{"id":4567,"date":"2015-01-10T07:49:19","date_gmt":"2015-01-10T15:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/?p=4567"},"modified":"2015-01-10T08:01:25","modified_gmt":"2015-01-10T16:01:25","slug":"abandoned-theme-parks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/2015\/01\/10\/abandoned-theme-parks\/","title":{"rendered":"ABANDONED THEME PARKS…"},"content":{"rendered":"

LOOK:<\/strong>\u00a0http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/gallery\/2015\/jan\/07\/ghost-trains-and-forgotten-ferris-wheels-abandoned-theme-parks-in-pictures?CMP=fb_gu<\/a><\/p>\n\"abandoned\n

The ruin of a giant Gulliver being captured by the people of Lilliput at Japan\u2019s dormant Gulliver\u2019s Kingdom. The theme park, based on Jonathan Swift\u2019s novel Gulliver\u2019s Travels, was built near Mount Fuji close to Aokigahara forest, a place associated in Japanese mythology with demons. Photograph: Hiroyuki Tsuzuki\/Hiroyuki Tsuzuki<\/p>\n

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Bumper cars lay beached, overgrown with weeds, at a fairground in the once-thriving Soviet city of Pripyat in the Chernobyl exclusion zone, Ukraine. The area has been officially closed off to human habitation since the nuclear power plant disaster in 1986 Photograph: Alamy<\/p>\n

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Shells of dolphin rides poke through vines, and a disused rollercoaster lays on its side at an abandoned amusement park in Nyarutarama, an area of Kigali, Rwanda. Photograph: Stephen Abbott Pugh<\/p>\n

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The duck rollercoaster ride at Okpo Land, a once popular amusement park in South Korea. The site was open for around 20 years before closing in the 90s after fatalities on the rides. It has since been demolished. Photograph: Steve Smash\/Flickr<\/p>\n

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The haunting skeleton of the Screw Coaster looming in the mist at the Nara Dreamland theme park in Japan. The park was built in 1961 as Japan\u2019s answer to Disneyland, but shut down in 2006 and has been left to rot ever since.\u00a0Photograph: Delphine Adburgham\/Alamy<\/p>\n

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The flooded remains of the Six Flags\u00a0New Orleans\u00a0amusement park in eastern New Orleans, which has been abandoned since Hurricane Katrina devastated the area in 2005. Photograph: David J. Phillip\/AP<\/p>\n

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A toy car lost in the undergrowth in Berlin\u2019s Spreepark. The site has been popular amongst urban explorers and opens occasionally for one-off events. British band the xx put on a festival on the grounds in 2013 and scenes for 2011 thriller Hanna were filmed there. Photograph: Ciaran Fahey<\/p>\n

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The graffiti-covered remains of a T.rex model and Ferris wheel in Berlin\u2019s Spreepark, which in its heyday as East Berlin\u2019s only amusement park would see up to 1.5m visitors a year. It shut in 2001, after the owners were imprisoned for an ill-fated attempt to smuggle 180kg of cocaine back from Peru in the mast of a flying carpet ride. Photograph: Ciaran Fahey<\/p>\n

LOOK:\u00a0http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2015\/jan\/07\/spreepark-east-berlin-forgotten-theme-park-rollercoaster-story<\/a><\/p>\n

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