JeffreyMoore
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just a shame the park is now a shadow of its 1991 self
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7 hours ago, AlexB said:
You're forgetting the fact that Australia's Wonderland was modelled on Canada's Wonderland - a park that still exists (and flourishes) to this day. It's one of the most popular parks in Canada, and many of their attractions were the same OUAT.
Probe was dismantled at sent to KL. It was in a paddock for a time, before they decided not to erect it due to the cost of the foundations required. It has since disappeared from the paddock and it's location is unknown, probably scrapped.
Actually they made a concrete announcement about funding in the past 12 months, along with the appointment of a CEO with industry experience. Land is still an ongoing negotiation, but i'm sure once they lock that in, things will move much more quickly. As an example - the Alma Park zoo, which was to have built in Logan - things took about 18 months before the council finally cancelled the contract holding them in breach. Negotiations take time.
@XxMrYoshixX - I don't recall having ever said that, and i'd like for you to quote me if you can find it.
I do know that that is something @TheMousiah said, which I don't believe to be true.
its true that australia's wonderland didn't make the profits that were expected during its conception - planning in its early years .
but it did make some sort of profits during the early 1990's while still under ownership of the original investors.
witch was when the wildlife park was built 1990 - demon 1992 - fred flintstones splash down 1993 - outback woolshed - new retail plaza - space probe 7 1995
the park was still makeing a profit in 1997 when it was sold to sunway
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iv been thinking that the scooby doo spooky coaster is now out of position between the dc themed parts of the park
do you think this leaves it open to a future re theme to dc property's in the future ?
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43 minutes ago, Brad2912 said:
Cost is a major prohibitive to keeping old attractions running, case in point Eureka.
We loved the Jamboree growing up, but kids these days wouldn't bat an eyelid at it, if it still existed it would be for the benefit of the adults who visited as kids. We miss the memories more than the attraction itself.
space is another issue, sure DW has quite a bit of land, but the majority that isn't utilised isn't developed/cleared, so expanding go keep dilapidated and maintenance-heavy old attractions makes little sense
I know you didn't use the nail in the coffin expression, but that was the impression I gathered from not just yours but others comments.
im as sentimental and nostalgic as anyone about where our parks came from, their history etc, but the Dreamworld of old would have less visitation than Aussie World if it stood as it once was. The teenage-Young adult market is where the $$$ are and they want thrills a minute. The Dreamworld of 20 years ago barely catered to that market. The demographic of the GC has also changed dramatically, the style of passes offered match that young adult/family demographic.
The old park is safe in our memories, where is likely much better served than if it actually still stood physically. As adults I think we'd have differing opinions of same attractions now days to what we thought of when we were younger.
as I said earlier, I think we miss the memories more than the actual ride/attraction itself. The nostalgia of not being able to revisit those attractions make the memories stronger
But that's what I mean... There isn't even a coffin, let alone a slammed shut one. The park is still an amazing all day experience. The relocation of the vintage cars is not that major, the disappointing element is that it's only open 2 days a week, meaning it's basically another SBNO suggestion for 80% of the year. It may as well not exist and then people wouldn't bring it up as an issue. No one without kids under 7 or 8 utilise it.
You are 100% right todays parks personaly no longer offer me any real memory's
Witch is why i look down on them so much
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20 minutes ago, OceanGirl said:
I never said that TOT was the nail in the coffin, Brad. If you re-read my post I just said that it marked the beginning of changing into the park it has become today, where it has become loud, bold, and thrill ride orientated.
Personally I still enjoy the park it is today. If I didn't, I wouldn't visit it anynore and I certainly would have a membership to keep going back. To me, it's just a different park that has, as Movieworld has also done, veered off in a very direction to what it started off in.
I guess most of us just wish we could have kept both versions of the park, as opposed to one replacing the other. That's the only bit that really sucks to me ?
i agree with you Ocean girl we miss the version of the parks we grow up with .
same as our kids will miss the version of the parks there now growing up with as they change in the future
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2 minutes ago, Brad2912 said:
I have to say whilst the 'charm' of the original Dreamworld is gone, I feel like some of you are carrying on like it is now some abomination of a theme park.
It is the most complete park we have on the GC, and therefore in Australia (IMO).
it moved with the times. It added, what at the time was the tallest & fastest ride of earth, and you are now claiming this was the nail in the coffin for this once great park?
I guess some would have preferred it had stayed the way it was, died a slow death and subsequently closed? Peacocks and animatronic koalas may bring back nostalgia and great memories, but as modern day successful theme parks go, they have no part..
you are right that the parks have to move with the times but i dont see why they need to remove old attractions to ad new ones.
i feel the parks would be so much better if they kept what made the parks great and ad new rides etc around that
thats just my point of view
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10 minutes ago, OceanGirl said:
Awww, you're all welcome, guys!!! I'm so glad you've enjoyed watching it as I have with reminiscing about that day ❤❤
Haha, yeah the train ride where I am stuffing my face with a hot dog, hahaha ? Too funny! Although that's only one of many embarrassing things about that video... the good ol' 90s, eh? Worth overcoming in order to share some precious mutual memories with everyone, though ???
That train ride is pretty awesome though, I agree! Especially when it goes past the ol' water park whilst it was still in operation
I loved all the peacocks and ducks they had wandering around randomly back then, too.
Aw, that's no good. I remember we kept openly making comments during the unedited version of this tape about how my mum's ex partner insisted on filming nearly everything at the time, but I'm so, SO glad he did now! Otherwise it would have been a lot shorter video.
Not yet, am about to check it out now though
I know a photo of one of the animatronic koalas surfaced on facebook recently though, brought back a lot of memories seeing it ☺
As much as I do love the Tower of Terror, I sort of see that particular ride as marking the beginning of the 'new' Dreamworld, as it permanently changed the park in many ways - made it incredibly loud, divided the park with its track, forced original attractions to be relocated elsewhere and introduced that new ground breaking style of 'thrill' into the park that it thrives on today.
Dreamworld was never the same after that ?
yes you are right .
once the tower of terror was built its been very sad and disapointing to see what the park has become today
just the same as movie world it was so magical in 1990's now its also a sad shadow of its former self with its mostly dc comic's theme
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thank you very much Ocean girl
was great too see the dreamworld i knew loved and grew up with again
seeing model T lane in its original layout was also great - this would have only been a few months before building work was started on the tower of terror
the park was owned by a japanese family at the time of this video and was still the way we all wish it was today
before it was sold to macquarie leisure / ardent leisure in 1998 and the park has become the shadow of its former self it is today
ocean girl did you see the video i found of the australian Country Jamboree and thay have found all 22 animatronics and thay are owned and been restored by australian collectors
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here is a video i found on facebook of the original australian Country Jamboree or the koala county show as the first version was know as
the video also shows that all 22 animatronics from the shows hav been found and been restored by some australian animatronic collectors
its makes me very happy to know thay have been found and still exist
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On 25/03/2016 at 11:54 PM, joz said:
I miss the old Jamboree show. Good video though, there is footage of the original incarnation of the show floating around, but that's the first time I've seen the second version anywhere, and obviously it's the second version I'm more familiar with.
Also, it closed about 16 years ago, so hands up anyone who had no idea that Dreamworld used to have a musical animatronic show?
the australian country jamboree closed in late 2001 and yes its my most missed part of the dreamworld i grew up with as a kid
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1 hour ago, Santa07 said:
Dreamworld needs a good show, a big rollercoaster, and a good dark ride.
Movieworld needs more things in general, but in particular more flats.
yay santa07 i thought i and push were the only ones on the gold coast who like and wont new dark rides
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there was just a ad on channel 9 it said its almost to late to get your vrtp membership and you only have to the 29th of feb
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4 hours ago, dmh said:
I just got informed of more news for Warner Bros.
you do know that the park is not owned by warner brothers dont you ?
its owned by village roadshow theme parks who have a licence to use warner brothers property's
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1 the burmuda triangle
2 the looney tunes river ride
3 waner brothers classics and the great gremlins adventure
we once had 3 world class dark rides its so sad they chose to remove them
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7 minutes ago, GoGoBoy said:7 minutes ago, GoGoBoy said:
That's so cool. I had no idea there was still a theatre left over. The first Scooby queuing room is so large I thought they must have gutted them all. It looks like they actually left most of the theatres in the Van Helsing's Factory conversion of the German Gremlins ride too, judging by this model -
That's so cool. I had no idea there was still a theatre left over. The first Scooby queuing room is so large I thought they must have gutted them all. It looks like they actually left most of the theatres in the Van Helsing's Factory conversion of the German Gremlins ride too, judging by this model -
it is cool to know that the gremlins facade is still there behind the scooby doo castle and 1 of the theatres is still in tact .
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the 1990's movie world was just that a theme park themed to the magic of movie makeing
today's movie world is a theme park of roller coasters and dc comic's
i much prefer the 1990's movie world and miss it very much
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4 minutes ago, Zanstabar said:
But seriously, why the hell is Beetlejuice in this ride? I just can't wrap my head around the connection.
Beetlejuice and the Universal Monsters I can understand, but why Gremlins? Was it because they were supernatural comedies with some dark themes?
the german version of the ride had ALF instead of Beetlejuice - it may have been becourse Beetlejuice was still a newer movie in 1991 and gremlins 2 was also still not that old at the time
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5 hours ago, Levithian said:
the photos of the crashed cars is actually taken from the part looking away from the roller door area. That is the show stage you can see in the background before the sides were closed in. All those trees you can see in the photo behind the container would have been roughly where the rear of the western town was. I think if you walked there now, to your left there is one of those staff/crew doors which is where you used to come out from gremlins, straight ahead is another door that allowed you to travel along the back of the western town set. I think it even had a few trees there until recently?. Might have even been some of the ones seen in the photo. The brick wall is between scooby and the western set, i think you are right, there is a services building for power or something behind the wall. I could imagine it was erected to cordon off whatever is in that corner now.
From memory, there is virtually nothing left of the theatres now. If you look at the current photo of scooby, i think the hall way you walked ou into from each theatre was about where the smaller door is between the gift shop and the roller door. It used to be raised in the middle and ran off in each direction. You exited the show which was just a kind of documentary with classic wb films, filed out doors either side of the screen when the gremlins took over and ended up in that hallway. That would put the actual theatre rooms where the inside of the castle is used for the entry queue. In the middle of the hallway was a big opening that lead on to the load dock to head out through the vaults. That was the reasoning for all the different themes, you were supposed to be actually heading through the film vaults. I remember there was basically no waiting once you reached the load dock, you were sorted into lines for each row of seating and pretty much jumped in cars and made you way through different scenes.
As for beetle juice, I remember the carousel looking beetlejuice, the one with the little things hanging from each corner on his hat. Cant remember where he was though, but I do remember he appeared more than a few times. There were all kinds of scenes in the vaults with the gremlins wreaking havoc. At the end, he appeared again thanking everyone for riding. He was suspended above the entry door to the unload dock. He was electrocuted as you passed under, could hear him sizzle.beetle juice, was sitting in a control room setting as you got into the ride cars he would turn around and talk sort of like batman in the batcave he was controlling your evac
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7 minutes ago, downunder said:
While I was sleepwalking I got a press release that VRTP were going to build the greatest coaster in the world, but due to budget constraints they could only build a tribute to what would have been greatest coaster in the world. You gotta believe me.
Gremlins sounds like it was a hell of a ride, shame I never visited when that was around.
I'm dying to know what will happen, churro cart guy is only giving me tidbits. I guess we'll have to keep watching the dirt patch.
there's a video of the great gremlins adventure in one of my post's above
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so it seems vrtp are going to focus on movie world in 2016 for the parks 25th anniversary
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34 minutes ago, GoGoBoy said:
I'm not sure if other people are finding this convo interesting but I am! I love looking for remnants of old rides, and particularly the Gremlins as I absolutely loved it when I was a kid and thinking about it now brings back great memories. I think we may have discussed this ages back -- but I can't remember what the main show building for Gremlins was like? I know sections of it are still there (the queue and movie theatre sections), but was the main scooby coaster section (ie. the largest building there now) there before? Or is it totally new? It looks like it may have been part of Gremlins but given a height extension? I do remember the final Gremlins scene where they all had firefighters hoses being a really large room and quite high.
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16 minutes ago, buzzkill13 said:
I'm not sure I haven't seen in that area but judging by layout of the ride I'd say the last drop in scooby Doo just before the exit station would be where that section of steel is
in the photo you posted of gremlins I think the railing seen infront of the guy who took the photo is where the new steel wall was placed
Looking closer that yellow wall looks pretty old, maybe that was the wall behind the cop cars and container which means the courtyard would still be there infront of that steel
ok i get it now the gremlins ride exit is now part of the last drop of scooby doo and the courtyard you walked out into is still outside to the right of the roller door - so the gremlins exit into the wild west was at that roller door beside boothill ?
16 minutes ago, buzzkill13 said:I'm not sure I haven't seen in that area but judging by layout of the ride I'd say the last drop in scooby Doo just before the exit station would be where that section of steel is
in the photo you posted of gremlins I think the railing seen infront of the guy who took the photo is where the new steel wall was placed
Looking closer that yellow wall looks pretty old, maybe that was the wall behind the cop cars and container which means the courtyard would still be there infront of that steel
ok i get it now the gremlins ride exit is now part of the last drop of scooby doo and the courtyard you walked out into is still outside to the right of the roller door - so the gremlins exit into the wild west was at that roller door beside boothill ?
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1 hour ago, pushbutton said:
Thanks again. Very very interesting photos. Lots of big changes over the years.
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4 minutes ago, buzzkill13 said:
Correct, you can see the seperation of colour in the lower part to the right of the roller door in the photo that was posted, this long more pale section of steel was later added to enclose the exit
the cop cars and shipping container were located where what looks like a store shed or power box is now
ok cool so the courtyard is now the end section of scooby doo or is the courtyard still there behind the new section of steel
I loved all the peacocks and ducks they had wandering around randomly back then, too. 
Old video footage of our Aussie theme parks in 80's/90's
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yes movie world is now sadly only a shadow of its former self