Happy 25th birthday/anniversary WB Movie World

[Theme Park Girl]

The park was officially opened today on June 3rd, 1991 ? Hard to believe it's already a quarter of a century old!! 

Here's a bunch of my pics from over the years, both old and new. It's been such a blast having this theme park in my life  ???

[AdrianHallam]

One of my main memories from the first time I went o Movie World was a machine in the Looney Tunes Area which was a robot that served soft drinks. Does anyone else remember this or is my mind dreaming again? 

[Gary86]

8 minutes ago, AdrianHallam said:

One of my main memories from the first time I went o Movie World was a machine in the Looney Tunes Area which was a robot that served soft drinks. Does anyone else remember this or is my mind dreaming again? 

I remember that. It was awesome!

[bladex]

there is a typo in the name it should say

 

Happy 25th birthday/anniversary DC Movie World

 

[Theme Park Girl]

Here's some pics I took at the cake cutting ceremony this morning

Cake was delicious!!! 

Got to keep some of the little cake decorations too as a keepsake lol

[Gary86]

Happy Birthday Movie World

1989 - Construction starts on Movie World

7 News Flashback - 20 years of Movie World

 

[Theme Park Girl]

Oh, they have anniversary collector cups available at the news stand near the entrance fountain as well ???

[Brad2912]

Thanks for the pics! Would have loved to have made it but down in Sydney on holidays! 

[Reanimated35]

4 hours ago, Theme Park Girl said:

Oh, they have anniversary collector cups available at the news stand near the entrance fountain as well ???

Any idea how long they'll be around for? 

[JeffreyMoore]

just a shame the park is now a shadow of its 1991 self

[iwerks]

Yeah, I think it peaked a little after that. Interesting when you watched the ads for the park, the later ones are emphasing Fright Nights or season pass members and not a new ride.

[Theme Park Girl]

3 hours ago, reanimated35 said:

Any idea how long they'll be around for? 

Not sure, but was told by guest relations that they have plenty ??

[Reanimated35]

Looks like I need to make a trip to the park then. 

[themagician]

I know the park had their celebrations today, but I wish they made a bigger deal about it. When I went to Universal Studios Japan back in March they were celebrating their 15th anniversary, with a big sign out the front, promotions all around the park, a special parade, tonnes of merchandise, and multiple attractions to celebrate.

I know it's Universal, and not saying they need to do it to that scale, but I feel like MW could have had a sign out the front like this one, promoting the celebration. An celebrations for a couple of weeks, rather than just the smaller banners down Main Street.

[Theme Park Girl]

I have to agree, I was fairly disappointed that nothing else special happened throughout the day yesterday, that's why I left at 11am. I do wonder if even the cake cutting was organised as a last minute event. When I went into guest services earlier in the week and asked if they were doing anything special for Friday, I was told he didn't know of anything and that they have been focusing more on celebrating throughout the year, instead of one week/day. There were quite a few other people asking in the lead up, too. Maybe that's what made them realise that they *should* be doing something more?

I mean I only heard/read about the cake cutting ceremony being at 10am via another theme parks FB page, and that was one hour prior. Only just made it there on time! I kinda expected it to be part of the parade later in the day.

They didn't really openly advertise it,  which I think is a shame. They could have had a much bigger turnout otherwise.

Oh well. There is always their 30th, right??? ???

[Reanimated35]

I have to agree. It's a little disappointing there wasn't really anything going on either on social media or in the park. No "come help us celebrate 25 years" etc. Should have had some old footage shown in Roxy of a history of the park along with old movie props and stuff that has been done at the studios over the years. 

[pin142]

So a collector cup for Movie World's 25th compared to Disney where you can't go anywhere without knowing it is their 60th. Even California's Great America had more for their 40th this year, same can be said for Knott's and their Ghost Town 75th anniversary celebrations. 

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

it is a little disappointing, but given there is so much going on right now with VRTP, I think in this case it was a matter of it being overlooked, and then at the last minute when people realised the date, we've quickly rushed out some cups, made a cake.... here's hoping they really put something massive into their 30th.

[lifeofsamage]

Don't quote me but did the 20th Birthday parade not start till about September/October. Looking through old threads and picture thats the time period it points to. Found some (not very good) video from the parade itself 

 

[Theme Park Girl]

Aww. Why oh why don't they have Marvin the Martian costume character in the park anymore???  He's my favourite Looney Tune  

[themagician]

Came across this, and it is a real shame MW never did a one off night event to celebrate 25 years. This would've been awesome.

[Jamberoo Fan]

3 hours ago, themagician said:

it is a real shame MW never did a one off night event to celebrate 25 years.

This newspaper article indicates that Illuminanza wasn't a 'one-off' - it went daily for about a month plus this other newspaper article indicates Illuminanza returned for a near month-long period to celebrate MW's 3rd birthday in 1994.

Edited February 7, 2017 by Jamberoo Fan

[themagician]

I wasn't meaning that event was only one night. I was just saying that MW should have done something like that to celebrate its 25th birthday, and they could've just done a one night event to celebrate.

[Brad2912]

5 minutes ago, Jamberoo Fan said:

Illuminanza

Well there are quite a lot of triangles in the MW logo....