Wobbies World

Infobox Amusement park
name = Wobbies World


location = 469 Springvale Road Vermont South, Victoria, Australia
opening_date = Circa 1970
closing_date = Late 1990s
season = All year round
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Wobbies World was a very successful amusement park which operated from about 1970 to the late 1990s in the Melbourne suburb of Vermont South, Australia.

The park was quite small in area and targeted mainly to the simple expectations of young children. The park consisted of many custom-built attractions, most very slow moving.

The park had some characteristic modes of transport including a helicopter "Whirliebird" monorail circuit, mower motor driven 6 wheeler ATVs, a real Bell helicopter refurbished as a ground-mounted simulator, a "Splashdown" mini log ride, a mini-golf course, trampolines, a ball pit, several food and drink kiosks, a miniature train circuit, a miniature car circuit, 4 Melbourne W2 class trams and a large Vickers Viscount propeller plane fitted out as a movie-projector simulator. The plane now resides at the Australian National Aviation Museum, in Moorabbin, while the Bell Helicopter was last seen dismantled and sitting in a paddock on Dandenong - Frankston Road.

Despite memorable television advertisements over the decades, the park slowly deteriorated in the mid to late 1990s and later closed down by the end of the decade. Its demise has been linked to the high entrance fee for the time ($36 for a family of four as of 1994) and separate fees to use some of the attractions.

A plant nursery now resides on the Springvale Road site as well as the Saxon Wood town house estate, with the entrance gate (without road), concrete castle, bridges, a train station, the Birthday Room and the miniature golf course still remaining (within the nursery) from the former amusement park.The Chow, from Geelong, was a the park's number one visitor during the late 80s. Legend says he attended the park 17 days in a row.

ee also

*List of abandoned amusement parks

External links

* [http://jellyfishonline.blogspot.com/2005/03/rock-wob-in-memory-of-wobbies-world.html In Memory of Wobbies World] Blog entry of visit to defunct park
* [http://bbvz.com/tsp2/?p=2081 Second review of visit to the Wobbies World location]