#Amusement park

[pumpkajelly]

I know low - extreme ride intensity is all pretty subjective so just answer however related to however you feel about it! 🎢

(And feel free to put your number and additional thoughts in the tags if you're curious about your mutuals' amusement park thoughts 👀)

[jetix]

2023-12-26

[its-where-the-wild-things-are]

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Postcard of Luna Park, Coney Island, by night, ca. 1928.

Photo: Manhattan Post Card Co. via MCNY

[tanuki-kimono]

Whimsical vintage outfit, pairing a rainbow stripes pink kimono, with a joyful Luna park colorful obi

[retropopcult]

Disneyland's red Monorail, September 1959

[573p5]

[deadmotelsusa]

Dogpatch USA was a theme park in Arkansas that operated from 1968 to 1993. It was based on 1930s comic strip Li'l Abner, created by cartoonist Al Capp and set in a fictional village called Dogpatch. Park attractions included paddle boats, a train, caverns, a grist mill, shops statues and various rides. Li'l Abner comic-strip characters would roam the park and perform skits for the patrons. Unfortunately financial concerns and competition from the nearby parks forced Dogpatch to close its doors.

Since closing, parts of the park have been divided up and sold, and the main area has been bought, sold, and foreclosed on several times. Also on the property is the former vacant Hub Motel, more recently known as the Marble Falls Resort. It last operated in 2017.

As of 2020, Bass Pro Shops founder Johnny Morris purchased the abandoned property for $1.2 million and plans to restore it as a private nature preserve called Marble Falls Nature Park.

Sources: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

[webdiggerxxx]

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[hyper-coasters]

I had never seen one of the grazing animals come up so close to the walkways before this. Certainly seemed interested in my french fries!

* Friendly reminder not to feed the animals at ANY zoo or amusement park!

[vestaignis]

Одна из альтернативных достопримечательностей Берлина - Шпреепарк, заброшенный парк аттракционов с трагической судьбой.

Парк открыли в 1969 году на берлинском полуострове Плэнтервальд, и до 1989 года он оставался единственным парком развлечений в ГДР. Для учредителей было важно, что место несет не только увеселительный, но и образовательный характер.Так появилось название “Культурный парк” — Kulturpark Plänterwald. Кроме катания на аттракционах и американских горках в Kulturpark можно было сходить на концерт или танцевальный вечер.После объединения Германии стало понятно: старому парку не место в новом Берлине. Берлинский сенат организовал тендер среди подрядчиков, чтобы превратить уже не модный Культурный парк в настоящую мекку развлечений по лучшим западным образцам: в берлинский Диснейленд.

Новыми владельцами парка стала семья Витте. Они переименовали место в Spreepark («Парк у реки Шпрее»), закупили огромное количество новых аттракционов, ввели плату за вход в парк и устроили реорганизацию. Многие аттракционы они привезли из разорившегося французского парка Мираполис, в том числе знаменитую железную дорогу и карусель с чашками, на которых был изображен старый талисман компании Nesquik — кролик Groquik. Из Франции в Германию также переехали трех- и четырехметровые динозавры и два мамонта: огромные фигуры сразу стали в Шпреепарке любимцами публики. Стегозавр, тираннозавр, апатозавр, стиракозавр с товарищами встречали гостей у входа в парк, возвышались над деревьями и приводили в восторг посетителей.

До 2000 года дела у Шпреепарка шли неплохо.  Но цена билетов постоянно росла, при этом мест для парковки не хватало, а сами аттракционы стремительно старели. Число посетителей упало с полутора миллиона до четырехсот тысяч, у парка появились долги, и компанию-учредителя признали банкротом. И в 2001 году парк закрылся. Но на владельце Spreepark по-прежнему висел долг в € 11 млн, поэтому он решился…открыть новый парк! На этот раз в Перу, для чего он перенаправил туда шесть своих аттракционов. Но и там дело не пошло. 

Сейчас в парке остались многие аттракционы, на которых можно сделать интересные фотографии. Самый большой аттракцион – колесо обозрения, до сих пор крутится благодаря ветру. Также здесь есть американские горки, ракеты, машинки. С марта 2019 года  в Шпреепарке проводятся организованные экскурсии (на немецком и английском языках). Посетители могут ознакомиться с историей парка, осмотреть еще сохранившиеся аттракционы, постройки. Их продолжительность – 1,5 часа. Помимо этого, парк стал местом проведения различных выставок уличного искусства, вечеров и встреч с художниками и музыкантами.

One of Berlin's alternative attractions is Spreepark, an abandoned amusement park with a tragic fate.

The park opened in 1969 on Berlin's Planterwald peninsula, and until 1989 it remained the only amusement park in the GDR. It was important to the founders that the place not only had an entertaining, but also an educational character. This is how the name "Culture Park" - Kulturpark Plänterwald - appeared. In addition to riding the rides and roller coasters, you could go to a concert or dance evening in Kulturpark. After the unification of Germany, it became clear: the old park had no place in the new Berlin. The Berlin Senate organized a tender among contractors to turn the no longer fashionable Kulturpark into a real mecca of entertainment according to the best Western examples: Berlin Disneyland.

The Witte family became the new owners of the park. They renamed the place Spreepark, bought a huge number of new rides, introduced an entrance fee and reorganized the park. They brought many rides from the bankrupt French park Mirapolis, including the famous railway and the carousel with cups, which depicted the old mascot of the Nesquik company - the Groquik rabbit. Three- and four-meter dinosaurs and two mammoths also moved from France to Germany: huge figures immediately became favorites of the public in Spreepark. Stegosaurus, tyrannosaurus, apatosaurus, styracosaurus and friends greeted guests at the entrance to the park, towered over the trees and delighted visitors.

Until 2000, Spreepark was doing well. But the price of tickets was constantly rising, there was a shortage of parking spaces, and the rides themselves were rapidly aging. The number of visitors dropped from one and a half million to four hundred thousand, the park got into debt, and the parent company was declared bankrupt. And in 2001, the park closed. But the owner of Spreepark still had a debt of € 11 million, so he decided to… open a new park! This time to Peru, for which he redirected six of his rides there. But things didn’t work out there either.

Now the park still has many rides on which you can take interesting photos. The largest ride is the Ferris wheel, which still spins thanks to the wind. There are also roller coasters, rockets, cars. Since March 2019, Spreepark has been offering organized tours (in German and English). Visitors can learn about the history of the park, see the remaining rides and buildings. They last 1.5 hours. In addition, the park has become a venue for various street art exhibitions, evenings and meetings with artists and musicians.

Источник:/stalkers.info/zabroshennyj-park-attraktsionov-spreepark/, //www.gavailer.ru/journal/685.html,/ru-travel.livejournal.com / 27731230.html,/andrreas.livejournal.com/756034.html,/berlin24.ru/ru/news/novosti-germanii-segodnja-v-novostjah/6733-urban-trip-v-berline.html,/directfromberlin.wordpress.com/2018/09/14/abandoned-amusement-park-spreepark-in-berlin/,/samokatus.ru/shpreepark-ot-rascveta-do-zakata/.

[wakanayamazaki]

"Imaginary amusement park" 「架空の遊園地」

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shot by: ri

[its-where-the-wild-things-are]

[jetix]

2024-02-24

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I went to an amusement park that had these very realistic animatronics of different celebrities. None of them could move or talk on their own, except the Lady Gaga one, which would sometimes randomly say, “Yes, yes, exactly,” with an ominous smile.