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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Jan 15, 2019 21:00:36 GMT -5
Time to head down under and look at the rise and fall of one of Australia's most popular parks.
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Post by G✇JI☈A on Jan 15, 2019 23:19:48 GMT -5
Cool, nice to see an Australian attraction. Never went, but I remember it being hyped on kid’s shows. Plus I remember an episode of “Home & Away” (SHUT UP!) we’re a bunch of the characters went... and I think Isla Fischer was apart the of group that went .. can’t quite remember
Look, my sister watched it ok !
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Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on Jan 16, 2019 0:32:40 GMT -5
Ah, one I went to many times over my childhood. It was kind of sad on my last visit there when they started closing off sections of the park because it was going under.
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Post by Heartbreaker on Jan 16, 2019 0:38:47 GMT -5
Honestly, I never heard of this theme park. Maybe because it was popular when I was too young to really understand the concept of ...well, everything. When it came to theme parks, everyone would talk about Luna Park and the parks in the Gold Coast.
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Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on Jan 16, 2019 1:06:41 GMT -5
Honestly, I never heard of this theme park. Maybe because it was popular when I was too young to really understand the concept of ...well, everything. When it came to theme parks, everyone would talk about Luna Park and the parks in the Gold Coast. You’re in Melbourne, so when you say Luna Park you probably mean the one in St. Kilda, not the one in Sydney Harbour. Bet it never went through half the shit our one did... Deaths in a ghost train fire, closed down about half a dozen times, constant noise complaints from people in harbourside apartments. It’s still open now, but it’s literally the only one in the whole city now. The closest one beyond that is Jamberoo, which is to the south, past Wollongong. |
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Post by Heartbreaker on Jan 16, 2019 1:18:47 GMT -5
Honestly, I never heard of this theme park. Maybe because it was popular when I was too young to really understand the concept of ...well, everything. When it came to theme parks, everyone would talk about Luna Park and the parks in the Gold Coast. You’re in Melbourne, so when you say Luna Park you probably mean the one in St. Kilda, not the one in Sydney Harbour. Bet it never went through half the shit our one did... Deaths in a ghost train fire, closed down about half a dozen times, constant noise complaints from people in harbourside apartments. It’s still open now, but it’s literally the only one in the whole city now. The closest one beyond that is Jamberoo, which is to the south, past Wollongong. Yeah, I was talking about Luna Park in St. Kilda. I don’t recall any stories about bad accidents or deaths, but when I was a kid there was an urban legend about a guy having his head cut off. |
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Post by Paul on Jan 16, 2019 1:39:27 GMT -5
That looks like it was a really terrific theme park. I would have loved to have gone there. I like the zoo area. I can't blame the owners for selling if they could get all of their investment back, though. I would do the same thing.
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Post by The Lach is very tired on Jan 16, 2019 2:02:36 GMT -5
Ah memories, I have lived not far from there most of my life & I now work in the next suburb over. Funnily enough the road leading up to where it used to be is still called Wonderland Drive.
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Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on Jan 16, 2019 3:10:34 GMT -5
Actually, my mistake, it completely slipped my mind that we have Wet N’ Wild in the general Sydney area as well now, not all that far from where Wonderland was. Jamberoo only came to mind because I’m closer to that.
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Jan 16, 2019 5:40:33 GMT -5
am I the only one that thought the singing in that first ad he played sounded creepy as f***?
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Post by Paul on Jan 16, 2019 15:59:14 GMT -5
am I the only one that thought the singing in that first ad he played sounded creepy as f***? It sounded a bit like a song a cult would sing. |
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Jan 16, 2019 16:18:06 GMT -5
am I the only one that thought the singing in that first ad he played sounded creepy as f***? It sounded a bit like a song a cult would sing. I know, right?  |
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Post by thirteen3 on Jan 16, 2019 16:25:44 GMT -5
I'm surprised Disney has never set up a park in Australia.
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Post by Paul on Jan 16, 2019 16:47:03 GMT -5
I'm surprised Disney has never set up a park in Australia. It's probably not a good idea economically. They want Australians to come to their existing parks, not make a park there for them. |
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Post by G✇JI☈A on Jan 16, 2019 23:38:33 GMT -5
I'm surprised Disney has never set up a park in Australia. It's probably not a good idea economically. They want Australians to come to their existing parks, not make a park there for them. There was some rumours a few years back that Disney was to build a park near or in Melbourne.. the possible areas being Werribee (20 minute drive south west of Melbourne), or the Docklands area in the city. I think they are just rumours because I live here and I think it’s a terrible place for a year round theme park. Too cold and wet in winter, stonking hot in summer. And the Docklands thing was just Disney buying naming rights for a stadium there. The Docklands is now too built up to put a total immersion park like Disneyland there anyway. |
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