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  1. Yep, apparently this story is true . I was told that the accident occurred during testing of the wildmouse. Now those who have riddin the wildmouse you know what those corners are like so it's not surprising. Luna Park until 79 had only one official injury on their rides and that was when a French Sailor stood up on the Big Dipper and had his head decapited. A girl I went to primary school reckoned that her Grandmother had the sailors head land in her lap. Now I was told this many years before this statement was made on a TV show. Or course there was the train on the big Dipper getting stuck on the final turn and the other train hitting it from behind. Sadly not long after that the Ghost train fire occurred. Apart from that those are the only registered accidents at Luna park ever.
  2. I have been to both Luna Parks and felt Sydney was better. Much of my opinion is the same as dinnasaurus. The thing Melbourne had was the scenic railway which was pretty cool as it went around the whole park twice. The Giggle palace wasn't as good and I remeber going on the slides and almost breaking my arse on the one with lots of dips cause every time you'd go over a dip you'd lift off the slide and bang down on your arse. I even dave the rest of my tickets to someone else cause I couldn't stand it.
  3. Thanks for your welcome. No there's no point in taking anything to any authority cause the info I got was from someone I knew like 18 years ago. The best I could give you is that this person was a part of a ceratin sub culture that could be used to perform dirty deeds from time to time. You have to prove this stuff and there's no eveidence just words. I suppose we should be thankful that at least we get to have some of Luna Park for the people of Sydney. If real estate interests had had their way there would have been a block of units on the site probably before most of you were born.
  4. The garbage about the Big Dipper making noise really makes me angry. It's just a buch of real estate people wanting to have that area for themselves with no amusement park at all. I'm old enough to remember the old Wooden Big Dipper and trust me that made way more noise than the steel one, screams included. For about 35 years real estate people have been trying to gets their grubby hands on the land at Luna Park and I can tell you without revealing too much that that fire back in 79 was deliberatley lit by someone paid to do it. The recent residents are just continuing a tradition of wanting to change the Park away from being an amusement park to suit themselves. This latest incarnation of Luna park sounds very weak to me, sort of like a compromise between real estate interests and those who want it as an amusement park. Sydney HAD one of the most unique and classical amusement parks in the world and we let it go. But hey, that's Sydney for you, the town that rids itself of everything of value and replaces it with something cheaper that benefits that hip pockets of the few. For me? well I am thankful that I got to experience Luna Park when it was still great. The other incarnations since have not really gone close to how it was. It's Sydney's loss.
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