Wobbies World

Wobbies World

Location	469 Springvale Road Nunawading, Victoria, Australia
Opened	Circa 1970
Closed	Late 1990s
Operating season	All year round

The fire truck ride

The helicopter monorail and the Vickers Viscount propellar plane

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The Helicopter at its present site on Dandenong-Frankston rd.

Wobbies World was an amusement park which operated from about 1970 to the late 1990s in the Melbourne suburb of Nunawading, 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 is dismantled and currently sitting in a paddock on Dandenong - Frankston Road 38.06576°S 145.200458°E / -38.06576; 145.200458.

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.

See also

• List of abandoned amusement parks