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You should react to eltororyans review of Eejanaika. Its a crazy rollercoaster in japan.
the lands worth a fortune
Of course, YOU have Great America barely an hour away from you. And around 4 hrs away from me, being in SW Wisconsin. GREAT fun there. Awesome roller coasters. Except Great American Eagle. That one gives me a headache due to all the rattling.
The Demon is still being used today at Wonderla in India 🙂
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The adds were probably east coast centric, never heard of wonderland until after it closed.
Speaking of rapid expansion – Masters Home Improvement was a Lowes-affiliated answer to Bunnings Warehouse by Woolworths. It expanded so rapidly it never made a profit and ended up closing down and selling its freeholdings to a consortium of big box stores who turn them into big box shopping centres, now known as HomeCo and, after diversifying and merging with owners of rival SuperCentre, a shopping centre giant. Woolworths completely left the industry by selling existing co-predecessor Home Timer and Hardware to Mitre 10 whose parent owns IGA in Australia
The company also moved next to Bunningses on multiple occasions
If you're still trying to find the exact location… sadly it's the industrial estate and warehouses in the south-west of the M4/M7 interchange, West of the Dragway.
Ian, you query about Americanisation, imagining you've grown up in rural America and gradually the businesses that you love have become the British style, no coffee only Tea, warm beer, smaller cars, public transport, smaller everything. Now reverse that?
20 plus years ago there was a theme park/aquarium in darling harbour, near where the imax is now. It was pretty sad and was known locally as ‘Piss-weak World’.
Piss-weak World was eventually closed after the shark aquarium glass broke, leaving a bunch of very large and very annoyed Bruces floundering around in puddles of glass-filled water and wet tourists.
After that they re-developed that area of darling harbour into the King’s Wharf (or is it King st wharf? Cant remember) and built the new aquarium thats there now.
Went there in 1990 with my parents, brother, aunt, uncle, cousin and grandparents, I was 8, it was awesome 👌
Unfortunately I was too small to ride the Bush Beast, drove past it in 2002 on my way to eastern creek raceway for powercruise.
Yeah they've been talking about doing a Disney world in Aus for 30 yrs, sadly it never gets past the planning stage.
There's a plan currently to put one in South Australia somewhere, can't remember where, borroso valley I think 👍
Come 2 Australia and go 2 Australia zoo near Brisbane/Sunshine Coast.all the Australian animals out n about 🤘
To understand Australia’s racism towards Americans at the time, you have to go back to the feelings Australians had about the American Soldiers station here in World War Two. Most notably resulting in things like the Battle of Brisbane. For the next couple of generations we saw an Americanisation of our media which caused some Ill will. For my generation, like us kids who went to wonderland in the 80’s, it was pretty normal to grow up with the American-accent on tv. So Essentially my generation, late Gen x’ers were the first to embrace American culture.
I remember being a kid, on the Bush Beast rollercoaster, at Wonderland.
My harness was loose or I was too small or something, but I remember flying around in my seat and almost out of the cart.
Hooked my toes under the seat in front of me and held on that way- sobbed the whole trip in terror. Traumatised for many, many years lol 😅
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My sister worked there. I went there nearly every weekend. Would stay for her whole shift.
Once it was sold to Sunway & open every day it wasn’t the same. Everything “closed for maintenance”. Killed the fun when you couldn’t go in your favourite rides.
My younger disabled sister loved The Beastie. She rarely smiles. This ride brought out a massive grin on her face.
Very sad when it was gone.
There is no Disney Land in Australia. All the big theme parks are at the Gold Coast in Queensland. Some of us really would like another big park or two elsewhere in Australia.
Sydney is an overrated place where dreams go to die and nothing works properly / definitely the worst town in the world!
Lots of aussies, all over the country, have been concerned about the “americanisation” of lots of things. Your comment about the population of Sydney in 1983 made me chuckle. Sydney – the ye olde “Botany Bay” type location has been most internationals “known” city in Australia for years, so it’s always had a large population base, but demographics change, like anywhere else. I have a vivid recollection of a crowd crush New Years 1984, at “the Rocks” not being much fun at all, but then, also not a huge fan of Luna Park in Melbourne either.
The memories I had. Me and my mates used to get Wonderland wonderpass. Where wonderland used to be was located next to the M4 motorway and Wallgrove Rd. Now it's it's been turned into a industrial estate.
I lived in Penrith which was a 15 min drive and in summer time we would go there a bit with a wonderpass that would last us over the summer period.
I'd say they made excuses as they had plans to sell to developers.
Years ago I heard there was plans for a Disneyland that was planned near Richmond on Richmond Rd. But looks like that won't be happening.
Just sad if passion becomes a business case only…
The best memories was at wonderland on a Friday night going on space probe and the demon. Watching the footage makes me feel like I’m 70 years old I’m only half that crazy how far camera quality has come in 15-20 years.
This just brought so much nostalgia to me. I went here at least a dozen times in the 90s.
Thankyou for the great Job you do you know more about Australia than most Aussies hope to see you and your family in the land down under someday soon
Look up the Toboggan Run in near Nelson Bay I think, NSW Australia. Me and my mother flew off there when I was about 5 or 6 I think, but she literally picked me up and the Toboggan a put us back on the track, I don't think anything ever happened complaints wise, we just laughed about it. We just went down and lIcked our wounds. I don't know why I typed all that out but me and her nearly died on the Pirate Swing Ride thing at this place and it brought back memories. It was kind of like Action Park, in my head anyway LOL.
I've watched a lot of Defunctland, brilliant channel.
Luna Park Sydney is very off and on, closed more years than its open and really only opens in Summer from what I understand.
Luna Park Melbourne is far better even though smaller, and notable for its vintage rides including one of the oldest wooden roller coasters in the world.
Americanisation, American culture supplanting Australian culture, it was fought against in the 80s, heck my parents wouldn't let me watch The Simpsons because 'they were too american'.
But since the noughties the war has been largely lost. Supermarkets label biscuits as cookies, cinemas call the kiosk the Candy Bar and kids actually think Halloween is real.
Having watched many Defunctland vids, its not about rapid expansion as in spreading too thin, but ore that they have to expand to keep people coming year after year so the rides don't get stale.
Like there is zero reason to visit Movie World twice, because a couple extra coasters doesn't change much. But you still have to be fiscally responsible about it and not overstretch.
No one wants to go to theme parks in the winter, its too cold and wet, even in Sydney.
Besides they had competition from the major theme parks on the gold coast where winter is the best time to visit as its the dry season and still muggy as heck.
Dreamworld on the gold coast has a similar aussie vibe to what Wonderland had!
Went there as a kid a few times between 2000 and 2003, not long before it closed down. I'm 31 now. Was so awesome.
I still have my wonderpass card. I miss that place so much. I do a mental walkthrough all the time 🤗
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They sold it to put highway through
The original owners sold it as they had planned on expanding it and puting in a resort with restaurants etc but it was blocked by the local council as Rooty Hill RSL (who through political donations had a lot of power with the council) wanted to oppose the development proposal as it would then be in competion. The rest is history 😉
I went to Wonderland many times and have photos. Been on all the rides. That Space Probe was crazy. When you went in, there were alarm bells and staff that made you feel like you had to escape a damaged spaceship. They'd strap you into seats and then doors would open revealing you were hundreds of feet in the air on the outside of the tower. Then you dropped in free fall until the brakes came on near the bottom.
Now the site is an industrial complex however there is still a Wonderland Avenue in memory.