i used to work there, used to discuss this a lot with security. apparently they closed the park because of noise, but also because the rollercoaster was causing a lot of structural damage to the building. each loop would send tremors through the support pillars where you can see the rails were attached to. when you think about it, that kind of ride installed like that wouldn't have lasted any longer anyways as it doesn't seem well planned, not to mention that kid who died. I also heard the building foundations weren't good and that the place only has a life expectancy of about 50 years, so makes sense they might be demolishing it soon.
Thank you guys so much. It's been haunting me for years to know what that area looks like now it's been shut down for so long. I use to go there as a kid. Everytime I am in the myer centre I look up to imagine that rollercoaster again. Lol. I was too young to go on it and too chicken. 🤷🏼♀️
I once got up to the actual roof top of the myer centre once. I caught the lift to the highest level that it would go to, then used one of the old metal bins to put up against the glass walls that block off the highest levels and did that on each floor until i reached the top level where they keep all the christmas decorations.. when i reached the very top level i was walking around and noticed a little door that looked like a sky-light you can open, i opened that and crawled outside and realised i was actually on the roof of the myer centre. That happened in 2010 or 2011.
Which lift was that? over the last 2 years before the upgrade I remember in 2011 I was walking through level 4 from the store out in the center and the fountain was still there which was empty and stayed until they started the upgrade in 2013, I still prefer the look from pre-2013 and also the lifts from then as well, austelevators who was filming lifts but it has been over 6 years now since his last video did some filming on the lifts there over those last few years as well
@@zonic26 what do you mean which lift?.. EDIT: Wow.. i was just watching this video again, and i just noticed that if you pause the video at 1:00 you can clearly see the little sky-light looking door that i climbed outside through... All i did was un-latch that little door and climb up that liitle ladder you can see, and then i ended up on the outside roof of the Myer centre and i went to the edge and was looking down over people walking through rundle mall.. The first time i watched this video i never noticed that they had filmed that little door i climbed through. Good times. 😊
@@GraftedOliveBranch I was gonna say what I meant was cos you used the lifts to access the rooftop but now that you've explained more I see it was on this floor, also I only just noticed that the start of the video is just outside where the lifts at the Stephens Place entrance where Platypus is as when the camera faces to the right there you can see the centre lifts from there, so was it the Stephens Place lifts or the centre management lifts on the far western side of the centre?
@@zonic26 that lift you see at the beginning of the video when they pan to the right is the lift that i caught.. but it would only go the the 3rd or 4th floor because the dazzeland levels had been deactivated. but anyway, i went to the highest level that it would take me to, then when i got out of the lift i was walking around and noticed the big glass walls that were blocking off the higher levels, so i moved the metal bins in front of the glass walls and lifted myself up and jumped over and found my way to the 5th floor where they are filming this video, then climbed out through that little sky-light door onto the roof top.
@@GraftedOliveBranch After Dazzeland closed level 5 was deactivated in the centre lifts and level 4 was the highest you could go in the centre until the upgrade started in 2013, also yeah where camera pans right as you mentioned is what I was talking about where I said I realised whereabouts in the centre that is, and I paused the video 1:00 in and I see the door where the ladder is right in the pool room, sounds interesting but at the same time sounds like you took a dangerous approach to climb up to the top from the highest floor possible
Makes me sick to think that we had a fucking 2 storey indoor amusement park and would work better today than ever. why the hell did they close it? I would love to see it restored.
I heard they closed due to not having air-conditioning in the myer centre and apparently got really warm in the Summer. Occupational health and safety issue? Still miss it. It was my childhood 😢. Same for alot of others. I would always wonder if that rollercoaster would fall lol 🤷🏼♀️
@@saraha6078 That’s not the reason. Yes, there was an air conditioning issue but that was the entire centre, not just Dazzleland. Yes, it could get hot in there during January and February but again, that was an issue lower down as well. My Dad was mall security in the Myer Centre back in 1995-1996 when they had the suicide jumpers. One jumped off one of the escalators between the Dazzleland floors. Another jumped directly off the Jazz Junction roller coaster. 😔 After that for some reason the park lost its attraction and patrons stopped going there. Dazzleland management went broke as a result. Also, there were a few noise complaints from some of the stores on lower levels, not so much the screams from ride goers but when Jazz Junction barreled along the track, it made the entire building shake and rumble.
@@saraha6078 The same bastards who owned this centre also owned the Brisbane one and they closed down tops and more recentley, booted Myer out themselves and now over 65% of the centre is vacant. Congradualtions
This is the best video of Level 5 of the center I've seen, I wondered what the lifts at the top looked like and I was also unaware there was a door which was an entrance but not publicly to the Myer store of that floor as there was never an entrance like the other floors to Myer on Level 5 and now since the upgrade the same is with Level 4, I've been wanting to see what it was like up there myself having seen photos and videos but I've seen workers up on those floors from Level 3 looking into the open spaces where there are no glasses, I also just found out Level 4 of the center is now accessible again through the customer lifts as that is now being used for CDW Studios, I think they should have some open sessions for customers to check out what those floors look like now
We had an indoor amusement park in Brisbane called Top's that suffered a similar fate. The park had many features including a ferris wheel, dragon roller coaster, swinging ship, merry go round, forest playground, bumper cars, shooting gallery game, pool tables, arcade games and shops. It was on levels 3 and 4 of the Myer Centre. Top's was open from 1988-2000 when it was replaced by an overpriced cinema, but I think some of the original arcade games may still be in the games arcade.
@@zonic26 Dazzleland’s downfall started in 1995 when a 19 year old teenager jumped off Jazz Junction to her death. She’d been stopped once before from jumping so she cut her wrists. Second time she boarded the roller coaster then jumped out mid operation before anyone realised it was the suicidal girl. After that it was just issue after issue and eventually Dazzleland went broke in 1998.
I don't know whether this is correct, but there were a number of deaths from the ride. One child went on the roller-coaster with his school bag on which got caught on an obstacle. This led to him being lifted out of the ride and fall stories down. They eventually introduced those safety nets to prevent fatalities. From what I have been told, this attraction "Dazzleland" closed down because of the deaths and the liability it caused them financially.
@@vince3795 The deaths from Jazz Junction were no accident. They were from suicide jumpers who jumped out mid operation. My Dad was mall security at the time in 1995-1996. The young boy you speak of survived falling out of the coaster but had horrific injuries. He landed on one of the escalators between the 2nd and 3rd Levels (4th And 5th floor). He was rushed to hospital.
I heard rumours not long before Covid-19 came along, the Myer centre may be demolished. The building has many social and energy consumption problems. It is an ugly building, a waste of valuable space.
While I haven't heard much in the media stating so I wouldn't be surprised if it came to and RS 1990 has mentioned it a few times and that at this rate unless the management can get its act together it's heading towards there
$570 million dollar building still looks modern today they could use the top floors for offices... the food court is always busy and some other floors to would be sacrilege to knock it down!!!
