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Sometimes I wish SEGAWorld Sydney wasn’t so short lived.. because look at how RAD this place was in terms of the overall theming. The interior looks like if you were to discover an ENTIRE advanced high-tech society of Mobians living inside your Dreamcast.

How? How did such an AWESOME looking theme park for its day only last FOUR WHOLE YEARS from getting such low numbers of attendance?! This looks like Heaven to me as someone who’s deeply fond of the Y2K cyber aesthetic!

#y2k aesthetic #y2kcore #sega #sega world #sega world sydney #sonic the hedgehog #cyber aesthetic #defunct parks #90s aesthetic #cybercore #Zeep’s rambles #amusement parks #the fact this place was so short lived makes me wanna cry horribly

Luna Park on Coney Island at night ~ 1900s - 1910s

#collection #postcards #1910s #coney island #luna park #vintage photography #1910s art #amusement park #defunct parks #vintage new york

Hard Rock Park was a $250 million, highly-licensed theme park located in Myrtle Beach, SC that opened in 2007. Notable rides included the B&M looper Led Zeppelin: The Ride and Nights in White Satin, a Sally dark ride themed to the Moody Blues song of the same name. Due mostly to the Great Recession, the park was an abysmal failure and consequentially lost the Hard Rock name and music licenses. The park reopened in 2008 as Freestyle Music Park, which bombed even harder and proved to be massively unpopular among parkgoers. The park went entirely defunct in 2009 and was abandoned. The rides were sold off or destroyed.

The facade of Nights in White Satin. There is a video on YouTube that shows the entire ride and it's worth a watch. This ride was considered to be one of the greatest dark rides ever made. When the park was returned and lost the music licenses, the ride was changed to the Monstars of Rock, which is considered to be one of the worst dark rides ever made.

The impressive station for Led Zeppelin: the Ride. For five years, the massive structure stood standing but not operating along the roadside. The coaster was sold to a Vietnamese park in 2014 where it still operates to this day.