Abandoned amusement park

Lady_G · 31 Jan 2014, 9:26 pm

Heya,

As promised, here's a pic I took from a favourite lost place of mine.

Have lots more photos from places, am thinking of starting a blog on Sydney exploring this year. Will put more pics up once that's set up.

Am new here, so not sure what rules are on photos/sharing but I ask if you could not use this pic without my permission. Ta!

Daniel89 · 31 Jan 2014, 9:38 pm

Is that Tomteland?

Nuggs · 31 Jan 2014, 9:45 pm

Nice!
Looks familiar. Not in SA perchance?

We won't steal your pics, this is a public forum though so you basically just have to trust everyone.

f1ex · 31 Jan 2014, 11:49 pm

This is south west from Sydney. Not much else to see there.

timdole · 01 Feb 2014, 8:19 am

Aydun · 01 Feb 2014, 10:19 am

^ Yes.

theedge · 01 Feb 2014, 10:27 am

I remember seeing TV ads of this place and remember sliding down that slide when it was opened. Really cool fun. Pity it's closed.

Timon · 01 Feb 2014, 12:19 pm

should fix this place up and all go there for some party rofl, i keep hearing about this place but i have not had a chance to go see it,yet.

maizniek · 01 Feb 2014, 6:22 pm

timdole wrote:

Hahah they work well!

Shoe · 01 Feb 2014, 6:31 pm

Just be careful when you go at night, cops do a lap around the site.

madmaw · 02 Feb 2014, 8:02 am

maizniek wrote:
timdole wrote:

Hahah they work well!

It's amazing what you'll do with enough flu medication

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VOutE2Pg04#t=265

some swearing. Apparently it goes a lot faster in the wet.

Lady_G · 02 Feb 2014, 8:24 pm

Also, this place is not the safest. If you go, please wear boots because snakes would be rife in this weather.

I found it quite scary and eerie, but have a fear of water and it's built on a swamp - just thinking of the old waterslide makes me shiver, it was so gross.

madmaw · 02 Feb 2014, 8:58 pm

Lady_G wrote:I found it quite scary and eerie, but have a fear of water and it's built on a swamp - just thinking of the old waterslide makes me shiver, it was so gross.

Note I was wearing gumboots as I rode a bread tray down the condemned slide. Safety first.

I thought the old children's section was creepier, all those broken mannequins lying around in the grass was just weird. Shame I didn't get a photo in hindsight.

Lady_G · 02 Feb 2014, 9:09 pm

Oh I didn't see those, but there were places I couldn't get to due to my phobia.

Eg: Didn't attempt to go near the boot. I was on my own and pretty petrified.

Oh I so wanted to climb the slide, but again - chickened out.

Too many pics are never enough....

yesquite · 05 Feb 2014, 10:22 am

Is this near Penrith by any chance? I used to live there in my childhood - in the eighties and I have very very vivid memories of a slide just like this. I'd love to visit this - along with any disused drive throughs...

Midget · 08 Feb 2014, 11:15 am

madmaw wrote:I thought the old children's section was creepier, all those broken mannequins lying around in the grass was just weird. Shame I didn't get a photo in hindsight.

And then there's an extra doll in the photo smiling at the camera.

madmaw · 09 Feb 2014, 7:18 pm

Midget wrote:
madmaw wrote:I thought the old children's section was creepier, all those broken mannequins lying around in the grass was just weird. Shame I didn't get a photo in hindsight.
And then there's an extra doll in the photo smiling at the camera.

Aaaaaaaaaaaa!

binjuice · 16 Feb 2014, 6:52 pm

what a magical kingdom

daeman · 13 May 2014, 5:27 pm

Just for those interested, the slide has been demolished, and the road that runs down the side of the park has a new access gate blocking it. This has happened in the last couple of months since I last tried to take a look.
Looks like it may not be there much longer.
On the up side, when I went today, cause of the cool weather, I was able to get to the boot and the top of the water slide hill without having to worry so much about snakes.
I took a few pics which I may throw up soon.

Kto · 14 May 2014, 3:03 pm

binjuice wrote:what a magical kingdom

Hehe I was looking to see if anyone would chuck in a sneaky reference as such

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8jgtsLAoU0

This guy made a pretty cool video of the place. He gives away details of it though, so if I'm revealing too much, just let me know. I've always remembered the part where he falls through one of the stairs on the slide, haha.

kjellkjk · 12 Jan 2015, 7:51 am

Where is this and how do yo uget there?

Aydun · 12 Jan 2015, 2:52 pm

kjellkjk wrote:Where is this and how do yo uget there?

This is in NSW. I would recommend driving because bus services in Sydney are pretty bad, you know. You can also catch a taxi but that will cost a lot of money so be aware of that. If you are a very fit individual you can ride a bicycle or maybe even run the enrire way like forest gump does in his movie.

daeman · 04 Feb 2015, 6:37 am

I might do another run past/thru there over the next week or two to see if anything else has been cleared or torn down. The slide may have been a one off demolition due to its dangerous nature or the start of a full scale clean up. Otherwise it may have been that the slide was the victim of scrap metal theft... Though the few piles of bent and twisted scrap where the slide was pretty much discounts that idea.

peterh13 · 05 Feb 2015, 4:04 am

I think I know where this is. Is it near a river and just off a main highway ?????

daeman · 06 Feb 2015, 8:55 am

A bit of googling should give you an answer.
Its a highway more by name than an actual higway these days.
And more lake than river, by sounds like your probably on the right track.
Access is easy, or at least was a few months back when I was last there.
Its possible that more of the site has been demolished since I was last there as the site is up for sale.

Also, there's a very very good clue in this thread as to the name of the place.