Wobbies World

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Wobbies World is a defunct amusement park which operated from about 1970 to the late 1990's in the Melbourne suburb of Forest Hill, 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 circuit of monorail helicopters, mower motor driven 6 wheeler ATVs, a real Bell helicopter refurbished as a ground-mounted simulator, 4 Melbourne W2 class trams and a large Vickers Viscount propellar 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 the Dandenong Frankston road.

A nursery now resides on the Springvale Road site as well as the Saxon Wood townhouse estate, with only a concrete castle remaining from the former amusement park.

[edit] See also

• List of abandoned amusement parks

[edit] External links

• In Memory of Wobbies World Blog entry of visit to defunct park

Coordinates: -37.845824° 145.174176°

• Maps and aerial photos
  • Street map from Street Directory, MSN Maps and Multimap.
  • Satellite image from Google Maps, WikiMapia and Terraserver.