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[Gazza]

I think the illustrator of the brouchures was Van Murray, he also did those "Hunt for Hooroo" books (like an Australian veriosn of wheres wally)

[SeanM]

Gazza, That's interesting he sure knows his art...you can tell the Illustration's were done with plenty of passion and energy..sadly it seems to be lacking in a lot of "modern" park brochures... Cheers Sean

[Nightshifter]

look at this wonderland poster i found through google image.

[T-bone]

Yeah that's pretty interesting.

[Nightshifter]

i rekon its pretty mad, i was just looking at wonderland photos at google image and found it, its very detailed i must say.

[T-bone]

what search term did you use for it?

[Nightshifter]

i put Wonderland Australia

[SeanM]

Have a look at this!..... It looks amazing! cool stuff.. http://www.oraclelaser.com/wonderland.htm Cheers Sean

[Nightshifter]

yeah thats mad seeing that i shoed that ages ago, dont worry, i thing thats the best ive never seen photos of the space probes lazers.

[GoGoBoy]

I love that poster illustration - it looks great. Don't like the fonts they have used though. I like the depiction of the Space Probe with the lasers and the silhouettes of the people standing at the entrance to the tunnel. This style of artwork was used a lot when the probe first opened. I can remember the only time I've ever owned a Wonderpass was when probe was first built (because the park actually was making an effort back then and had promise... why you'd buy a pass in the last few years I don't know). The main image on my Wonderpass was the same style of space probe illustration with the lasers coming down from the dome and sillouhettes in the tunnel. The only difference was that it was at night. Very eery and atmospheric

[Daniel]

Ahh the good old days... Certainly was an impressive site that's for sure.

[Nightshifter]

these are a few photos i took on boxing day of christmas 2001 during the bush fires, hence all the fog, it was cloudy, it was hot but just smokey all day. hence that why you cant see the sun, the quality is bad becasue thats what you get for a disposable camera, so thats that.

[SeanM]

A awesome commercial is what Wonderland really needed, something super glossy ie 35mm, saturated colours, ramping shots etc, not this video rubbish Wonderland had in recent years..and some super catchy theme music...Just Imagine!!! Cheers Sean

[Nightshifter]

umm i may quote that the park was doing really well from the start, i think if they had the park open all day from the start they would still be open today becasue they would have more money. After the sky hawk was made at wonderland (the very last thrill ride) the park started going downhill from there. It's been well over 5-6 years since there last proper ride. Since then the mountain cascades, ned kelly getaway, beastie, splashdown, the slides, tasmanian devil, dragons flight, sky hawk, sky rider, the spider ride and maybe others if ive missed any have all shut down or been demolished completely. Thats a fair few rides gone with none of them actually replaced. Theres your answer. The commericals were really fine, i thought thery were alright for the time period they were made in. I mean some are a bit funny like the sky hawk commerical, which is the lamest commerical ive got and ive seen, but the park was great from the start.

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

this one tails on from another thread though about the dangers of taking camera equipment onto rides that strictly forbid it happening. I have done filmography on the WL rides but always with either official consent or an empty train and permission from the ops... i cannot imagine you had those for BB and beastie shifty... but lets back off before a spitfight starts that i can see happening again... lol. anyways...

[scott]

Yeah,I saw those somewhere in Google,I think.

[Daniel]

What's wrong with a good 'spitfight'?

[Nightshifter]

what are you talking about i dont recall myself saying that i have on ride videos of the bush beast and beastie, i only have on ride photos, i didnt get consent for that becasue i sneaked it on, i wouldn't even het sonsent to film on a ride, i'd hide it, but ive never taken an on ride video on any ride for that matter.

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

shifty i was referring to your photography. i made reference to video because i MYSELF have done it. --- WITH permission. the "sneaking" issue is what the other thread was all about. Any more discussion on this one - take it to that thread. and leave it out of this one.

[Bussy]

Just out of interest Alex was that "Official" or Official permission to film on ride? If it was you would have used that weird harness thing that made sure that the camera didn't move an inch through out the ride. Shifty, surely you have read the thread about on ride video so I won't go on about it as you will know how I feel about the subject. But I will just say that anyone taking loose articles on a ride is an idiot. This is not to say that theme parks don't do it but when they do they make sure that there is no danger of the camera falling. "The Bus is now leaving for Red Tape Creek Tasmania"

[SeanM]

I think any video footage from a roller coaster hand held would look pretty rough and crappy, to do any decent shooting you would have to mount the camera to the front of the car with a decent wide angle lens to "soften the look" of the vibrations...plus "official" permission...! So guys, dont get any big ideas to run down to Bunnings Warehouse for stainless steel bolts and steel wires!.. Cheers Sean

[T-bone]

Hey Nightshifter and Sean, where's those photo's you were going to post up?

[Nightshifter]

i did have the photos posted up when totalthrills just started. It was in a very old wonderland forum called Wonderland Sydney in wacky writing but the photos arent there anymore, i could post them on, let me see what i can do.

[T-bone]

That would be good.