#abandoned theme park

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🎡 ~ Abandoned Disney Park ~ 🎡 (J.P.L STUDIOS)

(Credit if you use please) (ko-fi)

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Spreepark

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An abandoned theme park.

ragatha at an abandoned theme park

(she heard a noise)

[kvetch19]

[cultofcreatures]

[theplaguedogs]

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October 12, 2023.

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[keista-ir-grazu]

Ghost town in the sky, abandoned since early 2000’s

Maggie Valley, NC

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Ruins of the compound owned by Thai film producer Sompote Sands who helmed Chaiyo Productions. Sands claimed in 1996 that he had the international rights to several Tsuburaya Productions characters, including Ultraman, based upon a document signed by former president of Tsuburaya Productions, Noboru Tsuburaya, who had died in the previous year.

Around 2006 or so, Sands had developed plans to build a 1 billion baht Ultraman Town & Museum outside of Ayutthaya in Thailand which would open around 2009. The theme park would be based upon Nebula M78, the birthplace of the Ultraman, and would consist of displays of various Ultraman and the monsters they had fought and a 50 metre statue of Ultraman and Alien Baltan. However lawsuits from Tsuburaya Productions in regards to ownership of the rights of Ultraman halted construction. Sands lost the case to Tsuburaya Productions in 2018.

Since then, the compound has acted as a private archive for Chaiyo Productions. Sands passed away in August 2021. This photograph was taken some months after his passing. From what I understand the compound’s buildings and the giant Ultraman head have since been demolished. 

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before and after footage of Pleasure Island Family Theme Park, now abandoned after its' closure in 2016; located in Cleethorpes, North East Lincolnshire, England.

video edited and uploaded by user theforgottenworld on tiktok, who credited the following youtube pages on this video's original tiktok post for their various contributions: Tazer Urbex - UK Urban Explorer, Yorkshire Post, Simon Howe, The Weird and Obscure, and Theme Park World.

[sampson-knight]

Lost Child

Do you want to play?

[kvetch19]

[choppedcowboydinosaur]

I remember that long post from last month about people trying to justify that abandoned theme park cartoon with the trans man protagonist. The art looks like the standard bean mouth, potato head, noodly arm artstyle that all cartoons have nowadays and they all have muppet noses for some reason. There were people on both sides bitching about it or praising it. But, I wonder if it’s all worth it. In the end it will probably be mediocre.

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[archimindblogger]

Abandoned architecture - the modern world

Architectural Ruin admiration is not just limited to that of buildings of historical value but also to buildings of more modern eras such as from the industrial age, although these are more commonly displayed in photography and videos by Urban Explorers (Urbexers) who now litter the listings on youtube. Urbex, it seems, has no limits, any buildings that stood with purpose that stand closed, unused, unwanted even and neglected will be explored, admired and documented. Whilst some portray important architectural movements or features others seem more mundane, regular and perhaps arguably uninteresting. However, many believe it is important for all buildings withholding any history should be documented, explored and showcased; their inhabitants long gone but their story told through the construction or arrangement of the buildings themselves. 

Due to the extensive range within this topic it seems wise to split it into separate chapters; different building types or purposes for each section of this topic. Firstly, a personal favourite in urbex are abandoned theme parks. Places in which our dreams and greatest wishes are supposed to come true fallen into disrepair, the dreams long gone and the happiness penetrated by a growing dystopian world in which our greatest fears can be realised. Characters created fir entertainment and enjoyment now stand with piercing eyes and peeling paint leaving eyes ‘bleeding’ and their bright clothes hanging in rags over their robotic bodies. 

Abandoned theme parks are a totally different universe to when they were created with such joy and happiness envisaged. Now expanses of dystopian worlds far apart from what they once were. Despite this, the memories they once gave never die, stories told from generation to generation; especially the local small scale theme parks that were the anchors within small communities. Regardless of whether the downfall was gradual or rapid the impact remains the same, a dystopian world left behind until the day it is demolished; although the terrifying story of their dystopian abandonment is not to be forgotten; immortilised through film and photography. 

Is there anything more frightening than an abandoned theme park? Tell me which is your favourite abandoned theme park.. How does it speak to you in its haunting manner?