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  1. He's not. He's ultra respectable. He's kinda like the roger ebert of all things disney.
  2. Yes! Dizzyland. I have the vaguest memory of kids at school going "Have you been to dizzyland?" and I would be like "don't you mean Disneyland?" - and they'd be like, "No, D-i-z-z-y-l-a-n-d!". I can't even remember whether I saw the same rusted sign you spoke of, but I do have a memory of an event which proved its existence and left me all "ah, so that kid at school wasn't a complete nut afterall" PS. My earlier posting was me listing of all the waterslides in the sydney basin that I can recall going on. Living in the NW, I was unfamiliar with places like Wild Waters in Campbeltown, but they sound pretty cool.
  3. Waterworks mt druitt - the best! Waterworks manly - the most famous cos it was in BMXBandits Wonderland - big lines, short slides. Elcabalo blanco - dark with a big drop ( the gneric 'black hole'). pretty good. Paradise gardens - high drop at the end, pretty cool. Magic Kingdom - lame ONeals adventure land - lamest. There were probably more, especially in the zany south west of sydney. In the eighties, it seemed that every guy with a ten acre block was trying to flog his place off as an amusement park. Funny! I guess they spend their childhoods fantasising over disneyland. Did african lion safari have waterslides. I can't remember? To the person who remembered the overgrown forest full of fibreglass warnerbros cartoon characters near african lion safari - I do too. I was quite young when I saw it, and it was the first time I ever got that depressing 'decaying theme park' feeling. Little did I know that within 10 years, all but one of the ten or so themeparks in Sydney would be closed. Re: water works. the speed slide and the cascade extensions were opened at the same time, and were definitely there for the summer of 1987. I remember seeing the ads when I went and saw Labyrinth at the Hayden Theatres cinema. The cascades were chaotic, and fat kids would graze their asses gonig over the waterfalls - but they were awesome! Altho chaotic, they worked surprisingly well. The problem was that you would always tend to hang about in a particular pool, especially if it was the one that went through the cave. So the poor attendents had to come along and push people over the waterfalls. When they did, they would crash into the tire filled pool below, and in turn, push people out of that pond over the cascade, and into the next one, and so on, and so one. down the mountain! Its a shame in todays age of risk management and corporations, and insurance, that we will never see their likes again!
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