Mirapolis & Spreepark (And other abandoned parks)

[Lord_of_the_rides]

Mirapolis was a French park. Opened from 1987 to 1991. After the bankruptcy of this park, a majority of the attractions left to Spreepark in Germany.

The Spreepark was an entertainment park in the north of the Plänterwald in the Berlin. The park was opened from 1969 to 2001. Regrettably the bankruptcy did not escape this park.

This is a great french blog on Mirapolis history:
http://1987mirapolis2008.skyrock.com/

You can see full of videos of Mirapolis before later and today on youtube.

Here is a surprising video of Spreepark nowadays:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6U_0hChQ04[/youtube]

It's very sad :cry:

 

[Ollie]

Wow. It's so strange seeing a park so quiet and dead like that.

 

[Jools]

Oh my god, it reminds me of Thorpe Park :roll:

 

[davidm]

I saw some rather excellent pictures of the abandoned Spreepark over on Flickr recently;

http://www.flickr.com/photos/breakdenni ... 233495983/

and there are some more in this group;

http://www.flickr.com/groups/402216@N20/

(The first lot are the better pictures though I think)

 

[F.A.S.T.]

Oh my gosh, its so beautiful.
Sure its sad to see a park go, but when they start to sit for awhile, the start to look really neat.

 

[Screaming Coasters]

Oh my god, it reminds me of Thorpe Park :roll:

I don't get it? Thorpe is hardly a dump, nor is it ever dead?

Thats a Phail right there.

 

[10ryansmith]

Reminds me of Old Indiana. That is what the plot looked like before the conservationalist can and destroyed it.

 

[Ben]

Thorpe is hardly a dump.

No, it is.

It really, really is.

 

[Screaming Coasters]

Thorpe is hardly a dump.

No, it is.

It really, really is.

Go on, tell me?

It's one of the cleanest parks we have, even on busy days.

 

[Ben]

Thorpe is hardly a dump.

No, it is.

It really, really is.

Go on, tell me?

It's one of the cleanest parks we have, even on busy days.

Then you clearly go to different parks and a different Thorpe to me...

 

[Screaming Coasters]

Ermmm ok before we go into a bigger dick battle (clearly mine is bigger) I'm gonna just walk away because as much as I love you, you can be a fruit bag sometimes.

 

[Jools]

Oh my god, it reminds me of Thorpe Park :roll:

I don't get it? Thorpe is hardly a dump, nor is it ever dead?

Thats a Phail right there.

Doesn't sarcasm exist on which ever planet your'e from? :wink:

No fail

 

[Screaming Coasters]

I guess not?

oh great, now this is turning into an msn convo.

 

[Ali]

The emptiness of the park scares me .

 

[Lofty]

Its so strange seeing parks like this, really sad infact

 

[davidm]

Surfing Flickr (as you do) I came across a set of pics from the abandoned Santa's Village park in Dundee, Illinois. http://rcdb.com/pd193.htm

http://www.flickr.com/photos/87938933@N ... 805828657/

Worth a looksee?


Edit : and a website about the park itself is at http://www.santasvillage.net/

 

[davidm]

Double post (OK maybe not).

We all like these spooky photos don't we...?

Just came across this from a while back;

http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2009/01 ... -asia.html

Spooky stuff.

 

[dj-fireball999]

The ones in Japan look especially spooky for some reason, probably because I hate seeing rollercoasters in poor condition! It's sad!

 

[jokerman]

I don't think I'll be visiting any of them any time soon. So creepy!

 

[bob_3_]

from wikipedia

On 19 May 2004 he was sentenced to seven years in jail for attempting to smuggle 180 kg of cocaine with a value of £14 million from Peru to Germany in the masts of the "flying carpet" ride [1]. In October 2006 a Peruvian court sentenced Wittes' son, Marcel Witte, to 20 years for drug smuggling.