Abandonedthemeparks- how abandoned?

So, as it happens I have a great love for theme parks though they tend to be the abandoned kind (no i'm not the kind of person who sneaks off to creepy places and takes pictures of them, though i admire those who do).I do love to search online for the most decrepit and eerie looking theme parks i can find, just to look upon them is amazing, imagining the bustling of people in the now torn down yard of metal and wood , it fascinates me

so for now heres some of my favourites.

Pripyat

Pripyat Amusement Park in Ukraine was due to be opened on May 1st 1986 in time for the May Day celebrations but due to the Chernobyl disaster occurring only a few kilometres away this plan was derailed.

The park was opened for a couple of hours on April 27 to keep the city people entertained before the announcement to evacuate the city was made.

why: the thoughts of the ignorance of the people after the chernobyl disaster fascinates me, they had no idea how much harm the use of these rides had caused and opened before the evacuation

Wonderland

In Chenzhuang Village, China, about 20 miles northwest of central Beijing, the ruins of a partially built amusement park called Wonderland sit near a highway,Construction work at the park, which developers had promised would be "the largest amusement park in Asia," stopped around 1998 after disagreements with the local government and farmers over property prices. Developers briefly tried to restart construction in 2008, but without success.

According to the local government, the Wonderland site will become a 228,000-square-meter entertainment city with five-star hotels and an indoor theme park, which will be built on the eastern side of the shopping complex.

why: it looked like it would have been an amazing place and has a very rustic- disneyesque feel to it,
its a shame how it had been looked over.

Nara Dreamland (yet another disney knock off)

Built in 1961, this Japanese theme park was a Disneyland knockoff. Visitors had all but stopped coming by 2006, so the amusement park was closed. It was not demolished and became a playground for urban explorer photographers.

why:this place was disney BEFORE disney came along and built a park its now a mere shadow of its former self in its hay day it would have been very popular but now, it just lays in waste giving everyone a very apocaliptic feel.

Six-Flags New Orleans

Six Flags New Orleans, also abbreviated to SFNO, is an abandoned theme park in New Orleans, Louisiana that has been closed since just before Hurricane Katrina struck in August 2005 and is currently owned by the city of New Orleans. Six Flags had previously owned the park since March 2002, but after assessing the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina and the related exorbitant expenses of repairing the damage, sought to terminate their 75-year lease with the city, beginning in July 2006 and finally succeeding in September 2009. The park is located in Eastern New Orleans, in the Ninth Ward of the city, off Interstate 10. Despite various announced plans to redevelop the site, as of 2014, it is still an abandoned amusement park in extremely poor condition. It is a well-known urban exploration destination.

why:its modern enough that everyone still recognises the rides, looking at them in their state of disrepair can make you imagine its former glory and i really want to go on these rides

Gulliver’s Kingdom, Japan

Gulliver once rested in the shadow of Mt.Fuji, bound and nailed to the ground by the hair. His giant body was the main attraction of the now defunct and dismembered Gulliver’s Kingdom Theme Park in the shadow of Mt. Fuji, built in 1997, closed in 2001 due to defaulting bank loans, and demolished around 2007. Perhaps a contributing factor to its ultimate failure was the proximity of Kamikuishiki- a small village that was the main base for the cult Aum Shinrikyo at the time of their deadly 1995 Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway. Tourists on a day-trip with the kids to a theme-park would have been likely to steer clear. Now every reminder of the place is gone, the village has been rezoned, and the name Kamikuishiki removed from all maps.

why: just look at it its so eerie ,theres not a whole lot you can say about it though, a large dead looking giant staring into the sky