Abandoned - Luna Park Sydney 1995 (REUPLOAD)

A brief overview of the short-lived redevelopment of Luna Park Sydney, which operated from 1995 to 1996.
This is a reupload of an existing video originally on the channel from June to December 2021.
Photo credit Aheadmatthewawesome (not edited in the video but credited for credit's sake)

[@larazeesk7080]

I haven’t been to Luna Park since 1980 I was 9 - your content is absolutely incredible - Greetings from Alabama

[@Xo2Life]

Yes the king is back with a reupload.

[@buda3d2007]

Dude yes! your takes were awesome, good to have you back

[@moejoe7782]

The State and local government should never have allowed the residence to be built next to an amuzment park zone. The residence should have had no right to complain when they moved in next to a block of land long established as an amusement park!

[@griffinrails]

Fantastic to see this video back up, if you’re taking requests I’d love to see a video on the Lachlan Vintage Village.

[@nimsivakumar7408]

Welcome back Bud, always enjoy your videos hoping to more soon :)

[@SeeNoEvil777]

As a youngster I've been there several times. A group of us, after a bus ride to the Quay we would walk across the Harbour Bridge, to get there and back to the south side after, we were from Coogee. Had so much fun there but will admit, one time on that huge Faris wheel, coming downward face first was one time to many for me 🎡 I think the last time I'd been to Luna Park was 74 or 75, around 18 yrs old. Those were the days!

[@freelanceopportunist559]

I deliver packaging to Luna Park 2 or 3 times a week. It's so trippy to see it in its abandoned state. I wish it had of occurred to me back in the 90s to go explore it.

[@secretfilmsoz]

Thankyou very much for this documentary. It gives a very thoughtful perspective on the 1990s episode overall. A question - what was the source of the video footage of the 1990s big dipper ride? There is a POV shot referenced several times. Looking to see whether that's footage that another documentary course access.

[@MicBain]

Damn I loved Luna Park in the mid 90s. I was so angry when those rich North Sydney a-holes ruined the place. My Grandfather actually worked there in the 60s and my father got to hang out in the park for free as a kid, I was so jealous when he told me haha

[@queenielouweekly3160]

What rides did he work on?

[@MicBain]

@queenielouweekly3160 I'm not sure, I'd have to ask my dad. I think staff probably got moved around a lot, that's what it was like when I worked at Sea World in my early 20s.

[@Pizza_showtime121]

Hey, SL films. It would be really cool if you could do an episode on pizza showtime and other Australian animatronic pizza places. It would be pretty cool because 1. I havent seen a proper documentation of these places and 2. They are very popular in the animatronic community. Places like this include billy bobs pizza theatre in Knox, Victoria, pizza showtime in Perth, NSW and Charlie cheese in surfers paradise, QLD and carindale QLD. these places info on them are very slim but lots of them did pretty well except Charlie cheese. But that’s the companies fault. These places all had arcades in them, usually similar to Timezone just better.

[@richalderson6069]

Once the Ghost Train fire happened and the Big Dipper was demolished, that was it, Luna Park was dead.

[@johnbrooks9523]

Luna Park is loved. That love will never die regardless of whingeing wealthy creeps who move in next door to a noisy tourist attraction & then complain about the noise... Discusting entitled creeps!

[@MrP4n]

Very very nice! this was a story I wanted to learn more about

[@LiamP-597]

Welcome back.

[@Flippin-mad]

Great video mate 👍

[@Shelbsalexis]

Is this the Luna Park where the fire happened on Ghost Train?

[@johnbrooks9523]

Yes.

[@buda3d2007]

I worked there on and off for a hospitality agency, the guy running it back in the early 2000's was a bit of a hot head, he berated staff before an event just as a forewarning, such a little man move, and on a darker note, a security team that had a fulltime guard dog at the site before it opened after the early 2000's refurb had its head removed, not sure the full extent of what happened there but the place at that time had some shady characters attached to it.

[@Lostmusicvideos]

When's the next upload? I remember you said on fb you're working on another big project.

[@everfreebrumby8385]

What about a video on the history Dracula’s restaurant in Melbourne?

[@emrmotionsims]

when are you doing more videos mate

[@Magpie_Mark92]

Isn't luna park still open?

[@vincere_]

You gotta watch the rest of the video, mate.

[@larazeesk7080]

@@vincere_ Calm down

[@darrenjhodgey4734]

Typical residents complaining ruin everything

[@dacreryder5521]

Luna park now is lame

[@buda3d2007]

Spelt backwards its Anul Krap

[@rocketeerPM2500]

For chrissakes CLEAN UP YOUR ACT. This video starts with long blackness then blue screen and static before a full-screen "1990". Amateurish as hell. Needs a major edit so we can fully enjoy the fascinating historical footage. I went to Luna Park in early 1970's.