It opened as "Scooby Doo" in 1975, loosely themed to the Hanna-Barbera cartoon of the same name in the "Happy Land of Hanna-Barbera". Shortly before the park's 1993 season, the name was expanded to "Scooby-Doo's Ghoster Coaster". In 1993, Paramount Parks bought Carowinds' parent company and added areas themed to the Nickelodeon television channel, owned by their parent company Viacom. As part of this, the Hanna-Barbera area was eventually annexed into the "Nickelodeon Central" area, and in 2005, the roller coaster was renamed "Fairly Odd Coaster" in 2005.