RAVER22

I know that this might be a bit off topic compared to the last few posts, but i guess it is relevant to this enormous thread's title! I have noticed the last few times that i have been driving up Walgrove rd that the demolishon crew have left one building standing. It is situated up around the back of LG and i can only ever get a clear view for a second (at 70kmh that is) Does anybody know what this building is? For all i know it could be a toilet, but between that or some mains point (eg power, water, gas) i cant think of why they left it there.

Hehe, Being a "raving shirt lifter" i think this is all funny! Everyone is so politically correct these days!

After living in Melbourne for the six months this year, i would have to say Sydney or Goldcoast. Melbourne is a great place to visit, boring place to live. Unlike the other two where any night people are out and spending cash every night of the week with high tourist numbers. Bar certain parts of the city on saturday nights, its a ghost town most of the week. The only time you see people is at a AFL match or at Crown. (and i lived in Fitzroy st St Kilda) For something like that you have to rely on the high numbers of overseas tourists which they dont get, People go to the Gold coast from all over the world because of the beaches and holiday atmosphere. Tourists go to Sydney for all the icons, the harbour and the electric atmosphere! Melbourne has a few discount shopping strips (Bridge rd, Smith st, Chadstone) and trams. The park would have to placed where the people are, and where the weather is decent all year round. I love cold and snow, but Melbourne is bitterly cold in winter, and rains a heap!

It had not sat there the whole time, one weekday morning around march when i was on the way to work i saw SP running. I would say weeks before they cut the power off. (well i assume after being stuck in melbourne for six months) so it was not that long since it last run, and being mainly electrical components it would run no problem. Plus if it was scrap they would have just cut the thing down, instead of dissassembling it with a crane carefully.

ok i might have missed a post in the last million on this thread ...but do we know where the rides are going?

just a little bit of news, zodiac now has the western arm in the air, stripped of all its gondolas. Sad to see! Whilst Bush Beast is totally levelled with them just putting everything into big piles and from what i can tell, dumping it in the carpark

drove past today and saw the carnage! Not good at all. Notcied that they were working to pull down the station around lunch time, guess they just wanted to get the dangerous part of the demolishon done, and now working at the clean up

i noticed that too the other day and sadly when i took a closer look up Wonderland drive, i didnt like the look of the big bulldozers sitting in the carpark

Hey i would hate to break it to guys, but living just around the corner from Luna Park Melbourne, i believe that Sydney walks all over it! It would have to be the most unfun fun park i have ever been to. Metropolis (the wild mouse) is constantly closed, The Scenic Railway (there big dipper) is in great shape, but being built in 1912 it breaks down a few times a day and stalls (which is quite funny to see all the staff up on the track pushing it along, with the guy who drives the train screaming faster!) The park is tiny being limited inside the track of the coaster so i cant see it changing that much. What makes Sydney i would have to say is the Harbour backdrop, openess, and Coney island with Crystal palace. They make the place really appealling. Lastly Sydney has a happy face! melbournes is just down right scary! Just like Bart in the Simpsons...."Cant sleep, clown will eat me" Must be what goes through every childs head!

Sorry to say but a company is not there to be ethical or reasonable, they are there to make money, and as much of it as they can. By what you said that Sunway was not doing well in there home parks, you look after your core business first, even if that means selling your offshore investments to maximise profit and maybe inject some more money back into your core business. I know this well by moving to Melbourne 4 months ago, to find out now that im needed back in sydney. Now that is annoying! Just hate the fact that the office is in Glendenning so ill have to drive past Wonderland on a daily basis again and see it getting torn down!

Why is it that they went in and demolished SRR so quickly, there were so many useable parts on there from pneumatic rams to pumps etc. But on that note, when you are talking millions of dollars of land, few hundred or thousand means nothing!

yeah, ok ill pay that!

hehe oh dear that is terrible Bus....

Yeah i know but i just got off that vomitron thing! should have watched where i was going!

i just love that the tip basically backs onto the back of Prospect Reservoir. Gives me higher confidence in Sydney Water, there has to be some sort of ground water movement

Yeah this is true! What i would do to have the chance to explore the place once more, in its horrible state, after seeing it at the point of no return, you wont mind it getting pulled down! Well make sure that you all keep me posted, im a mexican now! but main office still based in Glendenning so ill only get to see the sight every few months when i fly back. Cheers!

so where did bounty end up? I bumped into sky hawk on the gold coast a few months back

ok it is a year and one month later, and it still depresses me to no end that Wonderland is gone. The thought of that place and so much infrustructure getting bulldozed into the ground doesnt help. Till a few months ago i drove past daily, and now having moved to melbourne for work and living up the rd from Luna park, it depresses me more knowing that Wonderland closed and Luna Park is still open! If any other park closed down i guess i would say oh well, but when the park you grew up with does, its a totally different story!

umm just in case i have missed something since i have moved to melbourne, what happened to Bountys revenge?

i believe that the metal does expand and contract, but i dont believe that you can see it doing that, for there to be enough degrees of lean the tower would need to be at least 5-10 degrees off straight ...now thats alot for a tower that size. One other thing is that metal conducts heat quite well and the tower although one side is heated the other side would have either heated earlier in the day when the sun was in a different position and also heated through conduction of heat

it is definatley the same purple it always has been, but i was under the impression that the gondolas were already taken off the ends, damn those trees

I remember when i was a kid, Young Talent time would perform at Wonderland, i think that was in the days when Kylie was still in it ...and the place would be overflowing with ppl. Also on the note of characters, what happened to all the old Hanna Barberra character costumes?

here are some pics

After just getting back from dreamworld two days ago, i really realised how much i missed the demon! Going to every major fun park i tried to ride everything, but the biggest dissappointment was at Dreamworld. Big dipper was a great ride, squeezing between the rocks and coney island then turning around at the harbours edge (well close) or when it would dart through the confined taj mahal tower above the entry stairs. The BD was also very smooth. What i went on in Dreamworld was no where near as good. A coaster in a field with nothing zooming past you or close calls but a good view of the carpark and the temporary holiday carpark. (on top the thunderbolt site) I dont understand how people can say that the Demon was rough bar the first inversion going backwards, it was not that bad. Cyclone on the other hand must have been cut up into lots of little pieces for transport, and when assembled in QLD the welders didnt line things up because it was very jaggered down the straights and it threw you side ways alot. There were no points at which butterflies started in yours stomach as you did on the demon whilst getting dragged backwards up the hill, or not knowing which way is up through the inversions. Visually the demon looked tough, black and not to be messed with. Cyclone looks like it should be wrapping around something but it does not. There is just a big void in the centre, also baby blue and filthy grease covered yellow do no justice. As if the contrast between big dipper and cyclone was not enough, to get off the ride i had to walk through doors, down stairs, up stairs, downstairs, along ramps up, down, backwards and then five minutes later finally back out in the park! Demon was intimidating and nerve racking, Cyclone was a let down (Due to having rode the big dipper numerous times) If the multitudes of cash that was spent on the confusing themeing was used in the original budget. They might have got double the coaster. (isnt a cyclone a natural occurring weather storm, then what was that big thing in the middle of the spiraling ramps) So basically what i am saying is DEMON is better! Most memorable moment in the demon, loading into the front carriage at 11:58pm on Monday December 31st, been dragged up the hill with around 15000- 20000 people in the park screaming Happy New Year! At the first Utopia dance party on new years at Wonderland

undefinedDriving past wonderland today i saw that they have started to pull down all the buildings that backed right up to the bush beast. Within the two hours that it took for me to do my return trip back past, there was just a huge pile of twisted metal and timber.Such a sad thing to see.