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Abandoned theme parks make me so genuinely sad. It hurts to see these places once full of life and wonder, bringing joy to people across all ages, just… rotting. Abandoned, like they were never important to anyone. It feels disrespectful, almost.
Shoutout to that one Brazilian Santa Claus park, where they have Santa manipulated into objects. Even if it wasn't completed, it still leaves an impact on me far greater than any amusement park can.
My defunct childhood amusement park was Americana out near Cincinnati. Americana itself wasn't too far from Kings Island, but I suspect we went to Americana because it was probably cheaper. It had an awesome ski lift over the lake, a boat you could feed the fish from, an awesome candy and novelty shop. And your typical theme park rides. I wish I could remember it better, but I was so young.
As an employee of a fortunately rich and popular 43 year old park it makes me sad to see all these rides standing waiting to be ridden that likely never will be. The parks now only existing through memories
Actually most people want to know what happened to the sea serpent animatronic and where it is “today” it is actually currently unknown but the sea serpent did lose his head which is rumored to be in the hands of a private collector what’s the rest of his body and everything else is unknown currently right now it is another ride.
Damn, I had no idea Nara Dreamland was partially designed by Walt and intended to be a Disneyland. It's pretty shitty then that Tokyo Disneyland just showed up, but not at all out-of-character for post-80s Disney.
But I do remember going to Nikko Western Village a lot as a kid. It is an old west themed themed park located in Japan but it has been abandoned for quite some time now. I remember that it had cool animatronics, a Western Show and a groovy Haunted House type thing. You can still go there to visit the now abandoned locale. But haunting seeing a lot of the now rotting animatronics.
Hi, theme park nerd and admin of Coasterpedia here with a few annoying corrections; The boat ride at Nara was in Adventureland, not Fantasyland. Walt pulled out of Nara because he was too busy with the development of the magic kingdom in Florida, and just dropped communication. If you ever want to do a follow up: look up Land van Ooit, Netherlands
We should appreciate the places where we have amazing experiences with the people we love because some day in the future someone will tell the story of how those places are now abandoned or how they were demolished to build something new.
Theme parks are so creepy when they are abandoned like a Time capsule of where joy used to be now it’s empty and the rides are rotting and look so depressing :(
6:40 This place could have a lucrative second life as a creep attraction similar to the idea of Five Nights at Freddy’s game “Help Wanted VR”. Like a purposely scary uncanny park experience where the abandoned state of the place and animatronics in such a terrifying state of disrepair would lend itself well to the theme.
I’ve had two defunct childhood amusement parks that I went to growing up. The first one was Kiddie Land, my parents used to bring me there a lot when I was really little. I don’t remember much since it closed down when I was still p young. The second one is Wild West Town, it closed back in 2021 due to the pandemic. My papa used to bring my brother and I as well as our younger cousins there nearly yearly as kids. I found out that the place closed down a month after my papa passed back in September 2022. It really felt like an important part of my childhood had died.
tbh, disney could use their shit ton of money to refurbish river country to be a princess and the frog themed area since it's already a swampy area - but i'm not an engineer or business major, so this is just wishful thinking
Man a theme park made 62 years ago, only recently closed is just amazing to me, but I could see why ghost town was closed, the old west was dead pretty much halfway through the 60’s in place for surfing,ect. And from some of the clips and the fact that racism was a huge problem, I could also see why, because of the Indian part being too offensive, especially in 2016, but what do I know, I’m under 14
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