Wobbies World
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| Location | 469 Springvale Road Forest Hill, Victoria, Australia |
| Opened | Circa 1970 |
| Closed | Late 1990s |
| Operating season | All year round |
| Rides | total |
Wobbies World is a defunct amusement park which operated from about 1970 to the late 1990s 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 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.
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- In Memory of Wobbies World Blog entry of visit to defunct park
- Second review of visit to the Wobbies World location
- Wobbies World is at coordinates Coordinates:
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