It was located in Cricket St Thomas, where a wildlife park and a country estate already stood. The Crinkley Bottom theme park, also known as Blobbyland, was based on the world of the show and particularly on one of the characters.
The show inspired one of the most haunted abandoned theme parks in the world, at least according to the stories. Mr Blobby was a character on a popular 90s television show. The park was originally inspired by Disneyland in California, which makes its decaying rides and worlds feel creepily familiar, like a dream turned into a nightmare. Everything in the park has been left as it was, which means that it’s like a cotton candy world that’s turned to rot. The park was originally built in the 1960s and was abandoned in 2006 when its popularity dropped too far. But the park has actually been abandoned for several years now. It’s also surrounded by lush, rolling hills and from a distance could still be operating. Colored in soft pinks and blues, it looks great in photos and is one of the most photographed abandoned theme parks in the world. Nara Dreamland is located near the city of Nara in Japan and is still oddly beautiful. Nara Dreamland Image by Jordy Meow from Pixabay That’s why the park still opens a few days a year around Halloween, for visitors who want to explore the park at the spookiest time of year. There’s something spooky about seeing rotting rides and attractions, especially when they’re made familiar by their connection to the famous children’s stories. Then a fire in 1975 was the final straw, leading to the park’s abandonment. However, the number of visitors dropped off gradually until the park was nearly completely deserted. The park was first opened in 1970, and it was popular at first. It was inspired by the Wizard of Oz and is located in Beech Mountain, North Carolina. The Land of Oz is a unique theme park and one of the strangest abandoned theme parks around. If it weren’t so huge, you would really believe that the statue was a corpse left behind to rot. The agonized expression on the statue’s face gives it a morbid, disturbing feel that’s echoed in the rest of the park. But the best one is an enormous Gulliver statue, left to decay on the ground like a huge corpse. The park contains everything you could want from abandoned theme parks, from rides to colorful attractions.
There’s also the fact that there’s what looks like the body of a man in agony on the grass. It was based on the book Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift, and that’s part of what makes it so chilling. The park was first built in 1997 and was closed by the owners four years later due to low visitor numbers. In Yamanashi in Japan there is an enormous, decaying man in one of the creepiest abandoned theme parks around. It really makes for an otherworldly experience, and one that’s not to be missed if you’re a fan of abandoned theme parks. When you visit, you need to pick your way through the long grass and brush to uncover rides and attractions that are covered over like the relics of a forgotten civilization. The park is now an eerie, overgrown garden, with sunken cars and nightmarish Chinese opera masks glaring out of the rubble. So eventually the park became one of the most chilling abandoned theme parks in Taiwan. It did reopen, but many of the attractions were ruined and too expensive to fix, especially in the face of the billions of dollars that the city itself needed. More than 2, 400 people were killed, and the amusement park was badly damaged. In 1999, Taichung City suffered through a massive earthquake, known locally as 921 earthquake. Unfortunately, that reputation was ruined in an event that shocked the whole of Taiwan. It built a solid reputation as a fun place to visit. Encore GardenĮncore Garden was built in 1981 and become immensely popular amongst the locals. And you’ll also get some amazing photographs that will be different to the photos that everyone else brings home from their holiday. You’ll see gaudy signs and rides being reclaimed by the natural world and hear the ghostly giggles of all the children who will never giggle there again. If you like to see some quieter, creepier attractions when you’re on holiday, one of these forgotten amusement parks might fit the bill. It’s like wandering through an abandoned house, with all the belongings of the previous inhabitants still intact. There’s something thrilling about abandoned theme parks.