including the first two were on your one site, Tom. 🙂

Well, the good news is, this Yakko balloon was held somewhere else in the year 2008 down in Nevada during a certain event at the time.  And that event was in Gigsville, Burning Man. 

Not only a Yakko balloon was held up, but there were also balloon versions of Wakko and Dot as well! Just like Yakko, Wakko's shown not having whiskers since these balloons were made around the early 90's that the Wakko and Dot balloons surely came unused due to that incident back then. 

When it comes to that Burning Man event, these pictures were taken by other random people that started to post 'em in 2020 and there's more on Flickr to check out. Besides, it would've great to see all of these balloons together up top on that Warner Bros. water tower if it wasn't for that incident and Yakko and Wakko would be finalized as the way they were in the first place. I could just imagine all of them would be sitting up top on the water tower just right in the nick of time for the show's premiere!  Only in an alternate timeline.