Dazzleland

[monotonehell]

Razzle dazzle here i am, take me out to Dazzeland, take me down to razzle Dazzeland!

Almost two and a half years of lurking and you break it with that?

You sir, are my hero.

[Delsar]

yeah well i havent had a look at this fourm for a while. i was googling for something and followed a link to the fourm

[The Scooter Guy]

Images from State Library:

[ChillyPhilly]

Oh, the nostalgia. Vaguely remember it. The top two levels are so ghastly and eerie nowadays.

[Waewick]

there is some offices going in the two levels at the moment

[Nort]

This is a bump with no new info, but a request.

Does anyone have any more pictures of Jazz Junction or Dazzeland in general?

They don't have to be photos, even just hand drawn sketches of anything you remember would be great. I'm especially keen for if anyone remembers the layout of the coaster.

As for why I need this information, a personal project that if I can find enough information I guarantee some of you will find very fun and nostalgic.

[ChillyPhilly]

Don't quote me on this but from memory it ran a figure-of-eight path. I would have been a toddler when it was shut down so my memory is fuzzy.

I'll ask my mother.

[Nort]

Thanks, I've been trying to decipher it from a couple of Youtube videos, and I'm ending up with something more like 000 than an 8.

[marquisite]

Does anyone have any more pictures of Jazz Junction or Dazzeland in general?

There are a few more images hanging about on Flickr taken by various photographers, easily browsed from the Dazzeland group

As best as I can see, these two photos give the best representation of the layout when viewed together:

1. https://www.flickr.com/photos/42614915@N00/186155992
2. https://www.flickr.com/photos/ryanthesc ... dazzeland/

If my patchy childhood memories do not mislead me, photo 1 is pointing forward in the direction of travel out of the station (the train is on the approach to the final turn into the station), which means photo 2 is pointing backwards in the direction of travel out of the station. But don't quote me on that!

[Nort]

Thanks, I think I've got the layout all figured out now.

[Nort]

A hint of where I'm going with this.

image.jpg (186.28 KiB) Viewed 7326 times

[ChillyPhilly]

[The Scooter Guy]

That's the Sky Train at Dragon Centre in Asia!

[ChillyPhilly]

That's the Sky Train at Dragon Centre in Asia!

I saw it floating around on FB, thought it looked a little different.

[Llessur2002]

http://ripitup.com.au/culture/dazzeland ... g0fCFOIrfZ

Dazzeland is coming back as an Adelaide Festival venue

The Adelaide Festival of Arts launched its 2016 program this morning, and between all the huge musical performances and Adelaide Oval pyrotechnics there’s been a hell of a lot to take in. But there’s one exciting addition to the lineup that is sure to blow the minds of 90s kids all over South Australia:



Dazzeland is coming back. Yes, you heard right.

The Myer Centre’s long-decommisioned top floor fun park-turned-women’s-gym will return to its original calling – family fun – when Adelaide theatre company Slingsby takes over the Centre’s atrium space for the world premiere of new show The Young King.

Part of the Adelaide Festival’s schools program, the show is a retelling of Oscar Wilde‘s 1891 fairy tale of a “naïve young goat herder” who happens to be the heir to a kingdom, an inheritance that leads him outside his forest home to face all sorts of hijinks and challenges. Aimed at families and grown-ups alike, the show will make use of the “intimate and immersive” 100 capacity space, taking advantage of the unique combination of nostalgia and wonder the setting will provoke for audiences of all ages.

“Dazzeland is an ideal space in many ways,’’ Slingsby Artistic Director Andy Parker says. “It will stir the magical memories of many who visited it in the past and Oscar Wilde’s story and our production, incorporating original music by Quincy Grant, sets designed by Wendy Todd and lighting by Geoff Cobham, will create new memories for our audiences.

“We are not giving too much away, but people really can expect something different.”

Given much of the fun infrastructure like the iconic Jazz Junction rollercoaster, dodgem cars and Lego Expo were carted off long ago once the space was officially shut down in January 1998, it won’t be a carbon copy of the original space, but should still prove to be a pretty magical experience.

Whether or not we can expect the imminent return of Virgin Megastores, the Lost Forest, boxy pantsuits, Guinness World Record attempts for the world’s largest pavlova or the State Bank remains to be seen.