Dazzleland was my childhood . We couldn’t get up the lifts quick enough. The lifts were all part of the excitement. When you finally reached level 5 you couldn’t contain your excitement. The roller coaster scary yet so much fun. My brother and I would spend hours there. I remember getting my first strawberry lip gloss at the body shop. Still makes me incredibly sad to look up and not hear and see the roller coaster
We wouldn't have so-called progress then it's about demolition and creation of jobs for the unions and the building magnates and foreign entities businesses that they can glamour except run the show
The fountain on level 4 used to have funky musical instruments like a sax etc in it, which was part of the whole theme for Dazzeland. Level 4 had all the arcade type games, lego land and cafes. Level 5 had all the amusement rides and the Jazz Junction Roller Coaster
I lived in Adelaide until 1992, so was lucky enough to go when the centre was at its height - as a 7 year old, it was the most awesome place in the world! Very fond memories of the rollercoaster and the Lego pirates :) I live in England now, and am sad to see the centre has suffered in recent years - but the same thing is happening here. Our latest high street casualty is Debenhams, which is/was the biggest department store in the country with huge buildings in most major towns and cities that all now lie empty. I guess that's what the internet has done - places like this will have to be more about experiences than retail in the future.
Exactly the internet is trying to close down all small business so everybody stays at home buying phone credit and Chinese toys and gives all their money to people overseas
just remember it was loans to the myer center that sent the State Bank of SA broke and the State Bank of SA that sent the State of SA broke. And it has never recovered since.
Should never have been built. Uneconomic from day one. The financing of it is described in the SBSA Royal Commission report (whole chapter), huge write-offs all financed by the SA taxpayer
We worked on Myer centre redevelopment around 2013. Dazzleland was long closed , but we had to break into it via the service lift the staff use in Myers. The wall was bricked up and we had to knock the bricks out to get in. No one had been in for years. All the things were still in there, the creepy bit was seeing the laughing clowns all covered in dust. It was used as our storage for building materials but no one would go in there at night alone. Definitely haunted.
Adelaide was an amazing place but you wouldn't hear about that in Melbourne because they hate us so much and pretend that we're a little country town . I tell people Adelaide is Melbourne without the immigration lol
anneofjulie The place is a mere shadow of what it once was. Could've moved with the times and still been something special in the city... but thanks to a greedy business model and greedy state govt the place is dying a painful horrible death. Shame really.
Agreed. Remember the Ground Floor with its marble floor. It was one of the best looking department stores in Rundle Mall at that time. I don't find the current one very exciting.
I met my first serious girlfriend just a few months after the Myer opened in 1991. We used to to dazzle land every Friday night before hitting hindley street. Good times. Also a girl I went to high school with worked there, in dazzle land, she ended up dying later in the year in car accident RIP G
We used to go to the Myer center on the weekend and I remember seeing the roller coaster but didn't get to try it due to being closed down. They had really good Chinese food.
Roller coaster on the top floor known as "the shopping complex of the future." and now 30 years later the top floors are completely empty and they just have an abandoned feel to them. Rundle mall started off being a big grand place now it is slowly dying how sad
I forgot about the Wacko shop. The video arcade & Virgin Mega store was my favourite hangouts. The Virgin Megastore had a great layout in the shop. Got to see some great performances too. The basement level had those vending machines where you could get hard plastic collectors cards. There was a really good sports store that sold American merchandise.
Hi Swamynathaniyer Iyer, The Myer Centre Adelaide is a unique shopping centre that is home to a variety of different retail stores including MYER department store. MYER is a chain store with many located throughout the country.
the McDonald's in the video with the crowd on it's balcony, opposite the Myer centre is just a vacant shop now. And it's had a "For Lease" billboard displayed on it since the previous tenants: "Travel Money OZ" vacated the store ages ago
I remember one of my friends telling me someone fell off the rollercoaster and died, which is why they removed it. I used to love going to Dazzle Land :(
People were jumping to their deaths. It was a hot suicide spot. Sorry to say. That's why they've huge rope nets third floor and so. They had to do something and close it down. . Just sad, it looks shocking now.
sadly i will remember the myer center for all the wrong reasons as I came close to not being around if memory serves around 1994 luckily thoughts of my 2yr old nephew saved me from doing anything silly apologies if this upsets anyone but it's just a reminder that it can happen to anyone at any time and without warning (in the long run it signalled the end of my love for the city of Adelaide and my frequent visits to the city as I used to do as a child and adolescent)
Concur. Garbage is garbage, no matter how much you dress it up. Why not a lovely multi storey car park with a macca’s on every floor, and dunnies right up the top? Be a typical Adelaide great idea!
Haha, I don't remember him being "Australia's biggest selling Rockstar" but then again I was 10 at the time. Why'd they close Virgin?! Love the Memories!
C21L01 He spent 20 years as the newsreader for Ten and spent his last number of years as newsreader with Rebecca Morse, he moved to Melbourne broadcasting in early 2011 when there was changes to the Ten news brought in at that time shortly after 11 was launched, but this didn't last for long and now Bec now presents the news alone
I remember a couple of years back whilst on a school trip some crazy ass woman pulled out a hammer and smacked some guy on the back of the leg with it by the entrance to the Myer centre
LOL. I did rode roll coaster it was fun and I remember go to order crispy chicken chips nearby roll coaster there taste great. It sad close not longer after this
This opened a few months after I was born, I never got to go on the roller-coaster. Some stupid idiot fell off and died I think, ruining it for everyone else...the top two floors are haunted.
They closed Dazzeland due to the fact that the Myer Centre administration thought that the added noise of the amusements drove prospective customers away, this is added to the fact that the attendance for Dazzeland was dropping. The death of a child on the rollercoaster is an urban legend.
A chap committed suicide from Dazzeland - throwing himself from the TOP floor - FactSoon after the railing where changed and a NET lower down was installed
That so called stupid idiot was my cousin who lost his balance and fell off the escalator but he wasn't the only one to do so...think before you say stupid shit
I'm from the United States and it seems the fate of shopping malls is the same all over the world. I saw a commercial for this Myer center and I thought, oh gee I already know how this ends....
They Shld reopen it with all the original rides and more and have it open to midnight Thurs, Fri and sat nites. Nothing like shopping and a theme park after. Put new cafes in there.maybe a cinema. all the fast food chains. KFC, maccas etc
Ah the glutinous heady days of Australia's 'retail revolution' - what a sham. Now look at Myer - what a train wreck. A dystopia of malfunction, greed and an inate inability to roll with the times.
It's hard to believe it's been over 24 years now since it opened and the fact that it's no longer the same as it once was, it seems to be more of a clothing and fashion focused, and many people agree that it's not for us and I don't see anything decent happening any time soon, not even for levels 4 and 5, if they could just include more entertainment type of complexes, and more stores like we have in Rundle Mall Plaza and City Cross it would bring more people in, and being fashion focused and still having a food court just doesn't make any sense, surely it could use more, if they understood what we wanted like the above mentioned for example they'd do it
I rember dazzleland i had & birthday party there when i was little & i still have some dazzleland tokens. does any one know why dazzleland shut down because i would like to know why ?
@@melindadiamonds5374 I heard someone when on the roller coater with their school bag strapped on their back and it got caught on a obstacle, ripping the rider out. And you can blame the irresponsible ride attendant for that, for allowing anyone with a school bag to ride at all.
Yeah? Has the state paid off the ‘bad bank’ debts yet? The screwed taxpayers I mean. Yeah, Bannon was a clown in shoes far to big for his gentleman feet. Tim Marcus Clarke had him fooled. Brute, your speaking nonsense about stuff you know NOTHING about.
Wow so nostalgic and cringe but brings back memories. Online business is shutting down all the retail stores everywhere, its not the fault of the commercial properties its just the way it is now and will be.
What a massive waste of money for an idea that would only fail, meanwhile all the bottlenecked intersections, narrow roads, train-line extensions all had to remain just like that for much longer.
For all the people saying that a guy jumped off the escalator is utter crap my cousin lost his balance on the escalator and fell over the side to his death so please get your facts right before spurting utter crap...there was also other people that fell off them aswell who didn't commit suicide please have some respect for the families
That was your cousin? I'm aware of that that incident and that is the truth, it would make more sense because I also heard stories from people saying someone fell out the roller coaster or just jumped from the top floor
I remember David cox used to regularly take days off school so he could be at dazzle land!!! he would ride that silly "roller coaster " all day long! & $tole money off his step dad's car yard business to fund his hazy lazy days!!!
WACKO costed at $350million ended up closer to $600 million , rorted by the unions while the Labor govt just closed its eyes , many sub contractors went bust , complete failure as a shopping centre .
Christie's Creek is Best Water Way on earth yeah yeah mouth good my dog drinks it and Nathan camps near...Feet Get Wet At Mouth Is Annoying!!!!!!! Seeya Adelaide.....
5:47 the attempt at writing "Tempura" in Japanese is hilariously wrong, it should be "天ぷら" but it's somehow been copied as complete nonsense characters
Sad to see what happened to this place, half empty, dazzleland shuts down within 10 years due to regulations and now ethnic gangs roam the mall.... Governments only ones to blame..
